I welcome you, Mr. President, to New York. We are happy to see you presiding over the Security Council. This is the first meeting of the Council under the presidency of Equatorial Guinea in the month of February. We are grateful to you, Sir, for having honoured us with your presence on this importan…
My colleagues thanked you during the consultations, Mr. President, while I reserved for myself the privilege of doing so in an open format. But of course I was upstaged by my friend the representative of France, who in his usual gallant manner congratulated you twice.
However, I want to congratulat…
We thank Mark Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
We share concerns about the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone — a territory that is under the de facto control of fighters from the Al-Nusra Front alliance with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham owing to the fact that the…
The Russian Federation expects that the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 2453 (2019) will facilitate the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus to create security conditions conducive to a settlement on the island.
A Cyprus settlement is one of the…
I understand that this discussion has dragged on, and I do not want to prolong it. This is not a right of reply. I simply want to make one comment that I believe worth stating.
As I mentioned today, United States Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that his country’s position is shared by the majorit…
I was not going to speak again either. However, the response by the representative of the United States, and by extension whatever constituency he is representing, has forced me to take the floor again.
For the information of the members of the Security Council, Russia, unlike the United States, ha…
Since the representative of Germany devoted a major part of his statement to speaking specifically to me, I would like to make a few comments.
The use of preventive diplomacy is excellent. It is of course better to prevent a crisis than to resolve
it. However, putting forward an absurd eight-day u…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
We have no doubt that today’s meeting was called for by the United States delegation for the sole purpose of continuing to destabilize the situation in Venezuela by imposing its own approaches and methods to resolve the problems that the country has r…
The Russian Federation cannot support the attempt of our American colleagues to conduct a discussion of the situation in Venezuela. Generally speaking, it is a gross abuse of the prerogatives of one member of the Security Council — more importantly, a permanent member — to introduce issues formulate…
We would like to thank all the briefers at today’s meeting.
The position of the Russian Federation with regard to the security impacts of climate change is well known. We deem it excessive, and even counterproductive, to consider climate change in the Security Council, whose aim under the Charter o…
We are pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council, Sir, and it is an honour to have you conducting today’s meeting. We also welcome Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Mr. Emilio José Archila, High Counsellor for Post-Conflict, to today’s meet…
We thank Mr. Mladenov for his informative briefing on events in the Middle East and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Today, as violent conflicts — in Syria, Yemen and Libya — have continued to break out in the Middle East and North Africa, the lack of progress in resolving the…
We would like to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his detailed and objective briefing. Russia supports the steps taken under the auspices of the United Nations to get results in the work of unifying Libya and stabilizing its internal political situation,…
We welcome Ms. Kamissa Camara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, to today’s meeting, and thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her briefing.
We are pleased that on the political front, the situation in Mali…
We have listened attentively — extremely attentively, even — to today’s briefers, and we thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Mr. Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo, Ms. Fatima Mohammed, Mr. Joseph Malanji, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Zambia, and Monseigneur Utembi for their information.
We have taken note of the …
Since this is the first time I have taken the floor in the Council this year, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on the Dominican Republic’s presidency for this month. We are sure you will carry out your duties with distinction.
We are grateful to Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secr…
We thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing on the state of the political situation in Syria.
On 18 December there was an important breakthrough in that area in Geneva. It is a pity that a number of members of the Security Council have preferred not to notice it. After intense, pains…
We thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his analysis of the processes currently under way in Afghanistan. We are also grateful for the briefings by Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Direc…
We would first like to thank our colleagues from Côte d’Ivoire for their principled position and for convening an urgent meeting of the Security Council at the request of Serbia and Russia in connection with the gross violation of resolution 1244 (1999), as a result of
the Pristina Assembly’s adopt…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Martin Griffiths, for his detailed briefing on the recent round of intra-Yemeni consultations held in Sweden, as well as to Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his overview of the humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen. We…
