We thank Argentina for hosting today’s debate, which is taking place during World Humanitarian Day as we mark the deaths of those killed 10 years ago in a tragic attack against United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
We thank the Secretary-General, the heads of the United Nations Office for the Coo…
We would like at the outset to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ján Kubiš for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) (S/2013/350).
We listened with interest to the statement made by the Pe…
We welcome you, Mr. President, in your capacity as President of this Security Council meeting, which comes as a follow-up to the successful international Conference on Somalia held in London.
We are pleased to welcome Her Excellency Ms. Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign…
Allow me to thank Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, the Permanent Representatives of Rwanda and Bangladesh and the representative of the World Bank, who have shed light on developments in peacebuilding and on problems and prospects in that area.
Peacebuilding assistance is one of the key factors for …
The Georgian draft resolution before us (A/66/L.50), as was the case with previous resolutions, is extremely politicized and not in line with reality. Furthermore, it has nothing to do with its authors’ apparent concerns about the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees and so-…
We are grateful to the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Mr. Néstor Osorio, Permanent Representative of Colombia, for his briefing on the Committee’s work.
During the reporting period, the Committee continued to actively carry out its assigne…
We would like to welcome the participation of Mr. José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, in this meeting. We would also like to express our condolences on his recent loss and his determination to attend this Security Council meeting in person despite the sad circumstances. We are also grateful …
We thank Mr. Pascoe for his thorough briefing. We recognize the great significance of the assessment mission, and in particular, as the author of the report (see S/2012/42) said, the fact that the mission took place in cooperation with regional and subregional organizations.
We carefully analysed t…
The Russian delegation would like to express its appreciation to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for his presentation of the report of the Agency (see A/66/95).
Russia greatly values the IAEA’s work in improving and strengthening the global n…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Judy Cheng-Hopkins for her comprehensive briefing on the Organization’s progress on post-conflict peacebuilding. We would also like to thank Ms. Sylvie Lucas for her briefing.
I may be repeating what has perhaps already been said this morning when …
The principal aim of resolution 2017 (2011), drafted by the Russian Federation and adopted today, is to curb the uncontrolled proliferation of weapons of all kinds and related materiel as a result of the Libyan conflict. Any serious breach of the arms embargo imposed by the Security Council is likel…
We thank Mr. De Mistura for his analysis of the situation in Afghanistan and welcome the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mr. Zalmai Rassoul. Allow me through him, to express our deep condolences to the Government and the people of Afghanistan for the killing on 20 Septe…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Augustine Mahiga for his briefing on the situation in Somalia and for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/549). We are also grateful to the new Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2003 (2011). We believe that the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) plays an important stabilizing role in that region of the Sudan. The Russian Federation views UNAMID as an integral component of a Darfur settlement.…
I will try to be brief, given the time constraints.
We are pleased to again welcome here the Force Commanders of the United Nations peacekeeping missions. It is heartening to see this kind of dialogue, which was initially proposed by the Russian Federation last year during its presidency of the Cou…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as Chair of the Security Council meeting. We thank Mr. Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his substantive briefing on developments in the regional situation. We regret to note the intransigence in the Middle East sett…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his statement, and to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr. Steiner, for his assessment.
Russia has always viewed combating global climate change as a priority area for international cooperation. We hav…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of your country, to the President’s chair at this Security Council meeting, and thank our German colleagues for taking the initiative to hold this meeting and for their very professional chairmanship of the Council’s Working Group …
Mr. President, you were about to put to the vote a text before us in document S/2011/417. As far as I understand from the consultations, the adoption of the draft resolution, with the inclusion of the date of 10 July, with the resulting retroactive effect on the Mission, is not in line with the Coun…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for July. I wish you every success. I also wish to thank the Gabonese delegation for its June presidency and work.
We are grateful to Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his substantive and frank analysis of the …
