We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix, Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller and Mr. Festus Mogae, Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, for their substantive briefings.
We believe that stabilizing the situation in South Sudan is possible only with a la…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his detailed briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Tiéman Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali.
We noted the signing on 20 September by the parties in Mali of a memorandum on a cess…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this discussion. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Naranjo Trujillo, Vice-President of Colombia, and we are grateful to Mr. Jean Arnault, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing. We believe it is…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting. We have found the briefing by the Assistant Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, to be quite useful. We welcome the efforts made by the Secretary-General in the area of increasing the effectiveness of training and the capacity-building of …
Our delegation voted in favour of resolution 2396 (2017). We share the view that the mass outflow of fighters from areas of armed conflict, first and foremost from Syria and Iraq, entails additional threats to security and requires an appropriate response from the Council. We consider that this docu…
We would like to draw the attention of our Ukrainian colleagues to the fact that there is a mechanism to observe the situation in the south- east of Ukraine — the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. Every day, and sometimes even twice a day, it …
We encourage the representative of the Ukraine to respect the Security Council and its members. We do not want to get into a senseless polemic, but Ukraine’s latest comments run contrary to common sense and force us to once again take the floor.
From the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine — w…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting and for the open debate format, which enables us to engage in a broad exchange of opinions on an issue as complicated as this one, the factors that make it difficult to resolve conflicts today. Your choice of subject is timely not only for …
In response to what was just said about Russia being the only supplier of weapons to Ukraine, let me go into more detail regarding our theory about how various countries supply Ukraine with lethal weapons. We have already mentioned that Canada publicly stated its readiness to license its companies t…
The negative impact on the implementation of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, which remains the only option for resolving the situation in south-eastern Ukraine, is exacerbated by overall instability in the country, the exploitation of the Donbas factor to fome…
We thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on small arms and light weapons (S/2017/1025). While the report in general covers the broad scope of the issue under consideration, it also contains a number of questionable…
We endorse the words of sympathy and condolence that have been expressed over the deaths of the Tanzanian peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We express our condolences to all the relatives and friends of the people of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who died and …
Russia supported today’s presidential statement S/PRST/2017/24, echoing the voices of those who are gravely concerned by reports of incidents of migrants being sold into slavery in Libya. However, the authors of the text, bowing to the opinions of some Council members, refused to take into account o…
Unfortunately, the Ukrainian delegation once again used this meeting of the Security Council to divert attention from the issues discussed. We would like to recall that the current authorities in Kyiv unleashed an armed confrontation with their own people in the south- east of the country. It result…
Today the Security Council is preparing for the last time to discuss the report (S/2017/662) on the International Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which will finally terminate its activities on 31 December after numerous delays.
The Council’s establishment of the Tribunal in 1993 was a ver…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Keita for her substantive briefing. We regret the fact that we were unable to hear the views of Mr. Ismail Wais, Special Envoy for South Sudan of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), due to the fact that he is taking …
The Russian delegation endorsed the adoption of resolution 2387 (2017) on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic for one year. We were chiefly guided by the importance of sending the citizens of the Central…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of the resolutions of the Assembly and on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representative of Croatia and the Permanent Representative of Colomb…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on police issues in United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions. We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and the Police Commissioners of the United Nations missions in Mali, Haiti and Darfur,…
