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Nebenzia

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first: 2017-08-02
most recent: 2023-12-30
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“All we need to do is just trust them, they say, and take the words of the representatives of the Kyiv regime at face value. Before concluding, I would like to warn in advance that I will not listen to yet another serving of the representative of the Ukrainian regime’s spiteful tirades in the Security Council and therefore provide him with the very strange and perverse pleasure that he gets from them. All those who are familiar with his recent boorish insults against Russian diplomats on social media will know what I am referring to in this regard. Regrettably, such outbursts reflect the current state of Ukrainian diplomacy and show Kyiv’s inability and lack of readiness for any kind of dialogue, much less for a civilized one.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Their silence is the best proof that, despite their hypocritical statements, none of the Westeren countries are worried about the fate of civilians in Ukraine. They prefer to provide cover for this criminal regime, which counts among its ranks nationalist radicals and open Nazis. They help them with their provocations and join them in spreading lies about Russia and Russian armed forces. Incidentally, once again, I would like to recall that, despite all of our reminders, we have still not received a list of the names of the victims of the Ukrainian provocation in Bucha in April. That confirms that the Kyiv authorities have no evidence to back up their allegations. Our Western colleagues are trying to pretend that there is nothing that needs to be proved.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“On 9 October, a member of the Azov unit, Maxim Zhorin, appeared in a video published on social media to explain what had happened. The footage shows the bodies of executed civilians being thrown into a ditch. Zhorin said that these were citizens of Kupyansk, in Kharkiv oblast, adding that “there will be retribution”. The metadata of the video show that it was recorded slightly more than a half hour before it was published. The bodies are wearing warm clothing, which is consistent with October weather in the region. It should be recalled that Russian forces have been absent from Kupyansk since the beginning of September, which shows that these people were executed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, as part of their cleansing of the city. Have we heard one word of condemnation from Western delegations about this?”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Yesterday, on 20 October, Ukrainian armed forces shelled a ferry that was being used to evacuate civilians who were seeking to save themselves from shells and provocation, resulting in many wounded and killed, including journalists and children. On 4 October, 38 soldiers from the from the 8th company of the 3rd regiment of the 25th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces published an appeal in which they reported that they had received a criminal order to massacre civilians in Kharkiv oblast. The Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior recently made a statement announcing that they would start searching for “enemies of Ukraine”. Since then, they have detained up to 40 so-called potential collaborators per day in Kharkiv oblast, who are later interrogated by special services.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Another attempt to destroy the Antonovka bridge was undertaken by Ukrainian armed forces on 19 October, but Russian air-defence systems managed to protect it. Once again, American HIMARS systems were used for these attacks, and Ukrainian fighters had previously used HIMARS to attack a detention facility in Olenivka where prisoners from the Azov Battalion were held. Another horrendous illustration of how the Kyiv authorities treat peaceful people is their executions of their own nationals who had decided to opt for Russia. On 29 September, Ukrainian armed forces shot at an automobile convoy near Kupyansk that was leaving Ukraine for Russia. Approximately 30 people died. Furthermore, on 30 September, refugees who were leaving for the liberated territories in Zaporizhzhya were hit. Some 30 people died, and 88 people were injured.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Kyiv does not appear concerned whether there will be a high number of civilian victims in case the nuclear plant is seriously damaged or what could happen if there is a full-fledged man-made accident with the release of radioactive materials. The Kyiv authorities are prepared to accept any human victims so that NATO can continue its proxy war with Russia and continue supplying Ukraine with armaments. We continuously inform the Security Council and the United Nations leadership of these outrageous incidents but have not yet heard anything intelligible by way of reaction from them. Ukrainian fighters managed to seriously damage the Kakhovka and Antonovka bridges across the Dnieper, which were used by the citizens of Kherson to receive food, medicines and so on.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“For five months, the Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling the town of Nova Kakhovka, in Kherson oblast, with up to 120 missile strikes per day, most of them with American HIMARS, and the Ukrainians are specifically targeting the Kakhovka Dam in order to bring about a breach that will result in a water-level rise that would cause flooding of the adjacent territories and might kill thousands of civilians and damage thousands of buildings. We have circulated a letter today in the Security Council calling upon the United Nations leadership to prevent this horrendous provocation from happening. Reckless attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces against the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant continue, which creates a danger to nuclear safety.