We welcome the convening of today’s General Assembly meeting on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Jordan and Slovakia on their appointment to co-chair the Ad Hoc…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his informative briefing. The African vision for resolving the issues in the region, as outlined by Mr. Maman Sidikou, the Permanent Secretary of the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel, and Mr. Pierre Buyoya, High Representative o…
We have just supported a so-called technical extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic for one month. Today the Council has maintained unity on this issue, which is very encouraging. For that to continue to be the…
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her thorough briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the preparations for the
elections to be held on 23 December. We also take note of the statement by Ms. Joséphine Mbela.
We continue…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on policing issues in United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions. We are grateful to Mr. Alexander Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, and the Police Commissioners of the M…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing.
Russia welcomed the successful holding of presidential elections in Mali in July and August. We are pleased that the voting took place without serious violations or incidents, according to African and international observers. We are gratefu…
We thank the Secretary-General for
participating personally in our meeting today and for his informative briefing on the subject.
The aspects that the Bolivian presidency touched on today relating to the issue of States’ sovereignty over their natural resources are extremely important and are appa…
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Said Djinnit, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, for their comprehensive briefings on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the process of implementing the Peace, Security and C…
The work on the draft text for resolution 2436 (2018) proposed by our American partners was not easy. At one point, frankly, we were on the verge of radical decisions and a situation that would have deprived the Council of unity on an issue of major importance requiring a collective decision. We are…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Nicholas Haysom for their substantive briefings.
We believe that the continuation of the joint efforts of the parties, including the political dialogue at the highest level, are key to the successful progress of t…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Nicholas Haysom for the detailed information on the situation in South Sudan and the progress in the South Sudanese political settlement. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Haysom for the work that he has done an…
We would like to thank today’s briefers, Mr. Michael Keating, Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Somalia, Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and Ms. Ph…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ms. Bintou Keita for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and on the work of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti. We are also grateful for the very useful and enlightening presentation on the achievements of the Mission.
We must acknowledge…
I too would like to join in congratulating our British colleagues on their presidency in August. They had a difficult job and nonetheless handled it well. I also wish you and your team every success, Madam President. This too will be a complicated month. You effectively lose a week to the general de…
We are grateful to Mr. Lowcock and Ms. Gamba for their briefings.
The facts on the ground attest to improvements in the situation in Syria, including on the humanitarian front. With the evacuation of residents of Fo’ah and Kafraya, there are no more besieged areas left in the country. As the risks …
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her update on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as on the implementation of the political agreement of 31 December 2016 and the country’s preparations for elections.
We have taken not…
I would first like to welcome Vice-President Óscar Naranjo of Colombia to the Chamber today and to thank Special Representative Jean Arnault for his informative briefing.
The Security Council has met today to discuss the situation in Colombia a year after the adoption of resolution 2366 (2017) (see…
We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report.
Russia supports building up the international efforts to resolve crisis situations, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. That vast region, which stretches from the borders of Lebanon …
We would like to thank Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Smaїl Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, for their substantive briefings. We share the attitude of the Secretary-General to the development and strengthening of the coop…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2428 (2018), on extending the sanctions on South Sudan. We are not trying to whitewash the situation in the country. We know that various parties continue to violate the ceasefire regime there and that the humanitarian situation is still s…
