We thank the Secretary-General for his remarks and Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
The situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone has deteriorated and remains very tense. We continue our contacts with our Turkish colleagues, at both the inter-ministerial and the highest le…
We are happy to see you preside over the Security Council, Mr. President, and we are grateful to Ms. Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, and Ms. Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. Ms. Mueller has done a great deal in her position, especially with rega…
We thank Ms. Nakamitsu and Ambassador Zlauvinen for their briefings.
The Charter of the United Nations begins with the words “We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. Just one and a half weeks after its signing came the first — and, …
The Russian Federation was not in a position to support resolution 2511 (2020), penned by the United Kingdom, which renews the sanctions regime and the mandate of the Panel of Experts on Yemen, because not all of our concerns were taken into account. During the consultations, we clearly and explicit…
At the outset, I should like to say that the imposition today on the General Assembly of discussion of agenda item 63 bears no relation to reality, even virtual reality. Indeed, it is surreal.
There are no temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine. If the Ukrainian delegation means Crimea, then t…
We are grateful to Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We also listened carefully to the briefing of Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock. The actions of the Security Council’s penholders, who asked to invite Mark Lowcock at the last minute, surprised us, but for us the motivations are cle…
I say to Mr. Kyslytsya not to try to drive a wedge between me and Spokesperson Peskov. I saw his statement this morning. The information I referred to was not written at Sixty-seventh Street — where the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations is located — it is informatio…
I would like to say to the Ukrainian representative that I am glad he is interested in Russian poetry. But that is not surprising — we all come from the same country and were probably taught the same lessons at school. I want to correct him.
“O, do the Russians long for war?
Ask of the stillness e…
We are grateful for the support for our initiative to convene today’s meeting on an issue that is highly relevant to European security, and we thank the briefers for their assessments. We welcome to today’s meeting the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Kyslytsya. As far as we under…
Belgium has proposed a debate on a very important topic, and we are grateful to it. We welcome the presence of Ministers here, and we also welcome Ms. Bachelet and other keynote speakers and thank them for their contribution to this discussion on the role of transitional justice in efforts towards p…
I am not going to repeat what I said before about why we have doubts about whether resolution
2510 (2020) can be implemented. That is what led us to abstain in the voting. We will see; events will show us who was right. If the resolution has a positive impact on resolving the conflict, I will be th…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2510 (2020), which was drafted by the United Kingdom and Germany in support of the Berlin Conference on Libya. We still do not have a clear understanding of whether all Libyan parties are ready to implement that decision, although we have …
We are pleased to see Minister Goffin preside over the Security Council and to welcome the President of Palestine, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas. We thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations for his statement and are grateful to the Special Coordinator, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his report on the situa…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2508 (2020), on extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan.
As we see it, the situation in Darfur is steadily normalizing. We note the gener…
Russia abstained in the voting on resolution 2509 (2020), submitted by Germany and the United Kingdom, which extends the sanctions regime on Libya, as the text did not include our important and duly justified comments. The sponsors of the resolution
included new language on the illicit importation …
Today we are discussing the question of the situation in Syria, as requested by the delegations of three countries. Today’s discussion directly affects the Syrian Arab Republic. This is not an open debate today at which 120 Members of the United Nations take the floor. The five-minute rule is not ev…
We would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Mr. Geir Pedersen for their briefings.
Today we are once again discussing the situation in Syria in the Security Council. We discussed it twice
in one day alone, on 29 January (see S/PV.8707 and S/PV.8708), we discussed it yesterday and there are two mor…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his detailed briefing on developments in the military and political situation in Libya. We are also grateful for the representative of Germany’s briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolut…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock but, clearly, he did not have time to stay and listen to us and the Syrian representative. That is a shame. I am sure that it would have been useful for him to hear what we have to say, and I hope that his colleagues will …
We thank the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Ms. Khawla Matar, for her briefing. This morning we had an opportunity to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria (see S/PV.8707). We can only reiterate our call on Western donors to reject the practice of double standards wit…
