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Nebenzia

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“But such accusations fit well with the image of Russian soldiers as beasts and brutal barbarians carefully created by Western political strategists, just as Goebbels’s henchmen did in the final stages of the Second World War. Members probably remember the Permanent Representative of Ukraine, using the same fascist handbook, telling us how Russian soldiers stole home appliances, and even toilets, when leaving Bucha because “many people do not have toilets in Russia”? The staging in Bucha, which our British colleagues considered not to be enough reason to convene the Security Council meeting that we had requested, has so far been the climax of that lies-based and groundless smear campaign. By now, so many inconsistencies and refutations of the official version have surfaced that our Western partners have become wary of mentioning it.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the briefers for the information they provided. The ratcheting up of accusations that Russian service personnel have committed crimes of a sexual nature has been a favourite tactic of the Kyiv regime and our Western colleagues since the very beginning of our special military operation in Ukraine. We all recall how in the Ukrainian and Western media and in this Chamber our soldiers have been repeatedly accused of sexual violence, with references to certain reports containing allegedly reliable information. However, no evidence has been provided. Nor have the briefers and representatives who have spoken today offered a single example.”
2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source
“UNITAMS was deployed in the Sudan at the invitation of the country’s Government to support national efforts in strengthening peace, fulfilling the terms of the Juba Peace Agreement, dealing with issues relating to internally displaced persons and refugees and mobilizing assistance for economic development. We hope that the Mission will meet these expectations of the Sudanese people.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9054 (2022) · source
“We believe that the Sudanese people themselves must agree upon the timelines, pace and parameters for their transition period. For this to occur, responsible political forces in the country need space, and the international community needs to be patient. Political and economic pressure from outside, even if it is carried out with the excuse of having good intentions, risks worsening an already complicated situation. Most external players come to the region with their own interests, and this causes new spikes of instability there. Using economic leverage to exert political pressure not only harms ordinary Sudanese people, but also leads to a growth in divisions in the country’s political sphere. We would urge all external players, including UNITAMS, to play a constructive role.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9054 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation supported the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). We commend the responsible approach of the authors of resolution 2636 (2022), thanks to which Security Council maintained consensus on the issue of supporting the Republic of Sudan, which is living through a complicated period concerning internal policy, characterized by acute humanitarian and socio- economic challenges. We support the efforts of the Government of the Sudan to stabilize the situation in the country. We are convinced of the ability of the people of the Sudan to address all domestic problems on their own through constructive national dialogue.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9054 (2022) · source
“The focus of our attention will be whether it is effective in combating flows of illegal weapons and whether it is in line with the law of the sea and the mandate stipulated in resolution 2292 (2016). We will also provide a legal assessment of the actions of the EU Naval Force.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9053 (2022) · source
“In some cases, the activities of the EU Naval Force were characterized by a selective approach to certain vessels flying flags of particular States. We consider the incident involving the detention of the Royal Diamond 7 tanker, which involved numerous violations by the EU Naval Force, to be particularly egregious. For reasons that are not at all clear, Brussels says that the incident was in fact a great success. It is not quite clear what happened to the confiscated cargo of standard jet fuel that our EU colleagues planned to sell on the commercial market, thereby circumventing the provisions of resolution 2292 (2016). In the coming year, we will continue to closely monitor the work of Operation IRINI to ensure full compliance with the arms embargo.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9053 (2022) · source
“We greatly regret that the EU Naval Force Mediterranean Operation IRINI has, over recent years, demonstrated very low levels of effectiveness in assisting the implementation of the provisions of the Libyan arms embargo. During the entire period of its action, there has been no successful seizure of any contraband goods, and the same assessment can be given to its predecessor mission, Operation SOPHIA. Furthermore, the work of the EU Naval Force has not always been transparent. For example, according to its own data, it had exclusive channels of communication with the panel of experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), whereas members of that subsidiary body of the Council were never briefed on the modalities of such communications.”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9053 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2635 (2022), prepared by France, on extending the special inspection regime designed to implement the arms embargo on the high seas off the coast of Libya. I underline that Russia, along with other members of the Security Council, was at the source of this inspection regime. We had hopes that the mechanism would make its contribution to decreasing the illicit trade in weapons and would help bring about the long-awaited political settlement of the protracted conflict in the country. Unfortunately, that did not happen. What did happen was that the opportunities of the regime to inspect vessels were basically taken over by the European Union (EU).”
