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Polyanskiy

lines on the record: 2,335
first: 2018-01-31
most recent: 2023-12-22
sittings or episodes: 300
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“Another teenager was blown up by a mine of this type in Donetsk on 2 February, and there have been 89 such tragic detonations altogether. Kyiv’s shelling also is also threatening civilians in Russia’s border regions. In the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions, 700 houses have been destroyed and dozens of civilians have been killed or injured as a result of strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Western media is either deliberately ignoring it or hypocritically presenting it as deserved revenge on the part of Ukraine. However, we should not confuse civilian casualties that occur as a result of the mistaken and sometimes criminal actions of Ukrainian air-defence systems with Ukraine’s intentional shelling of civilian infrastructure that is nowhere close to military objectives.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“Given the scale of Kyiv’s crimes, it is becoming increasingly difficult for international human rights organizations with any claim to objectivity to ignore them. For example, the most recent report from Human Rights Watch, which can hardly be suspected of sympathizing with Russia, confirmed what we have stated repeatedly in this Chamber, which is that Ukraine has been systematically using banned anti-personnel “petal” butterfly mines against civilians in Donbas. As the report indicates, the mines are deployed remotely, using rocket projectiles, or by scattering mines from aircraft or with special types of remote mining devices. On the ground they are unnoticeable and can therefore easily maim both adults and children, who can mistake them for toys. We have demonstrated models of this barbaric device a number of times.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“One of those who specifically addressed the Council was Maya Pirogova, whose daughter died during one of those inhumane attacks by the Ukrainian army with the help of American long- range weapons. And what did they find to say when they looked her in the eye? Merely hackneyed mantras about “Russian propaganda”. As far as our former Western partners are concerned, the inhabitants of Donbas do not exist, and they have been doing everything they can to shamelessly consign to oblivion what has been happening to them since 2014. But that will not work. We want to once again affirm that every act of criminal abuse committed by Ukrainian armed forces under the auspices of the West will be carefully recorded and will not go unpunished.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“As to how that affects the prospects for peace in Ukraine is something that we will discuss separately and in detail at another Security Council meeting that we will be convening on 8 February. The selective blindness and cynicism of Western countries in the face of indisputable facts was particularly evident during the Arria Formula meeting of the Council on the shelling of Donbas by Ukraine that we held on 20 January. Council members had the opportunity to see and hear from people who had just been in Donetsk, those who live, or rather who survive there, every day under the Ukrainian strikes, strikes that began much earlier than last February — more than eight years ago, in fact.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“66 in Donetsk was shelled and its interior seriously damaged. In mid-January Ukrainian forces shelled a Donetsk mother-and-child care centre. We regularly send Mrs. Gamba de Potgieter, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, data on crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against children, particularly killings, maimings and attacks on schools and hospitals. The lack of a reaction from the United States and the other NATO countries that are supplying Kyiv with long- range artillery and missile systems to Kyiv’s repeated and monstrous trampling of international humanitarian law once again confirms their direct involvement in the conflict and their complicity in the crimes being committed.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“The intentional shelling of working civilian medical facilities and the deliberate killing of civilians represent serious war crimes by the Kyiv regime and its Western masters. The worst is that children are dying as a result of the Kyiv regime’s artillery strikes on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics and the liberated areas of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya. Because of the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in 2022 a total of 4,574 civilians died, including 153 children, and 279 children were wounded. The Ukrainian forces are targeting not merely civilian objects but the infrastructure that ensures children’s lives and welfare. Schools and children’s hospitals are being destroyed by the Kyiv regime’s strikes. To cite some examples from just this past week, school No.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“Evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and deliberate attacks on civilian facilities by Kyiv increases on a daily basis. On 28 January, an American HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system targeted a hospital in the town of Novoaidar in the Luhansk People’s Republic. As a result of that tragedy, 14 people were killed and another 24 received injuries of varying levels of seriousness. Needless to say, there was no reaction to that crime from Western countries, since at that moment they were busy trying to “groom” the tragedies, first in Dnipro and then Kramatorsk, where thanks to the emplacement of Ukrainian air- defence systems in residential areas, in violation of norms of international humanitarian law, missiles fell on residential buildings.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“The former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, told us all the other day how the Ukrainians had been sidelined by Washington and London and prevented from agreeing realistic peace terms a month after the start of the special military operation. Efforts to find a solution for peace would also have been more successful today if the Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis had not violated international humanitarian law by using their own civilians as human shields. It is also of course extremely repugnant for the Kyiv regime and the collective West to try to ignore the long-standing criminal actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the nationalist battalions against the residents of Donbas and other areas that became part of Russia following last September’s referendums.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“By raising that topic, they clearly hope to present our actions in Ukraine in as unflattering a light as possible, and they want to highlight the suffering and deprivation of the civilian population of this country, while keeping silent about what the residents of Donbas have suffered during nine years of Ukrainian shelling. However, as the Ukrainian crisis develops, it is becoming increasingly difficult for our former Western partners to paint such a black and white picture. After all, it is increasingly clear that the civilian population of Ukraine would have long since ceased to suffer if the Kyiv regime and its Western masters had been interested in peace.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): At the outset, I would like to express our deep and sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of Türkiye and Syria with regard to the numerous casualties as a result of the devastating earthquake that has occurred in those countries. Our rescuers have already flown to Syria, and we are ready to provide the necessary support to our Turkish friends. Today, at the initiative of a number of our Western colleagues, we are once again discussing the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.”
