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Nebenzia

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first: 2017-08-02
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“They have noticeably intensified their destructive policy in the Asia-Pacific region recently with attempts to impose a bloc mindset on its States, form aggressive military-political alliances such as AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, drive a wedge between countries that have their own effective mechanisms for resolving contentious issues and problems and force them to abandon the concept of Asian neutrality that helped them to protect their own interests during the Cold War. The reckless American scheme regarding Taiwan is part of the same deal. In our view, this carefully planned provocation is an open demonstration of disrespect for the sovereignty of other countries and the United States’ own international obligations.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“In recent weeks Ukraine’s Western patrons have essentially been assisting Kyiv in its attempts at nuclear blackmail, while ignoring the fact that it is the Ukrainian forces that have been firing on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. At the Security Council meeting convened by the Russian Federation last week on the topic (see S/PV.9109), not a single Western delegation found the resolve to call a spade a spade and urge Kyiv to stop the dangerous actions that could lead to a nuclear catastrophe on the European continent. We have requested another emergency meeting on the Ukrainian armed forces’ continuing provocations regarding the Zaporizhzhya plant. The United States and its allies have been acting in exactly the same reckless and provocative manner in Asia and Africa.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Today the United States and its allies are pumping heavy weapons into Kyiv and doing everything they can to prolong the conflict in Ukraine — a conflict that began in 2014 when the Maidan regime bombed and shelled the inhabitants of the south-eastern regions of the country, ensuring that the Ukrainian people were destined to be mere cannon fodder. And yet in the face of their own declared values, the Western countries have cynically turned a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, the mass murder of Donbas residents and violations of international humanitarian law by the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“But collective security is incompatible with coercion and hegemony and the desire to undermine any alternative sovereign paths of development and to keep countries and peoples in the grip of a colonial order. That involves any means available — crude interference in States’ internal affairs, coups d’état, threats, blackmail, economic coercion and incitement to conflict. In the past few years we have also seen dirty information campaigns, based on lies and a presumption of one’s own innocence. In this context, truth and facts have no part to play, since leading Western media and public relations agencies are working to tarnish their opponents. As with Georgia in its time, Ukraine has been sacrificed to the confrontation with Russia, in which the West has set up an anti-popular, anti-constitutional and Russophobic regime in the country.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“They simply refused to discuss them on their merits, and for the umpteenth time in history chose escalation over a diplomatic settlement. The result is that a crisis has broken out in the European region — one with a global reach and that we can say without exaggeration will have historic consequences. In our view, the reason why the West has been collectively and purposely destroying the system of European security for all these years is that the proven system of checks and balances — the balance of interests — has ceased to respond to the West’s aspirations to hegemony. What has emerged is the temptation to bend the whole world to its dictates and force it to live and work according to Western countries’ models.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Our proposals were based on the principle of common and indivisible security, which assumes that States should not strengthen their own security at the expense of others. That is a fundamental principle of civilized international relations. It is reflected in several foundational documents of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including the Istanbul Charter for European Security of 1999, it was reaffirmed in the Astana Commemorative Declaration of the 2010 OSCE Summit and it underlies the agreements between Russia and NATO. But our American colleagues did not want to reaffirm the principle, insisting on the sanctity of the NATO open-door policy. As a result, all of our proposals for security assurances were rejected by the United States and NATO.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“In December of last year we made a last attempt to save the European security system from its death agonies under the Western countries’ blows. Russia submitted a set of proposals to the United States and NATO on confidence-building and security measures in the Euro-Atlantic region. We made a proposal to the United States to conclude an agreement on legally binding mutual security assurances that would take into account the concerns of both sides in this area and restore Russia-NATO relations to their 1997 state, when the Russian-NATO Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security was signed. A similar proposal was made to NATO. They are public documents that anyone can access.