The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and its Executive Directorate (CTED) have unique experience and authority in the area of counter-terrorism. Their job is to ensure the effective monitoring of the implementation of the Security Council’s decisions on counter-terrorism. My delegation supported th…
Our delegation normally votes against so- called country-specific resolutions on human rights, which are designed to exert political pressure on a given State. The exploitation of human rights issues in order to settle scores, wage information wars or advance political agendas leads only to situatio…
We have familiarized ourselves with the twenty-sixth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Darfur and would like to begin by addressing some of the facts and figures in the report. In particular, it notes a continued reduction in armed clashes between…
We have often expressed our opposition to the introduction of human rights issues into the Security Council’s agenda. We believe that they are not within the Council’s remit and should be considered by the specialized bodies, first and foremost the Human Rights Council. The Security Council has neve…
The situation today makes it vital for us to exchange opinions and assessments of the contemporary threats posed by the activities of terrorist groups. We would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, of the United Nations Office of Counter- Terrorism, and Ambassador Umarov, Chair of the…
We would first like to thank the briefers for their information.
The serious problems raised during today’s meeting are very worrying. We share the concerns about information indicating the growth of trafficking in persons in the region. The Security Council already discussed the problem in last we…
Since it so happens that today we have been given the floor immediately after the Ukrainian delegation, we would like to begin by once again repudiating the insinuations made about Russia as inappropriate, unfounded and perhaps even absurd. And now let me turn to the topic of today’s meeting.
We wo…
The situation in Libya remains difficult and we deplore the fact that people are being killed, including civilians. We hope that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, will do everything possible within the framework of the plan he has presented to further…
Our delegation supported today’s resolution 2383 (2017). We would note that there is a regional link to the mandate extended by the resolution. That approach has some positive aspects. At the same time,
in our view, combating piracy requires significant comprehensive measures and a more global form…
As I noted during my statement, there are more than 1 million Ukrainians in Russia who fled the area of conflict, as well as an equal number of labour migrants from that country. Therefore, in spite of the unrestrained anti-Russian propaganda from Kyiv, those citizens have taken refuge in Russia to …
We join others in wishing the Italian presidency every success, and we also extend our gratitude to the French delegation.
We welcome the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and thank him for his briefing.
Assistance to refugees and stateless persons is today a key component of the compr…
We would like to thank the delegation of France for its initiative in convening and conducting today’s meeting. We would like to also thank the Secretary-General for his participation, and we note the briefers’ valuable contribution to our discussion.
We have studied the Secretary-General’s report …
We would first like to thank the French presidency for organizing today’s meeting. We are grateful to the briefers for their statements and helpful information.
In the time that has passed since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) considerable success has been achieved in enhancing the role of w…
We thank the leadership of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their reports on the activities of these bodies, submitted to the General Assembly on a yearly basis (A/72/266 and A/72/261).
We welcom…
Needless to say, Mr. President, we are delighted to be able to join previous speakers in congratulating you and wishing you every success in your work.
My delegation has consistently advocated for strengthening States’ capacity to protect their peoples from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing an…
We have read the twenty-fifth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the situation in Darfur and wish to comment on its assessment of some of the developments mentioned therein.
The report quite rightly notes that progress has been made in normalizing the situation in Darfu…
We should like to extend our gratitude to Mr. Feltman for his detailed and comprehensive briefing.
Given present-day conditions, as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is morphing through the changing situation on the ground, the Secretary- General’s strategic analysis is especially imp…
We have attentively studied the reports of the leadership of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see S/2017/436 and S/2017/434, respectively) on the past six-month period. We note that as stated in the report of…
For the tenth time, the Georgian delegation has submitted for consideration by the General Assembly a draft resolution on the problem of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia (A/71/L.71). Despite the active campaign of the …
Unfortunately, terrorist attacks using suicide bombers brainwashed by hatred continue across the globe in many cities. Last month, the casualties of these bloody crimes included citizens in Saint Petersburg, and Copts and Orthodox Christians in Egypt were attacked. Recently, concert-goers in Manches…
