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Polyanskiy

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first: 2018-01-31
most recent: 2023-12-22
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“Calls to stand together with Haiti, including from the rostrum of the General Assembly, are not enough. In particular, we must ensure that the brutal assassination of President Moïse 14 months ago is at last investigated and that those responsible are duly punished. We cannot ignore the fact that elections have not been held in the country for six years and that the terms of Government offices and most of those in Parliament ended long ago, including in the context of the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter. At the same time, in other regions, far less serious problems are met with extreme criticism and even threats from certain members of the Security Council.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“But attempts to simplify the situation and underestimate the scope of the population’s discontent are clearly inappropriate in this case. We are witnessing widespread disappointment and a loss of trust in the authorities. We have repeatedly spoken about the need for broad political dialogue and the launching of electoral and reform processes. Unfortunately, we are not seeing consistent, purposeful steps towards ensuring that Haiti returns to the constitutional path of development. We are particularly disappointed by the fact that the external actors that have meaningful leverage over Port-au-Prince are not taking practical steps to help resolve the crisis in the country and are, in effect, divorcing themselves from events on the ground. We are all familiar with Haiti’s complicated history, and we understand who it is all about.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the briefers for the information that they provided. We welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic at this meeting. The news that the situation in Port-au-Prince has stabilized is encouraging. Nevertheless, by all accounts, the country is one step away from disaster. Real gang warfare is under way, the impact of which affects civilians in the form of abductions, looting, violence and the already-common fear that they feel for their lives. Given the current state of affairs, the protests, which were set off by the Government’s decision to cancel fuel subsidies, of course led to riots and demands for the country’s leadership to resign. We have heard claims that criminal networks and their sponsors are behind the protests.”
2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, we would like once again to draw the Security Council’s attention to resolution 598 (1987) and other initiatives focusing on regional stability, including the renewed Russian collective security concept.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“For the first time over the four months of the truce, there has been a significant improvement in the humanitarian situation for civilians in Yemen. We note the joint steps to ensure fuel deliveries through the ports of Al-Hudaydah and to support commercial flights from Sana’a. Nonetheless, the socioeconomic situation in the country is still extremely serious. There is a need to normalize and get the provision of basic goods — primarily of foodstuffs, medications and basic necessities — to Yemenis up and running regularly and on a non-discriminatory basis. Any restrictions on the delivery of basic goods and any obstacles in the path of humanitarian workers are unacceptable.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“Unfortunately, one of the main sticking points — the parameters for reopening roads around Taiz — has still not been resolved. In this regard, we urge the parties to show additional flexibility, continue substantive discussions on this important issue and find mutually acceptable solutions. We are pleased to note that the truce, in force since April, is being broadly observed, with an insignificant number of violations. This gives ordinary Yemenis long-awaited breathing space and is grounds for hope that life will return to normal. The leading Yemeni political forces are well aware of the danger of slipping back into armed confrontation, and they are trying to prevent such a scenario. We welcome the ongoing work of the Military Coordination Committee in monitoring the conditions of the truce.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“We maintain contacts with all leading political parties and forces, and we actively urge them to adopt a constructive approach and find compromises. We see no alternative but to hammer out necessary political decisions as part of the broad intra-Yemeni dialogue with the involvement of all parties to the conflict. We trust that a lasting and long-term ceasefire will help to shore up the positive steps taken to find solutions to the protracted Yemeni conflict. This will depend first and foremost on the Yemeni protagonists supporting constructive cooperation with the United Nations in order to implement the current provisions of the truce. It will also depend on the potential expansion of the truce’s contours with a focus on achieving a comprehensive settlement in long-suffering Yemen.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“We welcome the decision by the official authorities of the Republic of Yemen and the Ansar Allah movement to extend the truce in the country for a further two months with the same terms. This provides real opportunities for further stabilization. We trust that it will facilitate the transition to direct full-format negotiations between the parties, including in the area of security and the economy. We hope that the remaining disagreements between them will be overcome. In that regard, we highly commend the efforts of Mr. Grundberg, as well as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, which have played a key role in establishing intra-Yemeni contacts in order to extend the truce. From our side, we will continue to provide all possible comprehensive assistance to international mediation work in Yemen.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to start with an expression of condolences to our brotherly Armenian people on the deaths that resulted from the fire at the Surmalu shopping centre in Yerevan and to the brotherly people of Egypt following the terrible fire at the Abu Sefein church in Giza. We would like to express our condolences to all the friends and the family of those who were lost, and we wish all those who have been injured a swift recovery from these tragic events. We would like to thank the Special Envoy for the Secretary-General Hans Grundberg, and the Acting Director, Operations and Advocacy Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Ghada Mudawi, for their briefings on developments on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.”
