We thank Mr. Abdou Abarry, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States, and Ms. Marie Tamoifo for their detailed briefings.
Russia has always supported the work of the United Nations O…
We listened to the statement by Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and we are surprised that neither today nor in the statement made by the Secretary-General related to the launch did we hear a single word about the fact that the growing military activity by the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan in …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2685 (2023) on a six-month technical rollover of the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) prepared by the United Kingdom.
The situation in the Sudan remains worrisome. On 15 April, the conf…
I would like to begin my statement by congratulating the delegation of the United Arab Emirates on beginning their presidency of the Security Council. We would like to thank the delegation of
Switzerland for their able leadership of the Council last month.
Just as it did last year, the Russian Fed…
The statement made by the representative of France is yet more proof of what I said in my earlier statement. It is well known that the international community to which our Western colleagues refer includes only themselves, and that they are never to blame for anything. Indeed, all they do is bring “…
We thank Mr. Bankole Adeoye, African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Mr. Workneh Gebeyehu, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and Mr. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for their briefings. We also welcom…
I, too, thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert for her detailed briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq. We also listened very closely to Ms. Khanim Latif,
and we welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Iraq in today’s meeting…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and the Executive Secretary of the
Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel), Mr. Eric Tiaré, for their briefings. We also listened very carefully to Ms. Aïssatou Diouf.
Terrorism is one of the most pressing pan-African issues. The most complex and s…
At the outset, we would like to wish everyone in the Chamber a happy 9 May, which is Victory Day. On this momentous occasion, we pay our profound respects and extend our deepest recognition to all whose unparalleled feats on the battlefield and selfless labour on the home front enabled the defeat of…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. We also welcome the presence at this meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. We are grateful to our colleagues, the Permanent Representatives of Gabon…
Russia voted in favour of resolution 2680 (2023), which extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But at the same time, we find it regrettable that the United States penholder did…
It was also interesting for me to listen to the views set out by the representative of the United States of America about Washington and its allies allegedly not nurturing any hostile plans directed against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Exercises are allegedly being carried out routinel…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing.
Our position is well known: Russia opposes any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries of North-East Asia. We continue to expect that the current trend towards escalation will be replaced by…
We thank Mr. Alexandre Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peace Operations, as well as Mr. Bankole Adeoye, African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, for their informative briefings. We also welcome the partici…
Today the Russian Federation voted in favour of resolutions 2678 (2023) and 2679 (2023), on Afghanistan.
We are pleased that the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), as set out in resolution 2626 (2022), was extended by 12 months in a timely and technical way. We…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2677 (2023), on extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), proposed by the United States.
We support the work of UNMISS in that African State, which makes a significant contribution to stabilizing the sit…
We take this opportunity to congratulate all the women present in this Chamber, as well as the women of Afghanistan, on International Women’s Day.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbaye…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the start of Mozambique’s presidency of the Security Council and wish your delegation every success. I would also like to thank Malta for leading the Council’s work in February.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- G…
We would like to thank the delegation of Japan for having presided over the Security Council in January. We wish you, Madam President, and your team success and work that is as smooth as possible this month.
First of all, we would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, …
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Muhammad Muhith, for their informative briefings. We also listened very carefully to the briefing delivered by Ms. Diago Ndiaye.
We are convinced that sound policy strategies at the national level ar…