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Since the beginning of October, through indiscriminate artillery shelling using American HARM missiles, more than 30 peaceful townships in Belgorod were shelled, as was the city of Belgorod itself. All the while, Kyiv, encouraged by its Western patrons, has openly bragged about these attacks. Is it really possible that Kyiv and those who are backing it think that we will put up with this? With the permission of its Western backers to commit any crime, the Zelenskyy regime is constantly striking civilian infrastructure on its own former territories.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“I would like to recall that in this region, as well as in Donetsk, Ukrainian armed forces had previously actively and indiscriminately used remote mine systems, including anti-personnel “petal” mines, against civilians. On 16 October, residential buildings in Nikolskoye were shelled. At the international airport in Belgorod, two civilians were injured. On 18 October, the Ukrainian military once again shelled the village of Belaya Beryozka, in Bryansk oblast. On the same day, Ukrainian forces attacked six towns in the Kursk oblast. One woman was hurt, and a number of residential buildings and electricity supply lines were damaged. Previously, Ukrainian saboteurs had tried on several occasions to sabotage the Kursk nuclear power plant.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“On 10 October, Belgorod oblast was shelled by more than a hundred missiles, including the infamous Tochka-U with a cluster warhead. A woman died, and four residential buildings were damaged. In the village of Tyotkino in Kursk, which has been subject to shelling since the spring despite the fact that there are no military objects there, two people were injured. On 13 October, the Ukrainians shelled a large residential building in Belgorod. The village of Krasnoye was shelled, as were a customs post near Shebekino and other civilian objects. Just now, on the eve of today’s meeting, the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed industrial plants in Belgorod oblast.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“According to the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, from February to October, Ukrainian shelling using heavy weaponry resulted in damage to more than 10,000 buildings and more than 2,000 civilian-infrastructure objects, including 424 educational facilities and 109 medical facilities. American HIMARS were actively used in this shelling. The French CAESARs also showed how powerful they are when they were used to attack residential buildings, schools and other civilian objects. As a result of French armaments supplies to Donetsk since June, no less than five people died. Ten more were injured, and 64 buildings were destroyed. Ukrainian armed forces have been striking Russian territory as well as targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“The United States and the European Union have precisely chosen those systems that have to date demonstrated the greatest lethality against the populations of Donbas and the liberated territories. The United States will provide Kyiv with another batch of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System multiple rocket launchers and M31 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System high-precision missiles, as well as AGM-88 high-speed anti-radiation missiles. From Paris, Kyiv will receive more CAESAR 155-millimetre self-propelled artillery systems. Germany also announced deliveries to Kyiv of 155-millimetre calibre ammunition. The leadership of those countries explain to their populations that such weapons are supposed to help the Zelenskyy regime in protecting Ukraine, but let us examine what they are actually being used for.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“We expect a definitive confirmation from the Secretariat that it does not intend to follow the instructions of Western countries in violation of the Charter and will not conduct any such investigation. However, if United Nations experts do engage in some kind of pseudo-investigation, baselessly referring to the provisions of resolution 2231 (2015) in order to pander to Western capitals, we will reconsider the entire package of our relations with the Secretariat, whose impartiality in that case will no longer be deemed legitimate. Today’s show in the Security Council is also a kind of smokescreen for the Kyiv regime and its backers. The West diligently portrays the Kyiv regime as an innocent victim of Russian aggression that needs constant military assistance. Last week, additional deliveries of military goods to Kyiv were announced.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“We reject any attempts to involve the Secretariat in that unscrupulous undertaking, including through the note verbale by Germany, France and the United Kingdom circulated in the Security Council today. The note makes a de facto appeal to the Secretariat to violate Article 100 of the Charter of the United Nations and the mandate conferred upon it in presidential note S/2016/44, of 16 January 2016. The United States went even further and, in its own letter, demanded that the Secretariat conduct an investigation into the matter, which it does have the authority to do. That is an egregious situation. We also presented our legal assessments in a response letter that was disseminated prior to today’s meeting.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Of course, that did not sit well with the West and caused real hysteria among our Western colleagues, which we are witnessing in all its glory at today’s meeting. Of course, as has been the case previously, they do not want to face the facts and admit that civilian objects were damaged only in instances in which drones were shot by Ukrainian territorial defence units, and therefore had to be diverted from their original course, or in which civilian objects were hit by Ukrainian air defence missiles that failed to intercept their targets. There are plenty of such cases recorded, including in video footage that anyone can access on the Internet. Ukraine and its Western backers are now trying to spin more fake news about alleged deliveries of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia in violation of resolution 2231 (2015).”