We thank Special Representative Valentine Rugwabiza for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the representative of the Central African Republic in this meeting.
We note with satisfaction that the situation in the Central African Republic continues to improve. With the support of the intern…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The deterioration of the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Catriona Laing, and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, Mr. Mohammed El-Amine Souef, for their briefings. We welcome the…
We thank Special Representative Simão for his briefing on the current state of affairs in the region and the activities of his Office in the past year. We also closely followed Ms. Théroux-Bénoni’s remarks.
The situation in the Sahelo-Saharan region is not improving. First of all, that is because o…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ruiz Massieu, and the civil society briefer, Ms. Yolanda Perea Mosquera, for their presentations. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, in this meeting.
After seven year…
Today’s meeting of the General Assembly is being held in connection with yet another use by the United States of the veto right in the Security Council, to block calls for an end to violence in the Gaza Strip. Given that it has been more than three weeks since then, I would like to recall how the Co…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2721 (2023), on the independent assessment report on Afghanistan (see S/2023/856). We are grateful to the United Arab Emirates and Japan, as co-penholders on the Afghan file, for their efforts in preparing the resolution. We greatly apprec…
The Russian Federation supported the framework draft resolution (resolution 2719 (2023)) submitted by our colleagues the three African members of the Security Council — Ghana, Gabon and Mozambique — on financing African Union-led peacekeeping operations. We are consistent in our support for the in…
I would like to say that the Security Council’s main objective is resolving problems and threats to international peace and security, including on the Korean peninsula. Simply raising these problems in the Security Council is not enough. We call on the United States to change its approach and to tru…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing. We welcome the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to this meeting.
Russia is following with concern the new round of escalation on the Korean peninsula. We are particul…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom and Mr. Michel Xavier Biang, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning South Sudan, for their briefings. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the…
The Russian Federation voted in support of resolution 2716 (2023), which extends for 12 months the mandate of the Monitoring Team on the Taliban sanctions regime under resolution 1988 (2011). We have
consistently supported its activities and believe that its reports provide useful support for the w…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abdou Abarry, for his briefing.
The Russian Federation supports the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), which are aimed at strengthening peace and security in the region. We note…
We wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing. We also listened attentively to the statement delivered by Ms. Sandrine Lusamba. We welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in today’s…
We would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, as well as to thank the delegation of China for its very skilful leadership of the Council’s business last month.
The Russian Federation supported the resolution against the Al-Shabaab terrorist gr…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2715 (2023), prepared by the United Kingdom, on the liquidation of the activities of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). Unfortunately, despite the attempts of the drafters of the document to…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of both draft resolutions presented to the Security Council by the United Kingdom on Somalia and on the sanctions on the terrorist group Al-Shabaab (resolutions 2713 (2023) and 2714 (2023)).
We welcome the lifting of the arms embargo on that country. Russia ha…
We listened closely to the briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khiari, and we also welcome the participation in the meeting of the permanent representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
Russia is concerned about the rapid development of a new cycle of …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Sudan, Mr. Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, at this meeting.
We continue to follow with concern the development of the armed conflict in the Sudan. The situatio…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2709 (2023), drafted by France, on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Despite a number of positive changes — first and foremost t…
