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Nebenzia

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“Thanks to revelations from a whole host of high-ranking politicians at the time, we know today that pumping Ukraine full of weapons and working to prepare it for war with Russia was planned and carried out for all these years, under cover of the Minsk accords, which were backed up by concomitant Security Council resolutions, although neither the Western countries nor Kyiv ever intended to implement such accords. All the while, civilians in Donbas were subjected to mass shelling. Of course, Russia could not remain indifferent. Today, though, Kyiv’s Western patrons are trying to put a new spin on the state of affairs, saying that they only began to arm Ukraine when the special military operation began in order to repel the so-called Russian aggression.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“As we just heard from our briefers — not all of them, of course — threats stemming from Western weapons being supplied to Ukraine are continuing to grow and multiply. It is happening as our former partners from the West continue to make incessant attempts to once again shift all blame for what is going on in Ukraine onto Russia, inconsistencies in the narrative they are promoting are obvious. Western countries are doggedly trying to make the international community forget that the crisis in Ukraine, just like Western arms supplies to Kyiv, began long before the special military operation.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): At the outset, we would like to thank Mrs. Nakamitsu, Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Bowes for their comprehensive briefings. To Mr. Radchenko, I would say the following: let us not be hypocritical with regard to the rules-based international order. The rules-based international order is not the United Nations Charter; it is a set of rules thought up by a small number of countries — primarily Western countries — which are being then portrayed by them as universal. We fail to understand what is happening; whereas Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Bowes spoke to the topic at hand, gave us useful details with regard to weapons supplied to Ukraine and the way they are being financed, Mr. Radchenko gave us a historical lecture, and we do not understand the reason for choosing him as a briefer.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9364 (2023) · source
“In that context, we call on the penholders on the Syrian humanitarian dossier working on the draft resolution to put the true interests of the long-suffering Syrian people living in the territories under the control of the internationally recognized Government of Syria first. They should refrain from getting sucked into the politicization of humanitarian issues and playing to give everything away with the United Nations and the terrorists in Idlib, who since February of this year have established a close and, as far as we can tell, mutually beneficial cooperation with the Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis, Mr. David Carden, who incidentally is a British citizen.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“Against that backdrop, our principled assessments of and approaches to the cross-border mechanism remain unchanged. The mechanism is only nominally humanitarian. In fact, it is increasingly being used to undermine Syria’s sovereignty and deepen territorial divisions in the country, discriminate against Government-controlled territories and fuel illegal armed groups. And with that approach, the question naturally arises: for whose sake are we really going to adopt a new resolution on the cross-border mechanism? Not for the Syrians, apparently, but rather for the terrorists who have taken refuge in Idlib. We believe it is time our Western colleagues changed their own hypocritical approach if we are truly looking to help the people of Syria and Syrian refugees.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“The notions circulated in the Council that abolishing the cross-border resolution would lead donors to withdraw their support for early-recovery efforts in Syria and claiming that it would deprive the United Nations of its mandate for early recovery are unconvincing. That support has barely been enough over the years to cover the basic urgent needs of Syrians, an overwhelming majority of whom live in territories under the control of Government forces. The cross- border mechanism in the current formula is inherently a zero-sum game that brings the Syrian people no benefit whatsoever. Instead, we are increasingly hearing from the United Nations about efforts to strengthen its position in the rebellious north-west independently of its interaction with the official authorities in Damascus.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“In the past six months the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union have not even been eased, let alone lifted, and they continue to stifle the people we are called on to help by extending the cross-border mechanism. The subject of early-recovery projects in the territory under the control of the lawful Syrian authorities is not even worth discussing. Not only are they mere crumbs, but in practice the huge numbers of restrictions on their implementation often make the reconstruction of facilities impossible. It is all smoke and mirrors, an imitation of activity.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“They tell us that knowing full well that there is in fact an alternative, which is sending supplies across the contact line, as provided for in resolution 2762 (2023), among other such decisions. The reality is that that is simply no use to the internationally acknowledged terrorists in Idlib, who would then be deprived of an opportunity to plunder humanitarian aid and enrich themselves to the degree to which they can with the cross-border mechanism. That is why we have had only one very modest such convoy this year, clearly timed to coincide with our meeting today. After that, are we seriously expected to consider the cross-line convoy situation satisfactory?”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“According to data from Ukraine’s national bank, the total amount of financial, military and humanitarian aid it received exceeded $120 billion in 2022 alone. That tells us what Western priorities are. In that difficult and not very encouraging context, we will soon have to decide once again on the future of the cross-border mechanism for humanitarian assistance in Syria. In anticipation of that, the hypocritical Western propaganda machine, with the rust scrubbed off it every six months by our former partners, has been fired up once again. We are once again being told that without the cross-border mechanism, millions of Syrians will starve and freeze and that we have no choice but to once again extend a scheme that violates Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“As soon as the issue is about Syria, Yemen or countries in Africa, our Western colleagues either have no money or allocate it extremely reluctantly and in small portions. However, the United States and its allies have already spent as much on arms for Ukraine as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has requested for humanitarian assistance in 2023 to all in need worldwide, approximately $55 billion, of which, incidentally, OCHA has so far received only 20 per cent. Imagine how many people in the world could be helped if the Western donors truly wanted to. But no, for them it is more important to spend money on weapons, as a result of which they enrich their own arms companies.