2022-08-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9110 (2022) · source
“We have all seen that the situation on the ground has substantially changed since 2013, when the United Nations sanctions regime was introduced. In that regard, the switch to a notification regime is a meaningful but overdue step. We believe that an adequate measure, commensurate with the current state of affairs in the Central African Republic, would be a Security Council decision to abolish any sanctions on the efforts of a sovereign State to ensure its national security.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“We have noted the declarations from a number of Western capitals claiming that Russia’s policies in Africa are not to Africa’s benefit or that our actions are malign, in an obvious and unconvincing attempt to pit African countries against Russia. The Africans themselves have an answer to that. The Governments of the Central African Republic and other States welcome Russian assistance, seek to develop equal and mutually respectful relations with us and value our historical ties. It is obvious that the Security Council should revisit its approach to the situation in the Central African Republic. In our view, the resolution adopted today does not respond fully to the task of stabilizing the situation there.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“What we see in that, particularly among Western States, is a desire to do everything possible to keep their hands on the levers of political influence, using the Security Council sanctions mechanisms that are critical to international cooperation for their own opportunistic purposes. That is not a constructive approach, including for ensuring effective sanctions regimes. Our Western colleagues’ arrogant attitude to Africans goes hand in hand with their efforts to cast a shadow over Russian-African cooperation and besmirch the efforts of the Russian experts who have been assisting a number of African Governments in stabilizing the situation in their countries and training their security forces. That is real assistance on the ground, not the advice and moralizing that we see from other continents.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“The voice of African States has again gone unheard, despite the frequent promises made in this Chamber to take account of the views of regional organizations in our work, a situation that once again emphasizes the importance of further strengthening African solidarity on a wide range of issues pertaining to the establishment of security on the continent. It is disturbing to see that opposition to the views of Africans on the full lifting of sanctions has in our opinion recently become a trend. That has been the case with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for several years now, the Central African Republic. Why do countries that are so in favour of keeping sanctions regimes believe that they know the situation better than the African Union?”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“And the rebels are still receiving all the weapons they need through every possible channel. In June of last year, President Lourenço of Angola visited New York in his capacity as Chair of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and spoke in the Security Council in support of the Central African Republic (see S/PV.8802). The African Union has also expressed its position clearly, unanimously and repeatedly, requesting the Security Council to lift the embargo in order to ensure that the national defence and security forces of the Central African Republic can effectively carry out their constitutional mandate to protect the country and its people.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“Russia has emphasized on many occasions in this Chamber, as well as during the consultations on the draft of the resolution, that the Security Council must, finally, respond to the repeated requests of the Government of the Central African Republic to lift the sanctions on arms and military equipment needed to supply the country’s security sector. In October of last year, President Touadera of the Central African Republic personally appealed to the Security Council, also not for the first time, to show wisdom and lift the arms embargo that has prevented his country from fighting the illegal armed groups. It is no secret to anyone that the restrictions imposed on the Central African Republic made life in Bangui itself more challenging right from the start.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): First of all, we would like to congratulate the delegation of Brazil on a successful conclusion to its presidency of the Security Council this month. We appreciate our colleagues’ professionalism. We also welcome Ms. Sylvie Baipo Temon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic, to this meeting. The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2648 (2022), on the renewal of the sanctions regime for the Central African Republic, proposed by France. Nevertheless, we note the efforts that the French delegation made to bring Council members’ positions closer together.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, I would once again like to turn to our Western colleagues and tell them that, by supplying long-range artillery systems and multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, they are essentially shifting the provisional security line that is necessary for peaceful development of the mentioned regions further west, thereby adjusting the goals and objectives of our pecial military operation. They should think about that and know that, once it is over, in one way or another they will have to live alongside and cooperate with us. They are now in large part creating the conditions for that stage themselves. Believe me when I say that their readiness to help the Ukrainians kill the children of Donetsk and Luhansk will hardly be forgotten, either by the Ukrainian or the Russian people.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The world will learn many more unpleasant truths about the horrible phenomena that the Western backers of Ukraine prefer to ignore. This is the clear result of their blindness. Having shown these photos of children, I do not think I need to say anything more. The de-Nazification and the demilitarization of Ukraine will be carried out in full. There must no longer be a threat from this State to Donbas, Russia or to the liberated Ukrainian territories, where for the first time in several years people are finally able to feel that they can live as they choose.