The Russian Federation is committed to the implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which, as is well-known, our country ratified as early as 2001. We hope that resolution 2310 (2016), adopted today, will help a maximum number of States, especially those listed in annex 2 …
There can be no doubt as to the urgency of today’s topic. Civil aviation has been and will remain a highly attractive target for terrorists. At the outset, we would like to once again express our condolences to the families and friends of all those who have lost their lives as a result of air transp…
We thank the Secretary-General for his substantive statement. Despite some reduction in tensions on the ground, the Palestinian-Israeli situation remains problematic. Various incidents in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as well as the sporadic aggravation of tensions around the Gaza Strip show that the…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. We wish him every success in his new important post. We carefully listened to the remarks of the Ambassador of the Islamic R…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and share his considerations and views.
We would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the…
We welcome the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, as President of the Security Council. We are grateful for his convening of this meeting on the issue of non-proliferation and Security Council resolution 1540 (2004).
We listened very carefully to today’s briefings, and we th…
I would like to begin my statement with the idea that Mr. O’Brien used to finish his statement. Mr. O’Brien said that the humanitarian tragedy was the consequence of a political failure. We can only agree with that idea. Did they think of the consequences when they invaded Iraq, which led to the for…
We welcome the initiative of the Japanese delegation to hold this important meeting, and we thank you, Sir, in particular for having invited such important speakers who have made such substantive briefings. We believe that the positions of African representatives are very important in discussions on…
I do not agree with a number of the observations made by Ms. Power, but I would simply like to note that she rightly pointed out that it is important to distinguish between the moderate opposition and Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is exactly what we are saying. As for the rest, I am not going to engage in …
I have just two or three brief comments to make.
First, with regard to my American colleague’s response to the question of the bombing in northern Syria, which, according to press reports, has killed many civilians, I will not conceal my surprise at her remark that the investigations would be condu…
The multi-year conflict eroding Syria today, due to terrorists fuelled with weapons from the outside, violations and flows of internally displaced persons and refugees, has seen a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Syria. At the same time, following the establishment of the ceasefire reg…
We regard the adoption of resolution 2298 (2016), authorizing the transfer of chemical weapons stockpiles from Libya and their subsequent destruction as an important step in chemical demilitarization. Given the intensified presence of various terrorist groups in Libya, this step is a timely. There w…
The discussion of the working methods of the Security Council in an open format is an occasion to hear an outside assessment of the current state of affairs and be enriched by new ideas and proposals for improving the procedural aspects of Security Council activities, of course on the understanding …
We thank the Permanent Representative of Spain for the briefing on his work as the Security Council facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), as well as the Head of the Delegation of the European Union, who spoke about the Working Group on transfers. We also listened closely to M…
The situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to remain very complex, spawning ever new tragedies. The incidents on the West Bank of the Jordan River and ceasefire violations around Gaza are a clear confirmation of that.
We consider very important the publication on 1 July of the Midd…
We are happy to welcome you, Mr. Minister, presiding as the President of the Security Council. We would like to thank the Secretary-General and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross for their briefings. The statement of the President of the Central African Republic is particu…
First of all, I should like to underscore the importance of the full implementation of resolution 2253 (2015) in order to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaida and associated groups such as Jabhat Al-Nusra.
Strategic reports of the Secretary-General to implement this reso…
We wish at the outset to welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the High Representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Federica Mogherini. In the statement she made during the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, she underscored that no one alone …
The situation in Libya remains extremely unstable, despite all the efforts to reunify the country. The Government of National Accord is still only preparing to become a full-fledged executive body as it awaits the approval of the legimate Parliament, as provided for in the Skhirat Agreement. The ter…
We thank the Egyptian delegation for initiating today’s very important meeting. Russia firmly supports the expansion and deepening of cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union and subregional organizations.
We welcome the progressive development of the partnership between the Sec…
