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Churkin

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“However, Kyiv continues the economic blockade of Donbas, while ignoring the relevant recommendations of international organizations. The population of Donbas cannot count on having quality medical care. They have limited access to safe drinking water and basic services. Depriving the residents of Donbas of their pensions and social benefits and hindering the delivery of food and other essential goods demonstrate Kyiv's true desire to harm the people of the region. There is an absence of services, such as the mobile banking stations along the line of contact, through which Ukraine is supposed to provide benefit payments to the population of Donbas. Moreover, the blockade is accompanied by a number of absurd actions on the part of the Kyiv authorities.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“But most important, that law was not agreed to by Donetsk and Luhansk, as stipulated by the Minsk agreements, and is in contradiction with the position that President Poroshenko made clear at the Normandy format summit in October. It is clear that Kyiv is not looking for a compromise leading to a way out of the current situation. Instead, it quickly endorsed the so-called framework on the use of the law on local elections in the Verkhovna Rada. As is well known, the package of measures also includes a number of socioeconomic steps aimed at improving the difficult humanitarian situation in Donbas. Logically, achieving progress in de-escalating the military situation should have led to resolving some ofthose glaring problems and building a climate oftrust.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“For example, despite the agreement on the need to adopt a law on elections in Donbas, the Ukrainians asserted that the elections needed to be held under the existing law under which they had been held previously in the rest of Ukraine on 25 October and on 15 November. In the first place, the law is far from perfect, which became apparent during the voting. It does not provide sufficient time to monitor the elections, and the campaign preceding the elections is rendered more complicated, as is the work of the mass media. Consequently, those regions did not elect the candidates who enjoyed the support of the majority.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“Kyiv still refuses direct dialogue with the representatives of Donbas, contrary to what was stipulated in the Minsk agreement. The Normandy format summit that took place on 2 October in Paris should have provided some impetus towards improvements on that score. Following that meeting, the Luhansk and Donetsk authorities agreed to make concessions and postpone elections until the winter or spring of the following year, if Kyiv took specific steps as agreed upon within the Normandy quartet. However, soon after the Paris meeting of the Contact Group, the representatives of Kyiv tried to present the situation as if nothing needed to be done on their part. Therefore, by ignoring the agreements reached by the leaders of the Normandy format quartet, they returned to their previous position.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“Even the politically correct leadership of the Contact Group has had to urge them to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric. We hope that Mr. Apakan will continue to call upon the representatives of Kyiv to work constructively and avoid provocative language. It is clear that the military situation in Ukraine cannot be considered outside the context of the implementation of the political aspects of the package of measures. The problems with regard to the political area have unfortunately often led to an escalation of the situation. Currently, we do not see anything positive coming out of the implementation of such key provisions of the Minsk II package as organizing local elections, granting amnesty, providing Donbas with permanent legislation on its special status or carrying out real constitutional reform.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“In Horlivka alone, according to Donetsk intelligence, there are 85 tanks, 12 armoured personnel carriers and 30 rocket launchers. In addition, on 4 December, the Ukrainian side arbitrarily and in violation to the existing agreements seized seven villages that were, at the time of the signing of the package, in the buffer zone and still not under the control of either party. We regard those actions as provocative. The Ukrainian troops must be withdrawn from those areas. Those questions are of course being raised in the Trilateral Contact Group and the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination. However, the Ukrainians are trying to argue that black is white, saying that the rebels are shelling themselves. They criticize the OSCE Mission and say that the problem is that it is not accountable to the Contact Group.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“In the area under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces, there was regular shelling in Horlivka, Zhabichevo, Zheleznaya Balka, Krasny Partizan, Spartak and Staromykhailivka. The provocative nature of those attacks can be seen from the fact that they took place at the same time as the Normandy format meetings. According to the statistics of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, the Ukrainian side bears the main responsibility for the shelling, for placing military equipment in the security zone and for using radio- jamming equipment against the unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the Special Monitoring Mission. The Ukrainian armed forces continue to deploy their forces in the region and do not hide fact that they have heavy weapons, which can be seen in the regions of Avdiivka, Volnovakha, Horlivka, Dzerzhynsk, Orlovka and Pisky.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“Ten months later, we consider it logical, expedient and necessary to discuss how it is being implemented, and if it is not, why. We believe that the military provisions of the package have achieved some results. Basically, heavy weapons have been withdrawn, and even additional agreements have been concluded on weapons with a calibre of less than 100 millimetres: tanks, mortars and artillery shells. Not everything went smoothly, but the intensity of the fighting and the shelling on civilians in Donbas has been significantly reduced. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission played an important role in that regard. However, we are concerned - and this has been confirmed by the OSCE observers - that in the past month tensions have increased again. Seventy per cent of the ceasefire violations have occurred in the Donetsk region.