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Ukrainian forces now plant lots of these mines in Donbas with the help of cluster munition It is unique in that it is the size of the palm of the hand. On the ground, it is almost invisible. It looks a lot like a children’s toy. It goes off if touched or stepped on. It would maim an adult, but it would almost certainly kill a child. Please answer this question: why drop these fatal toys deep behind the lines in peaceful civilian towns? The answer is obvious. It is to kill as many children as possible. This cruelty might give one pause, but those who were present at our two most recent informal Arria Formula Security Council meetings on Ukraine will understand fully that the roots of the hatred towards those living in the south and east of Ukraine lie in the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazism.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Children are being killed with the weapons that their countries provided to Ukraine, weapons paid for with money from their taxpayers. The President of this country is openly sneering at that and boasting about the accuracy of those weapons. Is that what they were trying to achieve? If not, where is their condemnation of this unheard-of sacrilege? Some in this Chamber probably thought that the Ukrainian regime was killing children in Donbas unintentionally and that their deaths, to use the terminology of our former American partners, was the collateral damage of military activities. I am afraid I must disappoint members on that front. Here is another photograph. Do members know what this is? This is a remotely activated “petal” landmine.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“I am deliberately showing the Council these photographs, not only because Ukraine killed them this month but because they, like the three other children, were killed by shells launched from Western artillery systems. Until the Ukrainian armed forces received those weapons systems, they were simply unable to reach those areas — but now they can. After the Ukrainian armed forces killed five children, one after another, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy did not express his condolences to the parents who lost their beloved children. Instead, he said: “We finally feel that the artillery we received from our Western partners is working very powerfully. They really are as accurate as they should be.” I now turn to my American, British and French colleagues sitting in this Chamber. I want them to clearly understand the following.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The Alley of Angels was built in Donetsk in their memory, with a monument bearing the names of the children killed by Ukraine. There are now 130 names there, including, for example, 13-year-old Anastasia Konopleva, whose photograph I am holding up now. She, along with her brother and sister, died in a shelling attack at their home in 2015. Sadly, that horrific list of names is regularly extended. Since February, 249 civilians, including 16 children, have died in the Donetsk people’s republic alone. I want members to look at the photographs of 10-year-old Veronika Badina, who was killed by Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk on 5 July, and 7-year-old Masha Evtukhova, who was killed on 6 July in a playground with three of her peers.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The day before yesterday, on 27 July, the Donetsk People’s Republic held a day of remembrance for child victims of the war in Donbas. On that day, Donetsk residents laid flowers and brought toys to the memorial in the Alley of Angels. During a moment of silence, one could hear a pin drop in the city. That silence was not broken even by the sound of artillery, despite the fact that shelling from the Ukrainian armed forces had been taking place since that very morning. The date was not chosen at random: on 27 July 2014, Kira Zhuk, who was not even 1 year old, and her mother were killed in Horlivka, near Donetsk, during shelling by Ukrainian troops. I am holding up her photograph right now. Four other children also died that day. They were all among the first victims of Kyiv’s war against Donbas, which has been going on for eight years.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Schools, hospitals and residential buildings in Donetsk, Kherson, Stakhanov and Horlivka are being deliberately targeted by the Kyiv regime. Almost every day in Donbas, 5 to 10 people die and dozens more are injured as a result of shelling by the long-range systems supplied by NATO countries. The Western and Ukrainian media are the only ones that do not see any of that, but it does not make those crimes any less horrific. By supplying Ukraine with long- range artillery, the West is becoming directly complicit in the war crimes committed by the Kyiv regime. It is especially painful when children are killed by Ukrainian shelling. In the Donbas region, children have been buried regularly for eight years now — ever since the start of the Ukrainian punitive military operation in the region.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Frankly, that is highly reminiscent of the criminal blindness shown by Western countries when they were covering up Kyiv’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements for seven years. It is tragic that the same blindness and double standards are now being demonstrated by the leadership of the United Nations. Such an irresponsible approach only encourages the Kyiv regime to take further steps that undermine nuclear security on the continent. I would like to draw the attention of Western delegations to the fact that their long-range artillery is allowing the Ukrainian armed forces to reach areas far into Donbas and killing civilians without any military logic, purely for the purposes of revenge and intimidation.