The Russian Federation voted against the draft resolution (S/2017/884) that was submitted by the United States on the technical extension of the mandate of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). It is regrettable that the a…
What is happening right now smells bad. Let me explain. A few days before the release of the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a draft resolution (S/2017/884) on extending it for a year is thrown together. In the ru…
In accordance with rule 33.3 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, I should like to propose to adjourn this meeting until 7 November. Also in accordance with the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I should like to explain why we are presenting this motion.
Let us not…
We would first like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his informative briefing.
The agenda for today’s meeting is “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”, or at least that is what it says on the paper in front of me. However, the statements of some delega…
The Russian Federation agrees that we should not accept the fact that 108 million people around the world, of whom 52 million are children, are starving. We support the determination of the Secretary-General and the plans of the United Nations specialized agencies to draft a strategy to tackle that …
First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to express my delegation’s profound and sincere condolences to the people of the United States in the aftermath of the monstrous tragedy that recently occurred in Las Vegas.
We express our appreciation to the Secretary- General for his informative…
Our delegation welcomes the adoption by consensus of the political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 72/1).
We align ourselves with the joint statement made on behalf of the Group of Friends United against Huma…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing on the situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar. We share his concern about the serious worsening of the situation in the region, which was provoked first and foremost by fighters of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. We resolutely condemn thei…
We would first like to thank you, Mr. President, and the Ethiopian delegation for including today’s meeting in the Council’s September programme of work and for your efforts in preparing for it.
Exactly 16 years ago, on 28 September 2001, the Security Council adopted a core counter-terrorism resolu…
I do not intend to engage in polemics, but we need to get to the bottom of the statistics with regard to the number of people in Syria who have access to humanitarian assistance and people who have received assistance from the United Nations. I think that this is one of the challenges that the new U…
The Russian delegation would like to thank Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and Mr. Amr Aboulatta, Chai of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), for their assessments and their informative contributions to our discussion.
Our delegation playe…
We too wish to speak in this open meeting, and not just to share our opinion on the current situation in Syria with the members of the Security Council.
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing. We wish Mr. Lowcock every success on the Syrian humanitarian track. We trust that he will addres…
I would like to 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 evolving circumstances in Afghanistan. And, of course, we listened carefully to the statement by Mr. Salahu…
I will begin by stating frankly that we were surprised by the inclusion of the issue of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the context of country-specific topics. There are other, more inclusive, formats for that. In our view, the most appropriate format for Security Counc…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region.
Terrorism remains the main threat facing the entire world, and the African continent in particular. The increased activity of militants of the terr…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haile Menkerios, for his
detailed briefing. We share the views we have heard as to the increased level of interaction between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of ensuring peace and security in Africa.
In recent y…
Russia does not accept the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s claim to become a nuclear State and has supported all Security Council resolutions demanding an end to the nuclear and missile programmes of Pyongyang, with a view to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We have therefore su…
Today is one of those rare occasions when a delay by the Security Council in adopting a draft resolution is the result of positive developments in events. We welcome the signing in Quito, on 4 September, of the agreement on a temporary ceasefire between the Government of Colombia and the Ejército de…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2374 (2017), mindful of the importance of maintaining the Council’s consensus support for the peace settlement in Mali. We take note of the fact that the Malian Government, seeking to accelerate the stabilization of the northern territories, appea…
We thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the latest North Korean nuclear test.
The provocative nuclear missile activity by Pyongyang recently gained dangerous momentum. We are deeply troubled by the testing of a thermonuclear explosive device for an intercontinental ballistic missile, as an…