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“Returning to that subject now is nothing more than an attempt to divert attention from the most important task today, which is to implement the package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. It is only through the full implementation of the provisions of that document that the conflict in Donbas and the problems related to it can be resolved. The Security Council has met repeatedly on the subject of Ukraine. However, most of the meetings were of a polemical nature. An exception to that was provided by the unanimous adoption, on 17 February, of resolution 2202 (2015), which approved the package of measures of 12 February and urged all parties to fully implement it. That clear document, which presented a road map for settlement, inspired hope that the crisis could be resolved.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“We are grateful to Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, to the Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakanu, and to the Director of the Coordination and Response Division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Ging, for their briefings. With regard to the statement of Mr. Simonovie, I would note that the Mission he heads in Ukraine does not have a Security Council mandate and the subject of his statement goes beyond the remit of resolution 2202 (2015). The report of his Mission is being discussed in the Human Rights Council in Geneva.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“Mr. Churkin (Russian Federation) (Spoke in Russian): With all due respect to you, Madam President, I cannot fail to note that Security Council meetings should start on time. Unfortunately, the American presidency this month has introduced an element of nervousness into the work of the Council and has not always acted on the basis of consensus. The coup d'etat that extremists carried out with the support of outside organizers during a wave of legal popular protest has led Ukraine into a serious economic and social crisis that has persisted for some time. Helping to find a way out of that situation is the challenge of the international community, including the Security Council.”
2015-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7576 (2015) · source
“We consider the attempts by some members of the Council to block work on our draft resolution to be politically short-sighted. One cannot, on the one hand, combat terrorists while, on the other hand, essentially play into their hands by trying to achieve one's own aims. We aim to work actively for the speedy adoption of our draft resolution.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“Resolution 2199 (2015), on combating the financing of terrorism by cutting off attempts to gain financing through the illegal trade in oil, was adopted in February at Russia's initiative. In our view, the French resolution is a political appeal, rather than a change to the legal principles underlying the fight against terrorism. We consider it a step in creating a broad anti-terrorism front by marshalling comprehensive cooperation among all States to end all manifestations of terrorism and eradicate its root causes. That was also the aim of the Russian draft resolution presented to the Council for its consideration on 30 September, which contains a number of practical provisions without which combating terrorism in Iraq and Syria will be difficult.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“We are convinced that the Charter of the United Nations should be an important foundation in combating international terrorism as it relates to the use of force. We felt it important that that be reflected in the text, as in fact it now is. As clarified by the Russian delegation, the preambular section of the resolution now clearly states that documents adopted by the International Syria Support Group on 30 October and 14 November constitute a packet on the basis of which, in addition to the Geneva communique (S/2012/523, annex), there must be a settlement to the Syrian crisis. The Council has taken a number of important decisions aimed at strengthening the international community's fight against terrorism and adapting it to new threats and the changing tactics of terrorists.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“That is percisely what was called for by President Putin in his recent address before the General Assembly (see A/70/PV.13). We welcome the growing understanding that the time has come to join ranks in the international community in the face of terrorism. The active efforts and initiatives on the part of our partners in the Security Council aim to tackle the challenge. This is indeed a central concern for all that requires priority attention and, most important, action, without any preconditions or attempts to exert control. Of course, we had to support France's draft resolution. While resolution 2249 (2015) was prepared in extraordinary circumstances and with a very tight time frame, the French delegation did take on board Russia's important amendments.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“The masterminds and perpetrators of those bloody crimes shall be resolutely punished. They must be sought out wherever they may hide. We stand ready to engage in broad cooperation with other States to that end. Mercilessly combating terrorism has been the absolute priority for our country over the past few years, which has been targeted by terrorist attacks many times. The international community must fully mobilize and once again demonstrate political will, unity and solidarity in combating the common terrorist threat, bolstering the fight with specific steps and actions. We must be guided not by ambition, but rather by shared values and interests based on international law, in order to create a broad, international counter- terrorism coalition.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“Mr. Churkin (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Security Council is meeting today following a series of atrocious terrorist attacks that resulted in hundreds of deaths. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its affiliates are now threatening new attacks. We are all outraged by the deaths of those killed in the Sinai Peninsula and in Paris. Recent terrorist targets included Turkey, Tunisia, Lebanon and, today, Mali. Boko Haram continues to wreak havoc. ISIL has attempted to create a terrorist caliphate in Iraq and Syria as a stronghold to further expand its actions. We unequivocally condemn all terrorist attacks. We once again express our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved friends and families and wish speedy recovery to those injured.”
