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Nebenzia

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“Ultimately, the Security Council members spent more than 15 minutes listening to a speech that nobody, apart from those who speak Ukrainian and Russian, understood, and yet, the briefer speaks English perfectly well, as was made clear at the very end of his statement. I have no doubt that he speaks Russian perfectly as well. This was therefore a political gesture made with egregious disregard for the rules of procedure of the Security Council, and the United States presidency was unable to stop it. On 9 May 2010, a military parade was held in Kyiv in honour of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. It was attended by 2,500 military personnel from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The celebrations took place throughout the city.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): To begin, I wish to briefly say something to one of our briefers in the language in which he deigned to address the Security Council. (spoke in a language other than an official language of the Security Council, without providing interpretation) (spoke in Russian) I wish to draw attention to the fact that we have today borne witness to an egregious violation of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council by the United States presidency — specifically, rule 44, which states that speeches may be made in a language other than the languages of the United Nations, but in that case the speaker shall him or herself provide for interpretation into one of the official languages of the United Nations. That was not done.”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“However, Russia will bring the relevant criminal proceedings to a conclusion, and the perpetrators will receive the punishment they deserve.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“A female resident of Mariupol described how fighters from the Azov Battalion, the very same one whose leaders Zelenskyy recently hugged on camera, raped women who showed sympathy for Russia and sprayed construction foam, pardon me, into their genitals. Neo-Nazis from the Tornado Battalion set up a torture chamber in the basement of a school in Lisichansk between 17 and 23 March 2015, in which they tortured and raped local female residents, including senior citizens and minors. Those are but few cases of real crimes committed by nationalists and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the regime in Kyiv has never investigated, to which the Special Representative has never paid attention and for which no one was held accountable.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“After the liberation of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was able to conduct large-scale investigations of the crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists and servicemen who were present on the territory of the two Republics from 2014 onwards. Russian investigators determined and recorded testimony from civilians who were subjected to abuse by neo-Nazis and nationalists. A woman from the Donetsk People’s Republic related that, on the night of 18 to 19 January 2015, she was taken by Ukrainian security service officers and brought to a basement in Kramatorsk, where she was beaten, raped and otherwise abused. Ukrainian secret service officers threatened to do the same to her underage daughter.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“We would like to remind Council members that the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as other international entities, have published reports regarding numerous crimes committed by Ukrainian fighters — beatings, tortures using electric shock, threats and rape of those suspected of cooperating with the authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk. However, that information was not duly assessed in the reports regarding sexual violence in conflict.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“Yet, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General prefers to simply level groundless accusations at States’ armed forces without providing any chance for them to be verified. Before the report was published, the Russian Federation officially submitted requests to the Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for information that would allow it to verify what was said. Those requests were ignored. On that note, we would like to underscore once again that we fully repudiate the insinuations contained in the report. The actions of Russian servicemen within and outside combat environments are subject to sole command, stringent rules and regulations. Any unlawful acts are investigated without delay and the perpetrators are brought to justice.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“If any doubts remained as to the fact that the report was biased, the section on Ukraine definitively dispels them. The allegations contained therein targeting Russian servicemen are groundless and absurd. They are nothing but a dissemination of fakes made up in Kyiv. Representatives of the Kyiv regime are acting in keeping with the maxims of their Third Reich idols, and one of whom stated that the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe. However, the Secretariat should not be participating in such information campaigns. Any accusations against States or parties to a conflict in any report should be reliable and based on corroborated facts and drawn from sources that are verifiable.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“On the one hand, there is an attempt to give a general assessment of the human rights situation in the country, including the issue of the restrictions on women’s rights. On the other hand, there is no mention of the impact on the rights of women, as well as those of other Afghans, brought caused by the United States’ seizure of their financial resources — resources which could have been used to improve the awful socioeconomic situation in Afghanistan. In those reports, there is also no mention of the United States armed forces or the Global Coalition against Da’esh, which spent many years on the territory of the country, despite the fact that human rights defenders published countless accounts of the United States military being at least complicit in the sexual exploitation of boys.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“We welcome the mention made of the tragic situation in Al-Hol camp, where we are seeing rampant violence, prostitution, sexual exploitation of minors and human trafficking. However, we do not see any information in the report about the fact that all of that is happening on territory under the control of the United States and their allies. The section on Myanmar is also one-sided. The list of perpetrators consists solely of members of the Myanmar armed forces, whereas crimes being committed by terrorists and militants are ignored. That does not help the credibility of the report. The section on the Central African Republic and Mali can be seen as an attempt to shift stress from the objective fact that sexual violence tactics are being used by terrorists. We also have some questions about the portrayal of the situation in Afghanistan.