We welcome today’s meeting, which gives all Member States a good opportunity to discuss the Security Council and its work, as well as the efforts to reform the Council. Such transparent discussions are extremely important. We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of China, Ambassador Liu Jiey…
We are compelled to exercise our right to reply to the statement made by Georgia. Only a few minutes ago, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that we should refrain from the political exploitation of sports. Unfortunately, that appeal was not heard by the delegation of Ge…
The Russian delegation is grateful to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for having introduced the Agency’s report for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2012 (see A/68/324).
Russia fully shares the high assessment of the Agency’s work. We c…
We believe that today’s Security Council meeting on the subject of the Council’s working methods is very significant. This is now the sixth year in a row that the Council has discussed the issue in an open format with the participation of the wider membership of the United Nations, and it is testame…
Mr. Minister, we are pleased to welcome
you here to preside over the Council and pay tribute to your personal contribution to improving the working methods of the Council.
We thank the delegation of Azerbaijan for convening today’s important meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and th…
First of all, we would like to confirm our support for the resumption of the negotiations between Israel and Palestine on 29 July. We trust that they will be substantive and continuous and outline a clear path towards a two-State solution, a cessation of the conflict and the establishment of lasting…
We thank Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and his introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/535), as well as to the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan for his very comprehensive statement.
The alarming situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghani…
We are pleased to welcome you, Madam President, to preside over the Security Council. We are grateful to the Argentine delegation for its initiative in holding an open debate in the Council on such a topical issue as United Nations cooperation with regional and subregional organizations. The presenc…
We would like to thank the United States delegation for the initiative of convening this debate of the Security Council on such a relevant topic. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of a number of high-level officials.
We have from the outset actively supported the good offices of the S…
The Russian Federation welcomes the update provided by United States Secretary of State John Kerry at the press conference held in Amman on 19 July as to the agreement in principle to launch Palestinian-
Israeli negotiations on the final status of the Palestinian territories. We welcome the planned…
We learned with interest about the initiative of the United States delegation to return to a discussion of one of the aspects of the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, namely, the protection of journalists. We would like to thank Deputy Secretary- General Eliasson and the other …
We would like to echo the words of previous speakers in condemning the attack in Mogadishu.
Natural resources are above all a major factor of sustainable development. They often underpin the economies of many developed and developing countries. States possess inalienable sovereign rights over their…
We would like to thank Mr. Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-Genral, for presenting the Secretary- General’s report (S/2013/254) on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Prime Minister o…
This is now the sixth year in a row that the draft text introduced today (A/67/L.68) has been presented to the General Assembly. Its sponsors invariably declare that in promoting this initiative they are motivated by concern for the needs of those who, as the result of well-known and tragic events, …
We are grateful to the leadership of the Tribunals for their briefings on their work, their completion strategies and the transition to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. We have noted the recent trial and acquittal in the Stanišić and Simatović case. We see in that decisio…
We agree with the alarming assessment of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abou Moussa, of the negative impact of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic on neighbouring States, which is reflected, in particular, in the increase over the past six months of the numbe…
We welcome the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Leonid Kozhara, and we thank him for his detailed statement.
The Russian Federation has consistently called for cooperation between the United Nat…
The chief task of peacebuilding is to eliminate the root causes of conflicts and preventing their resurgence. All of that must be primarily based on States’ internal efforts, since in that area the role of
the United Nations and regional organizations is one of support for national efforts. Peacebu…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of
resolution 2100 (2013) in view of the importance of increasing assistance to the Republic of Mali in its efforts to deal with a complex and comprehensive crisis, as well as in response to a request by the country’s authorities, supported by the relevant reg…
The situation with regard to the settlement of the crises in the Middle East remains quite fragile. That was confirmed yet again by the renewed tension in early April when Palestinian fighters from Gaza fired rockets at Israeli territory, and the Israeli Air Force, in response, struck the Gaza Strip…
