We thank Deputy Secretary-General Migiro; Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Mr. Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs; and Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma for their substantive briefings.
The Russian Federation has co…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the French delegation for your timely initiative to organize today’s meeting of the Security Council to consider threats to international peace and security and to adopt the important draft presidential statement before us. We are also gra…
Like many of our colleagues, we thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ameerah Haq, for presenting the Secretary- General’s report (S/2010/85) on the work of the United
Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) and for her informative briefing on developments in the …
The Russian delegation welcomes the participation at today’s Council meeting of Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia. We are grateful for his assessments, which we share. We also thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his introduct…
The Russian delegation is grateful to the delegation of the United Kingdom for the timely initiative of convening this Security Council meeting on such an important issue. Our thanks go to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/362) on the implementation of resolution 1820 (2008) and for his b…
The Russian delegation is grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening today’s Security Council meeting on the critical issue of United Nations peacekeeping. We listened very closely to the briefings by Under-Secretaries-General Le Roy and Malcorra, who i…
On behalf of the delegation of the Russian Federation, I should like to thank the leadership of the Special Court for today’s briefings and to note the considerable contributions made by that institution to the fight against impunity. We also welcome the presence of the representative of Sierra Leon…
The delegation of the Russian Federation, Sir, is pleased to see you assume your new functions as Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. We wish you every possible success. We note with satisfaction the presence at today’s meeting of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Minis…
We welcome the participation in the meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Karel De Gucht, and of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Alan Doss, for his substantive briefing o…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, to the presidency of the Security Council. We are grateful to our friends and colleagues from the Vietnamese delegation for the painstaking preparation of this meetin…
We wish to thank Assistant Secretary- General Sach for his briefing, which highlighted various aspects of the workings of the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and of the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB), of which he is a member. We believe that the briefing was extremely useful beca…
At the outset, we would like to commend His Excellency Mr. Charles Nqakula and to thank him for his substantive briefing on developments in the Burundi peace process. The Russian Federation believes that the active mediation efforts of the Republic of South Africa in support of peace in Burundi are …
Our delegation is pleased to welcome you, Mr. Foreign Minister, to the presidency of the Security Council. Your presence in this Chamber, along with the participation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and representatives of a broad spectrum of leading regional organizations in this meeting, are convi…
The delegation of the Russian Federation supports the General Committee’s recommendation that the item on Taiwan’s so-called admittance as a Member of the United Nations not be included in the agenda of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly. We believe that that recommendation is rational…
The Russian delegation welcomes the participation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at today’s meeting, especially as it is taking place on the eve of his trip to Africa.
We believe that the President’s initiative to have the Security Council take up the issue of the prevention and resolution of con…
The Russian Federation welcomes today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 1773 (2007), which extends for another year the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). We feel that its adoption is a great step towards strengthening the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Leban…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. Qazi, for his briefing, and for having presented the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). He has given us an objective picture of the extremely…
The establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission through parallel General Assembly and Security Council resolutions adopted in 2005 was one of the important and tangible achievements of Member States in reforming the United Nations. Experience shows that lasting peace and the effective settlement o…
We are grateful to the President of the Security Council for organizing this important event. We would also like to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and Ambassador Liberata Mulamula for their detailed briefings on the subject under …
The Russian delegation thanks the Permanent Representative of Japan, Ambassador Oshima, for organizing the visiting mission of the Security Council to Afghanistan and for submitting his exhaustive report on its results. The conclusions contained in that document will serve as a good basis for the Co…