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“With the severe shortfall in its funding, the World Food Programme will be forced to cut its coverage of those in need by 40 per cent as early as next month. Attempts are being made to convince us that the cross-border mechanism should be extended for 12 months to enable it to plan its operations better, but permit me to ask with what means will the United Nations be planning those operations? Because the appeals we have been hearing today are sheer hypocrisy. There should be no question of any talk in this situation about early-recovery projects. Against that backdrop, the generosity of Western donors regarding the crisis in Ukraine that they themselves provoked is simply duplicitous.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“In the context of the humanitarian problems in Syria, we note the lack of progress in the implementation of resolution 2672 (2023) on the cross-border aid mechanism. Even the devastating earthquake in February has not changed the state of affairs. We are particularly concerned about the dispiriting situation with regard to the financing of United Nations operations in the country. The donors’ attention is focused solely on the areas in the north-west that are not under Damascus’s control. The emergency humanitarian appeal through which the United Nations requested $397 million to assist the areas affected by the earthquake was fully funded in its first few months, which cannot be said for the 2023 humanitarian response plan for Syria, with only 12 per cent of the $5.4 billion required raised by the middle of the year.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“Such actions, which violate the sovereignty of Syria and neighbouring Arab countries, as well as the lack of an appropriate response by the United Nations leadership, are deeply regrettable and warrant condemnation. For our part, we continue to work side by side with the Syrian Arab Army to combat the terrorists entrenched in Idlib. On 25 June, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, together with the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, destroyed the command post of the Al-Fatah Al-Mubin terrorist alliance operating in that governorate under the umbrella of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, weapons and ammunition depots and sites used for equipping unmanned aerial vehicles with explosives and launching them. More than 30 militants were neutralized, including several jihadist leaders.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“To that end, they have wheeled out practical tools like the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, the illegal military presence in the trans-Euphrates and Al-Tanf regions and the plundering of Syrian natural resources, including oil and grain. Lofty statements by Washington and Brussels about easing sanctions and the generosity of Western donors, including in the aftermath of the earthquake, have never been translated into actions. Against that background, the situation on the ground remains tense. The destabilizing factors remain the same — the illegal foreign presence in the north, the north-east and the south of the country, the persistent hotbeds of terrorism, primarily in Idlib, and regular and arbitrary Israeli air strikes on Syrian territory.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“In that regard, we hope that Arab countries will increase their support for the Syrian Arab Republic in rebuilding its infrastructure, with a focus on the humanitarian, commercial and economic areas. Such work is complicated by the illegitimate unilateral sanctions imposed by Western countries on Damascus. As they have been unable to stave off Syria’s return to the Arab family, our American and European colleagues are trying to negotiate unilateral political concessions with Damascus, while they continue to subscribe to anti-Damascus sentiments. We have heard about the plans to adopt an anti-normalization act, which indicates the United States unwillingness to abandon its neocolonial approaches and policy of punishing the Syrian people and leadership in their pursuit of implementing their own independent policy.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“At the meeting, the leading role of the Astana format in promoting a sustainable and long-term solution to the Syrian crisis was once again underscored. In addition, productive quadrilateral consultations were held in Astana among the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Türkiye on the preparation of a road map for restoring relations between Syria and Türkiye. The normalization of Damascus’ relations with Arab countries, including Syria’s long-awaited readmission to the League of Arab States (LAS), has become the focus of international attention. We believe that Syria’s renewed participation in the work of the LAS, of which it is a founding member, will help improve the environment in the Middle East and to overcome the consequences of the Syrian crisis and the catastrophic earthquake of 6 February, as soon as possible.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“At the same time, we believe that is important that he adhere strictly to the mandate set out in the relevant Security Council resolution, which is centred upon on promoting inter-Syrian negotiations, including within the framework of the Constitutional Committee, which is the optimal format for direct inter-Syrian dialogue. We continue to believe that the core decisions on the parameters and venues for future rounds of inter-Syrian consultations should be made by the Syrians themselves, without external interference. We note with satisfaction the outcome of the twentieth international meeting on Syria, held in Astana on 20 and 21 June with our partners — Iran and Türkiye — within the framework of the Astana process.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings on, and assessments of, the political and humanitarian situation in Syria. We are convinced that there is no alternative to advancing the Syrian-led and Syrian-implemented political settlement process in Syria with the assistance of the United Nations, in strict compliance with resolution 2254 (2015) in respect for Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity. That stance and our consistent position in support of the Special Envoy’s mediation efforts were reaffirmed in consultations with Mr. Pedersen in Moscow on 9 June.”
