We wish to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Ms. Ursula Mueller for their briefings.
For the first time in 2020, we are holding a debate on the situation in the Middle East, and unfortunately we again begin the year with the alarming observation that not only has the region not seen positive trends, b…
In the light of the recent adoption of resolution 2504 (2020), the Russian Federation would like to withdraw the draft resolution contained in document S/2020/25.
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2504 (2020), proposed by the co-penholders, for the sole purpose of not blocking cross-border assistance to the Syrian province of Idlib, which is the only one that still really needs that method of delivering supplies. I would recall that…
The Russian Federation should like to propose an oral amendment to paragraph 6 of the draft resolution contained in document S/2020/24. We propose that the words
(spoke in English)
“and in accordance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence”
be delet…
We welcome you to New York, Mr. President, and we are pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council. We also extend our gratitude to the Secretary- General and Mrs. Robinson for their briefings.
This year we will mark the closely connected seventy-fifth anniversaries of the end of the Seco…
We are deeply disappointed with the vote on draft resolution S/2019/962 on the cross-border humanitarian assistance mechanism. My British colleague mentioned breathtaking hypocrisy, and I concur with her. However, we have a different view as to who was hypocritical in this situation. My German colle…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his comprehensive briefing. We listened with interest to his ideas about the methodology for facilitating a Syrian settlement. We also listened to the statement by Ms. Rajaa Altalli.
Russia remains committed to the pr…
The Russian Federation will vote against the humanitarian troika’s draft resolution S/2019/961, on the cross-border assistance mechanism in Syria.
The draft resolution, which has been renewed year after year, is obsolete and does not take into account the changes that have occurred in Syria since 2…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for her briefing and also welcome the participation of Mr. Khaled Sulaiman Aljarallah, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait.
The most problematic humanitarian and military situation is still in the territories outside the control of the S…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/934) on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015). We note the work of the Permanent Representative of Belgium as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of the resolution’s provi…
We would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his informative report on the situation in the Middle East and the occupied Palestinian territories. We also listened carefully to Ms. Adele Raemer’s briefing.
We can only concur with the Special Coordinator’s key conclusion that negative trends with…
I would like to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his analysis of the processes unfolding in Afghanistan. We share many of the views in the Secretary-General’s most recent q…
Many of those who have spoken before me today mentioned the role of the Security Council. We see today’s meeting as an opportunity to review the results of the Council’s action over the past two years in implementing its own decisions in its quest to find a political and diplomatic solution to the k…
Issues pertaining to the safety of navigation and the protection of the lives of persons on board vessels, including crew members, are of primary importance to the Russian Federation. In that
connection, we supported the Council’s adoption of resolution 2500 (2019) today.
Thanks to the concerted e…
We congratulate you, Madam President, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council, and thank the United Kingdom for its presidency last month. We also want to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Iraq, Archbishop Bashar Matti War…
I would to thank today’s briefers. We listened carefully to the briefing by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and must once again note that the information he provided, as well as the report (S/2019/843, annex) circulated in the Security Council, do not provide an objective and bala…
I would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his informative briefing about the situation in the province. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić…
We welcome you, Madam, as you preside over the Security Council today. We also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing.
Today we are once again discussing the situation in the Middle East. What is the Middle East? Is it even possible to c…
I have long noted and been aware of the fact that my friend, the German representative, has a predisposition towards inviting me to engage in dialogue during Security Council meetings. I cannot deny him that pleasure. I wish to make this an interactive dialogue. He does not need to give me the artic…
We thank Assistant Secretaries-General Khaled Khiari and Ursula Mueller for their briefings. We are also grateful to Ms. Agnès Marcaillou, Director
of the United Nations Mine Action Service, for her report on the work that is under way in Syria in that area.
On 22 October, the Russian Federation a…