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“But the United States and its allies in NATO, which by the mid-2000s was expanding at full speed, refused to ratify the agreement, while the NATO newbies of the 2000s — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Albania and Croatia — refused to accede to the CFE on principle, all of which stripped the Treaty of any political or military meaning. In 2020, the United States essentially signed the death warrant of yet another cornerstone confidence-building agreement in the Euro-Atlantic region by withdrawing unilaterally from the Open Skies Treaty. I want to stress that the dismantling each of those arms-control instruments was the result of deliberate actions by the United States, which has essentially brought down the existing architecture in this area, brick by brick.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“But our moratorium proposal was rejected by the United States and its NATO allies. In that context, it is telling that the United States is still refusing to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Concerning the Euro-Atlantic space itself, for years we have been doing everything in our power to maintain the viability of the conventional arms-control regime. Russia was an initiator of the negotiations on adapting the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), and we ratified the agreement on the adaptation of the treaty that would have enabled it to take the new strategic realities in Europe into account.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“As long ago as 2001, Washington announced its unilateral withdrawal from the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, on the invented pretext that it was outdated and did not correspond to contemporary reality. In 2019, the United States also unilaterally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the Secretary-General had once described as an invaluable tool that could prevent nuclear war. In order to avoid another spiral into confrontation, we proposed a mutual moratorium on the deployment of such missiles to the United States and NATO. We even undertook a unilateral obligation not to be the first to deploy systems banned by the INF Treaty in regions where similar American-made products would not be deployed.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Our President warned about it in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference, when he urged NATO to abandon its dangerous path of confrontation. Regrettably, those warnings went unheard and unheeded by the West. On the contrary, in 2008 the United States and its NATO allies pressured the authorities in power in Georgia at the time into a crude military venture against South Ossetia and Russia’s peacekeepers that had disastrous results for Georgia. At the same time, the United States deliberately dismantled key elements of the global arms-control system that had maintained the strategic balance and prevented armed confrontation for decades.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“In their understanding, the loser cannot lay claim to anything. The members of NATO almost instantly forgot their promises not to build up their military presence in Europe and not to move their military infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. For 30 years, we have been patiently trying to reach an agreement with NATO on the principles of equal and indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic region. However, our proposals have been consistently met either with cynical lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail. At the same time, NATO has continued to expand relentlessly, bringing its military infrastructure closer to our borders, including by deploying missile defence systems and offensive weapons, all of which has created a genuine threat to our country’s national security.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Back then, we were assured that NATO would not seek to gain any unilateral advantage from the changed situation in Europe or create new dividing lines throughout it. We were promised an equal partnership based on trust, transparency and the mutual consideration of security concerns, which also included a promise not to expand NATO to the East. From records of conversations and the memoirs of Western politicians, it became clear that we simply were shamelessly deceived — and are still being deceived — and that neither the United States nor its allies have intended to fulfil any of those promises. No form of equal partnership was even considered. Moreover, the countries of the West, taking advantage of the economic and political challenges we faced during the transition period, declared Russia the loser in the Cold War.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Today, more than ever before, it is important to understand why that has happened. However, for at least the past 200 years, Western countries have blamed Russia as their sole explanation and universal solution when it comes to such problems. But let us look at the facts. In the late 1980s, the international community had reason to hope that the Cold War, with its arms race and the threat of a major confrontation between the super-Powers, was over. Back in May, many experts seriously argued that bloc confrontation was also a thing of the past. That happened, first and foremost, because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and then Russia, radically changed course, reacting to the promises and assurances of the countries of the West.