2015-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7565 (2015) · source
“We would also like to express our concern with regard to the lack of tangible results in the investigation into the incursion of the group of fighters from Kosovo into Macedonia in May. Attempts to downplay that case without addressing the underlying causes may well lead to renewed violence, the responsibility for which will be borne by those who, owing to the political situation prevailing at the time, decided to ignore such a serious incident. In conclusion, we confirm that Russia's position on the issue of Kosovo remains unchanged. Resolution 1244 (1999) remains fully in force as the international legal basis for a settlement in Kosovo. We believe that the Security Council must regularly monitor developments in the province.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“An extremely alarming case is the legal entanglement of Kosovo/ Albanian interests with the Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani in an attempt to seize land belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The situation surrounding the creation of a special court to investigate the crimes committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army lacks transparency. We hope that progress will soon be made in that area. The punishment of all those responsible, regardless of the positions they occupy, is one of the most important conditions for reconciliation and the restoration of mutual trust between national communities. We hope that that issue will be closely monitored by UNMIK and the international community.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“The key issues facing the ordinary citizens of the province are well known. They are social and economic issues, and they continue not to be addressed. A dangerous development is the fact that the internal political disagreements are spilling out onto the street. In the last few days in Pristina there have been mass demonstrations during which the demonstrators threw stones, paint and Molotov cocktails at the police, and law enforcement authorities used tear gas. As a result of those clashes, at least 10 people were injured. We are concerned by the lack of progress in improving the unenviable situation of the Serb community. The disregard for Serb property rights, primarily related to real estate, undermines the economic foundation for their livelihood.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“The fact that Kosovo applied for membership to UNESCO against the backdrop of Pristina's categorical refusal to discuss the protection of the Serbian cultural and spiritual heritage in the framework of a dialogue with Belgrade demonstrates the real level of willingness of the Kosovar Albanians to cooperate and, in essence, their lack of willingness to compromise. We cannot but be concerned by the chaotic internal political situation in the province. The so-called Assembly is virtually paralysed. Its members regularly settle arguments by throwing various instruments at one another and even spraying tear gas. It is noteworthy that the main disagreement in that regard revolves around the agreement on the association of Serb-majority municipalities, which the nationalist opposition has tried to destroy from the beginning.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“It is difficult to the reconcile the stated high respect for the so-called Constitution of Kosovo and the cavalier disregard for Serbian law, according to which the province is an integral part of the country. We believe that the establishment of an association of Serb-majority municipalities with the necessary range of powers to defend the legitimate rights and interests of Kosovo's Serb community must be a priority. It is no coincidence that the decision to slow down the establishment of the association of Serb- majority municipalities was adopted by the Kosovars on the day after the General Conference of UNESCO rejected Kosovo's application for membership in that organization. One gets the impression that that was simply a form of petty revenge directed at the Serbs, who sought to defend their position.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“The reason for that is the suspension by the Kosovo side of the implementation of a key agreement on the establishment of the association of Serb-majority municipalities, which was reached in August. The lack of a palpable reaction to that development on the part of Brussels, which participated directly in elaborating the aforementioned agreement, is puzzling. Claims of the inability to comment on Kosovo's legal procedures are simply unconvincing. Such an approach could be used to sabotage any agreement. It is common knowledge that the EU examines Serbian legislation with a magnifying glass and even imposes certain legal decisions on Belgrade, making Serbia's progress in European integration dependent on it.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“Vlora Citaku, rhetoric, unfortunately, prevailed over concrete facts. We are also forced to note that in meetings of the Security Council, the representative of the Pristina authorities speaks, of course, in a personal capacity. The Security Council and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo continue to play a leading role in resolving the problems in the Kosovo region. At this difficult stage, there is a clear need to maintain a high level of United Nations presence. UNMIK should have all the necessary financial and human resources. The situation in and around Kosovo remains acute. The dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which is carried out with European Union (EU) mediation, is stalled.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“Mr. Churkin (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to congratulate the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Zahir Tanin, on the successful start of his work. We welcome his commitment to assisting in strengthening stability in Kosovo pursuant to resolution 1244 (1999), which remains the fundamental document for a settlement in Kosovo. We hope that his great experience in diplomatic affairs will help Mr. Tanin make a significant contribution to ensuring positive momentum in the Kosovo process. We welcome the participation in the meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dacie, and we share his views and considerations. We note that in the statement of Ms.”