2022-06-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9053 (2022) · source
“The list of crimes committed by the most vocal advocates of international justice is long. Today we have touched on only a negligible number of them. No statement would be long enough to cover them all. I have one recommendation for the collective West. If it wants to condemn aggression, it should start by condemning itself. It should set an example to the world by condemning its military adventures, illegal economic restrictions, bloody colonial and neocolonial wars and genocide and plunder of indigenous peoples. It should begin paying reparations to the affected countries and peoples. Such a step could indeed bring closer the advent of a more just world order, in which there would be no place for any self-proclaimed exceptionalism.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“With Western assistance, Ukrainian raiders continue to shell the peaceful residential areas of Donbas, killing women, children and the elderly, as they have been doing for eight years now. By way of another example, the United States has supplied Ukraine with British-made long-range M-777 howitzers, and, on the eve of International Children’s Day, shells fired from those guns killed five people in Makiivka in Donetsk, including a 5-year-old girl. The United States has also announced plans to supply Ukraine with multiple-launch rocket systems, which will lead only to a further escalation of the conflict that Washington hypocritically asserts it wants to end as soon as possible. The ICC should also be aware of that, if the Court is concerned about the cause of justice.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“The most interesting thing, however, is how exactly those tribunals for Russia are being planned. Authors of those initiatives propose to do it on the basis of an agreement among the countries concerned. But let us reflect further on that: a group of countries is seriously discussing the possibility of jointly convicting a third State. The mechanisms of international criminal justice are of course far from ideal, but when they were established there at least appeared to be some form impartiality and geographical balance in the mix. Now that the masks have been taken off completely, the collective West considers itself entitled to administer justice alone. By flooding Ukraine with weapons, allegedly to strengthen its potential and ability to fight back against Russia, the West is committing another war crime.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Accordingly, it does not and cannot apply to the stated aims, objectives and grounds of the special military operation. In that regard, we would like to remind the Council that our special military operation was launched on the basis of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. On 24 February, we submitted to the Security Council a corresponding notification in writing in the manner prescribed by Article 51. The issue of abolishing certain provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, including its Article 51, or depriving a Member State of the right to exercise its inalienable right to collective or individual self-defence has not, as far as we know, been considered by the International Court of Justice. We now hear on an almost daily basis about initiatives to create more and more investigative mechanisms or quasi-tribunals.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Its request was completely rejected by the International Court of Justice because it was opposed by NATO. With regard to the order on provisional measures concerning Ukraine, the situation is entirely the opposite. Behind the detailed legal argument, a simple thesis begins to appear — under strong political pressure, the Court may make inconsistent decisions. Western countries sense that. On 20 May, 41 Western States and the European Union, with the support of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, sent the Court a so-called joint statement, which was an unprecedented attempt to influence the position of the Court in favour of Ukraine. In any case, the order to suspend military operations was issued by the Court solely in the context of a claim under the Genocide Convention.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“All of that brings us to a very simple conclusion, namely, that Western countries are willing to make pompous statements about implementing the orders of the International Court of Justice, the fight against impunity and providing compensation for victims of violence, but only as long as it does not concern them. I will also say a few words about the 16 March order on provisional measures of the International Court of Justice. The order was issued in response to a claim by Ukraine, which requested to not be subjected to the use of force on account of false claims that the provisions of the Convention had been violated. I cannot help but draw members’ attention to the similarity with the situation in 1999. At that time, Yugoslavia, referring to the Genocide Convention, also sought an order on provisional measures.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“The Court’s position was supported by the General Assembly in its resolution 73/295, which was opposed by the votes of only the United Kingdom, the United States and four other delegations. Those circumstances certainly did not embarrass London at all, which even today continues its colonial occupation of the archipelago and hosts a United States military base there. During the land-clearing necessary to establish the American military facility, the local population was forcibly displaced. When considering General Assembly resolution 73/295, the United Kingdom was called upon to pay fair compensation to its victims of crimes against humanity. Those calls were categorically rejected.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“We clearly remember how the United States, after losing the case brought to the International Court of Justice by Nicaragua, not only flatly refused to comply with the Court’s final decision — I stress that it was a final decision, rather than an order on provisional measures — but also twice vetoed the corresponding Security Council draft resolution. The United Kingdom also revealed its attitude towards the International Court of Justice — not in its words but in its actions — when it refused to complete the decolonization process to finally return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. In its advisory opinion of 25 February 2019, the Court stated unequivocally that the United Kingdom had an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as soon as possible.