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, and the President of the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Mr. Gustavo Zlauvinen, for their briefings. We are grateful to our Chinese colleagues for convening today’s Security Council meeting and for choosing a highly relevant topic devoted to issues of collective security. Hardly anyone can be satisfied with the international situation in which we find ourselves today. The international security system is experiencing a profound crisis whereby almost all of the institutions it was based on have deteriorated and the level of trust between key international players has dropped to a critically low level.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I do not plan to engage in a polemic with a representative of the Kyiv regime and react to the stream of conscience and lies that he shared with us today. On the subject of the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was interrupted by Kyiv, I would suggest that Council members look again at our statement, which says everything very clearly. I would like to draw attention to something else, namely, that the representative of the Kyiv regime is the only one at today’s meeting who said that it was Russia that shelled the power station that is under its control in the city of Enerhodar, which is also home to the plant’s staff. Even the backers of Kyiv ruled out saying this.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Thanks to their efforts, it has so far been possible to protect the plant’s key infrastructure in order to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. We know what the Kyiv regime is capable of, and the world has witnessed it as well. Those who are calling for the withdrawal of Russian forces should realize the consequences of the facility being left unprotected and being potentially used by Kyiv and nationalist groups for their utterly monstrous provocations.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“We hear statements, including from the Secretary-General, that “the plant may be subjected to attacks or may be a basis for the launching of attacks”, and he calls for it to be demilitarized. Russia is not using civilian infrastructure, not to mention nuclear facilities, for that purpose. That is a tactic of the Ukrainian armed forces, who, in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, are setting up military positions in close proximity to civilian infrastructure and using civilians as human shields. As I already mentioned, Russian soldiers, in close coordination with the plant’s staff, are ensuring the protection of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and are repelling the Kyiv regime’s attacks every day.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“With the small exception of the especially zealous supporters, today we were spared those nonsensical allegations, which were too absurd for the respectable adults in this Chamber, but we are shocked by the irresponsibility of Europe’s political elites, who in their irrational and unconditional support of Kyiv are willing to jeopardize the safety of their own citizens. We might wonder if they have any common sense. We call on our colleagues to convey to their leaders the need to influence the Kyiv regime and force it to stop its irrational strikes on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is essentially turning the residents of European States into hostages, and our colleagues are among those who bear responsibility for that. We note with regret that the Secretariat is not able to give a sober assessment of the situation.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Instead of calling a spade a spade, we see glaring double standards and miracles of resourcefulness orchestrated so that not a shadow of responsibility is attributed to Kyiv, although it is obviously guilty of this shelling. That is irresponsibility in action, an inability to assume responsibility for global problems if it does not jibe with the West’s narrow mercantile geopolitical interests. In the case of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, we have seen how the Western version of events has played out in Western minds, whereby the responsibility for shelling the Zaporizhzhya plant is of course Russia’s. We heard it in the awkward statements today.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“The recent report issued by Amnesty International, hardly a pro- Russian organization, confirmed what we have been saying at every meeting on Ukraine since the beginning of the special military operation, which is that the armed forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian nationalist battalions are using the civilian population as human shields and residential buildings as firing points, as well as deploying heavy weaponry and artillery in the vicinity of hospitals, schools and kindergartens. Look at the indignation it caused in the West — how dare Amnesty International blame the Ukrainians for anything? To paraphrase a well-known proverb, when it comes to talking about Kyiv, either say something nice or say nothing at all. In practice, that means that Kyiv continues to be given carte blanche to commit any crimes at all.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Our Western colleagues have long chosen what they believe to be a perfect tactic when discussing Ukraine-related topics — a coordinated effort to blame Russia for everything that is happening within the zone of hostilities, categorically rejecting any possibility, even a hypothetical one, that Kyiv might bear any guilt, as happened with the provocations in Bucha and Irpin and in Kramatorsk. Incidentally, why have references to the events in Kramatorsk disappeared from the radar? More than 50 people were killed in the railway station there by a multiple-launch rocket-system strike. I will tell you why — because the station was hit by a Ukrainian Grad rocket launcher, and the rockets had a Ukrainian military serial number. That is irrefutable.