The Russian Federation was at the forefront of the negotiation process that led to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — a unique achievement in multilateral diplomacy. We are extremely concerned about its future. We regret that, at this critical juncture for the fate of the Plan, the Uni…
We draw attention to the fact that the United
States voted in favour of the participation of Ukraine in today’s meeting, while it was the United States that was behind the crisis with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), having withdrawn from the deal in 2018 and not yet returned.
We re…
I want to warn members that the question of the participation in this meeting on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) by a State that is neither
a member of the Council nor a party to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is far from being routine, as the presidency is trying to ma…
I have a point of order. But first and foremost, I would like to say that, as announced at the very beginning, time management was to be one of the priorities of the British presidency. For that reason, we should convene our meetings on time. The presidency has time to lobby and discuss its national…
I would like to make a few comments in response to some of the talking points made today on the alleged shelling of a pizzeria in Kramatorsk.
The following is a statement from Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
“On 27 June in the city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a high-precision st…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mrs. Nakamitsu, Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Bowes for their comprehensive briefings.
To Mr. Radchenko, I would say the following: let us not be hypocritical with regard to the rules-based international order. The rules-based international order is not the United Nat…
We thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings on, and assessments of, the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We are conv…
We would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), on Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. We listened very carefully to the briefing by Mr. James Zogby, P…
The Russian Federation supported the text submitted by the French delegation, resolution 2688 (2023), on the renewal of the sanctions regime imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We would like to reiterate our position. When sanctions fail to respond to the actual situation, impede plans…
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is a concept that was developed by Western think tanks to rebrand the well-known "humanitarian intervention" concept under a new veneer and to legitimize interference in the internal affairs of States. When that concept began to be advanced persistently by a group…
Today’s meeting is taking place against a remarkable backdrop. For nearly a month now, goaded by its Western sponsors, to whom Ukraine has to account for the effectiveness of its efforts in using the weapons and ammunition they supply it with, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting a suicid…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. The Russian Federation supports the activities of UNAMA under her leadership within the framew…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Valentine Rugwabiza, UN- Women Executive Director Sima Bahous and African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye for their briefings. We listened attentively to the statement made by Mr. Rhosyns Ngatondang.…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General El-Ghassim Wane for his briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali.
The situation in Mali remains complicated, to say the least. The …
We are grateful to the United Arab Emirates for having organized a meeting on such an important topic as the values of human fraternity in promoting and sustaining peace. We thank Secretary-General Guterres, Grand Imam Al-Tayeb, Archbishop Gallagher and Ms. Ibn Ziaten for their comprehensive briefin…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, President Santos Calderón and Ms. Kadry for their state ments. We thank the United Arab Emirates for its assidu ous preparatory work in the lead-up to the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on …
We welcome your participation, Sir, in today’s meeting in your capacity as President of the Security Council.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit, sharing for their assessments and considerations. We also thank Ms. O…
On the night of 6 June, the Kyiv regime committed the unthinkable crime of breaching the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, which resulted in the uncontrolled release of water downstream on the Dnipro River. Settlements have been flooded. Thousands of people are in need of evacuation, wh…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2683 (2023), prepared by the United States, on the extension of the sanctions regime against South Sudan. We believe that the easing of the sanctions that it provides for is insufficient. We regret that the United States penholders were so…
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, Deputy Director Ghada Mudawi and Ms. Morgane Aveline for their briefings.
The increasing restoration of Damascus’s ties with its regional environment is of key importance to the political settlement process in Syria. We welcome the decision taken on 7 May by th…
