Allow me to thank the leadership of both Tribunals for their briefings and for the reports they have submitted to the Security Council on their completion strategies.
We note that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), notwithstanding existing difficulties, has worked fruitfully ove…
The Russian delegation welcomes the unanimous adoption of the resolution on the Western Sahara, which extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). That mission continues to carry out an important stabilizing function. In adopting the resolution, t…
We welcome the initiative of our Mexican colleagues to convene today’s meeting of the Security Council on this very important item. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2009/158). We wish too to thank Ms. Coomaraswamy, Mr. Le Roy and Ms. Veneman for the timely information …
We welcome this meeting of the Security Council to address so topical an issue as that of mediation and settlement of disputes. Mediation, quite clearly, is a very cost-effective political method for the international community to respond to conflict situations. We are grateful to the Secretary-Gene…
First, Sir, allow me to congratulate you on acceding to the important functions of President of the Security Council. I would also like to thank the delegation of Libya for its effective work in the Chair last month. We wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hédi Anna…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zannier, for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2009/149). The Russian Federation has carefully analyzed this document. We w…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Ould Abdallah, for his presentation and for the reports of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia (S/2009/132) and on ensuring long-term security of navigation off the Somali coast (S/2009/146), prepar…
Today’s meeting of the Security Council is very symptomatic. It was convened in haste and without due preparation, and underscores the absence of a coordinated strategy on Darfur on the part of the international community and the Security Council that would assiduously address the political solution…
We are grateful to Mr. Kai Eide for his work and for the frank and exhaustive analysis of the situation in Afghanistan and for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s regular report.
We are seriously concerned that, despite the efforts of the Afghan authorities and the international military pr…
It seems to me that the exchange of views that we have just heard between our French, Libyan and Ugandan colleagues demonstrates that cooperation between the Security Council and regional organizations requires some fine-tuning.
With all due respect to the initiative proposed by our French colleagu…
We are gratified to welcome Ms. Dora Bakoyannis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); we are grateful for her briefing.
The Russian Federation has consistently championed the multilateral development and step…
I should like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his report on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and by thanking Special Representative De Mistura for having introduced the report (S/2009/102). In addition, we express our gratitude to all the staff o…
We are grateful to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his report contained in document S/2009/72 and for his informative briefing on developments in the situation in Timor-Leste.
We are pleased to welcome to the Security Council the President of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Ramos-
Horta. The tragic events…
We are grateful to the French presidency for convening today’s meeting of the Security Council and also to Under-Secretaries-General Le Roy and Malcorra and Mr. Annabi for their substantive presentations on United Nations peacekeeping.
The rising numbers of peacekeeping operations and the personnel…
At the outset, Mr. President, I should like to second the eloquent words you spoke to our American colleague, Ambassador Khalilzad. I fully agree with what you said and I would like to express gratitude to Ambassador Khalilzad for his contribution to the work of the Security Council and to the Unite…
We believe the initiative to hold this meeting to be a very timely one, especially in the light of events in Gaza and the rising number of innocent civilian deaths in other regions of the world. We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Holmes for the relevant information he has provided on this is…
The Russian Federation is gravely concerned at the sudden escalation in the Gaza Strip. We believe that it is necessary to bring an immediate end to Israel’s wide-scale use of force against the Gaza Strip, which has already led to great losses and suffering among the Palestinian civilian population.…
We are grateful to the Secretariat and the United Nations Special Coordinator, Mr. Serry, for the briefing given us on the situation in the Middle East. We agree with his evaluation of the recent events in Palestinian-Israeli relations and also on the Syrian- Lebanese track.
The position of the Rus…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Belgium, Ambassador Grauls, for his
briefing on the work of the 1737 Committee of the Security Council for the last three month period and also for the work he has done in heading this Committee.
We take note of the fact that in this reporting per…
We welcome Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to this meeting of the Security Council. We also thank Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his report to the Security Counci…
