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“The images of homes in Donbas that were destroyed by nationalists and Ukraine’s armed forces have been brazenly presented by Western media outlets as a consequence of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. At today’s meeting, we are once again hearing lies and false information about the indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian cities, hospitals and schools. The Russian military poses no threat to Ukraine’s peaceful citizens. The military does not fire at peaceful civilian infrastructure. However, Ukrainian nationalists pose a threat as they hold the people of Ukraine hostage and use them as human shields. There is ample evidence from ordinary Ukrainians proving that, despite public protests, nationalists are deploying heavy equipment and multiple rocket launchers in residential areas.”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“What we need is not to ram through such schemes, but instead attempt to find common ground, regardless of the attempts of our Western partners to avoid that, including when they disregard our legitimate concerns about NATO policy and violations by Western States of the core principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the principle of the indivisibility of security. We now need to focus on resolving the situation that led to the current crisis. It did not start when Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine. It started much earlier, when for eight years the Council turned a blind eye to crimes perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists in Donbas. Today once again, no mention was made of the suffering of the people of Donbas.”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“In any event, the objective was never to attempt to impose decisions on each other or to disregard the interests of any of the five permanent members. That is precisely why the Security Council grants its permanent members the right to veto decisions. It is not a privilege but a tool for ensuring the balance of interests, which is of paramount importance to the entire world. The balance of interests ensures global stability. Any attempt to circumvent or disregard the position of the Russian Federation undermines the bedrock of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. Russia voted against resolution 2623 (2022) because its authors proposed that it be placed on record that the Security Council is unable to uphold its primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. There is no hint in the text of any attempt to find a constructive solution in the Council. Two days ago (see S/PV.8979), we vetoed another draft resolution (S/2022/155) for the same reason — it was one-sided and unbalanced. There are no new initiatives either. The United Nations and the Security Council were created in a post-war period to save succeeding generations from the scourge of a new war. To that end, global Powers decided to negotiate among themselves, ideally to achieve consensus.”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“The draft resolution received 11 votes in favour, 1 against and 3 abstentions. The draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 2623 (2022). I now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the voting.”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Ukraine to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2022/160, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Albania and the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Albania, Brazil, France, Gabon, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America Against: Russian Federation Abstaining: China, India, United Arab Emirates”
2022-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8980 (2022) · source
“We also believe that it is important for the future mandate to be based only on elements of previous specialized resolutions of the Security Council pertaining to the work of the Committee, which in practice have proven to be useful and relevant. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I now give the floor to the other members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“The principal point is that we must preserve the unique spirit of cooperation of resolution 1540 (2004), and not allow it to be eroded. That is necessary to ensure a positive attitude towards the resolution on the part of the international community. The 1540 Committee should not become an invigilator, controller or judge in that process. When drafting a new body for that subsidiary body, we should not allow it to be endowed with attributive functions, permitting it to interfere in the internal affairs of States. The role of the 1540 Committee, as we see it, is to continue monitoring the implementation of the resolution and to coordinate efforts to provide technical assistance to countries upon their request.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“We have often said in the Committee that preparations for the review must be undertaken far more actively, and we called on the Chair to step up efforts to that end. Unfortunately, time was too tight in that respect, and in that context we proposed focusing on negotiating a long-term mandate for the Committee so that it would have the opportunity to work calmly on all the tasks before it and not be distracted by a technical rollover, and to carry out a full review at a later date. Our call went unheeded, however, and at the last moment we were essentially presented with a fait accompli of another technical rollover. I wish to propose a series of critical points for us to address with regard to future parameters for the Committee’s mandate.