The Russian Federation was obliged to abstain from voting because the draft resolution did not take into account the substantive criticisms we expressed during the consultations.
We recognize the importance of continuing the work of Operation Althea of the European Union led- peacekeeping force in …
I could not resist the pleasure of taking
the floor one more time under your presidency, Madam President.
The representative of France just said that all members of the Council have called for the full implementation of the Minsk agreement on Ukraine. We should have liked that to be the case, but …
The activities of the Security Council in October have been marked by high intensity and productivity, to a great extent thanks to the initiatives and effective work of the Argentine presidency. I congratulate Ambassador Perceval and the entire delegation of Argentina on their success.
The Security…
We are extremely concerned about Israel’s declared plan to build thousands of new settlement units in East Jerusalem and the general exacerbation of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, where renewed flare ups of violence have been noted. We regret that there have civilians casualt…
I would ask our Ukrainian colleague to reread the text of my statement today, as well as the recent statements issued today by President Vladimir Putin in Sochi and by Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, which clearly outline our position with regard to the peace settlement and the Minsk pro…
I will not comment on the statement made by the representative of Ukraine in all its details because we have already heard, in 24 previous meetings, the same politicized, often anti-Russian statements. But I will just focus on three aspects of his statement and the statements of several other collea…
This is about the twenty-fifth meeting to date in which we have discussed the internal Ukrainian crisis, which has basically been transformed into a civil war. Yet despite dense planning and significant international efforts carried out under various formats, over a period of months Ukraine’s slide …
The Russian delegation abstained in the vote on the comprehensive Security Council resolution prepared by the delegation of the United Kingdom on Somalia and Eritrea (resolution 2182 (2014)).
Like all other members of the Council, we are aware of how important it is to find a prompt and peaceful so…
We welcome the Secretary-General’s participation in today’s open debate and his report on his visit to the region. Perhaps the time has come to implement Russia’s proposal of four years ago to establish a Security Council mission to Palestine and Israel. If that initiative had not been blocked at th…
First of all, we are coming to the end of the meeting and finally we are ending on a positive note. I am very happy to hear the Foreign Minister of Australia say that experts are ready to go back to the crash site. That is indeed what we have called for in our statement today.
But the Minister shou…
I would just like to respond to the statement made just now by the representative of Lithuania and then to the representative of the United Kingdom.
I do not really understand why the representative of Lithuania is raising the question. Why would Russia not convene the meeting? She blamed us for th…
While you hold the presidency, Madam President, you do not have the right to pass judgment on the status of the Russian Federation in the Security Council. The second part of your statement only shows that you are attempting to dilute the circumstances. Let me put it this way. Even if everything you…
As we initiated today’s meeting, and as a number of assertions have been made concerning, in one way or another, with the content of our statement and the Russian position, I would like to make a few remarks.
First, in some statements, there were affirmations that Russia, in its statement in today’…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing, and we listened with special attention to the statement made by Mr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq.
Russia has consistently supported the advancement of the…
First, I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting, which was initiated by the delegation of the Russian Federation. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing and express our particular gratitude to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, a country that h…
We would like to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš for the briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2014/656). We would also like to thank Permanent Representative Zahir Tanin for his statement.
We share the concerns and anxieties that have been expresse…
I would like to say a few words to our Ukrainian colleagues.
First, as he did in a previous statement, hinting at Russia, the representative of Ukraine — just as the representative of the United States did — mentioned the Malaysia Airlines flight. Could he please tell the Council why Ukraine has no…
The current escalating situation in south- eastern Ukraine is a direct consequence of Kyiv’s reckless policy of waging war on its own people. With the support and under the influence of a number of well-known States, the Kyiv authorities have torpedoed all the political agreements for settling the c…
For Russia, the central topic of the Security Council’s discussion in August was the situation in Ukraine. Unfortunately, we are forced to conclude that the Security Council, due to the destructive efforts of a number of its members, was unable to play the kind of role in resolving that crisis that …
We welcome the participation in today’s
meeting of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2171 (2014) to prevent armed conflict, taking into account how important this issue is in the context of maintaining internation…
