The Russian Federation is seriously concerned about the escalation of the situation in Ukraine. Cities in south-east Ukraine have been subjected to indiscriminate shelling by heavy weaponry for countless days, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties. We resolutely condemn such actions against t…
I understand that Ms. Power decided that she had not been eloquent enough in setting out the American position, and that her Deputy needed to repeat some portions of her statement. I regret that Ambassador Power has decided not to continue this principled discussion with us on matters of internation…
Before the beginning of today’s meeting, we were supposed to hold closed consultations to consider whether or not the Security Council could make a contribution to settling the Ukrainian crisis. However, as colleagues have complained to us, the delegation of the United States showed its hand, and we…
The Security Council holds a large number of meetings on a number of worthwhile topics in this Chamber. We use many beautiful words about the need to peacefully settle political crises, about the impossibility of a military solution, about the rule of law, democracy and the inclusiveness of politica…
Madam President, we are very pleased to welcome you at the helm of the Security Council. We would express our gratitude to the Chilean delegation for the convening of today’s meeting as well as for the preparation of the presidential statement just adopted (S/PRST/2015/3). We also thank the Secretar…
At the outset, I wish to welcome you, Sir, as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile to preside over the Security Council today. As this is the first time I have taken the floor in the Council this year, I would
also like to welcome all new non-permanent members of the Council and to express our hop…
The Russian Federation regrets that the Security Council was unable to adopt draft resolution S/2014/916, which would have strengthened the generally recognized international legal basis for the Middle East peace process, including the resolutions of the Security Council, the Madrid terms of referen…
We thank Mr. Haysom for presenting the Secretary-General’s quarterly report on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2014/876), as well as Mr. Fedotov for his substantive briefing on the issues with which he is tasked concerning the problem of drug…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs, for this reporting period. As this is Mr. Quinlan’s last briefing as Chair of the Committee, we would like to thank him and the Australian …
At the outset, we wish to thank the delegation of Chile for its constructive efforts in preparing resolution 2193 (2014), extending the mandate of the Judges and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
We are ext…
First of all, we would like to add our voice to the condolences expressed here concerning the horrific terrorist attack in Pakistan.
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as the President of the Security Council. We listened attentively to the briefings. We would like to thank the Secretary- General, Mr. B…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vučić, and we share his concerns. We take note of the statement of Mr. Hashim Thaçi. We thank Mr. Farid Zarif for submitting the report (S/2014/773) of the Secretary-
General on the activities of the Uni…
Colleagues are well aware of the fact that the Russian delegation is not a fan of the monthly wrap-up sessions. There is too much reiteration of well-known positions and too many attempts to glorify approaches that are not objective ones.
For example, today a number of statements contained a one-si…
A year ago, from this rostrum, we talked about support for the American efforts to establish
direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine. At the same time, we stressed the necessity of ramping up the role of the Middle East Quartet together with the Arab League, in view of the fact that arrivi…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman and INTERPOL Secretary General Mr. Stock for their interesting briefings. For our part, we would like to note the following.
Sanctions are one of the most important instruments at the disposal of the international community in the interests of resolving cris…
I am honoured to take the floor on behalf of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
The Afghan people have jus…
I welcome you to the presidency of the Security Council, Madam. We thank the Secretary- General for his comprehensive statement and the Permanent Representatives of Australia and Lithuania for their briefings on the efforts of the Committees
they lead in undertaking the tasks mandated by recent dec…
I have the honour to speak today on three sub-items on today’s agenda: 123 (l), entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Eurasian Economic Community”, 123 (g), entitled
“Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and 123 (w), entitled “C…
We have taken note of the eighth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its investigation of the situation in Libya, and we thank Ms. Bensouda for her presentation of the report.
We cannot help but be concerned about the information in the report on the continuing vio…
We welcome the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, who has briefed us today.
To paint an objective picture of developments in the Bosnia and Herzegovina process, we recommend that the members of the Security Council carefully familiarize themselves with the twentieth…
