Allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, as you begin your presidency of the Security Council. We wish you every success in this crucial role.
We would also like to express our gratitude for the solidarity shown in connection with the tragic events in Saint Petersburg yesterday. We appreciate…
We join others in conveying our condolences and sympathies following the deaths of the two
young and courageous experts, Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan.
Russia voted in favour of resolution 2348 (2017), extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democrat…
First of all, we would like to express our condolences and sympathy to our United Kingdom colleagues, all the victims and the families of those who were killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in London. We strongly condemn that murderous attack, which once again confirms the need for coordinated act…
We are grateful to Mr. Mogae and Ms. Sunday for their assessments of the situation in South Sudan. We also welcome the personal efforts of the Secretary- General to reach a settlement on South Sudan.
We agree on the importance of coordinating actions by the African Union, the Intergovernmental Auth…
First and foremost, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, as well as the Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council, the Chairs of the regional groups and the representatives of the host country for their sincere and heartfelt expressions of condolences to the family of the Permane…
We would like to thank President Touadéra for sharing his point of view regarding the situation in his country. We also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and the Permanent Representative of Morocco for their briefings, which were quite instructive.
The situation in the country remains precariou…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude to the States that initiated the adoption of today’s resolution 71/278, as well as to all delegations that constructively participated in its drafting.
Despite certain positive developments in recent months regarding statistics on sexual offense…
The past month has been a very full one for the Security Council. In particular, there have been several meetings on regional and general issues.
I would now like to talk about the three important thematic debates that took place on the situation in the Eurasian region: on the activities of the Uni…
We thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Mr. Kurz, for his comprehensive briefing.
We should like to see growing cooperation between the United N…
We would once again like to thank the delegations that have expressed their condolences on the death of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin. Their support at this difficult time is very important to us.
With regard to today’s meeting, we had hoped th…
We thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Mr. Lamberto Zannier, and the Secretary General of the European External Action Service of the European Union, Ms. Helga Schmid, for their bri…
The Russian delegation is grateful for the warm words and expressions of condolence on Russia’s irreparable loss of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin. We have lost an outstanding diplomat, a great professional, a talented orator and polemicist, and a soulful and kind-hearted person. He had encyclopedic know…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2337 (2017) on the situation in The Gambia on the basis of the need to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in the country and avoid bloodshed and further destabilization. We also voted in support of the efforts of the Economic Community of West …
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for their detailed briefings about the development of the military, political and humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin region. We would also like to thank Ms. Fatima Yerima Askira for her very moving…
Russia, likw many other delegations, abstained in the voting on the Security Council draft resolution on expanding the sanctions regime against South Sudan. That is because there are profound concerns about the content of the document and the work conducted on it. We think that it is abnormal when s…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2333 (2016), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). We believe that it is unacceptable to extend the mandate under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in circumstances where Blue Helmets are an…
We would like to start by conveying our gratitude to the Secretary-General and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, as well as to all our colleagues, who during the previous meeting took the floor and extended kind words of condolence to us following the killing of Ambassador Karlov in Ankara. Their words of condol…
The Russian delegation supported resolution 2327 (2016), based on the need to pursue active international efforts for a peace settlement of the armed conflict in South Sudan, and the important role played in that process by the United Nations Mission in that country. However, we are compelled to not…
The Russian delegation was surprised by this resolution, submitted by the United States, which extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan for just one day. That is all the more surprising given that the sponsors had sufficient time to come to agreement on the re…
We note the effective efforts of Special Envoy of African Union, Mr. Edem Kodjo, in assisting the successful conclusion of the intra-Congolese political dialogue and the signing of the political agreement of 18 October. We are convinced that that agreement will play a role in ensuring political stab…