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“We would recommend that, instead of engaging in such speculative exercises, the Security Council should pay greater attention to specific situations and stress enforcement. The cornerstone should be efforts to assist States in prosecuting perpetrators who, as a general rule, are non-State entities. A key component of the United Nations work on that front is assisting victims. The assessments and conclusions of the report on specific countries raise even more questions. On what basis were the allegations that sexual violence is being used in Syria as a tactic to stifle dissent levelled at that country? It is worth noting that, in the report, there is no assessment of what is going on in Idlib and the trans-Euphrates area. What is the reason for that selective approach?”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“The Security Council, addressing that issue as part of its efforts to maintain international peace and security, made its contribution by adopting a number of thematic resolutions. Responsibility for such crimes is set forth in States’ national legislation. On that note, it is unclear to us why it is necessary to refer, as is done in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2023/413), to customary rules of international law when prosecuting sexual violence. It is also unclear why the term conflict- related sexual violence is being used, as it is not a legal term, nor has it been endorsed by the Security Council. We also have some questions about assertions that we should be establishing certain indicators of sexual violence occurring and being provoked.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“All of the aforementioned is possible only when the information the United Nations draws on has been verified and is objective. It is absolutely unacceptable when the suffering of people who have been subjected to sexual violence or accusations that such serious crimes have been committed are used as pawns in political games or become part of mudslinging rhetoric, which is often not based on fact. We must also note that there is a robust legal basis for international cooperation on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, namely, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 on the protection of victims of war and their Protocols Additional. However, we are compelled to recognize that not all States are parties to those Protocols Additional, including even some members who are actively calling for combating war crimes in the Council.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are delighted to see you, Mr. President, in the President’s chair at the Security Council. The Russian Federation condemns sexual violence in all its forms, as it does all other crimes committed in conflict and in post-conflict settings. Those acts should be investigated and the perpetrators should be held accountable. Such law enforcement activities falls within the purview of States. Measures taken by United Nations system entities and civil society complement the aforementioned efforts. That work should be systematic and comprehensive and aimed at achieving long-term and lasting results, and due regard should be given to the causes and sources of that negative phenomenon.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“The Russian Federation will continue raising the issue of the Nord Stream sabotage in the Council until the perpetrators are identified and held accountable. The letter mentioned today leaves little doubt that this is not a goal that the three national investigations seek to accomplish. However, we will use all means at our disposal to make sure that this goal is achieved. We trust that our constructively minded colleagues in the Security Council and other members of the international community will support our efforts. We are open to cooperation in this area. The Council must make it clear that crimes against cross-border pipeline infrastructure, which pose a direct threat to international peace and security, will not go unpunished. Only then can we prevent the recurrence of such crimes to which any State could fall victim.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“We expect the authorities of Germany, Denmark and Sweden to take concrete steps to conduct an objective and transparent investigation into all the circumstances of the incident, with the obligatory participation of Russian investigative authorities and other interested parties. In the meantime, we reserve the right to conduct our own investigation. In this context, we took note of the statement in the letter from the authorities of Germany, Denmark and Sweden (S/2023/517) that access to the crime scene is allegedly open. If that is the case, we presume that our investigative authorities can independently examine the crime scene at any time as part of the criminal proceedings initiated by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation pursuant to its article on acts of international terrorism.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“How can this be squared with the repeated threats against the Nord Stream from top United States leadership, whose threats had been voiced more than once? However, as soon as inconvenient facts came to light, Americans and their European allies began to interfere with an international investigation in every way possible. Moreover, unlike many other States Members of the United Nations, they were not interested in investigative efforts being undertaken under the auspices of the Secretary-General. They stand to gain much more in a situation where Western States enjoy complete carte blanche and absolute impunity within the framework of a so-called rules-based order imposed on the whole world and which has nothing to do with international law. We want to stress that any efforts to cover up the sabotage in the Baltic Sea are doomed to fail.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“Immediately after this, articles began to spring up en masse in the Western media, claiming that the destruction of the Nord Stream could have been perpetrated by a small group of near-amateurs who had neither serious expertise nor significant resources and who were not backed by any State, and this despite the fact that numerous independent experts, including those who have spoken before the Security Council, including today, made it clear that non-experts could not have carried out an operation to blow up gas pipelines that were protected with the latest technology. In any case, it is not something of which at least the coastal States in this region would have been unaware, especially since the region is considered one of the most closely monitored in the world.