2023-02-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9254 (2023) · source
“In several cases, they have undermined efforts made by the international community to assist a given State. In the context of Haiti, we view such measures as an attempt by the United States and Canada to steer internal processes in the country in their preferred direction. But such measures cannot by any means be considered an expression of the will of the international community, which can be expressed only through the decisions of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti. We expect the Committee to intensify its work, including with a view to determining the true sources of funding of the gangs in Haiti and routes used for supplying illegal weapons to the island.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“We believe that issue should be more clearly reflected in the Secretary- General’s reporting. We support the Secretary-General’s call to investigate the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. In the year and a half since the tragedy, which had clear traces of external interference, no progress has been made in the investigation. All those responsible, especially those who ordered the assassination, must be brought to justice and punished. We are also very disappointed with a document signed by the head of the Secretariat, in which unilateral coercive measures are basically equated with Security Council sanctions, while those two very different instruments are covered in the same section of the report. Everyone knows that in other countries, unilateral sanctions have already led to dire humanitarian and economic consequences.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“Meanwhile, we must acknowledge that there are no legitimate elected authorities in the country. The final third segment of the senators elected on the basis of statutory procedures recently completed their term of office. We have repeatedly stated that the legitimacy crisis is one of the key obstacles to breaking the country’s vicious cycle of lawlessness, violence and socioeconomic degradation. The crisis of statehood in Haiti is largely the result of external political engineering and neocolonial policies, which have prevented several colleagues in the Security Council from speaking frankly. The goal of the international community is to send a clear message to Port-au-Prince about the need to create legitimate institutions based on international and regional instruments, such as the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“We are very concerned about the humanitarian issues, which have been compounded by the cholera epidemic. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the number of cases of cholera rose by 57 per cent over the past month. It is clear that without a full-fledged resumption of the work of State institutions and inclusive dialogue among political forces, there will be no way out of the situation. We are monitoring efforts on that track and note the signing on 21 December 2022 of the National Consensus for an Inclusive Transition and Transparent Elections. Any steps that could help to overcome the divisions and restore constitutional order in Haiti should be supported. However, it is important that all major opposition actors be included in that dialogue.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): First of all, we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the delegation of Gabon and the people of Gabon on the passing of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of their country. We too are mourning with our friends from Gabon. We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing. According to statistics for 2022 provided in the Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/41), the situation continues to deteriorate in Haiti, with an increasing number of murders, abductions and cases of sexual violence. The number of internally displaced persons and refugees is also on the rise. Recent reports of increased violence on the streets of Port-au-Prince leave no doubt that the issue of crime will remain at the top of Haiti’s agenda this year.”
2023-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9247 (2023) · source
“We urge for continued cooperation in that area with international financial organizations, as well as support for the efforts of the relevant United Nations entities, without any restrictions on the work or movement of women personnel.”
