The Russian Federation was the initiator of the first draft resolution on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights for another six months. We support the important stabilizing role played by the Force, and we believe that it…
We are grateful to the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, for his briefing to the Council on the Committee’s work in recent months. We appreciate the effective work that was done during the reporting period. I…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Muburi-Muita, for his detailed briefing.
Today’s meeting, as shown by the statements by our colleagues, reaffirms the particular attention that the Security Council continues to give to issues pertaining to the settlement o…
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the French presidency for leading the Council’s work successfully in May, and we wish you every success, Mr. President, in leading the Council this month. We also thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the Tribunals for presenting their reports.
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We are grateful to Mr. Guéhenno and Ms. Malcorra for their briefings on the report of the Senior Advisory Group (see S/2011/85) and to Mr. Gasana, Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, for his comments.
We believe that the report reflects the main problems in peacebuilding. Indeed, it prov…
We thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his briefing.
Like other members of the Security Council, the Russian Federation views with great concern the increasing tension and manifestations of confrontation in Syria, which are claiming victims and causing suffering among the demonstrators, law enforcement perso…
Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which became the worst technological catastrophe of the twentieth century in terms of its scope and complexity.
Today, at a memorial ceremony held in Chernobyl in connection with the anniversary, Russian …
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on developments in the Middle East. We have listened attentively to the statements by the representatives of Palestine and Israel.
As the Middle East is going through an unprecedentedly intense and historic period, with problem…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Germany and the Chairs of the country configurations of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the Permanent Representatives of Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Luxembourg and Sweden, for preparing the report on the work of the fourth session of the Pe…
We are grateful to Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing and we welcome the statement made by Ambassador Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan.
In general, we share the assessments contained in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/120*) on the situation in Afghanistan and its impl…
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the Tribunals for the information they have provided on their efforts to implement their completion strategies. Their briefings are especially important now as the Security Council Informal Working Group on International Tribunals is seeking to convert the …
For the fourth year in a row, we have before us a draft resolution on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees in Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia (A/65/L.74). As before, it has nothing to do either with reality or with concern for the status of inter…
The Russian Federation supports the work of the Peacebuilding Commission as an important instrument for enhancing effectiveness and strengthening the coordination of cooperation in international peacekeeping activities in post-conflict States with the participation of international financial institu…
In view of the agreement reached between Serbia and the European Union on the content of the resolution just adopted by the General Assembly on the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the question of the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo (see A/64…
Draft resolution A/64/L.62, which is before the General Assembly, unfortunately has nothing to do with the noble humanitarian goals and concerns to which its authors refer. Furthermore, this initiative is exclusively political in its motivation and is based on short-term calculations by the Georgian…
The delegation of the Russian Federation was pleased to join the consensus adoption of resolution 64/289 on system-wide coherence. Like other speakers, we thank the current coordinators of the negotiation process, the Permanent Representatives of Tunisia and Estonia, and their predecessors in those …
International efforts to combat HIV/AIDS have allowed much progress to be achieved in recent years. However, the spread of the epidemic continues to outstrip the measures taken to respond to it. For every two patients beginning antiretroviral treatment, there are five new cases of infection. A sure …
We welcome the statement to the Council by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, as well as the briefing on the situation by Mr. Oscar Fernandez- Taranco.
We express our condolences and deep regret about all those who have died as a result of this incident. In Moscow we are expressing our con…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, to the presidency of the Security Council, and we thank the Lebanese delegation for its initiative to convene
today’s meeting on the important and topical theme of intercultural dialogue. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his statement, which enri…
We too are grateful to Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Somalia, for his briefing on the situation in Somalia. We listened with interest to the statements of Mr. Abdurahman A. Ibrahim, First Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, and of Mr. Ramtane Lamamra o…
