Mr. President, at the outset, allow me to welcome you as the President of the Security Council and to extend my gratitude to the delegation of Viet Nam for today’s initiative of convening an open debate of the Council to discuss the status of implementation
of resolution 1325 (2000). We would like …
I thank you, Madam, welcome you to the
Security Council. Because this is the last meeting of the September presidency of the United States, I should like to express appreciation to the Permanent Representative of the United States, Ambassador Susan Rice, and the entire American delegation for their…
Clearly, we share all the feelings so eloquently expressed to Ms. Norma Chan by colleagues who spoke earlier. We wish her every success in her future endeavours.
We thank Mr. Kai Eide for his comprehensive and candid analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, as well as for his introduction of the S…
It is difficult to overstate the significance of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held in Vienna in March. The proceedings have become the main anti-narcotics event not only of this year but perhaps of the entire decade, since within its framework stock was taken of t…
I wish to draw attention to the fact that at least two delegations that were indicated on the board as having voted in favour had in fact abstained in the voting. Therefore, the results declared at the outcome of the voting are not fully valid.
The outcome of the vote that has just been held again reaffirms the fact that a specific group of countries continues to employ double standards with regard to this issue and to adopt a politicized approach, to the detriment of practical steps to bring about a settlement to existing humanitarian pro…
The draft resolution before the General Assembly in document A/63/L.79 has nothing in common with the lofty humanitarian goals and concerns referred to by its authors. Moreover, this initiative is motivated exclusively by political concerns and based on the expedient calculations of the Georgian sid…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the assumption of the important role of President of the Security Council. I would also like to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for their effective work in presiding over the Council last month.
We welcome the participat…
I am obliged to state that Russia, acting on the basis of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations in exercise of its right to self-defence against Georgian troops firing directly on its peacekeepers, never sought to position its actions within the framework of the inchoate concept of the res…
I have been informed that the representative of Georgia used this debate on the important and complex topic of the responsibility to protect to make blatantly anti-Russian comments. I believe that, since he went so far as to exploit this debate to speak about the tragic events of August 2008, he mig…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East and to welcome him to the Security Council.
Since the Security Council’s previous discussions on the Middle East, the situation in the region has remained at the centre of the internationa…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General for preparing and presenting his report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304), a document richly deserving of the most careful analysis and consideration.
We s…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his substantive briefing on his recent trip. We listened closely to the statement by the Permanent Representative of Myanmar.
In our view, the Secretary-General’s visit was timely and necessary. The programme of work was extremely full: the Secretary-Gen…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and Under-Secretary-General Malcorra for their briefings on the situation in Somalia.
That situation continues to be unstable. The recent increase in bloodshed in Mogadishu and the continued attacks by radical Islamists against the Somali army and police forc…
We are pleased to welcome you as President of the Council.
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. De Mistura of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for his briefing on the situation in Iraq. We should also like to expression our appreciation of his work in leading UNAMI and to…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zannier, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2009/300). The Russian side has carefully analyzed that document.
We welcome the particip…
I must draw attention to a procedural flaw in today’s meeting, which of course has a serious political subtext and is one of the reasons that we are today seeing the end of the work of the United Nations Mission in the Abkhaz-Russian border region.
We have been very patient for many years now altho…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Japan, Ambassador Takasu, for the regular quarterly briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for the work that he has carried out at the head of that Committee. We note that in the rep…
The members of the Security Council will recall that, when we received the report of the Secretary-General in May, the Russian delegation expressed its willingness to work constructively with partners on agreeing to a substantive draft resolution of the Council on the future mandate of a United Nati…
The Russian delegation welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1874 (2009), which condemns the nuclear test undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and, in that regard, introduces additional restrictive measures with regard to North Korea.
The resolution adopted is, on the one…
