I will begin with the pith of my statement. We noted that in the most recent report of the Secretary-General on the responsibility to protect (R2P) (A/76/844), he focused on children and young people. The switch to the subject of children, which is so popular on United Nations platforms, seemed to b…
We welcome the presence of Judge Agius and Mr. Brammertz.
We are compelled to note that, over the past six months, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals — the very name of which includes the word “residual” — did not make any progress in the planned completion of its activiti…
We thank Mr. Ritscher for his substantive briefing on the outcome of six months of work by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD). We have studied closely the eighth report (see S/2022/434) of the …
We have read the latest report of Mr. Karim Khan on his investigation of the situation in Libya. We also note the so-called road map, which sets out the Prosecutor’s vision for further work on the Libyan file. The attempt to review the approaches of the previous Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, which wer…
Let me say a few words about resolution 76/262, which was just adopted. Quite frankly, we had no desire to join the consensus. I shall explain why.
The right of veto of the permanent members of the Security Council is a cornerstone of the United Nations architecture. Without it, the Security Counci…
We thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Ms. Patten, for preparing the 2021 report (S/2022/272). We also wish to thank the guest briefers.
We are convinced that work to prevent and eradicate violence must be systematic and comprehensive, taking into account the identified caus…
Today, as we were holding our discussions, the situation in Ukraine was touched upon many times, again not on topic. Some countries have made it a habit to theatrically speak about violations of international law there. Those are exactly the same countries that in contemporary history alone have sta…
The Russian Federation’s position on the so-called “International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011” remains unchanged.
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We have once again been confronted with an unacceptable example of politicization in the work of the General Assembly. Elections to a subsidiary body of the General Assembly should be conducted in line with the Assembly’s rules of procedure. Any State that has the right to participate in a meeting o…
We express our gratitude to the United Arab Emirates presidency of the Security Council and you personally, Madam Minister, for organizing today’s debate. We have listened with interest to the statements by Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women; Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director …
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council. We thank the Secretary- General for his participation. We also thank the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ms. Al-Mutawakel for their information and assessments.
Once again, we are grateful to the Norwegian dele…
We take note of the decision of the General Assembly. Nonetheless, we had to vote against our own draft, as amended, for several reasons.
The consensus decision of the General Assembly on holding an official meeting in line with the adopted decisions was, de facto, made dependent on a number of cri…
May I correct your assertion, Mr. President, that no one requested a vote on the draft amendment (A/76/L.33/Rev.1) submitted by the delegation of the Dominican Republic. The Russian delegation did, as I said in my statement. The draft amendment is unacceptable to us, and that is why we have asked fo…
Russia submitted draft decision A/76/L.31, entitled
“Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes”.
Our document aims to maintain the modalities approved by resolution 75/282 to con…
We thank the delegation of Israel for having taken the initiative to draft and adopt a resolution against Holocaust denial, which we wholeheartedly support. Germany participated as the facilitator of the negotiation process, and this is a very significant and welcome development.
The mass murder of…
I would like to thank Mr. Karim Khan. We have taken note of his information. The position of the Russian Federation on the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has not changed. The authority of any judicial body is based on its openness, impartiality,
apolitical nature and the legal…
The time has come to consider the series of Third Committee documents that includes blatant lies, unproven accusations and dubious appeals. We will vote against every country-specific draft resolution that is put to the vote. There will be no support for draft resolutions that are adopted without a …
Allow me to explain the position of the Russian Federation with regard to resolution 76/176, entitled “Strengthening the role of the United Nations in the promotion of democratization and enhancing periodic and genuine elections”.
We welcome the attempt of the text’s author, the United States deleg…
I welcome Mr. Agius and Mr. Brammertz to today’s meeting. We have read their written reports (see S/2021/694) and listened carefully to their briefings. What can we say? Unfortunately, the situation is unsatisfactory. Justice is being administered selectively and human rights standards and humanitar…
