A few days ago, this building hosted a forum called the Summit of the Future. Russia was supportive of the Secretary-General’s idea to convene it, since the crisis of our Organization is deepening and something needs to be done about it. We devoted our efforts to preparing the Summit. However, we we…
We thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation in the Middle East, with a focus on the unprecedented level of confrontation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the Lebanon-Israel border area.
This is a conflict that is also having consequences in other parts of the region,…
Today’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, first and foremost the Palestinian question, and our discussion come at a truly dramatic moment. Not only major political considerations but also universal human morality demand that we take urgent action to bring about a ceasefire and end the hum…
Today we are once again discussing the situation in Ukraine in the context of the supplies of weapons and mercenaries that it continues to receive from the West, which we recently confirmed when we began to take measures to eliminate French mercenaries near Kharkhiv. We have just heard a briefing wi…
Many of the speakers who have preceded me have expressed the thought that our shared planet is undergoing irreversible change. A new world order is being born before our eyes. Our future is being shaped through a struggle between the majority of the world’s peoples, who advocate for a fairer distrib…
The existing international order was built on the ruins, and following the colossal tragedy, of the Second World War. Its foundation was the Charter of the United Nations, the cornerstone of modern international law. Thanks mostly to the United Nations, a subsequent world war that could have ended i…
We are meeting at a difficult and dramatic moment. Crises are growing, and the international security situation is deteriorating rapidly. Instead of honest dialogue and compromise, what we have is disinformation, coarse statements and provocations. The West’s policy is undermining trust in internati…
As I understand it, today’s meeting was motivated by the intention of several delegations to discuss the topic of impunity in Ukraine. I think that is very timely because it is precisely impunity that reflects what has been going on in that country since 2014. National radical forces, outspoken Russ…
I am glad to have this opportunity to speak from the rostrum of the General Assembly. The fact that we have once again gathered in this Hall symbolizes our collective readiness to resume our normal communication, which had been suspended since the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic…
We are getting ever closer to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, which was established thanks to victory in the Second World War and our recognition that a collective mechanism for maintaining international peace and security was essential. Unhappily, the events of the Cold War, wh…
The statements delivered during this session’s general debate confirm that international relations are now being conducted in a complex and controversial period of history.
Today, we are all witnessing two opposing trends collide. On the one hand, we see the strengthening of polycentric principles …
In the past few months, considerable progress has been achieved in resolving the problems on the Korean peninsula. The region has seen a significant reduction in tensions as a result of the moratorium declared by Pyongyang in April on missile launches and nuclear tests, the closure of the nuclear-we…
In the modern world, the ability to effectively combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is particularly crucial to the maintenance of global and regional stability and to reliably ensuring the security of every State, without exception. Constructive cooperation in this area is an imp…
At the outset, I would like to highlight Kazakhstan’s consistent and responsible approach to advancing issues that are priorities for Central Asia and its focus on solving specific problems facing the region.
We welcome the initiative of our friends from Kazakhstan in convening today’s debate on an…
The Russian Federation welcomes the initiative of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to hold a special meeting of the Security Council on “Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: confidence-building measures”. This is especially relevant given that on 1 July…
In December of last year, the General Assembly adopted resolution 71/190, on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, which clearly stipulated the inadmissibility of interference in the internal affairs of States and of coups d’état as a method of transferring power, and the …
At the outset, I would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mexico for the destruction and loss of human life caused by the terrible earthquakes.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and the Chairperson of …
Last year, from this same rostrum, at the seventieth anniversary session of the General Assembly, much was said concerning the critical turning point in world development. The keynote was the recognition that humankind is moving from a bipolar and monopolar world order towards multipolar and democra…
It is clear that the region of the Middle East and North Africa is undergoing a period of serious upheaval as a result of the conjunction of inter-ethnic and inter-religious clashes with the unprecedented eruptions of terrorism and extremism that have enveloped Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria and have dis…
At the outset, I wish to thank John Kerry for his initiative to convene the third meeting of the International Syria Support Group today in New York, which has brought us together here in this Chamber.
This meeting of the International Syria Support Group undescores the commitment of all its partic…