2023-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9244 (2023) · source
“We also express the hope that the Special Envoy’s efforts will result in the development of constructive proposals, in coordination with the parties, that could serve as a basis not only for the resumption of the ceasefire but also to launch a full-fledged political process and renew the legal framework for a resolution of the Yemeni question. Unfortunately, the extremely difficult socioeconomic situation in Yemen persists. We underscore the need to mobilize international efforts to provide assistance to all those in need in the country without exception. Any restrictions on the delivery of food, medicine and other vital goods to all regions of Yemen and, ultimately, blockades on the country must be lifted in their entirety.”
2023-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9244 (2023) · source
“At the same time, we are seeing more and more signs that the ultimate goal of our Western colleagues is not a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the large number of challenges facing Yemen, which also directly affect its neighbouring States, but, above all, ensuring the uninterrupted export of Yemeni hydrocarbons to the global market. We consider such an opportunistic approach to be extremely harmful to sustainable peace in the country. For our part, we continue to provide all possible assistance towards a settlement and maintain contact with both the official authorities and the Houthis. We are actively promoting the importance of inter-Yemeni contacts and privileged dialogue with the Special Envoy.”
2023-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9244 (2023) · source
“The necessary solutions should be sought and carried out within the framework of an inclusive negotiation process under the auspices of the United Nations, which is the only way to establish peace on the basis of the legitimate interests of all leading political forces. Stabilization can be achieved only through direct dialogue with the Ansar Allah movement, which has long been part of the objective reality of the existing military-political balance of power. In that regard, we welcome efforts through any and all channels aimed at breaking the deadlock in resolving the Yemeni question and paving the way to stabilization. The international community must now do everything in its power to restore peace to Yemen.”
2023-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9244 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, for their briefings on political and humanitarian developments in Yemen. We continue to closely monitor the situation in the country. The absence of acute military escalations unambiguously demonstrates the general inclination of Yemen’s leading political forces towards a renewal of the truce. Its implementation, however, is being made more difficult by mutual antagonism. Under those circumstances, it is extremely important to exercise maximum restraint and prevent any provocative actions — especially those of a military nature — that could lead to a catastrophe.”
2023-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9244 (2023) · source
“Given that the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Fernando Arias, continues to invent excuses to avoid coming to the Security Council for briefings, getting done with the job every month with carbon copies of the previous reports, we call for respect to be shown for Council members’ time and for the schedule for these meetings to be improved once and for all. Until then, we see no point in engaging in substantive discussions on the issue.”
2023-01-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9235 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. We also welcome the other new non-permanent members of the Council — Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland and Ecuador. We wish them every success and productive work. It is a shame that we are starting the new working year with yet another meeting on the Syrian chemical-weapons issue, whose complete lack of added value has us fed up to the back teeth. Like other Council members, we have said repeatedly that it is pointless for the Security Council to discuss this topic every month just for the record to please the domestic political agendas of a number of Western countries. It devalues the Council’s discussion and undermines its authority.”
2023-01-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9235 (2023) · source
“We will continue to monitor that aspect closely, including in the context of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“Otherwise, the Libyan people could once again fall victim to the duplicitous agenda of the Western States, which are ready to sacrifice a comprehensive and lasting settlement in Libya to their own geopolitical and commercial interests. There should also be a continued focus on the management of the Libyan assets that were frozen by the relevant Security Council sanctions. The international restrictions are supposed to help guide the political process and a return to stability while safeguarding Libya’s money, rather than helping Western States enrich themselves. It is unacceptable that financial institutions in third countries profit from Libyan assets, which should be preserved for succeeding generations of Libyans.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“Any inadvertent accident or deliberate provocation could trigger a new outbreak of violence or lead to a military disaster. In that context, the issue of eliminating the foreign military presence in Libya remains crucial. We have consistently advocated for a synchronized, well-balanced and step-by-step withdrawal of all non-Libyan armed groups and military units, without exception. We understand the Libyan people’s desire to ensure stable exports of their hydrocarbons, considering that they are critical to Libya’s economic recovery. We underscore that oil revenues must be distributed in a fair and transparent manner.