2023-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9363 (2023) · source
“We believe that our initiation of such a discussion could help synchronize the approaches and efforts of the leading Middle Eastern players regarding a settlement in the Middle East, including with respect to overcoming the intra-Palestinian divide and then helping to establish the necessary conditions for resuming a direct Palestinian-Israeli dialogue on a set of final-status issues.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“Its aim is to confirm and give impetus to the implementation of previous international decisions in the area, including the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, the Arab Peace Initiative, the Madrid principles, including land for peace, and a two-State solution, with Palestine and Israel coexisting in peace and security. Russia is committed to the creation of a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Our position is consistent and will not be subject to any opportunistic changes.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“That is largely the result of the unilateral decision by the United States of America and the European Union to freeze the activities of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators. In that context, the initiative put forward by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when he presided over the Council’s debate on the Middle East (see S/PV.9309), whereby a consultative meeting could be held between Russia, the League of Arab States and a group of countries of the region that are actively involved in the issue, remains relevant and significant. We would like to clarify right away that our proposal is not designed to establish new formats or structures.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“It must be acknowledged that the situation will remain volatile as long as the parties fail to reach mutually acceptable agreements on all final-status issues, based on the universally recognized international legal framework for a settlement in the Middle East and a two-State solution, which we have consistently supported. We have recently seen some positive developments in the Middle East region. Against that background, it is regrettable that the issue of a settlement in the Middle East, especially its Palestinian aspect, has continued to be left behind in those processes. For all practical purposes, collective diplomacy regarding a Palestinian- Israeli settlement has come to a standstill.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“In particular, Itamar Ben- Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, once again made a march to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an external meeting at the site of archaeological excavations at the Temple Mount. In the absence of any prospects for a revival of the Middle East peace process, the further deterioration of the situation in the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can only be cause for concern. The recurring violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, in parallel with a weakening of the international legal framework for a settlement as a result of the Israelis’ unilateral actions, is a reminder of the danger of a continued vacuum in the negotiating process.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“In May plans were approved for the construction of more than 600 housing units in settlements in the West Bank, while access for Israelis to the outpost of Homesh, which was evacuated in 2005, was officially opened. This month, the Israeli Government decided to ease the bureaucratic procedures required for the approval of the construction and development of more than 4,500 housing units in the West Bank, which is a violation of international law. The demolition of Palestinian homes is also ongoing, with some 200 people, including 80 children, evicted in May alone, and with more than 30 buildings and a donor-funded school in Bethlehem destroyed. The regular provocations and violations of the status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites are particularly worrisome.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“Since the beginning of the year, we have repeatedly witnessed regular outbreaks of violence both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as along Israel’s perimeter. In the past two months alone, more than 100 people, including a Russian citizen and members of his family, have been victims of such escalations. The most recent raid by the Israel Defense Forces in Jenin on 19 June, in which seven Palestinians were killed, resulted in pogroms and clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, with civilian deaths and injuries on both sides. Against a backdrop of violent activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Israeli authorities’ efforts to expand and legalize Israeli settlements have continued unabated.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), on Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. We listened very carefully to the briefing by Mr. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute. We heard with concern Mr. Wennesland’s assessment regarding the turbulent atmosphere in the West Bank as Israel intensifies its unilateral steps to create irreversible facts on the ground, primarily through illegal settlement building, while continuing to forcibly evict Palestinians, destroy their homes and expropriate their property, alongside the decisions by the Israeli leadership to legalize outposts in the occupied territory.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9361 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation supported the text submitted by the French delegation, resolution 2688 (2023), on the renewal of the sanctions regime imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We would like to reiterate our position. When sanctions fail to respond to the actual situation, impede plans of national Governments in the area of state-building and forming effective armed forces, they must be reviewed and adjusted until they are fully lifted. We are pleased that the Security Council took such a decision in December of last year (see S/PV.9226) when it lifted the notification regime on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We would like to stress again that Russia, on principle, is opposed to implementing sanctions regimes through illegitimate unilateral measures.”