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“It is important that we not merely tick a box stating that the review has been done, but undertake the review appropriately and allow substantive contributions to be made by key participants — for example, States, which bear the primary responsibility for implementing resolution 1540 (2004). If we fail to do so, the added value of the review process will be largely wasted. We on our side have no certainty that such a full and comprehensive review in the months to come, without artificial haste or detriment to the format. We have important doubts as to the proposed modalities focused on discussing the Committee’s specific problems and not on current issues in the context of non-proliferation.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“With that in mind, and in the interest of maintaining consensus, we supported resolution 2622 (2022), submitted by Mexico, extending the mandate of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) to the end of November this year. However, we continue to entertain serious concerns about this document and, more broadly, about how the work of the 1540 Committee has been undertaken in 2021 and 2022. We are concerned that the Council has had once again today to limit itself to a strictly technical rollover of the mandate of the 1540 Committee in the interest of ensuring that the comprehensive review of the resolution’s implementation can be concluded swiftly. We see no justification for such a restriction.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2622 (2022). I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. Russia is fully committed to the purposes and principles of resolution 1540 (2004), which we co-sponsored. We are interested in preserving its non-proliferation and preventive nature and in seeing its comprehensive implementation by all countries within their capacity to do so. We will do everything within our power to ensure that resolution 1540 (2004) remains a relevant non-proliferation instrument that complements sector-specific mechanisms in this field, such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2022/147, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Mexico. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Albania, Brazil, China, France, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8977 (2022) · source
“The representative of the Russian Defence Ministry also noted that personnel at the power plant continued to carry out their tasks normally and were monitoring the situation of radioactivity: “The level of radioactivity surrounding the nuclear power plant is normal.” Vienna reports that the level of radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is low, and there is no threat to the population, as announced on Friday by Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The meeting rose at 7 p.m.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“In my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation, I should like to make only one comment in order to calm Council members’ fears. There is a great deal to say about the statement made by the representative of Ukraine. I will let his boorishness weigh on his conscience and say nothing further about it. But let me say one thing. The Russian Ministry of Defence reported that “Yesterday, 24 February, units of the Russian paratrooper forces took full control of the area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. An agreement was reached with Ukranian servicemen from the power plant special guard battalion about the joint provision of security for the power units and the sarcophagus at the power plant”. We do not want Ukraine to build a dirty bomb.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“My apologies, but before moving to a moment of silence, I want to include on the list those people who perished over all these years in Donbas. They, too, are worthy of being mentioned. All human lives are valuable. Let us not forget them either. The members of the Security Council observed a minute of silence.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Those objectives will soon be achieved and the Ukrainian people will gain an opportunity to once again independently determine their future and in so doing live in peace, good neighbourliness and cooperation with all their neighbours. I now resume my functions as the President of the Council. The representative of the United States of America has asked to make a further statement.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Turning to our colleagues from the United States, I note that with respect to the alleged bombing of the kindergarten, that too is fake information. Of course, it is difficult for us to compete with the United States in terms of the number of invasions targeting their neighbours. I will refrain from listing the aggressions carried out by the United States in its history, but that country is in no position to moralize. I wish to conclude by emphasizing that we are not waging a war against Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. We are carrying out a special operation against nationalists to protect the residents of Donbas and for the purposes of denazification and demilitarization.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Russian troops are not bombing Ukrainian cities, and we have said that civilians are not threatened by anything. There is no verifiable confirmation whatsoever about the deaths of civilians. I note that the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom alleged that a Russian military weapon system was targeting civilians. I saw the reports today, and I would like to inform that representative that, as we can see from the videos, that is a heavy surface-to-air missile system system called Strela-10 or Arrow-10. It is in the possession of the Ukrainian armed forces. The Russian military does not have that kind of equipment. It is obsolete. That is the kind of fake information being used by the representative of the United Kingdom.