We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman and Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, for their detailed briefings.
For our part, we note that the security situation in Rakhine state and its environs has stabilized to a degre…
We have listened attentively to the assessment of Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, of the announcement made in Washington, D.C., recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Washington’s decision on…
The tasks outlined in resolution 2347 (2017) regarding the protection of cultural heritage during conflicts, and in particular from terrorists, have not lost their relevance. I would like to thank the briefers for their detailed information on the work of the bodies they head and their thorough anal…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, in your capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), for your presentation of the 90-day report, as well as Under- Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing on the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing.
Our successes in eliminating terrorist nerve centres and taking de-escalation measures in the framework of the Astana process have enabled us to significantly improve the situation in Syria. What we also need is progress on the political fro…
The Russian Federation supports the adoption by consensus of draft resolution A/72/L.8, on the situation in Afghanistan, which was intended to reflect in a targeted and comprehensive manner the collective approaches of the international community to reach an effective and long-term Afghan settlement…
The Russian delegation has participated in good faith in all the consultations, multilateral and bilateral, designed to bring the positions of Security Council members closer on the extension of the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigativ…
We thank the Italian delegation for taking the initiative to convene today’s meeting. In our view, its format makes it possible to consider the challenges and threats to global peace and security from a new perspective, including through the prism of the situation in the Mediterranean region. We wou…
I will be brief. I actually forgot to mention three issues that I think it is important to mention today. I would first like to sincerely thank you, Mr. President, for your stewardship of today’s meeting. It has been difficult, but you managed to conduct it in truly presidential fashion. Secondly, I…
We are deeply disappointed that our initiative aimed at extending and improving the quality of the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) to investigate instances of the use of chemical weapons in Syria did not receive the …
The Russian Federation shares our common commitment to a world free of chemical weapons and is concerned about the continuing incidences of chemical terrorism in the Middle East. Our position is unchanged. We condemn the use of chemical weapons by anyone in any circumstances. The perpetrators of suc…
As we all know, the Russian Federation was unable to support the draft resolution (S/2017/962) submitted by the United States delegation. Today we have been told that we refused to engage in consultations or to communicate. That is not so, since our experts did indeed communicate whenever they were …
In this case, Mr. President, in accordance with rule 35 of the Security Council’s provisional rules of procedure, which says that a motion or draft resolution can be withdrawn at any time as long as no vote has been taken on it, the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in document S/2017/933 w…
We thank you, Mr. President, and we are pleased to have you in the Chamber today. We are grateful to Mr. Ghassan Salamé for his briefing. We very much hope that he can execute his difficult task of helping to unify Libya and we sincerely wish him every success. There is no alternative to that path i…
We are not playing political games here. On the other hand, perhaps we are, because if we were not playing political games, we would not be having this discussion today. But while we have studied this issue, and the Council’s practice on it varies. we will not delve into that at the moment, as we se…
Mr. President, we would like to request that draft resolution S/2017/933, submitted by the Russian Federation, be put to the vote second and that draft resolution S/2017/962, submitted by the United States of America, be put to the vote first. We know that the United States has told you and the Coun…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and we share his serious concerns about the status quo in Kosovo. We thank Special Representative Tanin and his team for their efforts and objective briefing on…
Like other members of the Council, we are eager to see sustainable peace and stability achieved as soon as possible in Somalia and Eritrea, and in the Horn of Africa as a whole, but we were obliged to abstain in the voting on resolution 2385 (2017) for the following reasons.
The main criteria for i…
We are happy to see you, Mr. President, presiding over this meeting of the Security Council. We would like to thank Secretary-General Guterres; Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, Mr. Diop; Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat; and European Union Special Representat…
