The Russian Federation was not about to breach the consensus on resolution 75/264, which was just adopted, as we are governed by the established practice of reaching unanimous agreement on texts that pertain to cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations. However, we cannot ign…
The debate that we have all been obliged to take part in today is probably one of the most embarrassing episodes in the proceedings of the General Assembly since item 65 was forced onto its agenda. With each iteration of this discussion the authority of our collective body is mortally wounded. If th…
We wish to note the briefing by Mr. David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, and assure him of our full support in his work and the United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan that he leads. We also thank Ms. Betty Sunday for her briefing. We are also grateful to the…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2512 (2020), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).
We expect, in line with that document, the restructuring and withdrawal of the mission by 31 December to be carried out grad…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your informative briefing on the work of the Committee over the past four months.
The Russian Federation fully supports Mogadishu’s efforts to achieve domestic political and socioeconomic stability and to counter the main security threat …
We are grateful to Mr. James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia, for their comprehensive briefings. We would also like to thank Mr. Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, for her briefing on the situation in the country and the work of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). We agree with the assessment of the situation in Haiti contained in the first report on the w…
We are always impressed by the institutional memory of Mr. Heusgen, who took part in the negotiations on drafting the Minsk agreements, although his memory has recently started to significantly fail him.
Regarding the aggression against Ukraine, in recent history there is only one example of such a…
We thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania, Mr. Edi Rama, for his briefing on the work of the Organization and the issues on its agenda.
The Russian Feder…
We thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, for introducing the report of the Secretary General on small arms and light weapons (SALW) (S/2019/1011). We are also grateful to Mr. Damien Spleeters for his valuable briefing on the work of the non-governmental organiz…
Russia was unable to support today’s resolution 2507 (2020). We sincerely appreciate the penholder’s efforts; however, not all of our arguments were taken into account in the drafting the text of the resolution. We advocated for a greater easing of the arms embargo. Unfortunately, neither Bangui’s o…
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Dato Lim Jock Hoi, for their informative briefings on cooperation between ASEAN and the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security. We also appreciate the …
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for his briefing.
Russia is deeply concerned about the deteriorating security situation in many parts of Mali in recent months. Tragic reports of deaths of military personnel
and civilians at the hands of jihadists de…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for taking the initiative to observe a minute of silence before our meeting in memory of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent terrorist attack in Niger. We grieve together with our colleagues. We extend our condolences to our Nigerien frien…
We are pleased to see you in the President’s seat, Sir, and we wish your country a successful
presidency of the Security Council for the month of January. We also welcome all the colleagues who have joined us in the new year. We welcome their participation and stand ready to cooperate closely and c…
We thank today’s briefers, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer and the Ambassador of Poland, Ms. Wronecka, for their information. I also want to thank the Ambassador for her confident and professional stewardship of the
Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206…
The draft resolutions that the General Assembly adopts generally fall into three groups. The first group is consensus draft resolutions. Work is done on them, positions are agreed on and Member States often reach difficult compromises, because they understand the power of the message that such colle…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General François Louncény Fall for his briefing on the situation in the Central African region. We also listened carefully to Mr. Sasha Lezhnev’s briefing.
Russia has consistently supported the activities of the United Nations Regional O…
We thank the President for convening today’s meeting. The issue of reform of the Security Council is one of the most complex as well as most important issues on the Organization’s agenda. That is because in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council is the organ that bea…
I have asked for the floor to respond to the remarks made by our German colleague. It seems that he did not listen very carefully to my statement, because I did mention international humanitarian law, for example. Besides that, his attention to the topic of the statement was also lacking, because th…