2015-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7563 (2015) · source
“Mr. Iliichev (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): 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 solution. The main thing is to ensure that they are implemented in their entirety, and not selectively, without picking and choosing only those provisions that are to the liking of one side alone.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“I would like to recommend to the Ukrainian delegation, which will be taking a seat on the Security Council next year, that they learn to restrict themselves to the subject under discussion and not to put on a political performance on the same issue every time.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Mr. Iliichev (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): 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 Council to express views that have no relation to today's discussion in order to promote their national agendas, particularly the Ukrainian delegation. If the topic of the conflict in Donbas is to be raised, it is worth recalling the overthrow of the State in 2014, which was achieved with the support of a number of Western States and which began with bloodshed in Kyiv, and subsequently in other parts of the country as well.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Of particular importance in that respect is the intellectual capital and the knowledge of countries and their specificities, as well as the historical memory of United Nations experts. There is a need to build capacity in that regard rather than generate new coordinating structures or bodies, as is sometimes suggested. The Security Council needs to be particularly careful and respectful of sovereign States that have fallen on hard times, and offer them help rather than a public thrashing. In conclusion, we have unstintingly stood for peaceful societies and successful conflict prevention. To our mind, one sine qua non in that respect is non-intervention in the internal affairs of States and respectful dialogue with sovereign authorities.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“We are seeing the full consequences of that now. What do the economic sanctions imposed at various times against the Sudan, Zimbabwe and Myanmar have to do with peace? We believe that the recent General Assembly resolution 70/5 on anti-Cuba sanctions has the broader significance of representing the growing understanding within the international community of the unsuitability of that practice. The Security Council naturally plays the most important role in conflict prevention. It is one of our primary tasks. However, there can be no one-size-fits- all approach in that regard. Each conflict situation is unique and there is a need in every case to duly address its specific civilizational, historical, national and religious characteristics.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“If conflicts arise in natural resource-rich countries, then the majority of those cases are not linked to a lack of transparency. With regard to the linkage between security and development, one must acknowledge the destructive impact on both sides of the equation of the phenomenon of unilaterally imposed economic sanctions, which are used by some members of the international community to serve particular political aims. Sanctions imposed by circumventing the Security Council at the very beginning of the conflict in Syria had, of course, the effect of worsening the situation of the Syrian people. But did they help resolve the conflict? Of course not. The very goal of such sanctions was to exacerbate the conflict and to achieve the infamous goal espoused by a number of capitals, namely, regime change in Damascus.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Indeed, in an number of cases, no one even complains about them. In recent years, we have frequently encountered initiatives in the drafting of United Nations documents aimed at promoting the idea that the existence of national resources is allegedly a root cause of conflict. As a primary measure to combat that so-called evil, there have been proposals to increase the transparency of the extractive sectors, in particular by admitting into those countries some allegedly socially responsible international corporations - of course from the West. Actually, there is no direct link between those phenomena. There is no lack of countries in the world whose the extractive industries are totally closed to foreign players, but there are no conflicts there.