We are very pleased to see you presiding over the Council today, Sir. We are grateful to Kuwait for convening today’s meeting and for initiating presidential statement, on cooperation with the League of Arab States, which we support. We consider it essential to strengthen our cooperation with the Le…
Madam President, we are once again pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council, and we are grateful to our Indonesian colleagues for proposing that we address the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. My thanks also go to the Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Maurer, Presiden…
It is a pleasure to see you in the Council, Madam President. We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Pierre Krähenbühl, f…
I will be very brief, Mr. President. Today we have witnessed an attempt to introduce censorship into the Security Council. We do not consider that the way it was done helps to maintain a businesslike atmosphere in the Security Council. That is my first point. Secondly, I have no illusions that I wil…
What will the Russian-speaking Ukrainians have to deal with once the new law comes into force? Let me say it straight out, they will be dealing with the forced total Ukrainization of social life. In a short time they will be able to use Russian only in private conversations and religious rites. A co…
I have a rhetorical question for my British colleague. What are his criteria for judging whether my statement is substantive or an explanation of vote? I consider it to be an explanation of vote and I would be grateful for a ruling from you permitting me to complete my statement, Mr. President.
During his inauguration today, President Zelensky spoke out specifically against attempts to sow division in Ukrainian society based on language. The fight against Russian language and culture and the desire to destroy the all-embracing ties between these two brother countries became the hallmark of…
We deeply deplore the fact that a number of delegations have nonetheless displayed double standards with regard to our discussion of the issue of Ukraine in the Security Council. It is obvious to us that they find the subject unpleasant because it does not allow them to excuse their protégés in Kyiv…
I would first like to remind my French colleague that there is no Russian-Ukrainian conflict. There is an internal Ukrainian conflict and a crisis in the relations between Ukraine and Russia that was created by the former Ukrainian leadership. In the context that the representative of France referre…
We thank Ms. DiCarlo and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings.
To be honest, we have a feeling of déjà vu all over again. We frequently heard these kinds of appeals and lamentations during the pacification of eastern Aleppo and Ghouta. But I want to ask why the humanitarian troika was in no hurry to cal…
We would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We share many of his views.
Russia is taking active measures to advance the political process and restore trust among the conflicting Syrian parties. Intensive work with Iran and Turkey is under way within the Astana format, in co…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We also thank the other briefers from the non-governmental organization EcoPeace Middle East.
We are sorry to have to note that the Middle East is still going through a turbule…
I would first like to ask you how you managed to get hold of our secret diplomatic textbook. You could almost have been reading it aloud. I recognized it from my time at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. That was exactly what it was like. Some other time I will tell you about wh…
I see that you are turning over your wonderful hourglass once again, Mr. President. I have to tell you that it will not help you turn back time or change the past. Incidentally, I did not see the hourglass at the open debate on sexual violence in conflict (see S/PV.8514). Or is sexual violence in co…
We were unable to support resolution 2467 (2019), submitted by Germany.
The Russian Federation firmly condemns sexual violence in armed conflict. We have consistently advocated eradicating that abhorrent war crime. Any type of violence against civilians in wartime is absolutely unacceptable, and se…
I would like to thank the German presidency for organizing today’s meeting and to express our profound gratitude to the participants and briefers for their information about various aspects of the fight against sexual violence and armed conflict.
This year marks a decade since the Security Council …
We welcome the personal participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Colombia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, which we consider extremely important given the Secretary- General’s assessment that the peace process in Colombia is at a very critical stage.
At the risk of attr…
You can turn your wonderful hourglass as many times as you wish, Mr. President, but I will take as much time as I need.
We are both surprised and yet not surprised that the Security Council convened an extraordinary meeting today with the participation of the Vice President of the United States, wh…
I have an innovative idea about the Thuringian hourglass. Lay the sand watch flat when I am speaking.
(spoke in Russian)
We welcome the High Commissioner for Refugees and thank him for his briefing. We deeply appreciate the effective work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for R…
I would first like to say how pleased we are to see you, Minister, presiding over our meeting, and since I have not yet had the opportunity to do so, I would like to congratulate Germany on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for April and to wish it every success. We are also grateful t…