2023-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9360 (2023) · source
“Today, as they did then, German tanks are once again firing on our soldiers in Ukraine, but with one difference, which is that the Nazi regime that has taken hold in Kyiv is backed not just by Germany but by the United States and its NATO allies. What has not changed over the years is their hatred of our country and the desire to inflict a strategic blow on our country, loot our natural resources and enslave our people. But those plans will never come to be, just as they did not come to be 82 years ago. Because just as they did then, the German tanks and other Western equipment are burning on the Ukrainian steppes alongside the unfulfilled hopes of the newly sprung Nazis and their sponsors that they can vanquish the Russian Federation. And just as they did 80 years ago, they will meet with bitter disappointment.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Attempts to drag the so-called group of resolution 2231 (2015) into this misadventure could run the risk of putting in question the commitment of the Secretariat to Article 100 of the Charter. The group is not a sanctions committee or a panel of experts. Its members were not appointed by Member States as experts in specific aspects of disarmament or other areas. We hope that the Secretary-General is wise enough not to be misled by our former Western partners. Yesterday our country marked our Day of Remembrance and Sorrow. On that day 82 years ago, fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Some 27 million residents of the Soviet Union perished in the fight against their fascist aggressors.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“It’s very strange and is, in a way, deliberate misinformation.” That is an example of how Ukrainian propaganda and misinformation work and how Kyiv’s Western sponsors are happy to spread it further. Today we are seeing yet more attempts by the United States and its allies to force the Secretariat to carry out a so-called investigation into the alleged supply of Iranian drones for use in Ukraine. We presented our opinions to the press before today’s meeting. Briefly, both we and the Iranians categorically deny those fabrications. The Kyiv regime has not presented either us or the Iranians, who agreed to bilateral consultations for that purpose, with even a tiny bit of credible evidence.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Furthermore, he said, “It’s very strange that we didn’t hear or see an explosion. There’s obviously some deliberate misinformation being spread here... [While the siren was sounding] people were simply going about their day. As we expected, this mission was not going to be easy, but some of the issues were deeply disturbing while others were outright amusing, like this so-called explosion.” When asked to clarify whether he denied the explosion in Kyiv, Magwenya answered, “From my own experience and that of the people I am travelling with, yes, I am disputing it. We were all perplexed when we were taken back to the hotel and passed streets where people were going about their day as normal.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“However, we will talk about that in detail on Thursday. Today a number of countries, and specifically the United States, Albania and the United Kingdom, alleged that the Russian Federation perpetrated another provocation by conducting a missile strike on Kyiv during the visit of the African delegation that had come there to present a peace plan. The African leaders denied the Kyiv regime’s claims of rocket attacks on Kyiv during their visit. It was yet another scenario staged by the regime. Allow me to quote a Ukrainian news site. “The delegation of South Africa, headed by President Ramaphosa, denies a missile strike by the Russian Federation.” That was announced by the President’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya. He said that he had been taking a video from his hotel in Kyiv “when the so-called explosion occurred”.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“All of that confirms something that we have been warning about for a long time and that Ukrainian citizens know very well, which is that the most significant, if not the only, danger to Ukrainian cities is posed by the Ukrainian air defence systems deployed there in violation of international humanitarian law. When they are not there or are moved outside cities, the only things that are blown up are ammunition storage sites, military barracks and other military facilities, as well as energy infrastructure facilities related to supplying Western weapons to the front. Those strikes will continue as part of one of the goals of the special military operation, which is the demilitarization of Ukraine. They have already left Ukraine almost without weapons of its own, and the Kyiv regime is relying almost exclusively on Western supplies.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“If Council members have been paying attention, one of the Kyiv regime’s’s main complaints to its Western sponsors since Ukraine’s so-called counteroffensive began has been the lack of anti-aircraft and missile systems. Curiously, those complaints have coincided with an almost total halt to the reports of Russian missiles and drone attacks allegedly hitting residential buildings and facilities in Ukrainian cities. The most recent such high-profile episode occurred in Odesa on 14 June when a Ukrainian missile fell on the upper floors of a residential building, causing damage and casualties. Such reports have more or less disappeared from the information space, despite the fact that attacks on military infrastructure in Ukrainian cities are taking place almost daily.