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“The swastikas and other Nazi paraphernalia that can be seen not only on their uniforms but on their bodies do not faze the self-proclaimed champions of democratic values, who continue to repeat the mantra that there is no Nazism in Ukraine, and it is simply Russian propaganda. A number of Council members today raised the issue of the order on provisional measures of 16 March issued by the International Court of Justice with respect to Ukraine’s claim in reference to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The statements delivered by the American and British delegations are the latest example of the policy of double standards.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“We have seen similar scenarios in the context of many other colour revolutions. It is unlikely that our colleagues will recall today the civilians of Donbas killed by the Ukrainian military during eight years of shelling and bombing, which continue today. No one demands that Kyiv be held accountable for the nationalists burning people alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odesa. It has reached the point that the criminals from the Azov Battalion, promoting a misanthropic and hateful Nazi ideology, are praised by the collective West as heroes, not only for Ukraine but also for themselves.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“The West needs the ICC as a purely political instrument, and no one hides that fact. Hence the campaign to allocate unprecedented financial, human and organizational resources to the Office of the Prosecutor by the same countries that not long ago had been doing everything they could to protect their own soldiers from it. The concept of double standards does not begin to cover that — it is simply bare-faced cynicism. Justice has become a farce whereby the culprit is appointed in advance and the West-funded Court hands down the sentences the West has paid for. Neither the ICC nor the West care about the many crimes committed by the Kyiv regime, which came to power in a bloody coup d’état in 2014. The case of unidentified snipers who methodically shot both Maidan protesters and law enforcement agents has been consigned to oblivion.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“It was recently announced that the Netherlands was to send an entire team of investigators and forensic experts to Ukraine to work in the interests of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Almost at the same time, we were informed about the suspension by national law enforcement officers of an investigation of an attack by Dutch soldiers on residential buildings in the Afghan village of Uruzgan in 2007, where there were no military targets. Again, it is the same scenario, in which civilians are killed but the perpetrators of war crimes are non-existent. Why do the countries of the West even need the ICC? After all, their national courts seem to be doing an excellent job of running out and sweeping under the rug the cases against their troops and imitating the fight against impunity.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“He called the American air strike that killed many civilians near the Syrian town of Baghouz a tragic mistake. At the same time, he made it clear that no one in the United States military has been or will be held accountable. That is not the first such case in Syria, and it may not be the last. After all, the United States, together with its colleagues in the so-called strictly defensive alliance that is NATO, continues the illegal occupation of part of the territory of that sovereign country following military aggression against it. Another example of the hypocrisy of the West and the self-proclaimed champions of international criminal justice comes in the form of news from the Netherlands.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“The United Kingdom is about to hand over this brave journalist to the United States, where the plan is to try him on charges of espionage. The United States state-run police system leaves no doubt that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars, if he lives long enough to see a trial at all. That is all there is to know about the collective West’s approach to fighting impunity when it comes to themselves. What, then, is the take-away regarding the atrocities committed by NATO troops? The scenario is always the same — civilians have died by their hands, but there is no one to be punished for that even in disciplinary terms, let alone criminal ones. We took note of the vague excuses given on 17 May by the Pentagon representative, John Kirby.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Somehow, we do not know of any convictions of United States, British and other military personnel for war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Incidentally, we would never have found out about most of those crimes or the horrific torture in Guantánamo Bay and the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons in Europe had it not been for the sensational material published by Julian Assange. But what did the countries that are now so eloquently advocating for the fight against impunity do once that information became available to the general public? Did they rush to investigate and bring the perpetrators — their own citizens — to justice? No. The only one who was hunted and attacked was Assange himself.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Quite indicatively in that respect, the United States imposed individual sanctions against the former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As is well known, the new Prosecutor deprioritized ICC cases regarding the crimes of British and American military in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other words, the investigations into those cases stopped. It turns out that when it comes to the responsibility of military personnel from Western countries, there is no longer any need to combat impunity. In an attempt to justify themselves, Western countries usually claim that their legal systems are perfectly capable of holding the perpetrators to account, saying that they do not need the ICC to do that.