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“There has been a lack of progress in alleviating the debt burden and a certain avoidance of issues that some find uncomfortable, such as increasing the participation of developing countries in the activities of global governance bodies, instead of establishing transparent and agreed rules to foster free trade, investment and open competition, as well as ensuring developing countries' access to technologies. We are witnessing the fragmentation of the international economy, the creation of closed economic alliances and a stalemate in efforts to reform international financial institutions. We have repeatedly heard the argument that human rights violations are one of the root causes of crises. However, everyone is well aware of countries that have extremely harsh laws in that regard, but on whose territories there are no conflicts.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Over the past years we have seen the development of various concepts conceived by a limited group of States, in which development assistance is conditioned on adherence to very strict criteria with regard to State-building. We believe that particular care should be taken in disseminating such concepts, especially at the international level. On the one hand, there is the issue of interference in the internal affairs of States. Donors impose particular standards that they claim ensure transparency. On the other hand, donors do not honour their pledges for aid to development and technology transfer.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“However, we are convinced that the development of shared approaches with respect to issues that concern the future and current world, namely, questions of international law, human rights and development - in other words, essentially peacebuilding - is a role that should fall to the General Assembly, where, under the Charter of the United Nations, each nation has a vote. Every State has a vote, whether small or large, strong or weak, rich or poor. Countries are not all the same, but they are all part of human history. The development of States is a process that cannot be forced into implementation. There is no one right answer. The process can be assisted but not imposed.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“In that situation, the Security Council must not get bogged down in theoretical research but must keep its finger on the pulse of international life, speedily responding to any harbingers of trouble that could arise in the security sphere. We have constantly called for efforts to seek collective, agreed approaches to resolving existing issues by establishing a fairer and more sustainable architecture for international relations. The United Nations is, in that regard, a completely unique platform.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Let it be recalled that Iraq, Libya, Syria and even Yugoslavia were far from the poorest of States, but their territories fell prey to some of the deadliest crises of our time. Now, as the world map is ever changing, various regions are seeing sweeping and swift geopolitical transformations. The world is witnessing a rise in the risk of conflict. There is a constantly increasing eruption of crises, which are compounded by armed clashes and difficult socioeconomic situations. There is a hardening of interethnic and sectarian antagonisms, which is being exploited by terrorist and extremists of all stripes.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“To promote it, the United Nations has the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies. For the Security Council to encroach on those prerogatives would be inappropriate, as well as simply counterproductive. On the other hand, excessive focus on any one aspect of security means that we lose sight of many others, including territorial, ideological, historical, religious, psychological, environmental and technological aspects. Today, a particularly dangerous challenge is the threat of terrorism, the theory and practice of which involves essentially declaring war on the civilized world. A separate aspect is the emergence of conflict as the result of outside interference.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“Mr. Churkin (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The topic that the British presidency has chosen for today's debate, despite its innocuous appearance, poses, in our view, certain risks for the Security Council. On the one hand, it does not take much imagination to understand that there is a definite link between security and development. The danger lies in making that an absolute truth in a hasty attempt to craft some sort of universal approach to resolving problems in the context of security and development. The Council does not have the requisite Charter-based prerogatives for that, nor the requisite toolkit. To go beyond its purview while the world is witnessing heightened conflicts that demand the Council's practical intervention, we risk seriously degrading the Council's effectiveness. Development has inherent value.”