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“I would like to stress that we are talking about an intentional, targeted attack by the Ukrainian armed forces against a nuclear facility — the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The problem was resolved, and the plant continues to operate normally under the control of the Russian military. What shocks us most about that entire incident is the monstrous hypocrisy demonstrated by Western countries, which did not deign to even comment on that reckless provocation by the Kyiv regime. Yet, at Security Council meetings back in March, they were whipping up hysteria around the alleged radiological threat supposedly created by the Russian military’s shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, despite the fact that the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency had publicly denied its existence.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“All attempts to pump the Ukrainian regime full of weapons will only prolong its agony and increase the suffering of the Ukrainian people, who are being used as cannon fodder by the country’s current irresponsible leaders. The objectives of our special military operation will be achieved, no matter how much fuel is poured on the fire in the form of weapons. In July, our Western colleagues tried to pass over in silence the fact that Ukrainian armed forces were actively using foreign unmanned aerial vehicles laden with explosives to attack the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. As a result of the attack on 20 July, a fire broke out on the site of the plant — only by happy coincidence was it possible to avoid a major accident, the consequences of which would have been felt by all Europeans.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“I should like to ask our Western colleagues whether they are aware of the consequences of their actions, as we are beginning to doubt it. After all, they are creating a regional — and possibly global — hub for illegal arms deliveries in the centre of Europe with their own hands, thereby creating real risks for their populations at the expense of their own taxpayers. They cannot say we did not warn them about what would happen when the weapons they supplied to Ukraine surfaced, for example, in a conflict zone in a country in another part of the world, impacting United Nations peacekeepers, or in the hands of extremists in Europe itself to carry out a terrorist attack.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“It notes that criminal networks are involved in smuggling a significant number of firearms and ammunition from Ukraine to European Union (EU) countries. EUROPOL estimates that weapons caches have been set up along the EU’s Ukrainian border. A clear illustration of those conclusions is the result of a joint operation by Hungarian and Slovak law enforcement agencies to apprehend a criminal group engaged in smuggling weapons supplied to Ukraine. An entire arsenal, including sniper rifles, machine guns and explosives, was found in the Hungarian town of Rajka — an hour’s drive from the main international disarmament platform in Vienna. According to one of the detainees, the weapons found were supplied to Ukraine and destined for Ukrainian armed groups, including the Azov Battalion, and were then sold and delivered to EU territory.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The problem has reached such proportions that the leading Western media can no longer gloss over it, and even the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL) has been forced to admit it. Last week, its spokesperson, Mr. Jan op gen Oorth, told the German Press Agency that EUROPOL was aware of reports of heavy arms trafficking and that European law enforcement agencies had information about people leaving Ukraine with firearms. He also stressed that there remains a risk of all such weapons falling into the hands of organized criminal groups or terrorists. A number of media outlets have been circulating leaked information from the confidential part of EUROPOL’s report submitted to the European Council.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“We have already repeatedly seen how those images are being used for all kinds of staging and provocation. Of course, we cannot ignore that. As for the weapons supplied to Kyiv and the mercenaries who remain on Ukrainian territory, they will continue to be destroyed by the Russian armed forces as legitimate military targets. The thoughtless pumping of heavy weapons, artillery systems and firearms into Ukraine means that, due to the corruption flourishing among Ukraine’s political and military leadership, those weapons are spilling over into Europe. It is well known that a significant proportion of such weapons fall into the hands of smugglers directly from storehouses, with established channels for supplying the global weapons black market. Information on available weapons is being published almost publicly on certain online sites.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“We will continue to destroy such cargo and equipment, as we did on 23 July, when we destroyed a Ukrainian military ship and a depot of Harpoon anti-ship missiles sent by the United States. Nothing in the memorandum we signed prevents us from continuing to ensure the demilitarization of Ukraine. Over the past month, the proxy war waged by the West against Russia, which is being fought to the very last Ukrainian, has escalated to new levels. With the initiation of active deliveries to the Ukrainian regime of modern multiple-launch rocket systems, which are being controlled by and used upon Western instruction, Western countries have come close to direct involvement in the conflict. Private Western companies are purported to be willingly providing Kyiv with their satellite imagery for strikes.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“On 26 July, the Joint Coordination Centre began working to facilitate the safe transportation of grain from Ukrainian ports, with the participation of representatives of Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine and with the coordination of our United Nations colleagues. We hope that the Istanbul agreements will soon begin to be implemented in full and that the Secretary-General, in accordance with his obligations, will do everything possible to remove the obstacles created by the United States and the European Union with regard to the payment, insurance and logistics for Russian cargoes. Incidentally, the deployment of military equipment and facilities in the port of Odesa is hardly conducive to the successful implementation of the grain deal.