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Thereafter, with manic tenacity, the collective West started to promote the idea of replacing traditional international law with some rules-based order. That new set of norms meant that a small group of States made their own rules and claimed that they were universal. That is the logic that we see behind the current activity that Western States started around international criminal justice bodies, saying that they want to punish our country. Please note that when there is the risk that NATO soldiers may be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, we see a completely different kind of activity. Western States do their best to protect their troops. They employ both financial and administrative leverage against international criminal justice mechanisms and direct threats.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“When NATO was attacking Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, international law was perceived only as an annoying impediment. In vain attempts to justify its aggression against sovereign States, the collective West had to come up with exotic concepts, such as a humanitarian intervention, the war on terror or preventive strikes. Of course, none of those had anything to do with international law. That is why the military adventures of the United States and their NATO allies were nothing but aggressive, unprovoked wars of choice. NATO countries systematically and cynically ignored international law, including the Charter of the United Nations. At the highest political level, the United States claimed to be exceptional, meaning that it was above international law.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We welcome Judge Joan Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Professor Dapo Akande to this open debate. Let me take this opportunity to thank the delegation of the United States for its professional and impartial presidency of the Security Council in the month of May. We count on the delegation of Albania to be guided by the same professional approach in fulfilling its duties of President of the Council. For several months now, we have been witnessing Western States demonstrate an excessive degree of hypocrisy in their statements. Against the backdrop of Russia’s special military operation, they chose to recall that there was such a thing as international law.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“At the same time, we should point out that the lack of progress on the political track threatens to further increase tensions on the peninsula, and regrettably we are already witnessing that.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“However, security issues that directly concern our country, among others, cannot be resolved through the primitive use of a sanctions cudgel, as they can have serious collateral effects. We firmly believe that the quest for mutually acceptable political and diplomatic solutions is the only possible way to reach a peaceful solution to the Korean peninsula question and establish robust security mechanisms in North-East Asia. Only the involvement of all players in the region in the process on an equal footing, without attempts to monopolize it, can have positive results. That should be our main task, whose resolution will make it possible to normalize the situation in the region.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“It seems that our American and other Western colleagues are suffering the equivalent of writer’s block, given that they have no response to crisis situations other than the imposition of sanctions. Russia has always considered such measures to be the most extreme possible response, requiring constant fine-tuning and calibration. I am not even discussing unilateral sanctions here, which make it impossible to implement Security Council resolutions and undermine our ability to respond collectively and multilaterally, including in the case of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We would like to emphasize once again that Russia opposes any military activity jeopardizing the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries of North-East Asia.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“And the creation of new military blocs in the region, such as the union of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia known as AUKUS, raises serious doubts about their good intentions, including on the part of Pyongyang, and is counterproductive from the point of view of establishing a dialogue. We also heard threatening statements about Pyongyang during President Joe Biden’s recent tour of the countries of the region. In general, what we are seeing is that the primacy of finding political and diplomatic solutions to conflicts all over the world is paralysed. Preventive diplomacy, whose praises many Member States, including the author of the draft resolution, love to sing, is cast aside as soon as it comes to countries that are not considered part of the so-called civilized world.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“We believe it is completely irresponsible to propose new sanctions when the North Koreans are dealing with a challenge that should rather lead us to consider ways of helping their country overcome it. The urgency of expanding the humanitarian exemptions from the sanctions measures that we and our Chinese colleagues have proposed has only become greater. It has long been obvious to anyone genuinely concerned with resolving the situation in North Korea that it is futile to expect unconditional disarmament from Pyongyang under the threat of a sanctions spiral and so-called guarantees based on unsubstantiated promises.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“Strengthening the sanctions pressure on Pyongyang is not only futile but extremely dangerous considering the humanitarian consequences of such measures. The sanctions package adopted against Pyongyang in 2016 and 2017 primarily affected the lives of ordinary North Koreans. Even before the start of the pandemic, there was a serious shortage of medicines in the country, the economy was stagnant and the banking and financial restrictions effectively cut off North Koreans’ ability to buy consumer goods. I want to emphasize that all of that began even before the country closed down in the face of the threat of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2020. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago COVID-19 did manage to penetrate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the epidemiological situation there is now a very difficult one.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“The steps that Pyongyang took in 2018 and 2019 to meet us halfway and send positive signals have constantly been called into question, and the Council has been unable to find the strength to respond to them appropriately, while alternative pathways to a political and diplomatic settlement, including the Russian-Chinese humanitarian draft resolution, have been rejected. We are now suffering the consequences of the West’s short- sighted policies. We are unfortunately witnessing a continuing deterioration in the potential of the political and diplomatic process thanks to the hard-line policy led by the United States, which has basically destroyed the positive progress made on the Korean peninsula a few years ago.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“However, as history has shown, the sanctions route has been able neither to guarantee security in the region nor regulate issues related to missile and nuclear non-proliferation. The security issues in the region, which also directly affect Russia, cannot be resolved through primitive and unsubtle means that have serious collateral consequences for ordinary people. In the past year the situation on the peninsula has only got worse. Our Western colleagues are accustomed to shifting all the blame onto the North Korean authorities, but they completely ignore the fact that Pyongyang’s repeated calls for the United States to cease its hostile activities — which would open up opportunities for dialogue — have not been taken seriously. We hear nothing from our American colleagues except about the need for sanctions.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Russia voted against the draft resolution (S/2022/431) proposed by the United States. We are sorry that our American colleagues ignored the frequent clarifications we made during the drafting of the text in consultations and at recent Security Council meetings. We said we would not support this kind of document. Our appeals for it to be issued as a presidential statement instead went unheeded. As a matter of principle, we have repeatedly said that imposing new sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a dead end, and we have emphasized the fact that increasing the sanctions pressure on Pyongyang is mistaken, ineffective and inhumane. Many restrictive resolutions have been adopted regarding Pyongyang since 2006.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9048 (2022) · source
“It is clear that this position has nothing to do with a genuine quest to find solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Any attempt to exclude Russia from the process of resolving the Palestinian question, the situation in Syria or any other Middle East crisis would be counterproductive. Russia and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa share deep, stable and undeniable historical ties untainted by a legacy of colonialism, unlike the case with Western States. We intend to continue making an active contribution to resolving the acute conflicts in that part of the world and strengthening mutually beneficial relations with all the countries of the region, which represent a vital element of a multipolar world.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“We call on international donors to give the Agency’s work more active support, considering that it has been the main international structure providing assistance to Palestinians in the areas of education, health care, social support, infrastructure and living conditions in refugee camps since 1949. In that context, the Western organizers’ decision not to invite Russia to the meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for the Coordination of International Assistance to Palestinians is baffling. Russia has played an active role in the Committee’s work on an ongoing basis since it was founded in 1993 and has made a significant and recognized contribution to creating a solid foundation for the implementation of a solution involving two States, Israel and Palestine.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“However, we consider the United States’ desire to monopolize the peace process and impose so-called economic peace on the Palestinians, rather than meeting their legitimate aspirations to create their own independent State, to be counterproductive, as is Washington’s unwillingness to join the activities of the Quartet of international mediators. Given the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, it is vital to ensure that the effective efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East continue to provide comprehensive humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as to the Palestinian refugees in neighbouring Arab countries.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“Our proposal for holding the next inter-Palestinian meeting in Moscow still stands. For our part, we continue to cooperate with the Palestinians and Israelis, as well as all interested international and regional players that are ready to work together within the framework of the Middle East Quartet. We would like to note the importance of coordinating international mediators with regional partners directly interested in achieving a Middle East settlement. That is what prompted Russia’s initiative to hold a broader ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet with key members of the League of Arab States.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“In the current context, we consider our primary task to be achieving real stability on the ground and restoring the political horizon so as to revive the Middle East peace process on the basis of the internationally recognized terms of reference, whose central element is a two-State solution. At the same time, we firmly believe that a settlement is possible only through the launch of direct negotiations between the parties. In that context, the restoration of inter-Palestinian unity through the platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization is vital. We welcome and support Egypt’s corresponding initiatives aimed at establishing a dialogue between the major political forces in Palestine, as well as Algeria’s plans to host the next round of talks between representatives of Fatah and Hamas.