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Dmytro Kuleba, confirmed in a video circulated online that Kyiv was indeed behind the attacks on the Crimean bridge and Belgorod oblast. Here are his words, which have become available to millions of Internet users: “Well, if you were to ask me who is blowing things up in Crimea and Belgorod, then speaking privately ... I would tell you yes, that was us”. We are well aware of what the Kyiv regime is capable of, based on the eight years of bitter experience of the people of Donbas, and so it was decided to dampen the militant fervour of the brazen Kyiv terrorists. Russian- made high-precision missile strikes and unmanned aerial vehicles hit a large number of military targets, as well as infrastructure facilities, in order to undermine the military capabilities and potential of Zelenskyy’s anti-people regime.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Four people died and the road, through which the peninsula’s population is supplied with food, medicines and other vital goods, was partially destroyed. Ukrainian officials, including the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mr. Mykhailo Fedorov, and the Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Anton Gerashchenko, openly relished that crime. Ecstatic announcements about the attack were also published on the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence’s official Twitter account. Although Kyiv, most likely after being reined in by its Western masters, quickly attempted to follow its usual modus operandi of shifting the blame to Russia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Over the past two months, the Ukrainian regime and its Western patrons — apparently in a state of euphoria thanks to some tactical advances by Ukrainian troops in a number of areas, achieved at the cost of astronomical losses in manpower and equipment — have been propelling in every possible way the idea that Russia has allegedly exhausted its material and human resources and is about to start losing on the battlefield. Meanwhile, so-called Ukrainian strategists, under the supervision of their Western puppeteers, have long been using terrorist sabotage methods on Russian territory. While there are many examples, the culmination of those efforts was the terrorist attack committed by Ukrainian special forces against the Crimean bridge on 8 October.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“There was no reaction by the Secretariat to the horrific terrorist attacks by Kyiv against civilian infrastructure such as the Crimean bridge or the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. Our Western colleagues justified the convening of today’s meeting based on the intensification of strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure and civilian facilities from the Russian side. Let us examine what is actually happening on the ground.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“We note the briefings given by the Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Ms. Denise Brown. We note that the Secretariat has finally decided to concern itself with the issue of the destruction of civilian infrastructure. Unfortunately, the picture has once again been only half painted: we have not heard a word about the destruction that Kyiv has inflicted for more than eight years on Donbas or about the civilian victims of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): At the outset, I would like to express my bewilderment. We do not entirely understand the value added — other than extending the length of today’s meeting — by including the delegations of Germany, Greece, Poland and Slovakia on the list of speakers. Today’s meeting is not a debate but a briefing, while the position of those countries is already well known to us and, in any case, could be summarized by the European Union. We perceive this only as a desire on the part of those representatives to make an appearance on national television, and nothing more than that. In future, we would ask you, Sir, to be more circumspect when compiling the list of speakers for our meetings on this topic.”
2022-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9161 (2022) · source
“We advocate attaining a viable, mutually acceptable solution between Belgrade and Pristina, based on resolution 1244 (1999), in accordance with international law and endorsed by the Security Council.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“Furthermore, the Kosovo authorities made a number of decisions aimed at basically forcing the personnel of the Pristina office of the Russian Embassy in Serbia, as well as our staff in UNMIK and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo, to leave the province. We have informed the Secretary- General and Special Representative Ziadeh about that outrageous overreach, and we expect the actions by the Kosovo authorities to be revised. We call upon UNMIK not to ignore those outrageous cases of arbitrary conduct and to inform the Council about such acts on a regular basis in their reports. The absence of appropriate reactions by the Secretariat creates a feeling of permissiveness with the de facto authorities. In conclusion, let me underscore that the Russian position on Kosovo remains unchanged.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“We fully support the Mission, as it is the most important guarantor of security in the province. We also understand how difficult the circumstances in which it must operate are. At the same time, we expect UNMIK to make realistic rather than neutral rosy assessments of the situation in the province. In May 2019, Kosovo Albanian police used force against a Russian staff member of UNMIK, Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, who was severely beaten, and two other members of the Mission. The perpetrators of that crime have not been punished. And that took place in the province which boasts about its commitment to the rule of law. A serious violation of international legal norms took place on the 31 December 2021, when a UNMIK staff member, Mr. Antonov, was declared persona non grata.