Mr. Minister, we are grateful to the delegation of Egypt for the very timely initiative of convening this open debate on the theme of “Countering the narratives and ideologies of terrorism”. We regard this meeting as an important contribution to Security Council efforts within the broad agenda of in…
The Security Council has been increasingly working in open formats, occasionally in breach of earlier agreed-upon formats. I wanted to speak at this public meeting today, which, as we know, is permitted under the rules of procedure.
We are grateful to Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing and for having p…
We thank Jeffrey Feltman and Stephen O’Brien for their briefings.
As a result of the cessation of hostilities, which was put in place thanks to the leading role of the Russian Federation and the United States and confirmed in resolution 2268 (2016), the level of violence in Syria has significantly …
Maybe we could continue this discussion in an another place. The representative of Ukraine helped me work on that agreement. We believe it is important. However, President Yanukovych gave up too much as a result of that agreement, and it seems that its provisions were weak. That is true, because he…
With regard to border control, I just spoke about that when I was talking about Mr. Sadjik’s comments. Ukraine is delaying everything with regard to control of the borders. It is very clearly written in the agreement. The representative of Ukraine has probably read it. Let me read it. It says that t…
A minor point, but I said accurately in Russian what my British colleague said, namely, that he does not care who did the shooting. But we do care. We continue to believe that those who kill civilians should not be left unpunished. So we care very much who did the shooting. But that is not such a su…
First of all, it seems very important to me that Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik take away from this meeting the impetus to step up the implementation of the package of measures of the February 2015 Minsk agreements.
However, I would like to talk about something slightly different. It is not fully cl…
I would first like to warmly welcome our former colleagues, Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan and Mr. Martin Sajdik, who have undertaken a very difficult task and for whose efforts we are very grateful. And of course I would like to thank Mr. Zerihoun for his briefing.
The extremely grave crisis in Ukraine spark…
Sometimes we hear that, given the numerous other crises, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lost its significance in the context of efforts to maintain international peace and security. We categorically disagree with that point of view. Efforts aimed at solving the Palestinian-Israeli issue should…
We welcome the initiative of the Chinese delegation to lead discussions on the most topical aspect of fighting terrorism in the framework of an open debate. We believe that it is very timely.
Right now, with the fight against terrorism in Syria and Iraq in full swing, there is a clearer picture of …
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. We listened with interest to the substantive statement made by the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal.
The developments in the…
The Security Council has just unanimously adopted a new resolution that tightens the international sanctions regime against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (resolution 2270 (2016)). This resolution resulted from the fact that over the past two months the Democratic People’s Republic of Kor…
I am very ready to go into detail. I do not think that we need to take Mr. Steinmeier’s time, as he is already aware of this whole situation.
From the very beginning, we have said that the crisis in Ukraine had to be resolved politically. At the Geneva talks on 17 April 2014, which involved the par…
I should like to make a few brief comments.
First, I was surprised to note that, in the context of the principal issues, I agree with the statement made by the representative of the United States. First, he quite rightly noted that one of the most important principles of the OSCE is the equality of…
We are pleased to welcome to the Security Council the Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in his capacity as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We thank him for his substantive briefing.
We have …
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2269 (2016). While we did not block the proposal of the Secretary-General with regard to the appointments to the post of President and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, our delegation does not suppo…
We welcome the participation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, in this meeting, and we share the assessments he has made here today.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the s…
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the potential for conflict in the vast expanses of the Middle East and North Africa — from Libya to Iraq. Against that backdrop, an unprecedented increase in the terrorist threat has also occurred. But in that
context we must not underestimate the explos…
We are pleased, Sir, to see you presiding over the Security Council today. We also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar.
We note the major significance of the agreements signed in Havana on 23 September 2015 by Colombia’s President, Juan Manu…
We welcome the convening of today’s Security Council timely and important meeting on suppressing the financing of terrorism.
The consequences of the outbreak of terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa are spreading far beyond the region. The recent terrorist attacks demonstrated that the worl…