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“Referencing reliable sources, he later cited information that, following the March meeting between United States President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, American and German intelligence were instructed to prepare and promote an alternative version for the media about who blew up the Nord Stream.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“We use direct actions. We use them, and we love them... We were proud of using them, and we are not afraid of using them anywhere in this world against who[m]ever.” Let us be honest. The bravado of the ringleaders of the Kyiv regime does not inspire confidence. They are prepared to take credit for any accomplishments just to shift the focus from the failures of the Ukrainian army on the front and flagrant violations of human rights inside Ukraine taking place in the context of the strengthening of Zelenskyy’s dictatorship. We also recall the publication of a highly plausible version of events by the American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“The evidently coordinated disinformation campaign in Western media eloquently testifies to this point in their attempts to popularize absolutely absurd versions of the events. While earlier some journalists actively tried to claim that it was Russia itself that blew up the pipeline — a pipeline that was functioning in its interest — another fiction has recently come to dominate, namely, the claim that some pro-Ukrainian saboteurs who allegedly had nothing to do with the Kyiv regime were behind the attack. Meanwhile, it is telling that in a recent interview with The Times, the head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, in response to a direct question about the involvement of Ukrainian authorities in the pipeline incident and other terrorist attacks, literally said the following: “We [are] doing that right now ...”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“Even more telling is the language from the part devoted to the Swedish investigation: “[t]he ongoing investigation will show whether anyone can be suspected of, and later prosecuted for, this crime.” It follows from this quotation that, from the very beginning, Swedish authorities have never set the goal of identifying the perpetrators. In this context, there is of course no question of the inevitability of punishment, which is particularly striking given that Sweden, as we heard today from one of our briefers, was the first to be at the scene of the crime. The demonstrative inaction of European authorities can be explained by only one thing: attempts to stall for time in order to cover up the identities of the real perpetrators of the crime.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“As a result, after receiving yet another yellow card from the majority of Council members, Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm decided to prepare the collective letter that was disseminated yesterday (S/2023/517). Unfortunately, it is also very reminiscent of a non-answer and cannot replace a full-fledged briefing by them to Council members, in which we could ask them questions, of which a great many have piled up. Moreover, not only does their letter repeat the false assertion that Russia was allegedly informed about the progress of the investigations, the choice of wording also indicates that the authorities of Germany, Denmark and Sweden are deliberately trying to prepare the members of the Security Council not to expect any concrete results from these investigations. In any case, it is impossible to say when they will be completed.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“Members of the Council had the opportunity to see this for themselves when they received copies of our correspondence with the authorities of Denmark, Sweden and Germany, which we circulated in the Council in March (S/2023/193 and S/2023/223). As a result of our efforts, it appears that Germany, Denmark and Sweden have begun to realize that they are not just ignoring the requests of the Russian Federation, but they are essentially defying the opinion of the Security Council, among whose members, as our discussions behind closed doors have clearly shown, there is growing confusion and dissatisfaction due to the absence of any information on the progress of the national investigations.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“The German, Danish and Swedish authorities stubbornly refused to provide any intelligible response to our numerous requests and appeals. They did not provide a response to the message sent in October 2022 by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mr. Mishustin, on the need to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the incident with the participation of representatives of the Russian authorities and the Gazprom company. Nor did they provide a response to the numerous notes sent by the Russian missions in this regard. We have repeatedly drawn the Council’s attention to the fact that its entire response amounted to formal non-answers, with a refusal to cooperate under extremely ludicrous and far-fetched pretexts.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“We note that in whatever format it is discussed in the Council, and regardless of delegations’ positions on the draft resolution we proposed (S/2023/212), virtually every Council member has consistently condemned the crime and acknowledged the importance of establishing the truth and identifying the perpetrators. At the same time, Western colleagues tried to convince the Council that there was no added value in international efforts until the completion of national investigations carried out by Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm. They persistently urged us to wait until those investigations were completed. It has now been almost 10 months since the sabotage, and 4 months since the vote on our draft resolution. No information had been provided to the Security Council and the international community until yesterday.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the independent American journalists Bryce Greene and Jeffrey Brodsky for their briefings, in which they presented the Security Council with objective facts surrounding the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. They confirm our version of events, which is that carrying out such a crime would simply have been impossible without the direct involvement or at least support of a State actor. We have been drawing the attention of the Security Council to this topic for months.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9373 (2023) · source