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“There are videos alleging Russian strikes targeting residential areas that were filmed in other parts of the world and have nothing to do with Ukraine. That was mentioned today by the BBC, which issued an article entitled “Ukraine conflict: many misleading images have been shared online”. There you can find everything. There are photographs from parades. There are photographs of American aviation bombing Libya. There are photographs from Syria. There are even photographs of the explosion in Beirut that is being presented as something that took place in Ukraine. I will send that article to Council members separately. I wish to turn to my French, British and American colleagues. The Permanent Representative of France said that civilians are being murdered in Ukraine. That is untrue.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Why did they not even bother to notice that there are more than 4 million people living in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic who, at best, were branded as pro-Russian separatists? Why did they not call out Poroshenko when he said that the residents of Donbas would rot in basements? Why did they not call out Zelenskyy when he called those same residents “non-people” and “specimens”? Parenthetically, I cannot but note that in the latest frenzy of propaganda our Western colleagues very frequently use imagery from Donbas, brandishing them as alleged consequences of the so-called Russian aggression in Ukraine. Those fake images are abundant and proliferate today. They have flooded the Internet and a number of Telegram channels.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“President Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defence explicitly stated that there would be no strikes targeting civilian infrastructure. However, nationalists are already using civilians as human shields. We categorically condemn the placement by nationalists of artillery and multiple rocket launchers in residential areas. That is a direct breach of the norms of international humanitarian law, including Articles 51 and 58 of the first Additional Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. We see how the situation is being exploited in propagandistic exercises by Western politicians and media outlets. I would like to ask them where they they have been for the past eight years. Why were they not concerned when shelling and killing occurred in Donbas?”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Our Western colleagues have made Ukraine a pawn in their geopolitical game, with no concern whatsoever for the interests of the Ukrainian people. The responsibility for what is transpiring at present lies not only with the Ukrainian Government but also with them. Today’s draft resolution is nothing other than yet another move in a brutal and inhumane chess game on this Ukrainian chessboard. At the moment, all Western media outlets have been inundated with reports about how civilian populations in Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities have been seeking refuge in bomb shelters and how they fear for their lives and flee artillery fire. We genuinely empathize with our neighbours and we urge them not to yield to provocations.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“That includes the glorification of Hitler’s henchmen, alongside the ban on paying tribute to and honouring the real heroes of Ukraine who freed it of Nazism, as well as the religious schism in that country. While speakers are spinning tales about the triumph of democracy in Ukraine, the Maidan authorities and nationalists have been, murdering their political opponents with impunity. They have been persecuting the opposition. They have been closing down opposition television channels where one could get at least relatively objective information. Six of those television channels were closed down under President Zelenskyy alone. And how can we fail to mention the fact that the country has been flooded with weapons that were then used to kill civilians in Donbas?”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“Last year, we held an informal Arria Formula Security Council meeting on both of those issues with the aim of sharing more information with Security Council colleagues. However, what we heard in response from Western partners were at best merely cliches about so-called Russian propaganda. How can a resolution on the Ukrainian issue fail to mention those issues I just referred to? It would have been appropriate to include in the draft resolution an honest assessment of the role of our Western colleagues in fueling the Ukrainian crisis. Not only did they stand behind the Maidan coup but they also effectively issued a carte blanche to Kyiv to carry out acts and steps that would be unthinkable for any civilized State. That includes the egregious discrimination against the Russian language and consequently against Russian-language speakers.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“In addition, how can we fail to mention the blood- chilling crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainian nazis over the past eight years or the fact that the protesters against the Maidan in Odessa were burned alive? How can we fail to mention the fact that peaceful protesters on Maidan Square were shot at by unknown snipers? The investigation into both of those tragedies is something that has been deliberately dragged out and worn down by the Maidan regime. At the same time, the culprits in the Odessa tragedy are well known and do not seem to be hiding. Alternative, independent investigations and the confessions of the snipers themselves unambiguously confirm that the slaughter at Independence Square was provoked by Maidan leaders.