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“Western countries act as though resolution 1244 (1999) does not exist. They continue to cook up so- called “alternative options” for a settlement that favours Pristina. A glaring example of that legal nihilism was a French-German project presented in September. It was designed to force Belgrade to agree with Kosovo’s statehood. And that is not the only such example recently. Washington and Brussels are concentrating their efforts on making Serbs yield their national interests, sovereignty and territorial integrity. They are resorting to threats, blackmail and ultimatums. There are several other points to which we would like to draw attention. On the basis of resolution 1244 (1999), there is a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo — the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“And that is a glaring example that the status-neutral position of Brussels has been revised. At the same time, and in violation of resolution 1244 (1999), the Kosovo army is being created. We are also witnessing the deep involvement of major NATO players in that endeavour, and London is at the forefront, as it is training the personnel. Pristina continues to demand military assistance from the West. It is trying to obtain yet another American base there, electronic warfare complexes and artillery with a range of more than 10 kilometres. Kosovo’s military budget has reached a record level and exceeds €100 million this year, which shows that Prime Minister Kurti’s intentions are far from peaceful. There is also an aspiration to involve Albania. In August, it was proposed that Albania sign a mutual defence treaty.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“However, Pristina refused to implement the agreement, alleging that the Serbs were the most protected national minority in Europe. In reality, no one ever even tried to compel the Kosovo authorities to implement the agreement, including the European Union, which acted as mediator. At present we can state that those mediation attempts totally failed. The long-standing inability of Brussels to compel Pristina to, if not implement the agreements, then at least to show that they are minimally capable of negotiations doomed the contacts to failure. At the United States’ bidding, the official narrative of the European Union now has the infamous idea of mutual recognition. That is being promoted not only by the leading European politicians but is also reflected in yet another resolution passed by the European Parliament on Kosovo.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“For years, there have been violations of the property rights of the land adjacent to the Visoki Dečani monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The pace of return of non-Albanian refugees to the province has remained unsatisfactory, as reflected in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2022/739). The local authorities do nothing to protect them. On the contrary, the atmosphere of hatred towards Serbs is being encouraged. Under the pretext of providing security, Kosovo police bases are being built in the north, often on Serbian-owned private territory. Already in 2013, in the framework of the negotiations under the aegis of Brussels, an agreement was made to establish a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo. That was not ideal, but nonetheless could ensure, in an acceptable way, the rights of Serbs living in Kosovo.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“Since the beginning of 2022, more than 100 cases of attacks against Serbs and their property, cemeteries and holy sites have been registered in Kosovo. That is almost double the number from the year before. There is provocative and unjustified patrolling of Kosovo’s water reservoir in Gazivode, an area adjacent to central Serbia. The use by Serbs of neutral vehicle licence plates has been banned, under the threat of confiscation of the vehicles. At the end of July, Pristina’s decision brought the situation close to a boiling point and almost led to bloodshed. The next dangerous milestone will be on 31 October, which is the deadline for replacing license plates. The problems associated with returning Serbian real estate to its rightful owners are still unresolved.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“In the course of a period of more than 20 years, the number of Serbs south of the Ibar River has drastically decreased, leaving only small enclaves of Serbians who cannot stand up for their rights. For example, there were about 40,000 Serbs living in Pristina before the conflict. Today there are barely 100. The only region where Serbs are still in the majority is northern Kosovo, but the Pristina authorities, headed by Albin Kurti, are trying to take their oppression of Serbs to a new level. Everything suggests that creating intolerable living conditions for the indigenous Serb population seems to be job number 1. Acts of intimidation continue in Serb- populated areas and the threshold for the use of force against the people living there is getting lower.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“But while we thank her for her flattering remarks, I would now like to correct her erroneous views and provide the Council with a real assessment of the situation in Kosovo rather than a rosy one. Kosovo remains the main hotbed of tension in the Balkans, undermining efforts to maintain peace and stability in the region. The security situation in the province is also steadily deteriorating and requires close attention from the international community and the Security Council. The process of systematic violations of the rights of the Serbian population began in 1999, and what amounts to a creeping process of ethnic cleansing has been going on ever since.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing on the situation in the province. We welcome the participation of Mr. Nikola Selaković, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and we listened to the opinions of Ms. Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz. We would advise Ms. Gërvalla-Schwarz to refrain from philosophizing and attempts at cultural and geopolitical analysis. To be frank, her efforts today were not very successful. She would have done better to concentrate on the situation in Kosovo rather than distracting the Council with her deep musings on the international situation and Serbia’s foreign policy, which like everything else all over the world is apparently being run from and by Moscow.”