“salvage the situation, but only by supporting our draft resolution (S/2023/507), which we will vote on [after...] the Swiss draft resolution, and that provides for practical measures to repair the cross-border mechanism. I am warning everyone right here and now that if our draft is not supported, the cross-border mechanism could be closed down. In the circumstances, we will not accept a technical rollover for any time period”.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I asked for the floor not in order to enter into polemics with my French colleague as regards the assistance to Syria that he says Russia is not providing, nor to recall the Brussels Conference, to which Syrians are not invited and where aid is collected for people who are outside Syria, without giving anything to Syria itself and even creating obstacles to aid to Syria, including through early-recovery projects. That is not why I took the floor. I understood that in one of the statements there was a mention of work on the future fate of the cross- border mechanism, and I would like to repeat what I said when I spoke after the vote on the Brazil- Switzerland resolution. “Of course, we can ...”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“I would like to ask any member who is interested in preserving the cross- border mechanism to bear that in mind when voting on our draft resolution, which takes genuine account of the interests of the Syrian people.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“Of course, we can get out of it and salvage the situation, but only by supporting our draft resolution (S/2023/507), which we will vote on after the voting on the Swiss draft resolution (S/2023/506), and that provides for practical measures to repair the cross-border mechanism. I am warning everyone right here and now that if our draft text is not supported, the cross-border mechanism can be closed. In the circumstances, we will not accept a technical rollover for any time period, and as our Swiss colleagues have eloquently indicated in the past few days, they are not willing to compromise and the Council has simply run out of time.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“It would be a better idea to talk to Syrians about the Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act, which will completely strangle Syria. And speaking of the Syrian people’s suffering, let them talk about how their sanctions do not even allow Syrians to buy life-saving medicines and equipment. The problems that the Swiss penholders for the Syrian dossier failed to resolve today have nothing to do with the draft resolution’s timetable. They are about its content. Essentially, our colleagues from Switzerland unfortunately overplayed their hand and led us all into an impasse, making no effort to lead us out of it.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“We are not about to give our blessing to a mechanism whereby terrorists from Idlib, with impunity, will be able to prevent cross-line humanitarian assistance provided for by the Security Council resolution from entering their enclave, while Western countries essentially fund early-recovery and humanitarian aid projects only in areas that are not under the legitimate Government’s control and while Syria itself is being strangled with inhumane sanctions. Not to mention that, as we all know, the cross-border mechanism is an obvious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria that was permissible five to seven years ago but looks completely anachronistic today. We would advise the United States representative to ask the Syrian people about the Syrian people.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“From the very beginning they have been promoting the interests of the Western members of the Council alone, while ignoring Syria’s legitimate demands. The result was a draft resolution that does not allow us even a hope of an actual improvement of the mechanism, the need for which many Council members have underscored. It is not a compromise text, as it has been disingenuously presented by some of our colleagues.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“There are ways to help people without the cross-border mechanism if the desire is there. They try to convince us that closing the Bab Al-Hawa crossing will lead to a collapse of humanitarian aid to people in Idlib, completely ignoring the fact that through its own sovereign decision the Syrian Government has opened two additional and functioning cross-border points. We would like to thank our Emirati, African and Brazilian colleagues, who made appreciable efforts to somehow avoid the show that was put on today and reach a compromise. To do that, it was above all important to consider the position of the State whose interests are directly affected by the draft resolution in question — that is, Syria. However, our colleagues from Switzerland, who have essentially monopolized the Syrian humanitarian file, proved completely incapable of that.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“When we tried to reach a compromise in good faith, we saw what some of our colleagues had written in the correspondence on the issue. They said that they had already made an incredible number of concessions to Russia, specifically on cross-line activities, demining, refugee returns and early recovery. Is everything that I just listed what we call concessions? Our colleagues are simply giving themselves away by calling provisions that draft resolution S/2023/506 should have contained by default “concessions” to Russia and Syria. It betrays their true attitude to the cross-border mechanism, which they are interested in only so that their aid can supply the terrorists in Idlib. And yes, they talk about a life-and-death situation in the context of the cross-border mechanism. It is all disingenuous and hypocritical.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Today we are once again being obliged to witness yet another act being played out by Western countries in the show entitled the cross-border mechanism for providing humanitarian assistance to Syria. Its main distinguishing characteristics are a complete disregard for the interests of the Syrian people, that they supposedly want so much to protect, and a desire to artificially provoke Russia into using the veto. We heard today and will probably hear again later Russia accused of killing the cross-border mechanism. It is dishonest and disingenuous. With the 12 or 9 months that were portrayed as a compromise in the extension of the cross-border mechanism, our Western partners wanted to gift the Syrians with a whole lot of nothing.”