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“That is why we are extremely alarmed by the increasingly frequent and paranoid statements of the leaders of the Kyiv regime alleging that Russia has mined the Zaporizhzhya power plant and is preparing to blow it up. Its absurdity would have been clear to the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency led by Director-General Grossi, who recently visited the plant, despite the obstacles created by Ukraine. We would like to think that the Western sponsors of the Kyiv regime will be able to compel reason and prevent a disaster that could affect a large part of Europe. As we have seen many times before, Zelenskyy himself and his clique do not give a damn either about Ukraine or Europe.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“We are ready to continue to help developing countries in need with both grain and fertilizers, but we are not going to pay for commercial supplies of grain from Ukraine to rich Western States under the banner of protecting the interests of those in need. Contrary to the assertions of the Under-Secretary-General, the poorest countries have received less than 3 per cent of all the food shipments. In the face of a failing counter-offensive, the Kyiv regime is resorting to its favourite tactic of trying to attract the attention of the Western community to high- profile crimes or stagings for which the blame is pinned on the Russian Federation. That was the case with Bucha in April 2022, and that is also one of the goals of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“At the same time, it continues to prop up the Black Sea Grain Initiative, despite its clearly commercial rather than humanitarian nature and despite the fact that the Russian side of the agreement was never implemented. And our exploded pipeline has now eliminated any doubts about that. Ms. DiCarlo is quick to make accusations about the Russian Federation, but when it comes to the crimes of Ukraine, the Secretariat displays astounding ignorance. Let me remind the Council that the pipeline was destroyed on Ukrainian territory. Or is she trying yet again to blame us for blowing up our own pipeline?”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“The effectiveness of our efforts was indirectly recognized even in Ukraine, which attempted to use the footage of our operations as its own. While the Russian Federation is doing its utmost to mitigate the suffering of the residents of the affected areas and provide them with everything they need, the Kyiv authorities have continued to shell civilian facilities. On 10 June, Ukrainian forces hit an evacuation point with British Storm Shadow missiles, killing one woman. The United Nations has continued to ignore such egregious crimes by the Kyiv regime while attempting to sweep under the rug the destruction of the Togliatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline, which is key to ensuring the uninterrupted export of Russian fertilizer to the global market that the Secretariat claims to care about so much.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“We have repeatedly offered to consider options for delivering aid from within Russia via established routes that have already been used for supplying Donbas. The United Nations turned down all our proposals, to the advantage of Kyiv and its Western sponsors. Once again, we have to point out these double standards and the blatant politicization of humanitarian tasks. With expressions of concern for the civilian population, a political agenda is being obediently advanced without much remorse. I should note that after Ukraine blew up the Kakhovka dam, a large-scale humanitarian operation was carried out in the Kherson oblast and the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations saved nearly 2,000 people, including hundreds of children. More than 6,000 people were evacuated from 36 flooded towns.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“The United Nations leadership is not considering and never has considered any alternatives for delivering aid to the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics and the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions other than from Kyiv and across the contact line. The main reason for that rigid position is not humanitarian but strictly political. The goal is not to help people who are suffering, but to show that the Kyiv regime allegedly retains control over those territories. For its part, Russia has consistently drawn the attention of United Nations representatives to the lack of essential security conditions against a backdrop of active combat, high risks of sabotage and provocations and mine contamination, which for all practical purposes makes cross-line access impossible.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“I am obliged to clarify the issue in that regard and to remind the Council of some points that the United Nations has either clearly distorted or failed to mention. Since February 2022, Russia has actively advocated the continuation of international humanitarian assistance through the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to the civilian population in Donbas, who for several years have been forced by the Kyiv regime to live under fire and in totally isolated conditions. Moscow organized regular cooperation with humanitarian workers and invited colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. However, in practice the lofty rhetoric of United Nations officials about their desire to help the people in need has led to no concrete efforts or results.