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“However, Kyiv and its Western sponsors attempted to sabotage the package agreement, emphasizing only the part about Ukrainian grain, although, by our estimates, what is at issue is only about 5 million tons, or less than 1 per cent of the total volume of grain on the global market. We are grateful to the Secretary-General and Türkiye, as they did not agree to do the West’s bidding, which went a long way to enabling the agreement to be reached. The signing of a memorandum between Russia and the United Nations on facilitating access for Russian foodstuffs to global markets once again proves how completely unfounded the attempts are to blame our country for the global food crisis, which was artificially created by the actions of Western States, and the signs of which we are seeing more and more clearly.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“It is only our Western colleagues who appear not to notice, and that we have seen with our own eyes even in today’s meeting. Our British colleague cited an exhaustive list of such provocations, for which I thank her very much. In the past month there has been some progress on exports of Ukrainian grain and access for Russian foodstuffs and fertilizers to global markets. Two separate documents, which together constitute a package agreement, were signed in Istanbul on 22 July. I should underscore that we were ready to settle those issues as long ago as April after they were discussed by President Putin and Secretary-General Guterres at their meeting in Moscow.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The changing attitude of the people of southern Ukraine that I have just described is largely attributed to the fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have continued to employ their favourite tactic of using civilian infrastructure as cover and deployment sites for heavy equipment. Dozens of eyewitnesses have confirmed the reports of the Kyiv regime’s treatment of its people, and unlike the so-called witnesses from Ukrainian and Western investigations, they do not conceal their names and addresses. They also confirm that Ukrainian armed forces are targeting civilian objects and shooting at civilians, actions they later try to present as those of Russian troops. Staged incidents, such as notoriously occurred in Bucha, are being increasingly refuted, and that is almost impossible to ignore.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Ukraine is losing those people by the minute, just as it previously lost the people of the Donbas when the Kyiv regime waged a war of annihilation on them in 2014. The Kyiv regime is trying to exact vengeance even on its own military personnel, who have realized the futility of carrying out their criminal orders and surrendered in order to have a chance at redemption and a peaceful life. This morning a detention centre near Olenivka in the Donbas was struck by missiles from a United States-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, killing more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war. However, such scare tactics will only encourage Ukrainian servicemen to surrender. We are seeing multiple cases daily of soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces refusing to continue fighting.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Construction has begun on a main water pipeline in the Luhansk people’s republic, and on a multifunctional medical facility in Luhansk itself. The cruelty of the Ukrainian nationalists and their indifference to the residents of southern and eastern Ukraine have had a serious impact on the mood of residents. In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions people are standing in line to apply for Russian passports. Despite the Ukrainian authorities’ efforts to do their utmost to intimidate their citizens by committing acts of terror against civil administration employees and launching criminal prosecutions against those who switch to Russian citizenship, the people are continuing to choose the country they trust and opting for a normal future for themselves and their children.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“There are videos all over the Internet showing the people of liberated Lysychansk taking to the streets to meet the Russian military and the people’s militias with Saint George’s ribbons and Russian flags in their hands. We suggest that everyone who in the past few months has grown sick of Ukraine’s propagandistic fairy stories about Russian troops allegedly terrorizing the local population should watch that footage and see the reactions of real people and their tears of joy when they can at last leave their shelters and no longer fear the Ukrainian nationalists. The restoration of the liberated areas is in full swing. Thanks to our efforts, peace is returning to Mariupol, where centralized water and electricity are being restored.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): In the month that has passed since the last Security Council meeting on Ukraine (see S/PV.9080), we have made significant progress in achieving the objectives of the special military operation. With the capture of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Russian armed forces and formations of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics have completely liberated the territory of the Luhansk people’s republic. A systematic offensive in the Donetsk people’s republic is continuing. A total of 255 settlements have been liberated in both places, and it is only a matter of time before the people of the Donbas regain control of the entire region.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The longer it persists, the bigger and more dangerous the situation becomes, not only for the Mission but for the role of the United Nations in Libya as a whole. The current state of affairs does not encourage the Libyan parties to continue constructive efforts towards uniting the country and its State institutions. We will be ready to extend the Mission’s mandate for a standard period of time and provide more substantive content to a future resolution. After UNSMIL finally has a head, we trust that the leadership of the United Nations Secretariat will take this Council signal seriously.