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Today, once again, none of our Western colleagues decided to call a spade a spade by recognizing that it is the armed forces of Ukraine that are recklessly shelling the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. From what has been said, it would seem that Russia alone has created risks there. So then what is the meaning of the Ukrainian armed forces’ shelling of a nuclear power plant? Is it a response to risks created by Russia? That is surreal and faulty logic, but we are certainly not surprised. For six months now we have seen not just a disinformation war unleashed against us but a war of lies.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“This is the only way to prevent a major radiation catastrophe on the European continent, the risk of which is now more real than ever. If Ukrainian armed forces attacks continue, such a disaster could take place at any time, and the threat of radiation contamination would loom over the territories of Kyiv, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Poltava. Kherson, Odesa, Mykolayiv, Kivorhrad and Vinnytsia oblast, as well as the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, the border regions of Russia and Belarus, and Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania, and that is according to the most optimistic expert forecasts. The real scale of a nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is hard to imagine. Full responsibility for such an event would lie upon the Western backers of Kyiv.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Kyiv must immediately cease and guarantee that it has no intention of presenting any threat to the life and health of international staff. We call on States that support the Kyiv regime to bring their proxies into check, compel them to immediately and once and for all stop attacks on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the residents of Enerhodar, and ensure safe conditions for the conduct of the IAEA mission. We call on the leadership of the United Nations and the IAEA to demonstrate their leadership and global responsibility and very precisely and without diplomatic rhetoric indicate the real source of the threat to nuclear security of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, namely, the strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces, and to tell the Ukrainian authorities that such actions are unacceptable.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“We believe that there is justification for IAEA representatives to go to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant as quickly as possible, possibly even before the end of August. However, not everything depends on us. At this time, we cannot provide any guarantees that the trip will take place. It is hard for us to judge what is currently being cooked up by the Ukrainian leadership, which for several days in a row has been launching strikes on the nuclear power plant, even though the Secretary-General described any attacks on nuclear facilities as suicide. We believe that it is unacceptable that the IAEA mission should take place in conditions of ongoing shelling by Ukrainian armed forces of the plant and the territory around the town of Enerhodar.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“We are convinced that cancelling the international mission played into the hands of the Kyiv regime and its Western backers, who initially were opposed to the idea of the trip. They did not want the IAEA to see that the nuclear power plant was functioning normally and that the staff was working in a healthy and normal environment. We hope that the visit of IAEA experts to the Zaporizhzhya plant will happen soon. We also hope that in this situation the Secretary-General will acknowledge the full weight of his responsibility and will not, via the Secretariat department subordinate to him or any other links in the United Nations system, do anything to hinder this mission from being conducted. For our part, we stand ready to provide all possible assistance to resolving all organizational matters.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“The mission was assigned exclusively technical tasks and was to fulfil the IAEA’s mandate to assess the state of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and make an inventory of the nuclear material located there, as stipulated by the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. In the closest cooperation with the Agency, we managed to resolve all the difficult issues related to the organization and conduct of such a complex event in the current circumstances. However, at the last minute, the Department of Safety and Security at the Secretariat gave a red light, and the trip was cancelled, and that was seized upon by the Kyiv authorities to step up their provocations and shelling of the nuclear power plant.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Even then, dangerous plans had been hatched in Kyiv to disrupt the normal functioning of the Zaporizhzhya and Chornobyl nuclear power plants and to blame Russia for it. We strictly adhere to the seven principles mentioned earlier and do our best to ensure that the representatives of the Agency can be convinced of that with their own eyes. As early as 3 June, the Russian side and the leadership of the IAEA secretariat fully agreed on the route and schedule of the Agency’s international mission to the Zaporizhzhya plant. The IAEA Director General, Mr. Grossi, personally planned to lead the mission, which included prominent experts from a number of countries.