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“All those facts and the evidence are detailed in our letter, which has been circulated as an official document of the Security Council and the General Assembly. In that context, we should not fail to note our disappointment with the way our international organization has acted, and continues to act. We warned the Secretary-General about the Kyiv regime’s plot regarding the Kakhovka dam as early as in our letter dated 21 October last year. Nothing was done. So where was the much-praised famous United Nations prevention? Where were the essential preventive efforts with Ukraine? Instead, United Nations officials are complaining about a lack of humanitarian access to Russian territories that suffered after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Ecosystems have been unrecognizably altered, and that will have a direct impact on the way of life of the people in the regions and do irrevocable damage to the environment, including in the Black Sea. It is clear that those in Kyiv who are responsible for that terrorist attack, being fixated on their famous counteroffensive, are in no way concerned about the interests of their people or the future of their country. In the time that has passed since this tragedy occurred, ever more clear evidence has been emerging that proves not just the Zelenskyy regime’s responsibility for the crime but its Western sponsors’ as well. As we are all perfectly aware, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can fire the HIMARS weapons systems that were used to destroy the dam only once Washington approves the target.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“That is why they will not allow the puppet regime in Kyiv to say a word about peace — at least, not until every Ukrainian is dead — just as they would not allow it in March of last year, something that our President discussed in detail at his meeting with African leaders. We will talk more next Thursday about our former Western partners’ criminal policies in Ukraine, a subject that is definitely worth a separate meeting. Turning to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, we should point out the catastrophic consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant dam, which will continue to be felt for a very long time both in Ukraine and Russia.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Of course, they succeeded only in proving the opposite, something that Zelenskyy and his clique are now trying to forget. They have a rather more serious task now, which is how to turn a total fiasco and a debacle into a victory — the word in Ukrainian is peremoga. Washington, London and Brussels have joined forces with them to do that, although they have never given any thought either to Ukraine itself or to its interests. Given everything that has happened, it is now even more obvious that they are interested in Ukraine only as a tool to weaken or at least restrain Russia.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Today’s meeting is taking place against a remarkable backdrop. For nearly a month now, goaded by its Western sponsors, to whom Ukraine has to account for the effectiveness of its efforts in using the weapons and ammunition they supply it with, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting a suicidal counter- offensive on Russian positions. It has already cost them tens of thousands of mobilized personnel and several hundred armoured vehicles, while Ukrainian society has dubbed it the “Zaporizhzhya meat-grinder”, by analogy to the Bakhmut meat-grinder to which the Kyiv regime sent Ukrainian soldiers to certain death for several months merely to prove to Western arms suppliers that Ukraine could defeat Russia.”
2023-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9357 (2023) · source
“We are interested in developing pragmatic relations with Kabul, including with a view to restoring the infrastructure of the enterprises that we have built in the country.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“We note the potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization-Afghanistan Contact Group in that regard. Also, we regularly coordinate our positions on the matter within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Commonwealth of Independent States. We participated in the meeting organized by the Secretary-General with the Special Envoys on Afghanistan in Doha on 1 and 2 May. In our bilateral contacts with the de facto authorities we are encouraging them to expedite the implementation of all the objectives that have been announced to the world and to deliver on the corresponding promises. We continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and to develop cooperation along the socioeconomic track.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“We also continue to monitor developments concerning the rights of all Afghans, including women and girls, and the formation of a truly inclusive Government with the participation of all ethnic and political groups in the country. Building a long-term and sustainable peace in Afghanistan is impossible without continued patient and pragmatic engagement with the new authorities on a wide range of pressing issues. The effectiveness of UNAMA’s work depends on a comprehensive approach. Russia has consistently advocated for increasing cooperation with Afghanistan towards achieving a comprehensive settlement. We are working with our regional partners to develop a common approach to the situation in the country, and the Moscow format also serves that goal.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source
“However, the United States Institute of Peace has published an article with the telling title “The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban Is Bad for Afghans and the World”. How do you like that? We are maintaining our focus on the socioeconomic situation in the country. We note the efforts by the United Nations and regional organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, especially the selfless work of the humanitarian agencies and their staff, who are ready to remain on the ground and help Afghans in any circumstances. At the same time, we see that those efforts are not enough. Western donors continue to block United Nations efforts to extend aid beyond the most basic needs with their total refusal to support development and the reconstruction of schools, hospitals, and roads between provinces and cities and rural areas.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9354 (2023) · source