2022-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9155 (2022) · source
“Joint work on the flagship initiative of the African Union to end all armed conflicts on the continent by 2030 is included in the 2023-2025 draft action plan for cooperation between the Russian Federation and the African Union, which we expect to adopt at the second Russian-African summit scheduled for next summer in St. Petersburg.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“As far as funding methods are concerned, regardless of which of them are appropriate to the situation, it is important that initiating countries be able to retain the space to make their own policy decisions to counter threats rather than having them imposed by others. Finally, we believe that the growing terrorist threat in Africa requires special attention. We are ready and willing to share our experience in counter-terrorism with our African partners and to implement projects for building the capacity of their countries in the fight against terrorist and extremist threats. In conclusion, we want to reiterate Russia’s readiness to continue cooperating with its African partners on an equal footing, focusing on strengthening their potential. We also continue to devote considerable attention to training personnel on the continent.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“Secondly, we consider it reasonable for African States to raise the question of the provision by the United Nations of material and financial assistance for their efforts to maintain international peace and security. We look forward to an agreement on a common African position on modalities for financing African peacekeeping operations and the use of African Union Peace Fund resources for that purpose. We are ready to engage in constructive dialogue on the issue. In that connection, we would like to specifically emphasize that the key to the success of regional efforts is a shared assessment by the countries of the region of existing threats and ways to overcome them, as well as their willingness to bear the risks involved and to create a coherent and effective command-and-control system.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“First of all, a swift response is needed to the widespread practice on the continent, in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, of illegal unilateral sanctions and political blackmail, including threats to stop the provision of humanitarian and socioeconomic assistance with the collusion of the Bretton Woods institutions. The cynicism of such actions is obvious. The restrictions hit the civilian population hardest, obstructing their access to essential goods, including medicines, vaccines and food. The situation is compounded by the lack of political freedom in a number of African States with regard to fundamental national issues, including in the security sector. It is time to pay particular attention to that problem.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“Yet despite all of those achievements, the situation on the African continent today remains problematic. Security challenges and socioeconomic problems have escalated, spreading instability and expanded terrorist activity. There are still many difficulties in the area of governance. We urge our friends to examine those challenges in depth, evaluate all their factors and causes, including in a historical context, and take into account the ethnic and cultural characteristics of individual States. It is futile to attempt to manage the symptoms of a disease when the problems created by its underlying causes, many of them rooted in Africa’s colonial past, have not been dealt with.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“It is also important for the African Union to take advantage of the current state of global affairs to develop its own partnership and cooperation mechanisms independent of any external forces and without pressure, coercion or blackmail. The dialogue between the African Union and the United Nations has also been the subject of some steady dynamics. What matters is that that cooperation has a strategic nature today. Joint work is being conducted on the basis of the framework documents for strengthening partnerships for issues of peace and security, as well as the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the AU’s Agenda 2063. Joint meetings are held annually through the Security Council and the Peace and Security Council, the next series of which will take place in New York this week.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“Unfortunately, there have been numerous occasions when African mediation efforts have been relegated to the background or intentionally thwarted by external actors. One clear example was the blocking of African Union mediation in Libya and Western countries’ subsequent use of force there, leading to a tragedy whose consequences are still being very much felt far beyond that country’s borders. In that regard, we welcome the appointment, 10 years later, of an African Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily. The road map adopted for the implementation of the African Union’s flagship initiative to end armed conflicts in Africa, which has been extended until 2030, is a major undertaking.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“In the past 20 years, since its transition from the Organization of African Unity, the African Union has indeed come a long way in terms of building a regional peace and security architecture. Today Africans have locally tailored conflict-prevention and conflict- resolution mechanisms on the continent that coherently complement the efforts of the world Organization within its area of responsibility and mandate. That enhances the influence of African voices in both the Security Council and the United Nations as a whole. We very much appreciate the work of the three African members of the Security Council in defending the interests of their neighbours on the continent. We particularly want to note the importance of efforts by the African Union and subregional organizations to prevent disputes and mediate their resolution.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“The African Union, subregional organizations in Africa, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and other regional bodies have been much more assertive. That is a response to today’s geopolitical realities and challenges, and it is a genuine sign of strengthening multilateralism. It is a move in the right direction because, first, the countries of the region are the main beneficiaries of peaceful solutions and, secondly, they are more aware of the specifics of the current contexts. However, it is clear that the activities of regional bodies must be consistent with the purposes and principles of the Charter and that peaceful means must be given priority in the settlement of disputes.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Gabon for organizing today’s debate, and we welcome your participation, Mr. Minister, in today’s meeting. We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing. We welcome the briefing by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Faki Mahamat. United Nations cooperation with regional and subregional organizations is an integral element of the current international agenda in general and the Security Council in particular. We consistently support the development of such cooperation on the basis of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular Chapter VIII. We see that, in recent years, there has been increasing will and greater opportunities to seek regional solutions to emerging problems.”