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“That clearly shows that absolutely normal communication has been established between our military and Ukrainian specialists at the plant. From the very beginning, we have supported the IAEA’s efforts to ensure the nuclear safety and security of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. It was assumed that the seven principles formulated by Director General Grossi in that area would form the basis of a trilateral document in the Russia-Ukraine-IAEA format. However, the Kyiv regime refused to sign it. Then we showed flexibility and agreed that such an agreement should be formalized in the form of two parallel agreements — Russia with the IAEA and Ukraine with the IAEA. Kyiv also rejected that option, without giving any clear arguments about the reasons for the refusal. However, their reasoning is clear.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“The representative of the United States of America said that, by the grace of God, the world had averted a nuclear catastrophe, that the attack on the plant was extremely reckless and that conflicts should not involve nuclear facilities. The representative of France argued that it was necessary to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants. Are members ready to repeat all that now in relation to the Ukrainian side and to call on Kyiv to stop the shelling? I want to emphasize that every time the Ukrainian armed forces struck at the Zaporizhzhya plant, a catastrophe was avoided only thanks to the selfless joint actions of plant employees and Russian military personnel, who provided them with comprehensive emergency assistance. When necessary, firefighters and emergency crews, as well as our military personnel, work hand in hand.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Elementary logic suggests that our military has no reason to shell the plant, the city or themselves. On 4 March, Western countries already convened a Security Council meeting (see S/PV.8986) on the issue of the Zaporizhzhya plant, trying to present the Ukrainian sabotage — the arson of the training-centre building — as the result of the actions of the Russian military despite the fact that the plant was under their complete control by that time. Let me recall that, at the time, Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo said that attacks on nuclear facilities violated international humanitarian law. The representative of Great Britain said that international law indicated the need for special protection for nuclear facilities.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“At the same time, they were being worked on by the Ukrainian special services, threatening them with reprisals for cooperating with the so-called occupiers. In Kyiv, at that time, crocodile tears were publicly being shed, and it was reported to the IAEA that the Russian military was preventing the rotation of maintenance shifts. At the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, currently taking place in New York, representatives of the Kyiv regime, with the support of a number of other delegations, are cynically and absurdly accusing Russia of attacks on the Zaporizhzhya plant. Such propagandistic spin is picked up by the Western press. All that is being done contrary to common sense, since the Zaporizhzhya plant is controlled by the Russian armed forces.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Earlier, in February, Ukrainians captured four Russian specialists who were accompanying the delivery of nuclear fuel to the Rovno nuclear power plant. They were subjected to intimidation and pressure, in line with classic methods in the arsenal of terrorist groups. On 9 March, Ukrainian saboteurs blew up a power transmission line feeding the cooling system of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. It was only thanks to the efforts of the Russian military that the accident was avoided by urgently connecting diesel generators and providing electricity to the plant via an alternative power line from the territory of Belarus. The sabotage group also blew up the only bridge that connected the plant to the town where the power plant engineers live. Shift personnel could not go to work for a long time.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“But if the strikes continue, it is only a question of time. We regularly send reports to the secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) detailing the situation and such incidents. What is currently happening at the Zaporizhzhya plant is the culmination of the criminal actions of the Kyiv regime against nuclear infrastructure and the personnel who maintain those facilities, which for months remained without any international reaction. Between April and July, Kyiv committed a number of provocative acts against the Zaporizhzhya plant using strike unmanned aerial vehicle, including Polish-made ones. Some were successfully shot down; others, bomb- laden kamikaze drones, were detonated near critical infrastructure. It was only by sheer luck that this did not lead to a disruption of the plant’s normal operation.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Among the residents of Enerhodar, many of whom are employees of the Zaporizhzhya plant, there are fatalities and injuries. It is particularly despicable that a number of attacks on the plant were carried out at night, when people were sleeping. Today the attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporizhzhya plant and Enerhodar continued. The strikes were carried out using multiple-launch rocket systems and heavy artillery from the right bank of the Dnipro River, the Dnipropetrovsk region, Nikopol, Marhanets and Tomakivka, controlled by Kyiv. According to the regional administration, the Ukrainian armed forces are aiming missiles at concrete radioactive-waste storage facilities. So far, Kyiv has failed to hit them and cause serious damage. The radiation level at the Zaporizhzhya plant is currently normal.