2023-07-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9371 (2023) · source
“Its statements and actions should be considered, thoroughly verified, impartial and supportive of the multilateral efforts aimed at restoring the JCPOA.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“We are all well aware whose court the ball is in now. Tehran is genuinely interested in revitalizing the JCPOA, but so far we see no evidence that the Western countries are ready to move in the same direction. It would be a great pity if a chance to revive the deal were wasted because of them. We hope that the Secretary-General will send a clear signal to the United States and the European parties to the JCPOA about the need to reach a final agreement on a recovery package and a pathway to its implementation in practice. The Russian Federation is ready to continue joint efforts to that end. We hope that the leadership of the Secretariat recognizes the importance of keeping its published reports balanced and objective.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“We urge our colleagues to be reasonable and strictly comply with their international obligations, as required by Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations. The illegal national decisions of various countries dictated by purely opportunistic considerations cannot knowingly trigger legal consequences for other States. We resolutely condemn the nefarious practice of the extraterritorial application of unilateral sanctions, one of the clearest manifestations of the so-called rules-based order and one that has nothing to do with international law. In conclusion, I want to once again emphasize our principled position. Russia firmly believes that there is no alternative to the JCPOA, and that its speedy resumption is the only right way to respond to both regional and global security interests.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“One clear example is the reference to the possibility of reinstating provisions of previous Security Council resolutions with regard to Iran, the so-called snapback clause. We want to underscore that there are no legal or procedural grounds for that. We are warning our Western colleagues — who should first take some measures themselves to ensure the full implementation of the JCPOA — against taking dangerous steps that run counter to the position of the Secretary-General and the majority of Council members about the importance of preserving the deal. We are equally concerned about the discussions in the Western press that Great Britain and the two European States might be planning to reconsider the expiration planned for October of the so-called missile restrictions imposed on Iran in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of annex B.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“That is clearly the reason for the references to so-called initial assessments, meaning that the British did not even finish the so-called examination of the alleged drones. In the absence of objective facts, the reason for spreading these fabrications is clearly to put a negative spin on the reports of the Secretary-General and the Facilitator on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and to distract attention from the violations of resolution 2231 (2015) committed by the Western members of the JCPOA and the United States. We are particularly concerned about the fact that in their escalatory rhetoric some Western States not only show no interest in negotiating to restore the JCPOA, but they also make obvious attempts to blackmail Tehran with threats of taking anti-Iranian steps in the Security Council.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Some of the “photographic evidence” is even comical in nature. An image of Zelenskyy allegedly carrying a Shahed drone has been widely disseminated in the media. The drone is three metres long, with a wingspan of two metres, suggesting that the President of Ukraine must be roughly 2.5 metres tall. The photo is fake and has been laughed out of court on the Internet long ago. The other so-called material evidence provided consists of indecipherable photographs of some sort of debris with nothing that points to their Iranian origin. But what is there to talk about when judging by the letters and the materials, the authors themselves were uncertain about the basis for their conclusions? Their language is specifically chosen to absolve London of the responsibility for ensuring that the information presented to the Security Council is reliable.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“As soon as the JCPOA is fully re-implemented, the Additional Protocol to Iran’s Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement will once again become operational. All responsible States must facilitate the process, not obstruct it. An even more appalling example of supercharging the media space with misinformation is the continuous attempts to accuse Iran of violations of resolution 2231 (2015), annex B, paragraphs 3 and 4. Both Iran and Russia have repeatedly responded to numerous letters with identical content circulated in the Council. No irrefutable evidence has been provided by their authors to substantiate those allegations. All we see are certain “suspicions” and vague “assessments” based on “open-source information”. That is particularly well illustrated by insinuations about so-called “Iranian drones” allegedly being used in Ukraine.