We attach great importance to the convening of this open debate of the Security Council on the issue of its working methods. In our view, the very fact of conducting the meeting in this format bears witness to the improved transparency of the Council’s work. Pursuant to the United Nations Charter, t…
We thank Mr. Zarif for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2011/675). I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate him on his official appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
We are grateful for the statement of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization, M…
The Russian Federation fully endorses the conclusions of the statement made by the representative of the Republic of Belarus on behalf of
the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Russian Federation actively participated in the negotiations on, and supports, draft reso…
Unfortunately, we have no choice but to recognize that High Representative Inzko’s analysis of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina can hardly be called objective. His report (S/2011/682, annex) again reflects considerable prejudice against the Bosnian Serb leadership. In order to gain a more bal…
We express our gratitude to the Permanent Representatives of India, Germany and South Africa for their reports on the work of the Committees under their leadership.
Russia considers the future stepping up of efforts under the Committees as a precondition to enhancing the effectiveness of the Securi…
The issue of Security Council reform is one of the most important on today’s agenda. This is largely because in this case we are dealing with one of the principal organs of the United Nations — one that, according to the Charter of the United Nations, bears the primary responsibility for the mainten…
An analysis of the situation with regard to the protection of civilians in various hotspots and of our experience in implementing Security Council resolutions that include this component lead us to the discomfiting conclusion that, even with a serious international legal basis and increasing efforts…
At the outset we wish to express our condolences to Turkey with respect to the destructive earthquake that hit the country, which has claimed human lives.
We are grateful to Mr. Pascoe for his briefing on developments in the Middle East. We share his concerns with respect to the stalemate in the pr…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his substantive briefing. We also welcome the participation in this meeting of representatives of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission.
The Russian Federation is seriously concerned…
It is no exaggeration to say that sport is the universal human language. Its role as an ambassador for peace is extremely important, in particular when it is endowed with the noble traditions of the Olympic Truce. The importance we attach to raising future generations in a culture of peace, non-viol…
We are pleased to welcome you today to the Council, Sir.
The best guarantee of ensuring the successful execution of reforms in the areas of security and the rule of law in post-conflict countries is achieving solid peace, a broad national consensus and sustainable development. There can be no quest…
Russia has consistently called for greater involvement by the United Nations in addressing the challenges facing Africa. We firmly believe that without the active, full-fledged engagement of African countries in international affairs it will be impossible to launch fruitful cooperation on a global s…
Madam, I wish you success in your work as President of the Security Council for this month. We would also like to thank Ambassador Salam and the entire Lebanese delegation for their outstanding work in September, which was not easy.
It is clear that the result of today’s vote reflects not so much a…
The Lebanese initiative to convene a Council meeting is dedicated to one of the most important challenges of global politics today. The current state of international relations, as failure to resolve long- standing conflicts and the emergence of hotbeds of instability have aggravated the threat to g…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2009 (2011), just adopted, based on our policy of addressing the issue of rebuilding post-war Libya exclusively under the auspices of the United Nations and the Security Council.
The main task of the United Nations mission established today will be to sup…
We thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Permanent Representative of Columbia Néstor Osorio, for his briefing on the work of the Committee over the past three months. The Committee has worked actively in the reporting period in strict compliance with its ma…
We are grateful to Mr. Zarif for presenting the Secretary-General’s report on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2011/514). We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, and we share …
We are grateful to the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Yury Fedotov, for his comprehensive briefing.
We view today’s meeting as an important step in strengthening the contacts between the Security Council and UNODC. We support the Security Council’s intention to co…
We are grateful to Ms. O’Brien for her briefing and for the thorough analysis contained in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/360) on the legal and practical aspects of the establishment of specialized anti-piracy courts in Somaliland and Puntland and an extraterritorial Somali court with i…