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“One of the plant’s employees was wounded. As a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces on 7 August, there was a power surge in the mains supplying the Zaporizhzhya plant. There was damage to equipment, which led to an automatic shutdown of the power supply. At Unit 4, which was operating at 10-per- cent capacity, the power supply to the plant’s protection control systems failed and the emergency protection was triggered. Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya plant personnel were forced to shut down one of the three operating power units, while the capacity of two other units was reduced to half the maximum. Heavy strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces in the vicinity of Enerhodar caused more than 40 power lines to be severed and the town to lose power.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“On 5 August, such a strike damaged a number of facilities important to the Zaporizhzhya plant’s electricity and gas supply. Pipelines were destroyed; there was a hydrogen fire at the distribution unit; and a high-voltage power line was disabled. I would like to stress that the Ukrainian armed forces shelled the plant during a shift change of personnel. It is clear that the aim of the Kyiv regime was to intimidate the Zaporizhzhya plant’s employees, its own citizens, to prevent them from going to work, thereby undermining the normal functioning of the facility. On 6 August, the Ukrainian armed forces struck the Zaporizhzhya plant with cluster munitions. Their shrapnel warheads hit a site in the area of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, as well as an automated radiation monitoring post.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Director General Grossi for his briefing. We have repeatedly warned our Western colleagues that, if they do not talk sense into the Kyiv regime, it will take the most monstrous and reckless steps, the consequences of which will backfire far beyond Ukraine’s borders. Unfortunately, that is exactly what is happening now. Kyiv’s criminal attacks on nuclear infrastructure are pushing the world to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe, comparable in scale to that of Chornobyl. In recent days, the Ukrainian armed forces repeatedly shelled the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, with heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Those strikes directly threaten the nuclear safety of the plant.”
2022-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9109 (2022) · source
“We heard American representatives claim to have eliminated Al-Qaida’s leader, Ayman Al-Zawahiri. That is remarkable news, but it has at least two sides. On the one hand, if confirmed, this is an indisputable success of American special services. On the other hand, it makes us doubt the veracity of the ostentatious claims made by the United States Administration approximately one year ago that the American military had left Afghanistan after having successfully met their counter-terrorism objectives. After 20 years of the presence of United States and NATO forces, the situation in Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of humanitarian disaster, and ISIL terrorist attacks continue to multiply.”
2022-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9108 (2022) · source
“There is another parallel between events in the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan and what is happening in Ukraine. Part of the mercenaries, neo- Nazis, extremists and white supremacists who rushed to Ukraine from across the Western world, if they survive, will gain combat experience and then return to their countries of origin or third countries, just as foreign terrorist fighters did after fighting for ISIL. Something similar happened when the remaining bandits from Chechnya fled to Europe as political refugees and then later carried out terrorist acts in the countries where they were granted asylum. If anyone doubts this thesis, they can consult the numerous publications of specialized experts in Western sources. In conclusion, let me say a few words about terrorist activity in Afghanistan.”
2022-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9108 (2022) · source
“In 2018, the House of Representatives voted to ensure that “none of the funds made available by the Act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.” But after Russia started its special military operation, this bloodthirsty ideological group suddenly became the heroes of Mariupol, and the geopolitical gains of the United States authorities prevailed over the real fight against terrorism and various manifestations of extremism. In Russia, the Azov Battalion is listed as a terrorist organization, and we have many reasons for that. Members of this group who surrendered to the Russian side have given information to that end. It is clear that this is why the Kyiv regime launched a precise strike targeting its former military elite in a detention facility in Yelenovka.”
2022-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9108 (2022) · source
“In 2021, the United States Congress made another attempt to include the notorious Ukrainian Azov Battalion on its list of terrorist organizations. Earlier, in 2015, the United States House of Representatives made amendments to the draft Department of Defense Appropriations Act in order to prevent the use of the military budget to train the Azov Battalion. The Congress designated this group as a Ukrainian paramilitary neo-Nazi group.”