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“We cannot agree with a Libyan settlement being built outside of the framework set by the Security Council. This is unacceptable, especially when we are seeing another cycle of competing powers duelling in Libya. The country has come to a brink beyond which the resumption of armed conflict is possible. The fate of Libya and its people is at stake right now. Our insistence in the issue of appointing a special representative is dictated solely by concern for maintaining the effectiveness of United Nations efforts to promote a settlement in Libya. The current uncertainty unfortunately does not help advance us towards that goal. We understand that our African colleagues are dissatisfied with this state of affairs.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“The tenure of Stephanie Williams, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, that capacity without an appropriate security mandate has been unjustifiably prolonged, despite assurances that the appointment was a temporary measure. We insist on António Guterres promptly submitting a worthy and authoritative candidate for the post of his Special Representative for Libya and the Head of UNSMIL — and one that would suit the main Libyan actors as well as regional stakeholders — for subsequent approval by members of the Security Council. Resolution 2647 (2022) reiterates a clear signal of the need for urgent action in this regard. We hope that we will not have to observe a deliberate dragging out of this issue to serve opportunistic interests. The Mission requires a leader who enjoys the true trust of the Libyans.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation supported the resolution prepared by the United Kingdom on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) (resolution 2647 (2022)). It was the only possible compromise for all of us at this stage, and we all understand that the current configuration of United Nations mediation efforts in Libya is regrettably unable to address the pressing problems related to settling the situation in the country, which is a situation that satisfies none of us. It is not normal for UNSMIL to have been left decapitated for such a long time, which has limited the tools at its disposal to support the Libyan dialogue.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“That is the focus of the Russian blueprint for ensuring collective security in the Persian Gulf region, which provides for gradual progress towards ending the conflict, the establishment of confidence-building and oversight measures and, ultimately, the creation of a integral mechanism for collective security and cooperation in the region.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9100 (2022) · source
“We believe that there is no alternative to strengthening regional security, including through the establishment of good-neighbourly relations between interested States. In that context, we highly value the focus of Baghdad on the development of relations with all its neighbours. There is an important need to seek to ensure that we avoid the creation of an atmosphere whereby confrontation is escalated among various countries. We hope that the players outside the region will facilitate the normalization process, rather than foment further confrontation. We believe that now, more than ever, there is a need to pool efforts to seek consensual mutually acceptable solutions geared towards reducing tensions and addressing all pressing issues through political and diplomatic means on the basis of international law.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9100 (2022) · source
“We reaffirm our principled and consistent support for stability and security in the Republic of Iraq. We wish to emphasize the importance of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this Arab country. In that regard, we are concerned about the possible negative consequences of this incident on the internal domestic political situation in the country as a result of attempts to drag it into a regional confrontation, thereby undermining the efforts of the Iraqi authorities to rebuild the country in the context of large-scale challenges and threats, including terrorism. We have consistently maintained that Iraq should not become a stage for the settling of political scores.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9100 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): First and foremost, I wish to welcome Mr. Fuad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, and we wish to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing. It is with alarm that we have been observing developments in the friendly country of Iraq, where on 20 July eight people died and more than 20 civilians were wounded as a result of the shelling of the northern governorate of Dohuk. We extend our sincere condolences to the loved ones of the victims and our best wishes for a prompt recovery to those injured. We trust that this incident will be thoroughly investigated. We listened and took into account the position voiced by the representative of Türkiye in that regard.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9100 (2022) · source
“We support the activities in this area of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which is a key organization for supporting Palestinians in need. In conclusion, we once again underscore that the Russian Federation will continue its efforts to coordinate joint initiatives to revive the Middle East peace process and bring about a just solution to the Palestinian question. As we have seen, attempts to monopolize the settlement efforts and impose an economic peace on the Palestinian people rather than finding a fair way to fulfil their aspirations for the creation of their own independent State have not produced tangible results and never will.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source
“Regrettably, that has still not been decided, thanks to the United States’ lack of interest in resuming the Quartet’s activities. It will be impossible to see sustained and long-term progress in the peace process without intra-Palestinian unity that is grounded in the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the holding of Palestinian general elections. In that regard, we support the initiatives of Egypt and Algiers aimed at conducting another round of negotiations between the representatives of Fatah and Hamas. Our proposal for making use of Moscow’s potential as a platform is still on the table. We also consider it very important to provide comprehensive humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as to refugees in neighbouring Arab States.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source