I would like to thank Ms. Giovanie Biha,
representative of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), and Mr. Omar Touray, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for the information they provided.
We share the concerns voiced t…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2666 (2022), submitted by our French colleagues, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). We note the work done by the penholders on the file, primarily to take in…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing. We also note the participation in our meeting today of the Permanent Representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
We are concerned by the information we have received about the blocking of Lachin corridor, which has …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom for his briefing on the developing situation in South Sudan. We listened to the briefings by the interim Chairperson
of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Ambassador Charles Tai Gituai, …
We thank Special Representative Bintou Keita and Deputy Permanent Representative of Gabon Lilly Ngyema Ndong for their briefings. We listened carefully to the Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Mr. Peter Mathuki, and the representative of Congolese civil society, Ms. Rebecca Kabu…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2664 (2022) on humanitarian exemptions to asset freezes for the purpose of extending humanitarian assistance.
Security Council sanctions are one of the strongest forms of reacting to threats to peace, and they need to be applied very carefully. T…
We welcome Mr. Abdou Abarry to the Security Council in his new capacity as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa. We thank both him and Mr. Gilberto Da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States, for their detailed …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Volker Perthes for the briefing on the developing situation in the Sudan. We also take note of the briefing by our colleague from Ghana, Ambassador Carolyn Oppong-Ntiri, on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (200…
We note the timely nature of the convening
of today’s joint briefing by the three important subsidiary bodies.
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude to the Norwegian chairpersonship of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) conc…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her briefing.
Russia is opposed to any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries of North-East Asia. However, we are once again becoming trapped in a vi…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2662 (2022), drafted by the
United Kingdom, on the extension of the sanctions regime against Somalia, based on our disagreement with a number of its provisions. However, we want to underscore that we welcome the latest step taken in the r…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Pobee and the other briefers for their statements.
Unfortunately, the situation in the Sahel is not improving — we completely agree with the Assistant Secretary-General in that regard. The terrorist activity in the region is not subsiding, while ac…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Mr. Jean- Pierre Lacroix and the Police Commissioners of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Ms. Christine Fossen, and the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Mody Berethe, for their assessments. We al…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2659 (2022) to extend the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) for one year. On 5 November, the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Sylvie Baipo T…
In connection with the notable mistakes in the English interpretation of the final part of our statement, I must repeat myself. I hope that this statement will be transmitted correctly.
We deeply regret that, due to the inherently biased positions that favour certain Western countries and to the bl…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
The Russian delegation continues to constructively participate in the discussions on the revitalization agen…
We carefully listened to the briefing delivered by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari. However, we note with regret that, as in the past, the United Nations representative did not give a full picture of the situation. The risks in the region today are too high for us focus solely on one-sided…
First of all, I would like to welcome your personal participation, Ms. Shirley Botchwey, in today’s meeting. We greatly appreciate the contribution of your country, a champion of pan-Africanism, to United Nations peacekeeping efforts and defending the interests of the African continent. We also wish…
We note with concern the deepening internal political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There has been an unprecedented exacerbation of ethnic differences and deteriorating intercommunal dialogue throughout the post-conflict period. That is a direct consequence of the gross interference of Western
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We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations, Mr. Abukar Dahir Osman.
At the outset, allow me to express our sincere condolences to the Government and the people of Somalia following the heinous act of terrorism perpetrated in Moga…