2022-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9108 (2022) · source
“In Syria, in order to overthrow a legitimate Government, the West supported and gave weapons to ideologically motivated terrorists, calling them moderate freedom fighters. In the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan, the United States and its satellites fuelled opposition forces that either quickly became terrorists or started to maintain close ties with them. In Ukraine, there is direct support and training for nationalist and neo-Nazi groups. In addition, just as terrorists use the conflicts in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Libya, Iraq and Syria to exchange tactical know-how and reinforce transnational networks, neo-Nazis and white supremacists are using Ukraine as a test battlefield. And Western States are shamelessly enabling this in many ways. We should also mention double standards.”
2022-08-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9108 (2022) · source
“In particular, it says that some terrorist and radical groups have called on their affiliates to use the events in Ukraine to access easily available weapons, which are being delivered unchecked to Kyiv from Western States. In that context, the report notes the growing threat of attacks from lone-wolf terrorists in Europe. We believe that we need to delve into this topic today. Ukraine is now joining the ranks of Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. Ukraine is receiving a great many Western weapons, ammunition and dual-use goods. Back in the day, the flow of Western arms into Iraq and the use of terrorists for geopolitical purposes led to the creation of ISIL. Arms deliveries to Libya caused the terrorist threat to spread across most of Africa.”
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“As recently as 4 August, when patrolling the skies above Syria, crews of Russian Air and Space Forces identified and eliminated a group of terrorists from Liwa Shuhada Al-Qaryatayn. That terrorist group is based in the Al-Tanf area, which is under the control of the United States military. The withdrawal of American occupying forces from Syrian territory would mean the swift and irreversible elimination of the ongoing terrorist presence in that long-suffering country, as well as that of terrorists bases in neighbouring States. In the Council, when discussing the Secretary- General’s reports on threats posed by ISIL, we have repeatedly raised the need to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists. We note that the latest report provides updates on that matter.”
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“We take our obligations very seriously, and we intend to keep assisting States in combating international terrorism, including through financial contributions to the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and regional specialized mechanisms. We will continue developing channels of multilateral and bilateral cooperation, but only with those who truly intend to fight terrorists and not cozy up to them or even sponsor them. We need to eliminate the remaining strongholds of international terrorism in Syria and put an end to the presence of ISIL and other terrorist groups on Syrian soil. At the moment, they are entrenched in areas not controlled by the Syrian Government.”
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“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov and Mr. Weixiong Chen, Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, for their detailed analysis of the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We also followed the remarks by Mr. Martin Ewi with interest. We share many of the assessments contained in the Secretary-General’s report (S/2022/576) on the threat posed by ISIL. On our part, we would like to make several points. Russia is on the front line of the fight against terrorism. Having passed through the challenges of the 1990s, we have accrued vast experience. Some of the situations we lived through were difficult, but it gave us an opportunity to successfully counter contemporary threats.”
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“We regret that due to the unconstructive approach of our American colleagues, the issue of resuming the Quartet’s activities is still pending. Washington’s stance is aimed at eroding the internationally recognized foundations of the settlement and negotiation formats in the Middle East and does nothing to contribute to a detente but rather leads to further escalation. It cannot serve as a source of confidence for the parties concerned, first and foremost the Palestinians, who as we know are in a far more vulnerable position.”
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“We believe that a direct dialogue between the parties should be conducted with dynamic support from the Middle East Quartet, as the only internationally recognized mechanism for accompanying the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. In that connection, we once again reaffirm our intention to cooperate with our partners in the Quartet with a view to increasing the effectiveness of the work in that format, which is endorsed by the Security Council. At the same time, we would like to note the importance of coordinating the international mediators with regional partners. That was what prompted Russia’s initiative to hold an expanded ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet with key members of the League of Arab States.”
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