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“What was left out was the way in which the Ukrainian authorities, with the connivance of their Western patrons, consistently and cynically shirked their responsibility to implement the Minsk agreements, the lynchpin of which was direct dialogue with the residents of the country’s east. At the same time, Ukrainian death squads, comprised largely of radical, neo-Nazi battalions, were positioned and deployed on a line of contact, methodically and relentlessly shelling the residential areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic on a daily basis, killing women, children and the elderly. That situation continues. Just today four civilians died as a result of the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“The main reason for our negative vote is not based on what is included in the draft resolution but what it lacks. If its sponsors were to attempt to make it even remotely balanced, then they would not have left out issues that must be addressed and cannot be overlooked in the context of the Ukrainian problem. Specifically, what was left out is the fact that the Maidan junta, which assumed and seized power as a result of the anti-constitutional coup in Kyiv in February 2014, unleashed a war against the residents of the country’s east, shelling residential areas with artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers, raining bombs on the people of Donetsk and Luhansk.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. The Russian Federation voted against the anti-Russian and anti-Ukrainian draft resolution (S/2022/155) that was submitted today. Why is it anti-Russian? I think there is no need to explain that — a cursory glance at the text will suffice. Why is it anti-Ukrainian? Because it without any doubt runs counter to the fundamental interests of the Ukrainian people insofar as it is an attempt to salvage and establish in Ukraine a system of power that has brought the country to the point of tragedy, which has persisted for at least eight years now. We thank those who did not support the draft resolution. I will not respond to those who just accused the Russian Federation of abusing the right of veto.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“The draft resolution received 11 votes in favour, 1 against and 3 abstentions. The draft resolution has not been adopted, owing to the negative vote of one permanent member of the Council. I now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the vote.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by a show of hands. In favour: Albania, Brazil, France, Gabon, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America Against: Russian Federation Abstaining: China, India, United Arab Emirates”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements before the voting.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2022/155, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, the Niger, North Macedonia, Norway, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Samoa, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, the Niger, North Macedonia, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Samoa, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey and Ukraine to participate in this meeting.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8979 (2022) · source
“I thank the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic for his statement. I now give the floor to the representative of Turkey, who has asked to make a further statement.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“Attempts to cherry-pick the most attractive elements of the document, such as prioritizing cross- border humanitarian assistance, and ignore early recovery projects and the task of extending humanitarian access over the contact line, are unacceptable. They do not help solve Syria’s humanitarian and socioeconomic problems. I shall now resume my functions as the President of the Council. I now give the floor to the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“There is still no access to areas of Turkish operations. Western donors continue to politicize the funding of early recovery projects. Resolution 2585 (2021) was renewed for another six months following the publication of the Secretary- General’s special report (S/2021/1030). We expect that the United Nations and other members of the global community will galvanize efforts to ensure the full and good faith implementation of the resolution. Our discussions, as well as the decision to be made in July this year, will largely depend on whether or not that approach is duly upheld and brings about tangible results.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“We will continue searching for Russian children in Syrian refugee camps and work to repatriate them. Such efforts began in 2017 on the instructions of the President of Russia. Since December 2018, 364 Russian children have been repatriated from conflict zones in the Middle East. Documents have been prepared for the repatriation of an additional 128 children. The humanitarian situation in Syria remains complex. Some 14 million Syrians are in need of assistance. Socioeconomic challenges, exacerbated by suffocating unilateral sanctions, are becoming increasingly complex. Progress in implementing resolution 2585 (2021), which was adopted to increase comprehensive humanitarian assistance to Syria, remains limited. Over the past six months, only two domestic convoys were dispatched to Idlib.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“The attack, which was followed by an operation to neutralize the terrorists and clear the area, with the help of aviation and armoured vehicles, led to dozens of peaceful Syrians being killed or injured. More than 45,000 people were forced to leave their homes. That confirms the need for an uncompromising fight against terrorism in Syria, and not the need to indulge them. We note that, to date, nearly all internally displaced persons have returned home. However, more than 700 children remain in detention facilities, which is cause for concern. Let me highlight the efforts of Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights. On 24 February, 14 children, age three to 15, were returned to Russia from Syria. Five of them had stayed at orphanages in Damascus and the other nine had been evacuated from refugee camps in the area beyond the Euphrates.