The Russian Federation has consistently advocated establishing the truth with respect to the murder of Rafik Hariri. The perpetrators of that crime must be brought to justice. We fully share with the sponsors of the draft resolution their primary objective of preventing impunity and political violen…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting and to express appreciation to the Chairs of the sanctions Committee on Al-Qaida and the Taliban, the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) — Ambassadors Verbeke, Arias and Buri…
We are grateful to Mr. Holmes, Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for the
work he has been doing and for his substantive briefing today.
We share his concern about the serious humanitarian situation in Somalia. Events of recent months have increased the number of refugees and inter…
We welcome the participation in today’s Security Council meeting of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We listened with interest to his presentation of the Bosnian leadership’s assessment of the current situation in the country. We are grateful to Mr. …
Our delegation is grateful to our colleagues in the Security Council for the support they gave to the Russian initiative to organize a Council mission on the Kosovo issue. We are fully convinced that the outcome of this trip to the Balkans is reflected in its report and that this initiative was time…
Russia is an active participant in the international climate process. At all of its stages, we have consistently advocated and continue to advocate the consolidation of the efforts of all countries without exception in this area.
In 2003, in Moscow, upon the initiative of President Putin, a world c…
It gives me pleasure, Madam Minister, to welcome you as you preside over the work of the Security Council and to congratulate you on South Africa’s successful presidency of the Council for the month of March, which is culminating in today’s open debate. My delegation also welcomes the Minister for F…
Russia voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted to the Security Council. The text was the outcome of the collective efforts of all the members of the Security Council and the concrete result of intensive consultations and complicated compromises. We are pleased to note that the intensive pr…
We are pleased to welcome the Foreign Minister of Italy, Mr. Massimo D’Alema. We thank Special Representative Koenigs for his detailed briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for presenting the new report of the Secretary-General.
We are also grateful to Under-Secretary-General Costa for his b…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on Slovakia’s very successful presidency of the Security Council this month. We only regret the fact that this is a very short month, which represents a failure on the part of the calendar and not of your presidency.
As the initiator and a sponsor o…
We are grateful to Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the situation with regard to the Middle East settlement process. Russia has been working consistently to bring about stability and lasting peace in the region, and that is a focus of the curr…
The Second World War ended over 60 years ago, but the memory of the monstrous crimes of Nazism lives on. If we are to eliminate any possibility of a future recurrence, we simply have no right to forget the tragedy of the Holocaust. No one can remain indifferent to anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racia…
The Russian Federation will support the draft resolution before us relating to Iran’s nuclear programme. We will do so because we believe that the draft, the outcome of lengthy and complex consultations, focuses on the affirmation of measures that Iran must take in order to produce confidence in its…
We welcome the participation at today’s meeting of the Security Council of Ms. Raskovic-Ivic, President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, and thank her for her substantive statement.
We listened carefully to the statement made by Mr. Rücker, head of the U…
It is well known that the international system is currently undergoing a functional transformation accompanied by acute crises and entrenched conflicts. In the final analysis, that is the root cause of the obstacles to the reform of the United Nations and, in particular, of the Security Council. We …
We thank Mr. Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for today’s briefing on the challenging realities in present-day Iraq. We agree with his conclusions and assessments. We have every reason to expect that the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and Mr. Qazi personally…
Russia has voted in support of this Security Council resolution to extend the mandate of the Multinational Force in Iraq.
We note that the resolution’s authors took into account our main concern set forth during the discussions on the document. Our first concern is the security of accredited diplom…
We are grateful to Mr. Gambari for his comprehensive briefing on the situation regarding the settlement in the Middle East. We agree on the whole with his assessment of developments in Palestinian- Israeli relations and in the situation between Syria and Lebanon.
Much has been said at the United Na…
As the Chairman of the Ministerial Committee of the Council of Europe, Russia has the honour to present a draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe”, contained in document A/61/L.14, under agenda item 108 (g).
It is also my pleasure to announce that…
The Russian Federation is deeply concerned over the latest dangerous developments in the Gaza Strip. The situation in this region, in Palestinian-Israeli relations and in the Middle East region in general is an extremely difficult one. It calls for urgent actions to prevent further destabilization; …
