We have studied the twenty-eighth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the investigation of the situation in Darfur. We discovered two lines in paragraph 22 with a puzzling sentence about some apparently significant progress in the investigation. That was all there w…
We would like to thank the leadership of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the report (see S/2018/569) on its activities. We have been closely following its work, including all the judicial proceedings under way.
Going on the report, since our previous briefing (see S/…
I would like to join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of December, and the Permanent Representative of China on his successful stewardship of the Council last month. We thank Mr. Khan for his first report to the Council (s…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency for this month and assure you that you will always have the Russian Federation’s full support and assistance. I would also like to congratulate Bolivia on its successful conclusion of the presidency of the Council for the month of O…
We would like to thank you for organizing today’s meeting, Mr. President, as well as the Secretary- General and the Executive Director of UN-Women, for their participation in our discussion. Our thanks also go to to Ms. Randa Siniora Atallah for her participation.
The Secretary-General’s report (S/…
My statement will not be as sunny as that of some of the delegations that preceded me, and I would therefore like to ask members to listen carefully.
We thank the leadership of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the presentation of the report (see A/73/289) on its activ…
For yet another consecutive year, the General Assembly has before it the draft resolution under consideration today (A/72/L.55). Its authors continually state that the motive for the initiative is concern for the needs of those who have lost their homes and means of survival as a result of armed con…
We thank the Polish presidency for organizing today’s meeting on the problem of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, a very important issue that we should be addressing. We would also like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Mr. Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International …
First and foremost, I would like to wish our colleagues a happy Victory Day, which marked the beginning of the foundation of our Organization 73 years ago.
Concerning the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Libya, the situation in Libya remains complex. We believe that the path to national recon…
We propose voting on whether the meeting should be held today or not. Obviously, we assume that the issue that should be put to the vote is whether today’s meeting should be held in principle. We have not yet adopted the agenda for today’s meeting. If we had, the meeting would take place. But that h…
I would just like to explain that the item on our agenda, “The situation in the Middle East”, is an existing agenda item and that of course we are not against it per se. What we are against is holding today’s meeting in the format that has been proposed. Therefore, I would ask the President to formu…
The Russian Federation is opposed to holding today’s meeting, as we immediately informed our colleagues on Friday, 16 March. We see no justification for such a meeting, since human rights is not a subject on the Security Council’s agenda. That is what the Human Rights Council deals with in its work …
As far as I know, today’s meeting was not scheduled in the Security Council’s agreed programme of work for this month. Our delegation would be extremely grateful to you, Mr. President, if you could explain what exactly we are supposed to discuss at today’s meeting and whom the Council plans to invit…
We are pleased to welcome the new Chair of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), Mr. Gustavo Mesa-Cuadra Velásquez, Permanent Representative of Peru. We are grateful to him for his very detailed report.
Today the threat of terrorism has expanded on a huge scale, including geograph…
At the outset, I would like to express appreciation to the Secretary-General for submitting the reports on ocean affairs to the General Assembly.
The Russian delegation advocates preserving the integrity and comprehensively strengthening the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of…
We welcome the election of Judge Hisashi Owada as President of the International Court of Justice and thank him for presenting to the General Assembly the Court’s annual report (A/64/4). At yesterday’s meeting of the Security Council (S/PV.6208), the Russian Federation voiced its general assessment …
First, I express my gratitude to the Presidents of the Tribunals for their reports.
The Tribunals set up by the Security Council more than 15 years ago, as temporary courts, undoubtedly have done considerable work in order to bring to justice those persons guilty of international crimes on the terr…
Allow me to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, for his briefing and his seventh report on measures to investigate the situation in Darfur in accordance with resolution 1593 (2005). We commend the efforts of the Office of the Prosecutor to strictly abide by i…
We thank the leadership of both Tribunals for their annual reports on the work of those bodies.
We note the active work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the last year. We welcome the transfer of the cases of those accused by the Tribunal to national judicial bodies, which, we be…
Like other Council members, we would like to thank the chief officials of the Special Court for their briefing today. We feel that this body is one of the important components in the fight against impunity. Beyond any doubt, its activities give effective assistance to establishing peaceful processes…
