The Russian Federation strongly supports the immediate lifting of the United States blockade against Cuba introduced 57 years ago. We categorically reject the sanctions against Cuba spearheaded by the United States. We believe that it is not a question of problems in the relations between the two St…
The United Nations International Year of the Family, established in 1994, is of definite and ongoing significance. It is encouraging that the twentieth anniversary of the event has become a catalyst for an active discussion on the role and place of the family as the key institution for society in th…
We are grateful to Mr. Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). In view of the fact that this is his final briefing as Chairman of the Committee, we would like to thank the Ambassador and…
I do not want to engage in polemics with the Permanent Representative of Ukraine, but all the same I wish to call attention to a few things.
First, I have said, and I repeat, that of course the ceasefire and the normalization of the situation are the key tasks, but they require trust. When we heard…
At the outset, I would call on my colleagues on the Security Council not to turn the Council’s meetings into farces of rabid hysterics.
We carefully listened to the briefing of the Assistant Secretary-General ad interim for PoliticalAffairs, Mr. Toynberg-Frandzen and thank him for the information p…
The question of Security Council reform is one of the most important issues on the General Assembly’s agenda, as the Council is the body that, according to the Charter of the United Nations, bears the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The final result of the Se…
Frankly, we are amazed that the Ukrainian delegation has once again used any available opportunity presented by the United Nations platform for its rhetoric and insinuations and for raising issues that are not relevant to the agenda item. I do not wish to enter into polemics, but I need to make a fe…
The Russian delegation would like to express its appreciation to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for introducing the report on the Agency’s work (see A/69/255). We commend the IAEA for its work and
advocate further strengthening of the Agency…
Today’s meeting, the seventh the Security Council has held on the issue of its working methods, serves as yet another confirmation of the unswerving attention we give to proposals of States Members of the United Nations on improving the procedural aspects of the Council’s work, subject, of course, t…
We would like to thank Ambassador Quinlan for his briefing covering the work undertaken during the reporting period by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs. Given the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts tasked with providing that subsidiary body …
We would like to join the positive assessments of your efforts, Sir, as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. In particular, we would like to thank you for preparing the draft of decision 68/557, which was just adopted as an oral decision. It will help to open up the pat…
I thank the delegation of Rwanda for organizing today’s meeting on peacebuilding. I am grateful to the former and current Chairmen of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassadors Drobnjak and Patriota, for their informative briefings and skilful leadership of the Commission.
It is clear to all that th…
Yet again, the General Assembly has before it a draft resolution on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees in the Caucasus. Sadly, as in previous years, its sponsors are by no means guided by their stated noble humanitarian goals. This initiative continues to be politically motivate…
We are grateful to Ms. Pillay and Mr. Dieng for their briefings on the findings of their visit to crisis- torn South Sudan. We share their profound concern at the mass violations of human rights and the norms of international humanitarian law by both parties to the conflict, including the monstrous …
The Russian Federation found it possible to support resolution 2146 (2014), which was prepared by the United States, given the seriousness of the problem faced by Libya’s central Government and its appeal to the Security Council. We agree that the illegal export of Libyan oil threatens to further je…
The statement made today by the representative of Georgia was most unfortunate. Such attacks on my country call into question the solidity of the current Georgian leadership and its desire to normalize relations with Russia. If we desire stable peace, as has been said today by a number of delegation…
We are grateful to Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/721). We also thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, for his detailed statement.
We are pleased to note that, in comparison with …
We thank Mr. Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, for his briefing, as well as Mr. Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Mr. Abubaker A. Al-Qirbi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Yemen, for their statements.
The process…
At the outset, let me express our condolences to the Government and people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with respect to the heavy human loss arising from the destructive earthquake in the province of Beluchistan. We ask the representative of Pakistan to convey our condolences and our support …
We would like to thank the delegation of Argentina for its successful presidency of the Security Council last month. We are also grateful to Ambassador Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We thank him and the entire …