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“We once again express our support to Special Representative Bathily and hope that his efforts to revive the Libyan settlement in all areas will be successful. We are ready for close cooperation and a substantive exchange of views with Mr. Bathily on the situation in Libya. Given the current trends in Libya, engagement on the military track is key. We took note of the agreements reached earlier in December under the Special Representative’s mediation to convene a session of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission in January 2023 in Sirte, Libya. We call on the parties to deliver on their respective obligations under the ceasefire agreement and to stop delaying the unification of the national armed forces, especially in the light of the constructive approach clearly demonstrated in that regard in both eastern and western Libya.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“At the moment, the prospects for implementing concrete steps towards agreeing on a draft constitutional framework and conducting a national vote are becoming even more elusive against the backdrop of the suspended interaction between the House of Representatives and High State Council because of the disagreements that arose in early December. It seems, unfortunately, that the Libyan politicians themselves are not very interested in finding a compromise. We are convinced that the role of the United Nations is more relevant today than ever before. We are counting on UNSMIL to step up its activity as an impartial and neutral mediator in moving forward the political process in Libya. It would be a mistake to build a Libyan settlement outside of the framework set by the Security Council.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“However, as we can see, there is still a long way to go before the situation can be resolved. We regret to note the lack of meaningful progress on the political track. The intensive consultations between the leadership of the House of Representatives and the High State Council have yet to yield any breakthroughs. They were merely limited to the discussion of plans for distributing the high-ranking leadership positions of the executive and a mutual affirmation of an intent to conduct a popular vote as soon as possible.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“The country’s leading political forces are mobilizing their supporters and trying to secure additional support from the outside, while promising the external stakeholders that their interests in Libya will be guaranteed once their opponents in the struggle for power are defeated. That is hardly the path that ordinary Libyans deserve, given the fact that their country has been in a permanent state of chaos and uncertainty since 2011. In order to overcome that impasse, Libya needs to agree on a draft of its future constitution and convene nationwide inclusive elections. The involvement of the entire spectrum of Libya’s leading political forces, including representatives of former authorities, is a cornerstone of national reconciliation. We therefore welcome the efforts of the African Union to organize an all-Libyan conference to that end.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), for his briefing. We also thank you, Madam, for your briefing as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya. We continue to pay close attention to the developments in Libya. Having reverted to a system of duality of power, Libya is once again balancing on the verge of a resumption of armed conflict. We cannot rule out a possible escalation in the foreseeable future.”
2022-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9223 (2022) · source
“Their desire to continue uncontrollably pumping Ukraine with weapons will be fully assessed by the unbiased Members of the United Nations and the American taxpayers themselves. If only for that fact, convening today’s meeting has definitely been worthwhile.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Therefore, I would like to stress that Council members will not be able to blame Russia for the fact that Ukrainians, using their weapons, have killed — and continue to kill — the peaceful citizens of Donbas, who they have been terrorizing since 2014, as punishment. Neither will they be able to blame Russia for the fact that, because of the flourishing corruption of Ukrainian, American and European officials, weapons from Ukraine flow to international terrorists and help fuel conflicts in other regions of the world and kill peaceful civilians there. No one who watches our meetings will be left with any doubt about the consequences of what they are doing and the consequences in terms of undermining international peace and security and the denial into the microphone by our American colleagues of obvious facts and trends.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We listened very carefully to all the speakers and asked for the floor to draw Council members’ attention to the following. Our former Western partners have not said a peep about the topic of today’s meeting — the consequences of supplying weapons to Ukraine — despite the facts and evidence that we provided today. They simply have nothing to say, and that is why they continue to repeat the same talking points at every meeting. According to their worldview, Russia is guilty of everything everywhere. There are no other explanations, and neither have there been any for a long time. In their blindness, they continue on a pathway that could lead to global consequences. That has become even clearer to us after today’s meeting.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Basically, we waste two hours every month repeating the same statements verbatim, simply for the Western capitals to tick a box for having adhered to the prescribed frequency of meetings during which they condemn the Syrian leadership. It is obvious that such an approach devalues any discussion of the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) and undermines the authority of the Council, which instead of pouring from the empty into the void, as the saying goes, could be discussing far more dynamic and relevant situations. Rather than reach the point of absurdity, let us instead optimize the schedule of Security Council meetings on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013).”
