We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and in general we share the views that he has expressed. We would like to thank Mr. Michael Keating, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, for his comprehensi…
Sir, we welcome you as President of the Security Council, and we hope that your personal participation in today’s meeting and Angola’s active role in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, will contribute to intensification of this organ’s activities in the search for answers to the…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for presenting the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/225) and for her substantive briefing on the situation in the country.
We are carefully monitoring the development of the political situation in Haiti, …
Russia backed the adoption of resolution 2272 (2016), on sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations. We approached with understanding the initiative of the United States and other States’ delegations to send a signal through the Security Council regarding the unacceptability of such ac…
We would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing on issues of discipline and behaviour in peacekeeping operations.
We attach great importance to the work on the problem of the commission of violations, including sexual abuse by members of United Nations peacekeeping contingents…
Russia supported resolution 2271 (2016), which extends for a month and a half the existing Security Council sanctions on South Sudan. On the one hand, the technical nature of the resolution reflects the lack of unity in the Council on maintaining or expanding the current the sanctions regime. On the…
We are grateful to you, Sir, and the Venezuelan delegation for the skilful and effective way in which you have fulfilled presidential functions in February. This month was extremely busy because of the heavy work programme proposed by the presidency and because of events developing quickly around th…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for having convened today’s meeting. This is a timely exchange of views that we hope will help us find a common denominator during the current talks on a draft resolution in the General Assembly and in Security Council on the reform of the United Nations peacebuilding…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the briefing on the activities of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, which you, Sir, chair.
We are worried about the recent intensification in the various terrorist tactics of Al-Shabaab thr…
We welcome the convening of today’s discussion at the initiative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Madam President, as well as your personal presiding over this Council meeting. A useful discussion on the same theme took place a year ago on the initiative of China (see S/PV.7389). It demonstr…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2265 (2016), guided by its main objective to promote a political settlement in Darfur. In particular, we continue to consider targeted limitations as an important tool for bringing pressure to bear on rebels who refuse to join the talks on the bas…
We would like to thank you personally, Mr. President, and the whole Uruguayan delegation for your skilful and effective presidency of the Council for January.
This month saw a full agenda. We had a thorough consideration of a number of African topics: Mali, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côt…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2263 (2016), on extending the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, which plays an important role in the maintenance of peace and tranquillity on the island. We are in favour of intercommunity relations and negotiations.
How…
The Russian Federation did not prevent the adoption of resolution 2252 (2015), on the extension of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Our decision was informed by the need to continue active international efforts to find a peaceful settlement to the armed conflict and by our understanding of…
We thank Ms. Hiroute Guebre Sellassie for her detailed briefing. We believe that it is important for the Security Council to discuss the issue of the Sahel in a comprehensive manner. Her assessment of the situation in that vast region is of great usefulness. The ever-increasing number of challenges …
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing today. We have read very carefully the reports prepared by the High-level Independent Panel on Peace
Operations and on Special Political Missions (see S/2015/446) and the report of the Secretary-General (S/2015/682) with his vision for the implementat…
I will be brief. I agree with my Ukrainian colleague that the primary responsibility of the Security Council is finding solutions to problems, however complex they may seem.
As it happens, the Minsk agreements, as affirmed in resolution 2202 (2015), do indeed represent a format that provides for a …
Today’s debate featured many speakers
discussing many different things, and that has only strengthened our conviction that the Security Council is not the place to examine this issue. On top of that, some delegations attempted, with a persistence worthy of a better aim, to use the forum of the Coun…
We thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s
meeting. We also thank Mr. Hervé Ladous, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and the three Police Commissioners of the United Nations missions in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia for their briefings.
I also ta…
We thank all participants in today’s meeting who briefed the Council, in particular the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
We commend the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) and share the assessments of t…
