I have the honour to speak on behalf of the cross-regional group, which includes Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela and my own country, the Russian Federation.
We decided to join the consensus on resolution 68/268, entitled “Strengthening and enhancing the ef…
Our delegation would like to thank the delegation of Luxembourg for its initiative to convene today’s meeting and its very professional chairmanship of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.
We thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Mr. …
First of all, allow me to thank the Lithuanian presidency for holding today’s meeting. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his participation in the meeting and for his comprehensive briefing.
The Russian Federation is firmly committed to the rule of law at the national and international le…
We would like to exercise our right of reply following the statement made by the representative of Georgia.
We get the impression that the insinuations made against Russia by the Georgian representative in the Security Council without any context are very tiresome. We have presented our position in…
We would like to thank the Lithuanian presidency for the initiative to return to the question of the protection of civilians during armed conflict. We are grateful to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Under-Secretaries-General for Humanitarian Affairs and for Peacekeeping Op…
We thank the French presidency for having convened this Council meeting on the relevant topic of combating illegal drug trafficking in West Africa and the Sahel. We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),…
At the outset, we wish to thank the delegation of Guatemala for its efforts in preparing the text of resolution 2130 (2013). We abstained in the voting on the resolution on the basis of the following concerns.
The situation with respect to the exit strategy of the International Tribunal for the For…
We would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the eighteenth report to the Council and for her briefing today.
The ICC is called upon to make an important contribution to efforts to bring to justice those involved in the gravest crimes committed during the Darf…
We share the feeling of deep sadness at the passing of Nelson Mandela, a leading political figure with whom the entire world associated a sense of fairness and freedom.
We thank the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the F…
We, too, wish to thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing on the investigation into the situation in Libya pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011). We support the efforts of the Court to bring to justice the perpetrators of the most serious crimes committed during the events in Libya. They must not go unpunis…
We would like to thank Mr. Remigiusz
Henczel, President of the Human Rights Council (HRC), for introducing the report of the Council (A/68/53).
The Russian Federation considers the Council to be a key component of the international human rights system that promotes the development of constructive …
We have carefully examined the most recent report of the International Criminal Court (see A/68/314), and thank the President of the Court for having prepared it. Our country is committed to combating impunity for the most serious violations of international law that are of concern to the entire int…
We would also like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Mr. Peter Tomka, for his detailed briefing on the work of the Court.
Russia is traditionally committed to the principle of the peaceful resolution of disputes, and the rule of law. We consider the International Court o…
I would like to thank the Azerbaijani presidency for organizing this meeting. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General and others who spoke, for their assessments and very useful information.
For over a decade now, resolution 1325 (2000) has clearly confirmed its vital role and importance in s…
We would first like to congratulate the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Mr. Theodor Meron, on his re-election to the post. We would like to hope that all the efforts expended on the elections will not be in vain, and that the ICTY, under Mr. Meron’s…
We thank the United Kingdom for conducting today’s debate. We are grateful to the briefers for their attention to the protection of children in armed conflict and for the useful information they have provided in that context to the Council.
Children continue to suffer from the horrors of war. Russi…
At the outset, we thank the Secretary-General and the briefers who have been invited to the Council for their statements and useful information on combating sexual violence in armed conflict.
The Security Council, over the past five years, has repeatedly considered the topic of sexual violence in a…
We would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her report and her briefing today. The Russian Federation supports the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005). We view the Court’s efforts in that area as an important c…
At the outset, please allow me to express our gratitude to the presidency of the General Assembly for the opportunity to discuss the issue of human trafficking at this high-level meeting. As a current global threat, human trafficking is as great a social danger as are drug trafficking and terrorism.…
Let me thank the Togolese presidency for its initiative to hold today’s meeting on such a relevant topic. We view this meeting as a contribution to strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations and the Security Council in the fight against terrorism. We are grateful to the Secret…
