We sincerely regret that your presidency, Sir, has been overshadowed by the division that we warned about. But we need to move forward.
I reiterate that, as a responsible member of the United Nations and its Security Council, the Russian Federation, together with India and China, does not share the…
As we have said earlier and repeatedly, draft resolution S/2021/990, on climate and security, is unacceptable to Russia. I shall once again explain our position in detail.
The sponsors did not and do not want to listen to our clarifications. They did not want to talk about this issue in substance. …
We are pleased to see you, Mr. President, presiding over the Security Council.
The Russian Federation wholeheartedly shares the common international concerns about the issues that are at the centre of our debate today. The consequences of climate change, natural disasters and terrorism are
catastr…
As this is the last meeting of the Security Council on the Syrian chemical weapons issue this year, it is time to take stock. Unfortunately, the situation is far from encouraging and the root of the ongoing and newly emerging problems is not actually in Syria. The main source of disappointment is th…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Secretary, presiding over the Security Council. We thank Mr. Robin Geiss and Ms. María Pía Devoto for their briefings.
The illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons (SALW) generates many threats and challenges. That is particularly acute in developing States…
We thank Ms. Deborah Lyons, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for sharing her thoughts and views on the situation in Afghanistan. We are also grateful to Ms. Freshta Karim for her clear, emotional and brave state…
We welcome your personal participation, Mr. President, in today’s event. We thank the Secretary- General for his informative briefing, and Ms. Lourdes Tibán Guala for her insights.
We are grateful to Mexico for drawing attention to the topic of today’s debate. It is indeed highly relevant as the so…
At the outset, let me congratulate Mexico on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for November and wish them a successful month. We also thank Kenya, its Permanent Representative and his team for their able leadership in October.
We are concerned over yet further worsening of the interna…
We are grateful to Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the situation in the province and for his views in that regard. On the whole, we agree with the assessments of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2021/861).
We welcome the participation in this m…
We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for presenting the report of the Secretary- General (S/2021/824) on the situation in the country. We also thank Ms. Peñaranda and Ms. Soto for their briefings. We welcome the participation in person of…
We welcome your participation in today’s meeting, Mr. President. We would like to thank the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the former President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, as well as Ms. Fawzia Koofi, for their briefings. It was especially important for us to hear the opinio…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2599 (2021), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to 31 January 2022.
First of all, we are convinced that there is no alternative to a comprehensive, peaceful settlement of the Libyan crisis under the …
We wish to thank Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We listened closely to Ms. Rouba Mhaissen.
On the political track, we welcome the progress observed in the resumption of the efforts of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva. In our contacts with the parties and the leading actors, we have continuou…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Ms. Ghada Eltahir Mudawi for their briefings. We also listened closely to Ms. Entesar Al-Qadhi.
Mr. Grundberg began work on an extremely complex brief; we hope that he will without delay begin working to establish a substantive dialogue among the parties to the confl…
We welcome your personal participation, Mr. President, in today’s meeting.
On 11 September, exactly 20 years will have elapsed since the tragic events in New York, when nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost. We thank Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield and other colleagues from the Per…
The Russian Federation firmly condemns the terrorist attacks that took place on 26 August near Kabul airport, killing hundreds of people. We express
our condolences to the friends and families of the victims, and we wish those injured a swift recovery.
Meanwhile, we had to abstain in the voting on…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Mr. Martin Griffiths for their briefings.
I think that it was extremely useful for everyone today to hear the sobering briefing by Mr. Khaled Erksoussi, a person who represents an organization that does not engage in theorizing about humanitarian assistance or politic…
(spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their detailed analyses of the situation in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We express our support for the activities of the
agencies they head. We thank Mr. Moradian, our long- time friend, for his com…
We welcome your personal participation, Sir, in today’s events. We highly appreciate your country’s contribution to United Nations peacekeeping efforts. India is not only one of the biggest troop contributors to peacekeeping operations, but also actively participates in discussions at the United Nat…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations for his thoughts and views on the situation in Afghanistan. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Ghulam M. Isaczai.
We are closely following the rapidly changing situation in Afghanista…