2022-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9207 (2022) · source
“The connivance of the OPCW leadership in response to the attempts by the West to make the OPCW an instrument of its own policies and implement its opportunistic objectives leads to the degradation of this Organization, which used to be a very reputable institution, and causes irreparable damage to its authority. Such a blatant and very unflattering situation is further exacerbated by the fact that the Director-General of the OPCW, Mr. Arias, has failed yet again to make an appearance at the Security Council and refuses to speak directly with members of the Council. It is becoming increasingly obvious that he has something to hide. Our regular mechanical discussions of the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) could take first place in the rankings of the least productive meetings of the Security Council.”
2022-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9207 (2022) · source
“I am sure that our Syrian colleagues will address that in greater detail today. I see no reason to dwell on the content of the report, and therefore will simply highlight that we have a number of criticisms to make of the products of the Technical Secretariat, which continue to become less and less credible as sources of information on the Syrian chemical dossier. We do not recognize the predetermined conclusions of the report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Douma incident (see S/2019/208) or any of the findings of the illegitimate Investigation and Identification Team, the sole aim of which is to portray Damascus in a bad light and force the conclusions to fit the political orders of the United States and its allies.”
2022-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9207 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The report presented by Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu on behalf of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (see S/2022/897) again provides no added value in comparison to previous one (see S/2022/828), which is not surprising given that there have been no developments on the ground in relation to the Syrian chemical dossier. That is the result not of the actions of Damascus, as our Western colleagues will try to prove today, but rather of the persistent unwillingness of the OPCW Technical Secretariat to rectify its biased anti-Syrian policy. In each new report, the same clichés and politicized accusations continue to be levelled against the Syrian authorities, while nothing has been done to correct the errors that we have repeatedly pointed out.”
2022-12-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9207 (2022) · source
“We are dismayed by the lack of an adequate response on the part of United Nations specialized agencies, first and foremost among them the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which must cope with a paralysing financial shortfall. The Agency’s activities have not only a humanitarian, but also a political, dimension, while playing an important stabilizing role in the Palestinian territories and Middle East countries. We unrelentingly continue to provide the Agency with our support in the renewal of its mandate in the General Assembly and reaffirm our readiness to continue our voluntary one-time contributions. Unfortunately, owing to unilateral anti-Russian sanctions, we have as yet been unable to make a financial contribution to the UNRWA budget.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“In that regard, we welcome the signing of the Algiers declaration, under which Palestinian factions jointly decided to continue on the path of national unity. We believe that it is an important step towards confirming the Palestinians’ intention to launch negotiations based on a common position. Despite Israel’s stated intention to promote the improvement of the economic situation of Palestinians, the overall socioeconomic and humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate. In that regard, we attach great importance to the provision of comprehensive humanitarian assistance to those in need in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as to Palestinian refugees in neighbouring Arab countries.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“We also strongly condemn the attacks on Israeli civilians in Jerusalem last week. Neither do we see any prospects for revitalizing the peace process, which has been at a standstill since 2015. The Palestinian issue has become a bargaining chip in a long series of election campaigns in Israel, as it has actively been pushed to the bottom of the international agenda by the United States, which has blocked the efforts of the Middle East Quartet and the Security Council’s adoption of any substantive decision. Furthermore, as we heard today from the Special Coordinator, a Middle East settlement is also suffering from the United States and its allies prioritizing the Ukrainian crisis. The continuing rift between Fatah and Hamas allows for exploiting the idea that Israel lacks a distinct partner capable of representing the Palestinian side.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“Amid that disproportionate use of force in the occupied Palestinian territories, unilateral actions continue to create irreversible facts on the ground — the construction of settlements, the expropriation of Palestinian property, the demolition of homes, arbitrary arrests and the disruption of the status quo of Jerusalem’s holy sites. At the same time, Israel’s arbitrary illegal actions have extended beyond the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and have affected neighbouring Arab countries, with many incidents involving the violation of their sovereignty, including strikes against Syria and Lebanon. We oppose the defence of national security at the cost of creating threats to other countries and turning the Middle East region into an arena for proxy confrontation with Iran.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“Against the background of the relative stabilization of the situation in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli military operation in August this year, which killed at least 49 Palestinians, including 17 children, the unrest in the West Bank has not abated. Following the Israeli blockade and military raids in Jenin, the cleansing of Nablus and the Shu’fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem began. According to reports, more than 130 people have already died as a result of Israeli military action in the West Bank this year, making it the bloodiest since 2005.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the occupied Palestinian territories. It is fitting that our discussion today is taking place on the eve of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Another escalation of violence in the Palestinian- Israeli conflict area shows that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories will remain volatile until the parties find mutually acceptable solutions to all final-status issues on the basis of the universally recognized international legal framework of the Middle East peace process, including the two-State solution.”
