We are grateful to the Secretary-General and the briefers for participating in today’s meeting.
The issue of the protection of civilians has longbeen inscribed in the Security Council’s agenda. We believe that it is justified for that issue to remain the focus of the Council’s attention. As the nat…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Shearer, for the information he provided on the situation in South Sudan. We pay due tribute to our colleagues from the Secretariat, who have yet again presented a balanced assessment of the situation in their monthly report.
We note…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his assessment of the current state of affairs in United Nations peacekeeping operations. We thank the Force Commanders of the United Nations peacekeeping from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, the United Nations …
We are grateful to the briefers for their comprehensive presentations.
The successful conclusion of an electoral cycle in Somalia, including the election of a new bicameral Parliament and a President, are an important milestone in the history of the country. We expect that the new authorities will …
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of compromise resolution 2352 (2017), on extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) . It is our view that, even if working at limited functionality, the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism remains…
We thank Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, for her detailed briefing.
I would first like to congratulate everyone on today’s seventy-second anniversary of the victory over fascism, an extraordinary event that changed the world…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2351 (2017), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. The Security Council’s unified position should serve to send to the sides in the Western Sahara conflict a very strong signal with regard to…
With regard to your statement, Madam President, allow me to once again call your attention to the fact — stressed by many who took the floor today — that Russia, Turkey and Iran are doing their part to ensure that there is compliance with the cessation of hostilities, which is the best way to bring …
We thank Mr. O’Brien for his briefing.
In general, in Syria, the cessation of hostilities that began on 30 December 2016 is holding. At the same time, there have been incidents in which it has been undermined and there have been actions carried out by terrororists and armed groups. Their offensive …
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Shearer, for his briefing on the situation in South Sudan, as well as the Deputy Permanent Representative of Senegal, Mr. Ciss, for his briefing on the activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 …
We thank the President for convening today’s debate. We express our gratitude to the current and previous Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Cho Tae-yul and Ambassador Macharia Kamau, for their informative briefings and energetic efforts at the helm of the Commission.
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We thank the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,
Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his comprehensive briefing. We also thank the American delegation for convening today’s event. However, we would like to express our categorical disagreement with the attempt to tailor this…
We are grateful to Mr. Kobler and Mr. Skoog for their briefings.
We regret to note that, despite the efforts being made by the international community to resolve the internal political crisis in Libya, the situation is not improving. We are concerned that the fragmentation of the country and its pu…
We listened very carefully to the briefing by the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan, Mr. Kairat Umarov, on the activities carried out by the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea. We thank him for his very skilful leadership of this subsidia…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2350 (2017) because of the importance of the role that the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti plays in stabilizing the situation in that country, and because there is a need to continue extending assistance to the Government of Haiti. A…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Said Djinnit, for his briefing on the implementation of the Framework agreement on peace and security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes Region. We believe that it is the cornerstone for ensuring stability in…
We express our condolences to our Egyptian colleagues in connection with the terrorist attack on 9 April. The masterminds of these attacks demonstrated both their lack of humanity and cruelty in carrying them out. We support the measures that are being undertaken by the Government of Egypt in its un…
We are grateful to Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing on the situation in Mali. We also welcome the presence at our meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, Mr. Abdoulaye Diop.
We have been consistently of the opinion that a st…
We are grateful for the convening of today’s meeting and thank Secretary-General António Guterres for sharing his assessment of the situation with respect to United Nations peacekeeping with us.
Peacekeeping is a key instrument in the arsenal of United Nations measures designed to support internati…
We wish to echo the words of condolence expressed by other speakers and convey them to the people and the Government of Colombia in the wake of the natural disaster in Mocoa. We extend our sympathy to the families of those who died, and we hope that the joint efforts of the Government and the Revolu…
