Many delegations have spoken here in the Assembly Hall about the lofty ideals of combating impunity and about the equality of every person before the law. We support those principles; they are the right ones. Historically, my country has championed those principles. It was one of the countries behin…
We are pleased to welcome United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to this meeting. We listened to his briefing with interest.
Assistance to refugees is an important area of international cooperation aimed at the maintenance of international peace, security and stability. The Hi…
It goes without saying that we very much respect your proposal, Mr. President, and your decision. Butt we did want to draw your attention to the fact that any delegation has the right to call for a vote on any draft resolution that has been submitted for the General Assembly’s consideration.
If you…
We have the utmost respect for our colleagues and their requests. However, we see that there is a sufficient number of delegations in the Hall for voting to take place. We would like the draft resolution to be put to the vote, which will in no way affect the debate that we will have and in which eve…
We have the utmost respect for your proposal, Mr. President. It goes without saying that we will have a debate on it. Nonetheless, we believe it is important to vote on draft resolution A/78/L.6 first. The draft resolution is before us and its text has been submitted for the consideration of the Gen…
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Executive Director of UN-Women Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ms. Spoljaric Egger, Director General of Rio Branco Institute Ms. Glivânia Maria de Oliveira
and the civil society briefer for their briefings …
As a co-founder of the tribunals created after the Second World War to condemn the most heinous crimes in the history of humankind, our country was at the origins of international criminal justice. We have always proceeded from the fact that the objective of international criminal justice is not onl…
The Russian Federation supported the establishment of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) in accordance with resolution 2379 (2017), as its main task was to document the crimes of the Islamic Sta…
Russia distances itself from the consensus on the report of the General Committee (A/78/250) regarding the recommendation to include in the agenda of the General Assembly item 63, entitled “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine” — adopted by the Committee in a vote, by a m…
We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Gherman for their analysis of the activities of the United Nations entities entrusted to them for combating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We express our full support to the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Dire…
We would like to raise a point of order regarding the participation in this meeting of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
As we all remember, Ms.Patten said that Russian soldiers had been — allegedly — given Viagra to rape Ukrainian women. Then a rec…
What the Security Council just heard from the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) was not a briefing. The briefings of the officials of this politicized entity to the Council have long since turned into a theatre of the absurd.
This entity, which is an obedient …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee, Mr. Veríssimo, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Mr. Touray, the President of the Economic Community of West African States, and Mr. Abeso, the Executive Secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Comm…
The Security Council is meeting today to hear yet another briefing by the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC). This body has, once again, shown its disrespect for the Council by submitting empty pro forma documents under the guise of investigation reports. These …
We would like to make a statement regarding our reservation about the presence in the Security Council Chamber of the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court. We do not understand why he is being invited to the Security Council. The International Criminal Court has become …
Our discussion today, like that which took place on 16 September (see A/73/PV.107) and also in the General Committee, clearly demonstrates that there is no consensus within the General Assembly on the need to discuss this agenda item within the agenda of this session of the General Committee. Furthe…