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Our Western colleagues continue to speculate on the discovery of highly enriched uranium particles containing up to 83.7 per cent uranium-235 at one of Iran’s facilities, while deliberately omitting the fact that the issue has already been resolved, as reflected in the reports of the Secretary-General, the 2231 Facilitator and the IAEA Director General. We categorically reject such attempts to manipulate objective information and to cast doubt on Iran’s right to explore and develop peaceful uses of the atom under the Agency’s oversight. It is in our interest that relations between Tehran and the IAEA continue to develop smoothly, based on mutual trust. All factual information related to the actual status of the Iranian nuclear programme are transmitted to the international community via the reports of the Agency’s Director General.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“Despite the fact that the draft comprehensive decision of the JCPOA Joint Commission, which was intended to reinvigorate the Plan in a relatively short period of time, was completed long ago and that Tehran officially and as early as in December 2022 declared its readiness to conclude a new restorative agreement based on this draft, the actions of the United States and European JCPOA participants led to an impasse in negotiations under the Vienna platform. Moreover, the same States began to openly sabotage the process in their attempt to create the illusion of Iran’s responsibility for the situation. That has been seen, in particular, in attempts by some of them to cite facts out of context in order to advance their political agenda, which we saw in the distortion of the situation concerning cooperation between Iran and the IAEA.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“I wonder if the representative of the United States, who dedicated his entire statement exclusively to the topic of drones and missiles, has anything to say about the purpose of this meeting. The party responsible for problems with the JCPOA was mute on the subject of JCPOA itself, for example, on whether the United States will return to the deal that it attempted to dismantle in 2018. Apparently, the pathos and fervour of the American representative was intended, inter alia, to draw attention away from the endless stream of weapons supplied by Washington to the Kyiv regime.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“We welcome the mention of the constructive cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, with a focus on the implementation of the March joint statement and the resolution of outstanding issues. We believe more than ever that it is important to recall that almost eight years ago the conclusion of the JCPOA was a real breakthrough in global diplomacy. The political will and pragmatic efforts of the Member States in the process ensured unprecedented transparency vis-à-vis Iran’s nuclear activities and addressed all of the IAEA’s questions concerning Tehran. Unfortunately, one former participant in the process, the United States, attempted to nullify our shared achievement by unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA in 2018. Since then, we have not seen any meaningful steps towards Washington’s return to the deal.”
2023-07-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9367 (2023) · source
“We urge the representatives of the Secretariat to strictly comply with their obligations and refrain from the practice of non-consensual visits and unauthorized investigations, based on the so-called invitations by certain States, in violation of Article 100 of the Charter of the United Nations. We will consider any such non-consensual actions not only as a violation of the Charter, but also as a deliberate provocation aimed at undermining the implementation of Security Council decisions. The Secretary-General is well aware of our position in that regard. At the same time, we are pleased to note that the Secretary-General continues to regard the JCPOA as the best way to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme.”
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“Moreover, it is extremely puzzling that the text of the Secretary-General’s report once again contains references to the alleged investigation of available information by the Secretariat and the intention to provide the Security Council with certain so-called findings regarding so-called violations of resolution 2231 (2015), annex B, paragraphs 3 and 4. We are compelled once again to stress that the 2231 cell lacks the authority to take such actions and that the functions of the Secretariat related to the resolution are of a purely administrative and technical nature. They are clearly set out in the provisions of the note by the President of the Security Council contained in document S/2016/44, of 16 January 2016. My country has already provided the Council with a detailed legal analysis in that regard.”
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