We thank Mr. Michel Kafando, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, and Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, for their briefings on the evolving situation in Burundi. We listened with interest and gratitude to the report of Ambass…
We have taken note the briefing of Ms. Joanna Wronecka, Permanent Representative of Poland, on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan.
We note the overall positive trend in the military and political situation and the settlement of the conflict…
We thank Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, for the information he has provided. We would like to assure him once again that Russia supports his personal efforts and the activities of his Office in resolving regional crises and iss…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2451 (2018) on Yemen, which was submitted by the United Kingdom, based on the fact that it seeks to strengthen the agreements reached in Sweden through the mediation work of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffith…
We thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
The developments in Guinea-Bissau give abundant cause for concern. We regret the fact that…
The Russian Federation is submitting for the General Assembly’s consideration draft resolution A/73/L.70 in support of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, also known as the In…
We thank the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Sahel, Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw; the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, our colleague the Permanent Representative of Romania, Mr. Ion Jinga; and all the other briefers for their interesting presentations.
We cannot fail to agree with the br…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and Special Representative Pramila Patten for their information on the progress of the settlement in South Sudan. We took note of the briefing
by Ambassador Wronecka, Permanent Representative of Poland and Chair of the Committee established purs…
We thank Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Reena Ghelani for their information on the situation in the Central African subregion.
We firmly believe that the approach that is fundamental to effective crisis prevention and conflict resolution in Afri…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2447 (2018), drafted by the delegations of the Netherlands and Côte d’Ivoire, on strengthening United Nations support in the areas of police, justice and corrections in peacekeeping operations.
The negotiations were not easy, especially in their …
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and the work of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti.
In our view, the second of the series of quarterly reports (S/2018/1059) mandated by resolution 2410 (2018…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. President, to the Security Council.
First and foremost, I would like to echo the words of condolence that my colleagues have expressed to the American people and to the family and friends of the forty-first President of the United States of America, the late Mr. G…
We thank Ms. Ghelani for her briefing.
As the Council is aware, the capital of Kazakhstan just hosted the eleventh international meeting in the framework of the Astana process, in which the issues of progress on a political settlement based on the groundwork laid in Geneva and Sochi, further improv…
Many interesting things have been said, and I have decided to share our views on them after all, although of course a lot of them are not worth discussing and a lot are very predictable. First of all, we once again feel we were absolutely justified in our proposal to hold a meeting under a different…
We regret the result of the vote. However, I would like to emphasize that no one can prevent Russia, as a permanent member of the Security Council, from
raising issues in the Council that we consider important, and doing it under agenda items that those issues relate to. This vote will have no effe…
In calling for this extraordinary meeting of the Security Council, Russia bases its position on the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, in which rule 2 clearly states that the President shall call a meeting of the Security Council at the request of any member of the Council at any time to cons…
We thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing on the evolving situation in Burundi. We listened with grateful interest to the report by Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Sweden, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi country configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), following his trip t…
We thank the Chinese presidency for organizing today’s discussion on strengthening peacekeeping operations in Africa.
I would first like to join my colleagues in expressing our condolences in connection with the deaths of the Malawian and Tanzanian peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Con…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix, Mr. Smaїl Chergui, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, and Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN-Women, for their detailed information about their joint visit to South Sudan.
The Russian Federation has consiste…
We would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Mr. Mark Lowcock, Mr. David Beasley and Ms. Rasha Jarhum for their briefings.
We first want to note the reduction of violence around the Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah. We believe it is essential to work to establish a full, countrywide cessation of hostilit…