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“Pedersen will focus on the work of the Constitutional Committee and not be distracted by initiatives that do not enjoy the support of the Syrian Government or the Syrian opposition. Those initiatives should not replace intra-Syrian consultations, which the Special Envoy is mandated to promote. The work of the Committee should be seamless, without artificial interruptions. It should hold regular sessions, in similar fashion to the editorial board. Frequently postponing meetings in order to fine-tune and perfect the rules of procedure is clearly not helping advance the process. Political efforts are now required in the light of the fact that the situation in some regions not controlled by Damascus remains tense. The large-scale terrorist attack on the Al-Sinaa prison in Al-Hasakah was a clear confirmation of the dangerous destabilization.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“In that regard, we welcome Special Envoy Pedersen’s plans to convene the seventh round of meetings of the Constitutional Committee’s editorial board in Switzerland next month. We hope that its work will focus primarily on dialogue among the Syrian parties in order to encourage them to agree on constitutional reform, without being distracted by minor issues. Therefore, we will continue our engagement with the Syrians, the Special Envoy and other stakeholders. To that end, this week in Moscow Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Syrian counterpart, Minister Fayssal Mekdad, and Special Envoy Pedersen. The main focus of the meeting was a comprehensive resolution on Syria, based on resolution 2254 (2015). We hope that Mr.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. We thank Geir Pedersen for his briefing and welcome the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and new Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, to today’s meeting. We thank her for her briefing. We believe that constructive intra-Syrian dialogue must be established, first and foremost, within the framework of the Constitutional Committee. We are convinced that there is no alternative to promoting Syrian-owned and Syrian-led settlement process, under United Nations mediation, without any external interference and artificially imposed deadlines.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“I thank Mr. Pedersen for his briefing. I understand that this is Ms. Msuya’s first briefing to the Security Council. I welcome her to this meeting, and I now give her the floor.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2022/135, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017), 2401 (2018), 2449 (2018), 2504 (2020), 2533 (2020) and 2585 (2021). I now give the floor to Mr. Pedersen.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in the meeting: Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria; and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”
2022-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8978 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a further statement in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. I wanted to say, by way of conclusion, that we did not launch an aggression against the Ukrainian people, but against the junta that is in power in Kyiv. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The meeting rose at 11 p.m.”
2022-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8974 (2022) · source
“Speaking in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation, I was not planning to answer the questions posed because I have already said all I know at this point. Waking Minister Lavrov at this time is not something I intend to do. The representative of Ukraine referenced the information that we have, which we will provide. In addition, this is not called a war; it is called a special military operation in Donbas. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Germany.”
2022-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8974 (2022) · source
“That decision was made in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the Charter of the United Nations, the approval of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation and pursuant to the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance signed with the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. We are receiving a great deal of information on the matter, which has yet to be analysed. We will keep the Council updated. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to representative of Ukraine.”
2022-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8974 (2022) · source
“During the course of this meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an address in which he said that he had decided to launch a special military operation in Donbas. We do not know all the details today, but I want to briefly inform the Council of his rationale — what clearly follows from his message is that the occupation of Ukraine is not part of our plans. The purpose of the special operation is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. To that end, we will work towards the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine and bring to justice the perpetrators of numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation.”
2022-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8974 (2022) · source
“To that end, first and foremost, direct dialogue with Donetsk and Luhansk was needed. However, yet another confirmation of Ukraine’s unwillingness to engage in such dialogue and take steps to grant Donbas the special status stipulated in the Minsk agreements, and the support of Western sponsors for that position, ultimately convinced us that we simply did not have the right to allow the continued suffering of the residents of Donbas. As I said, Ukrainian provocations against the people of Donbas have not only continued, but have intensified. The leadership of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics have asked us to provide military support in accordance with the bilateral cooperation agreements concluded at the time as their recognition. That is a logical step and a consequence of the actions of the Ukrainian regime.”
2022-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8974 (2022) · source