We are very grateful to Mr. Filippo Grandi for his very informative briefing.
The Russian Federation is making a significant contribution to strengthening the international refugee protection regime and resolving migration problems. We are conducting large-scale humanitarian activities in many coun…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council as you usher in the Council’s winter season. I take this opportunity to also thank the entire team of Mexico for its very successful presidency in November.
We welcome Mr. Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations In…
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, adopted by the General Assembly in 2010 as resolution 64/293. In that connection, we welcome the adoption during the opening segment (see A/76/PV.37) o…
We welcome Mr. Karim Khan in his new position as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. We hope that his accession to the Court will lead to the correction of the significant imbalances consistently highlighted by our delegation and bring the Court closer to at least partially recovering it…
We thank Secretary-General António
Guterres for presenting his assessments of the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. We listened most attentively to the statements made by our guests: Under-Secretary- General Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women;
the African Union Special…
The statement by Mr. Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, clearly shows how strong anti-Russian sentiments are in Ukraine and the degree to which the nationalists who came to power in 2014 have reprogrammed the brains of the residents of their country. The references…
For the third time in the past two weeks, we have been obliged to request a vote on the agenda item entitled “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine”. There are no occupied territories in Ukraine. There is a civil war going on there. The eastern part of Ukraine does not wan…
In view of the fact that this paragraph of the report of the General Committee (A/76/250) concerns the specifics of conducting the session during a pandemic, I would like to make the following statement. Concerning the issue of access to the United Nations buildings and premises, including the Gener…
I do not wish to distract the General Assembly as we move on to the other agenda item, but I asked for the floor simply to thank the 122 delegations that did not wish to vote in favour of the proposal by the Ukrainian delegation to include this item on the agenda of the General Assembly at its next …
With regard to Ukraine, we are unfortunately once again witnessing an unacceptable situation in which the General Assembly has become hostage to destructive methods. It is deplorable to see the world’s most representative platform for dialogue used by the Ukrainian delegation and its sponsors not fo…
The Russian Federation welcomes the adoption of resolution 75/320, on the scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. We are grateful to the de…
I am pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council. I would like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Mohammed, the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Mardini, and Ms. Grosjean for their informative and substantive briefings.
The them…
Russia has consistently advocated a return to the traditional United Nations working methods. We are pleased to note that this year’s general debate of the seventy-sixth session will take place in an
in-person format. The General Assembly will show the world that the pandemic is receding and that t…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 75/307, prepared by Côte d’Ivoire, on “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie”.
However, we wish to express our disappointment at the fact that this document contains a range of formulations that do no…
At the outset, allow me to thank the President of the General Assembly for the opportunity to make some concluding remarks at today’s debate to mark the seventh review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the end of Counter-terrorism Week.
We would like to thank the Secretary…
The cheer and enthusiasm of Judge Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz in reporting on the achievements of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals was palpable. What haste in sharing with us the news of the conviction of another high-ranking Serb.
The publicized verdict against Ratko …
We are grateful to the General Assembly for the adoption of draft resolution A/75/L.87/Rev.1. We have taken an important step forward towards a common goal — developing a universal convention — and we hope that the elaboration of a joint decision to counter cybercrime under the auspices of the Unite…
We would like to call on delegations to vote against the amendments to draft resolutions A/75/L.90 and A/75/L.92, presented, respectively, by Brazil and the United Kingdom, because they are not constructive. They are aimed at undermining the process of developing a convention.
Brazil’s amendment se…
Russia has submitted a draft resolution, A/75/L.87/ Rev.1, entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”, which was the outcome of an agreement reached during the just-concluded organizational meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Compreh…