2022-10-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9149 (2022) · source
“In the beginning, a company with an obscure past was designated for that purpose; then, when the situation seemed scandalous, even to Washington’s allies, the American side returned to stealing Syria’s natural resources through other means — its military.”
2022-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9147 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, we would like to express our regret that, in its anti-Russian rage, the representative of the United States has gone so far as to put the issue of assistance to African partners through Russian companies at the centre of his country’s statement. That reveals their real plans and objectives in terms of what they truly need from African countries. The words of the representative of the United States concerning “client” States are surprising. Clearly, that is the language and the category that only the United States uses. We do not use such terminology. For us, African countries are not clients, but partners. Besides, let us recall that, in Syria, under the guise of counter- terrorism, the United States is stealing Syrian oil.”
2022-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9147 (2022) · source
“The arms embargo prevents the Sudanese authorities from adequately training and forming its military contingent to ensure peace and security in Darfur and resolve the issue of its porous borders. In Somalia, the Federal Government has been asking for years for the heavy weaponry needed to effectively fight Al-Shabaab, which, at the same time, has been expanding its own supply chains and profiting from smuggling charcoal. In order to facilitate the training of joint armed forces and State security structures, we believe that considering the possibility of relaxing the sanctions regime imposed on South Sudan is justifiable. Illegally exploiting and smuggling minerals and timber is an acute problem in that country, including in the Equatoria states.”
2022-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9147 (2022) · source
“We cannot ignore the imbalance in the sanctions regimes imposed on a number of African States, which do not correspond to the actual situation, interfere with the State-building plans of national Governments and prevent them from effectively establishing control over their territory. At the same time, the same sanctions and arms embargoes are unable to curb the process of arming illegal armed and terrorist groups, which only continue to strengthen their positions, including with the proceeds from the exploitation of natural resources. As a result, non-State entities are often better armed than Government troops, as was the case in the Central African Republic.”
2022-10-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9147 (2022) · source
“That is unfortunately the situation in the Central African Republic. The illegal trafficking in natural resources financing terrorists and illegal armed groups has another equally important side. Who is buying those resources? After all, it is common knowledge that illicit trafficking in natural resources is a long-established way of financing terrorism. Who provides the illegal armed groups with the funds, weapons and explosives to carry out terrorist acts and attacks? We regularly draw attention to the violations of the arms embargoes against terrorist organizations in various regions of the world, including the African continent. We are convinced that the problem of the provision of military goods to terrorists cannot be silenced. It is important to monitor the channels that sustain terrorists and take measures to cut them off.”
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“We consider the Kimberley Process as an important international mechanism in preventing illegal armed groups from profiting from the illegal trade in natural resources in Africa. Russia is a responsible member of that multilateral format, and its work is aimed at preventing the fuelling of conflicts through the proceeds of illegal mining and trade in rough diamonds. Russia’s 2021 chairmanship of the Kimberly Process made a significant contribution to the substantive implementation of the Process’ current goals. At the same time, we believe that attempts to politicize the activities of the Kimberly Process are counterproductive. Its mechanisms should help gain effective control over resources, not lead to their misuse by which the authorities are limited in exporting diamonds and armed groups profit from their sale.”
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“Another important step in this respect involves the comprehensive criminalization of participation in organized criminal groups, as provided for by the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, while also establishing severe penalties for such participation. We advocate the provision of comprehensive assistance in strengthening relevant national mechanisms through the United Nations. At the same time, we believe that such assistance should be provided at the request of the States concerned, while fully taking into account their national priorities and specific needs. A one-size-fits-all approach to providing assistance is unacceptable and creates more problems than it resolves. We note the readiness of the African Union and regional organizations to provide the needed assistance.”
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“We consider it fundamentally important to ensure that the leading role in that process is played by Africans themselves. We welcome the approach taken by States facing challenges in that regard to collectively resolve issues, including the issue of combatting illegal armed groups, ensuring border control, supporting small domestic mining businesses and compiling joint registries. Resolution 2482 (2019) is aimed at countering the nexus between terrorism and organized crime. Implementing the goals of the resolution will require a package of measures aimed at, inter alia, strengthening cooperation between national judicial and law enforcement agencies. It is also important to improve the system of international treaties on extradition and legal assistance in criminal cases.”
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