2022-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9203 (2022) · source
“In many regions, including in Taiz, there are shortages of basic goods, food and medicine. We reiterate that providing Yemenis with basic goods should continue on a non-discriminatory basis. We call on all players involved in the Yemeni settlement to continue to cooperate in that area with international financial organizations and to support the work of United Nations specialized agencies. Any restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian assistance and on humanitarian work are unacceptable.”
2022-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9199 (2022) · source
“For our part, we will continue to provide significant assistance to the international mediation efforts in Yemen by maintaining contacts with all of the country’s leading political parties and actively encouraging them to engage constructively. We are becoming concerned about the increasingly clear fixation of our Western colleagues on the issue of resuming uninterrupted exports of Yemeni hydrocarbons. They risk overlooking fundamental issues hindering a solution to the crisis. We would like to caution them against making that kind of mistake, which is already having a very negative impact on the settlement of a number of other crises in the Middle East. The six-month truce significantly improved the daily life of ordinary Yemenis, but the humanitarian situation in the country remains dire.”
2022-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9199 (2022) · source
“We have repeatedly said that seeking to resolve the intra-Yemeni conflict exclusively through pressure will have the opposite result. We are convinced that the only way to overcome the deadlock in the negotiating process is through direct contacts with the Houthi movement. In that regard, we welcome any communication channels and opportunities that could lead to practical results on the ground and help to stabilize the situation and finally open the way to a full-fledged political process. We see no alternative to finding the necessary solutions through broad intra-Yemeni dialogue with the participation of all parties to the conflict.”
2022-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9199 (2022) · source
“Commercial flights to Sana’a continue to operate and oil tankers continue to dock at Al-Hudaydah port. Nevertheless, the fragility of the current situation of neither peace nor war is obvious to everyone. In the circumstances, we consider any provocative unilateral actions unacceptable, especially those of a military nature, which would violate the provisions of the ceasefire and lead to further escalation. We call on all the parties in Yemen, in particular the Houthis, to exercise maximum restraint and continue to work constructively with the Special Envoy, whose mediation efforts to find a mutually acceptable solution to the protracted conflict in Yemen we continue to support. At this stage, the task of Council members, as international mediators, is to prevent the results of the six-month truce from being nullified.”
2022-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9199 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director for Operations and Advocacy, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Reena Ghelani, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian developments in Yemen. We are disappointed that the truce between the official Yemeni authorities and the Houthis that ended almost two months ago has not yet been restored. We note, however, that the situation on the ground now is noticeably better than it was at the beginning of the year. The armed clashes are sporadic. The internationally recognized Government is exercising restraint and a relapse into open warfare has so far been avoided.”
2022-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9199 (2022) · source
“Nevertheless, in the context of political instability and the disunity among key financial institutions, those oil revenues do not always make it into the country’s budget but remain in foreign bank accounts. It is important to ensure that those funds are used for the benefit of ordinary Libyans, rather than ending up in the pockets of a small number of businesspeople, including foreigners. However, such a scenario does not fit into the priorities of our Western colleagues, which is why, unfortunately, we continue to see the machinations behind the scenes, the creation of various non-transparent configurations, the fomenting of divisions among political actors and the attempts to impose external choices on the Libyan people.”
2022-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9192 (2022) · source
“Furthermore, we cannot exclude the existence of a number of agreements reached behind the scenes with third countries on the export of Libyan oil. Essentially, Washington does not care who extracts it or on what legal grounds — its ultimate goal is to squeeze Russia out of the world energy market. A similar policy is being pursued in relation to other oil-producing countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The Libyan economy is more than 90 per cent dependent on oil exports. According to the Libyan National Oil Corporation, the country’s hydrocarbon production has already reached 1.2 million barrels per day, which is projected to increase to 2 million barrels per day. The largest oil reserves in Africa could provide Libya with enough funds to quickly restore the country.”
2022-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9192 (2022) · source