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“It is also regrettable that a number of our Western colleagues do not shy away from using other matters to divert the attention of the international community from the sabotage of the Israeli-Palestinian settlement. We heard the United States representative once again tell the tired old story that the global food crisis is Russia’s fault. We would ask the United States to stop trying to mislead everyone and to remove the sanctions it imposed through its own volition and which are hindering the distribution of food. The world will breathe a sigh of relief.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“The confiscation of land and forced evictions of Palestinian families continue, and olive groves are being cut down. There has been an increase in settler attacks, as well as in the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli military. Against that backdrop, Tel Aviv’s intention to double the number of Israelis living in the Jordan Valley and the Syrian Golan Heights by 2026 can be regarded as a de facto annexation of a large area of the occupied Palestinian territories. The international community is virtually ignoring those systematic violations of the rights of the Palestinians, which clearly reflects the double standards of Western countries where the provisions of international humanitarian law and the protection of human rights are concerned. We are seeing the same thing in relation to the situation in Donbas.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“In parallel, the Israeli authorities are conducting direct military actions and operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which ended in the tragic death of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. In that regard, we support the Palestinian leadership’s demand that a thorough and objective investigation into the circumstances of her death be carried out. It is clear from the Special Coordinator’s briefing that the already explosive situation is being exacerbated by the illegal, unilateral steps taken by Tel Aviv to create irreversible realities on the ground. Over the past year, more than 12,000 housing units were approved through the expansion of existing settlements and the construction of new ones, while more than 1,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the Middle East. Concern is growing about yet another escalation in tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories thanks to a recurrence of acts of violence, primarily in Jerusalem, in connection with the oppression of Christian and Muslim believers and the restriction of their access to the holy sites. We want to point out once again that it is unacceptable to violate the historical and legal status quo of the holy sites of Jerusalem and we emphasize the stabilizing role played by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which is historically responsible for their protection.”
2022-05-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9046 (2022) · source
“All those responsible for deliberately targeting civilians or killing them as a result of the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force in violation of international humanitarian law will be brought to justice.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source
“Many Ukrainian armed forces who have been captured have confessed that they had orders to shoot civilians and not to take Russian soldiers prisoner. Conversely, the humane treatment of prisoners of war is the norm for the Russian armed forces, which is attested to by the recent treatment of the Ukrainian armed forces soldiers and Ukrainian nationalists of the notorious Azov Regiment who surrendered and left the Azovstal plant. As we all know, 2,439 people from various Ukrainian units surrendered. All of the servicemen and their commanders were treated with respect, and medical assistance was provided to the wounded. They and their relatives, whom we are allowing them to contact, have themselves confirmed that. Such treatment is also given, among others, to fighters who have besmirched themselves by committing the most heinous war crimes.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source
“I would just like to note that the obvious inconsistencies concerning the Ukrainian provocation in Bucha are being challenged by the United Kingdom, which during its presidency of the Security Council twice refused to convene the meeting requested precisely to discuss that provocation. Moreover, it is remarkable that our Western colleagues rapidly cooled to the idea of expounding on the provocation in Kramatorsk, where more than 50 civilians were killed after the Ukrainian military shelled the railway station on 8 April. That false-flag operation by Ukraine was apparently too clumsily executed, which made the responsibility of the Ukrainian side far too obvious. I would also like to draw attention to the torture and abuse of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian armed forces.”
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“If we assume that the photos are authentic and that the bodies that Ukrainian correspondents photographed in the streets of Bucha on 3 April had indeed been lying there since 11 March, the question arises: why in the April photos are there no signs of decomposition or impurities? According to weather reports, the temperature in the city at that time reached 16°C. Any — even an inexperienced — forensic pathologist will acknowledge that, by the end of the second week, a corpse is not only visibly decomposed; it turns almost black. The bodies shown to everyone by the Ukrainians show no signs of decomposition, which means that the assertions by the The New York Times are false. Our British colleagues said a great deal more in their statement. We will respond to them in detail in the near future, including on social media.”
2022-05-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9042 (2022) · source