First of all, I would like to join others in welcoming you, Sir, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway, to this very important meeting of the Security Council today. We are also grateful to Mr. Petritsch, Mr. Klein and Mr. Solana for their assessments of the current situation in Bosnia.
The Russia…
Russia is deeply concerned by the ongoing escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Despite the efforts of the international community to help settle that conflict, it has proven impossible to achieve a positive breakthrough. Moreover, the violence is acquiring a logic of its own and its conse…
I apologize for just arriving, but I had a counter-terrorism subcommittee meeting, where we were reviewing the first series of reports. I did not want my absence to be taken to mean that I was not satisfied with the work of the Security Council this month.
I very briefly would like to express my gr…
Russia, like the whole international community, is alarmed by the dangerously explosive dynamic of recent developments in the relations between Palestinians and the Israeli population. This can have a very negative impact on the overall situation in the Middle East. We decisively condemn the terrori…
Like other members of the Security Council, we are pleased to see you in the Chair, Mr. President. We join in the words of gratitude addressed to Ambassador Durrant and the entire delegation of Jamaica for the work they did last month. We are also pleased to welcome the representative of Bosnia and …
As in previous years, the Russian Federation
will vote in favour of the draft resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine, contained in draft resolution A/56/L.22.
At the same time, I wish to report that, yesterday, the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation issued a sta…
I would like to express our gratitude to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judges Jorda and Pillay, and also the Prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, for their comprehensive briefi…
I am grateful to the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hédi Annabi, for his briefing.
We are following closely developments in the political situation in Kosovo following the Kosovo- wide elections of 17 November. Unfortunately, we have to say that, at this stage, the ta…
We, too, are grateful to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Ambassador Brahimi, for participating in today’s meeting. This meeting is very timely. We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for having convened it.
The counter-terrorist operation by the international coalition and the…
In his address to the students of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Mohammad Khatami, recalled the saying that Alexander Pushkin is the soul of the Russian people. We will always love Pushkin in Russia. We will love him for prai…
The United States has come up against an unprecedented act of aggression of international terrorism. On behalf of the Russian leadership, we would like to express our most sincere and deepest condolences to all of the victims and to the people and Government of the United States of America.
Yesterd…
I endorse the words of welcome addressed to you, Mr. President. We are very happy to see you here, and are very pleased at the constant attention you devote to the work of the Security Council.
As the President requested, we will not repeat the substance of our positions on the items discussed by t…
We are grateful to Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing on the situation in Kosovo and aspects relating to the situation in other parts of the region, particularly in Macedonia.
I would first like to comment on the main part of his briefing, namely, preparations for the elections in Kosovo. This is one of…
I associate myself with the warm words of congratulations to the Secretary-General. We are all looking forward to continuing to support his efforts for the reform of the United Nations. His presence here today confirms his intention to work in the closest way possible with the Security Council.
I w…
The Russian Federation proposed the convening of today’s meeting in this open format, with the participation of all interested States, in order to consider ways of improving the humanitarian situation in Iraq under the devastating sanctions that have been in place for so many years, as well as the q…
I join in the words of gratitude expressed to the Chairman of the sanctions Committee and to the Chairman of the Committee of Experts, which prepared the report in accordance with resolution 1333 (2000) and made recommendations about the monitoring of the arms embargo and the closure of terrorist tr…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report, to Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette for introducing it and to High Commissioner Mrs. Robinson for her participation in this meeting.
In the Millennium Declaration, the heads of State undertook to
“expand and strengthen the protectio…
We are grateful to Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing and for his personal impressions of his trip to Kosovo. We take note of the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haekkerup, and the Mission he heads to establish normal life in Kosovo and to implement resolution 1244 (19…
I should also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haekkerup, for the briefing he has given us.
We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his report. The assessments and conclusions in the report and the briefing we have just heard provide us with a good op…
First I would like to join in those words of welcome that have already been addressed today to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Macedonia, Mr. Kerim, who is taking part in the meeting.
The Russian Government strongly condemns the deterioration of the situation provoked by armed Albanian extremis…
