We would like to once again welcome you, Madam Minister, as you preside over this meeting, which we thank you for organizing. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Special Representative of
the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflicts, Ms. Bangura. As we can see, thanks to her…
We are glad to welcome you, Madam Minister, to the presidency of the Security Council. We are grateful to the delegation of Rwanda for convening this meeting on this very important topic, namely, the prevention of conflicts in Africa by addressing the root causes. Undoubtedly, that issue is crucial …
The draft international arms trade treaty (ATT) we are considering today contains a whole range of positive elements. Upon Russia’s initiative, with which a significant number of delegations have associated themselve, a fundamentally new article has been formulated, one that prompts States to preven…
We welcome the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union. For us, today’s meeting is important both from the standpoint of the role played by the European Union (EU) in collective efforts to support international peace and security and from the standpoint of t…
We will only touch upon certain aspects of the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which has been discussed at length. The topic has been on the Council’s agenda for almost 15 years. The Council regularly includes the protection of civilians in the mandates of peacekeeping operat…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Serry, for his detailed assessment of the situation in the Middle East. We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine, Mr. Malki, who is taking the floor for the first time in this Chamber in his new capa…
We welcome the presence of the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Mr. Jilani, to preside over today’s open meeting on peacekeeping operations.
United Nations peacekeeping activities are facing tremendous challenges today. The geography of conflicts is expanding and their external influence growing. Des…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict. We have carefully considered the relevant report (S/2012/746). We would specifically like to thank the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Mr. Momen, for his productive chairing of the Peacebuilding Co…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his substantive briefing and for his work as the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We listened closely to the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan…
We thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio, for his briefing on the work of the Committee. We note the high professionalism and effectiveness of the leadership of the Chair and the Colombian delegation as a whole. Under the Colombian …
For the past 18 months, we have followed developments in the Sahel with alarm and concern. We see there an increasingly clear manifestation of a whole host of destabilizing factors — arms flows, terrorist and drug threats, separatist tendencies, severe internal conflicts and a grave humanitarian and…
Russian has always defended and will
continue to defend the interests of international justice, including fairness, impartiality and honesty.
Recent events concerning the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), together with the report of the Tribunal (see S/2012/592) containing r…
There continues to be a great need for consolidated work on the Yemeni settlement with the active involvement of the United Nations. It demonstrates the advantages of a comprehensive engagement model in which outside players pursue a coordinated policy and send identical signals to the parties to th…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 67/19 to raise the Palestinian status in the United Nations to that of non-member observer State. That step is in keeping with the position of principle of our country. As is well known, Russia decided, in 1988, to recognize the declaration of Pal…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Zarif for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2012/818). We welcome the participation of Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, in today’s meeting and agree with his as…
We attach particular importance to today’s debate on the working methods of the Security Council. The fact that it is being held in an open format for the fifth year in a row now shows the unswerving attention that the Council pays to Member States’ proposals on improving the procedural aspects of t…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the States members of the Eurasian Economic Community — the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Russian Federation — to introduce draft resolution A/67/L.9/Rev.1, entitled “Cooperation betwee…
We are grateful to the delegation of India for its initiative in holding a meeting of the Security Council on the issue of combating piracy in the context of maintaining international peace and security. We are also grateful to Mr. Eliasson for his briefing.
The Russian Federation is concerned abou…
The question of Security Council reform is central to the general reform agenda of our global Organization. That particular reform deals with one of Organization’s principal bodies, which, according to the Charter, bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and secur…
We thank the Permanent Representatives of Germany, India and South Africa for their briefings on the work of the Council’s subsidiary committees.
Despite the best efforts of the international community, terrorism remains one of the main threats to international peace and security. We are reminded o…