2015-11-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7561 (2015) · source
“The Russian Federation, mindful of its historical links with the States of the Middle East, will continue to make a robust contribution to restoring stability, normal life and sustainable development to the region.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“The well-known events of 2011 have led to the collapse and splintering of Libya and turned the country into another hotbed of tension in the Middle East and North Africa. The situation is being exploited by ISIL, which has announced its presence through horrific vandalism. The waves of instability are travelling southward through the Sahara and the Sahel, as well as northward across the Mediterranean and into Europe. The situation in Libya and other hotspots in the region have given rise to a migration crisis that is tragic in scale. We urge all sides in Libya to act responsibly and form a Government of national unity and join together to fight terrorism.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“We attach great importance to the upcoming meeting in Vienna on 23 October of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. We hope that this format will in the near future be joined by other States, in particular Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. We backed Special Envoy for Yemen Ahmed's efforts aimed at moving the situation into the political field and the launch of the intra-Yemeni dialogue for a lasting settlement. We call for an immediate end to violence, in the light of the tragic humanitarian situation in the country. It is our shared obligation to put an end to the long-standing suffering of the Yemeni people.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“A lasting settlement of the situation in Syria is the objective of our contacts forged at the very highest levels with representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Iran and other key players. The lack of alternatives to a political settlement was confirmed during the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Bashar Al-Assad, on 20 October in Moscow. In that context, we continue to stress that Russia stands ready to make its contribution not only to fighting terrorism, but also to promoting the political process, so that Syria can become a country where security and stability and the peaceful coexistence of different religious groups prevails.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“The main thing in this regard is to review the near-sighted policy of rejecting a joint fight against terrorism as reflected, in particular, in a rejection of a joint determination of targets, including facilities whose destruction would weaken the military capacity ofISIL and other terrorist organizations. I would remind the Council that the Russian initiative on Syria is two-pronged. It proposed closing our ranks for counter-terrorist purposes and, in parallel, the launching of a political process on the basis of Geneva communique (S/2012/522, annex). In that context, we back the efforts of Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Staffan de Mistura and urge the opposition to form a representative delegation to participate in thematic intra-Syria working groups.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“That is why, pursuant to a request by the authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic for military assistance in its fight against ISIL and other terrorist groups active in Syrian territory, the Russian Federation initiated, on 30 September 2015, air and missile strikes on terrorist formations and facilities in the country. Collective approaches are needed to eliminate the terrorist threat on the basis of norms and principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. To solve this pressing issue, we should lay aside non-essential political differences. The Russian Federation has circulated a draft Security Council resolution whose main objective is to close our ranks and work to achieve the aforementioned objectives. We urge all to come and join constructive work on our proposal.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“Chaos and anarchy, resulting to a large extent from foreign interference in regional affairs, is being actively exploited by terrorist organizations, first and foremost by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose evil plans are being implemented in Iraq and Syria, and are slowly coming to light in other countries, with the aim of creating a transborder Islamic caliphate. It is regrettable that this international army has been joined by fighters from many States around the world. The situation has simply become intolerable.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“We are convinced that only the creation ofa Palestinian State living in peace side by side with Israel within internationally recognized borders can guarantee Israel's security and the fulfilment of the aspirations of the Palestinian people. Progress towards that objective requires a rejection of settlement activities. The most important issue on the agenda is the problem of restoring Palestinian unity on the platform of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Neither violence nor terrorism stands to bring us any closer to a lasting settlement of the Palestinian issue on the aforementioned terms. We believe that only through combined efforts of the international community will we be able to stabilize the situation in the countries of the Middle East. The situation requires prompt decisions.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“The Security Council must more clearly focus on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. However, fundamental change will not occur unless, in parallel with efforts to overcome the present crisis, a renewal of political prospects for resolving final-status-related issues and for implementing the two-State concept based on a universally recognized international legal framework, namely, the Quartet road map, the relevant Security Council resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative, does not also take place. The strategic task remains the same: resuming direct negotiations between Israel and Palestinians in order to address the gamut of final- status-related issues.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“Mr. Churkin (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The situation at present in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict has again spiked quite seriously. There is a need for immediate steps to de-escalate the situation, to attenuate the fervency of the rhetoric on both sides and to promote rejection of all forms of violence. We hope that this will be helped by renewed diplomatic efforts, including the Secretary- General's negotiations in the region and the imminent ministerial-level meeting of the Quartet in Vienna, which will be held on our initiative. An exit from the current cycle of violence would be helped by a visit to Israel and Palestine by the special representatives of Quartet. The Russian initiative to organize a Security Council mission to the region remains relevant.”
2015-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7540 (2015) · source
“In conclusion, with respect to the issue of the veto, which has been raised today, although we do not believe that it is relevant to the matter of working methods, the veto is one of the key provisions of the Charter that prompts Council members to reach consensus. I would simply say that it is clear why undermining the right of veto is the goal ofthose who would seek a mathematical majority on the Council, yet it is unclear why the veto is sometimes criticized by representatives of countries or regions that, in the absence of the veto, would find themselves under massive pressure from a particular group of States. I would suggest that they consider their own national interests.”
2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539 (2015) · source