First of all, I would like to say that today we have not heard anything new in response to our specific ideas regarding the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine, which does not align at all international obligations, as you just said, Madam President. We have already spoken about the many and repeat…
We convened today’s meeting primarily to discuss once again the significance for the prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis of the country’s Western sponsors’ unfettered supply of various types of weapons to their underlings in Kyiv. Our briefer, Mr. George Szamuely, has just reminded us very …
I would like to begin my statement by expressing my condolences to the Government and the people of Mali on the terrorist attacks of 7 September, which killed 49 civilians and 15 military personnel. That tragedy is a clear reminder of how important it is for the international community to bridge its…
We regret that the Albanian presidency has followed in the disastrous footsteps of its Western colleagues and has used rule 37 to invite the representatives of five States — Czechia, Estonia, Italy, Poland and Ukraine — together with the representative of the European Union (EU), which makes six del…
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on the beginning of your country’s presidency of the Council
for the month of September. We hope that its working methods will not disappoint you — and vice versa. We thank you for your briefing, your leadership of the work of the Informal Working Group on Docume…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2695 (2023), submitted by France, on the mandate renewal of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), as a result of a series of very contentious amendments made to the text at the final stage of the difficult negotiation proce…
I did not intend to take the floor, but there is one clarification that I must make following the statement you made, Mr. President, in your national capacity.
As we have already said, we urge Security Council colleagues to demonstrate wisdom and pragmatism by supporting our alternative draft resol…
Russia voted against the draft resolution (S/2023/638) on extending the sanctions regime on Mali. Unfortunately, despite the fact that we have repeatedly called for a constructive approach and a reasonable compromise, the text submitted completely fails to take into account the concerns of the Malia…
Today’s meeting was preceded by lengthy work on a draft resolution on the renewal of the sanctions regime concerning Mali that would be acceptable to members of the Security Council and regional actors. However, we must note that draft resolution S/2023/638 does not address those issues. We are conv…
Now I am prepared to say a couple of things.
On behalf of our delegation, I would like a procedural vote on conducting consultations. I would ask that this matter be put to the vote.
We are not asking for consultations after the voting. We are asking for consultations before the voting so that we can try to ensure that the voting in the Council is unanimous. That is the first point.
Secondly — and perhaps this is rhetorical — why are you using rulings, Mr. President, during thi…
I would like to ask you, Mr. President: Whom do you believe to be members of the Council, and whom do you not? Two members of the Council have requested consultations. You are referring to members of the
Council, but this is not a unanimous decision. There are members who want to have consultations…
Given the fact that we trust that we will be able to make significant progress on the matter we are here to discuss today, Mr. President, we would like to ask for consultations before we return to the meeting.
To begin, I wish to briefly say something to one of our briefers in the language in which he deigned to address the Security Council.
(spoke in a language other than an official language of the Security Council, without providing interpretation)
(spoke in Russian)
I wish to draw attention to the …
We are delighted to see you, Mr. President, in the President’s chair at the Security Council.
The Russian Federation condemns sexual violence in all its forms, as it does all other crimes committed in conflict and in post-conflict settings. Those acts should be investigated and the perpetrators sho…
I asked for the floor not in order to enter into polemics with my French colleague as regards the assistance to Syria that he says Russia is not providing, nor to recall the Brussels Conference, to which Syrians are not invited and where aid is collected for people who are outside Syria, without giv…
Today we are once again being obliged to witness yet another act being played out by Western countries in the show entitled the cross-border mechanism for providing humanitarian assistance to Syria. Its main distinguishing characteristics are a complete disregard for the interests of the Syrian peop…
We thank the independent American journalists Bryce Greene and Jeffrey Brodsky for their briefings, in which they presented the Security Council with objective facts surrounding the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. They confirm our version of events, whi…
