Today’s resolution 2231 (2015), adopted unanimously in support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, marks a fundamental shift in the Security Council’s consideration of the situation regarding the Iranian nuclear programme, with a view towards resolving the matter once and for all. By creating…
I will heed your call, Sir, to take into account the very special nature of this meeting. I shall therefore refrain from responding to the tirades of the representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom just now.
I should like to make two comments, one procedural in nature and the other substantive.
The procedural comment is as follows. Today, several representatives have taken the floor twice, once in explanation of vote and once on the substantive issue. We note that, in his first statement, the represent…
In the course of the Balkan crisis, the region witnessed a variety of atrocities, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. The Russian Federation has consistently advocated the investigation of all crimes committed during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina with respect…
We are gathered here today to pay tribute to the memory of all the victims of the monstrous crimes committed in and around Srebrenica two decades ago.
Before proceeding, Mr. President, I would like to ask you to call for a minute of silence to honour their memory.
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council and would like to thank you for having organized today’s meeting. We are also grateful to the invited briefers for their comprehensive statements. We would like to single out the efforts of the Special Representative o…
I will be very brief. Fortunately, the Secretariat has established detailed protocols for the Security Council that cover all the questions that the representative of the United States touched on just now and that save me the trouble of a more extensive reaction to her remarks.
I will not go into a discussion with my Ukrainian colleague of the Charter of the United Nations, international law or international humanitarian law, for that matter, since too many of those instruments’ provisions are being violated by the Kyiv authorities in their so-called anti-terrorist but in …
We have been discussing the situation in Ukraine since February 2014. At that time, there was an agreement between the President and the opposition. If that agreement had been implemented, Kyiv would have implemented constitutional reform by the end of last year and we would have observed a gradual …
We would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif for presenting the report (S/2015/303) of the Secretary- General on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and for his assessment of progress in the province. We welcome the participation of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy…
Welcome Mr. Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. His regular briefing has confirmed that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains stable, which we view as the basis for the sustainable functioning of the country’s institutions
in strict compliance with the equality of the t…
Five years have passed since the General Assembly last met to commemorate the end of the most terrible war in the history of humankind and to honour the memory of its victims (see A/64/PV.85). A great deal has happened in those years, but the grandeur and tragedy of the War’s events are unfaded and …
At the outset, we would like to thank all our briefers today for their stirring and substantive statements. However, we were, to tell the truth, a little surprised that the briefings by United Nations high officials referred to the issue of terrorism only in passing. Recently, the Council has been p…
We are grateful to the Jordanian delegation for its initiative to hold this meeting on such an important topic.
Although people of any age are subject to radicalization, young people, with their unformed outlook and search for identity, are the most vulnerable to the ideas of violent extremism. Ter…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, to preside over the Security Council.
It is clear today that, in essence, the so-called Arab Spring some time ago ceased being a democratic rebuilding. The turbulent processes in the region have led to the fall of former regimes in a number of countries, and to t…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2216 (2015), concerning the conflict in Yemen, as, in our view, it is not fully in line with the requirements that were put forth to the international community or dictated by the current crisis in the country.
During consultations on the…
Mr. Fabius, we are pleased to welcome you as President of the Security Council today. We are grateful to you for convening today’s meeting on such an important and topical subject, which the Russian Federation considers particularly significant, as was also indicated in the speech on Christians in t…
We would like to thank Ambassador Oyarzun
Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain, for the briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs, for the period under review. I would also like to thank the Spanish delegation for t…
We would first like to warmly welcome Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to the Security Council, and we thank her and the Secretary-General for their briefings.
The Russian Federation has consistently advocated the development…
The representative of Ukraine would be well
advised to choose his words more wisely. Ukraine is a neighbour of Russia, and we are trying to find a solution to the crisis. Therefore Ms. Power should be asked who is the arsonist there — she is laughing now — and what she, together with Mr. Parubiy, s…
