First of all, with regard to Ms. Savchenko, an investigation is under way. Accusations have been made and there is a legal procedure under way. In Ukraine, there are many people being detained and held prisoner who are not subject to any legal procedure. The provision of the Minsk agreements with re…
I want to say a few words. First, I wish to make a brief comment on Crimea, even though I said earlier that we were not going to discuss Crimea in the Security Council, I will give just one figure — 93 per cent. In a recent opinion poll conducted by a German institute, 93 per cent of the inhabitants…
That logic is completely distorted. I would even put it another way. It is very strange that the United States stated that the use of chemical weapons by the Government of Syria would be a red line and that it would cause the Unites States to use force, and yet after the events of 21 August it did n…
Unfortunately, the statement made by the the representative of the United States forces me to make rather detailed comments, since Ambassador Power cast the situation in such a light as to suggest that the onus is exclusively on the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Let me start with resoluti…
The last three speakers employed 50 shades of black. We would like to call on everyone to be more objective, which is in the interest of settling the conflict. However, we understand that in this case such appeals are useless.
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2209 (2015), in connection with the reports of the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic (S/2015/138, annex). In that …
The delegation of the Russian Federation has the honour to introduce on its own behalf, and on behalf of a large group of sponsors, the draft resolution contained in document A/69/L.52, entitled “Seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War”.
This year we will celebrate the commemorati…
I would like to make two brief comments.
First, some members of the Council have abused today’s meeting, which is supposed to be devoted to the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Particularly unfortunate was the statement made by the representative of the …
We are pleased to welcome to the Security Council the First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, in his capacity as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and we thank him for his comprehensive briefing.
The Russian…
The members of the Council have continued to provoke me. We are not interpreting anything. We are taking the Minsk agreements and interpreting them word by word, and we think that everyone should read the document word by word and implement it.
I would very much like to have left the last word to my Lithuanian colleague; I would have loved to, if I could. I am probably abusing my speaking time, but after what she said I cannot help but respond with a couple of words. “Capitulate one’s territory.” Has the full meaning of the Minsk agreement…
If Ukraine needs to find a way for dialogue it should do so at last. But they are unable to do so. That is why we keep saying, let us establish dialogue with the people in the east. But Ukraine says that we are interfering. They are asking us: What do the people in the east want? We say that the peo…
I am glad to hear that the United States is not going to prevent the implementation of the Minsk agreements. With regard to the implementation of the Minsk agreements and the statement about Russia repeating certain previous arguments, we are not pretending anything. We proposed a certain course of …
We are grateful to the members of the Council for the unanimous adoption of the Russian Federation’s draft resolution in support of the arrangements to settle the Ukrainian crisis reached in Minsk on 12 February.
The events that have taken place during the yearlong conflict in the territory of that…
We would like to convey our gratitude to our colleagues in the Security Council for the constructive approach and effective cooperation they demonstrated during their work on resolution 2199 (2015), which was just adopted. We would also like to thank all the delegations that sponsored the resolution…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia. We share the views and concerns he expressed. We have taken note of Mr. Thaçi’s statement, and we thank Mr. Zarif for his presentation of the Secretary-General’…
I would like to personally thank you, Mr. President, and the entire delegation that you head for the skilful and effective completion of the role of President in the month that is ending, which has once again been characterized by a very heavy agenda. I will focus on a number of key issues.
One foc…
The Russian Federation supports the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which plays an important role in maintaining peace and stability on the island. That is why we voted in favour of resolution 2197 (2015).
At the same time, we would like to note that the…
I am a little surprised at our Ukrainian colleague has begun to argue using concepts that I did not voice during my comments in the Council today. But it is good that he he has remembered them and that he deems it necessary to continue to argue about things that are simply not subject to argument, c…
I would like to make a number of substantive comments. However, by way of introduction, I would like to again revisit the topic of what took place in Mariupol and the fact that the Security Council was not in a position to condemn or speak to that tragedy.
A number of my colleagues have referred to…
