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Polyanskiy

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first: 2018-01-31
most recent: 2023-12-22
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“We consistently advocate for a resumption of direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, which should lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, while taking account of Israel’s national security concerns. We believe that it is essential to ramp up the multilateral efforts for this, including in the format of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators. In that regard, we reiterate our focus on cooperation with the partners in the Quartet, aimed at improving the effectiveness of this Council- approved format. At the same time, we should emphasize the importance of coordination between international mediators and regional partners. That is what is behind Russia’s initiative to hold an expanded ministerial meeting of the Middle East Quartet with key members of the League of Arab States.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source
“Another telling incident was the murder on 11 May in Jenin of the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. In the opinion of an overwhelming number of experts, as well as the conclusion reached by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 24 July following an investigation into the tragic incident, the shots that killed the journalist and wounded her colleague were fired by Israeli security forces. We once again underscore the importance of stepping up the efforts to consolidate the international consensus on a settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the principle of a two-State solution and the existing international legal framework, including the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source
“We are particularly concerned about reports that the Israeli settlements designed to expand and entrench the occupation in the West Bank have not ceased their attempts to create a series of outposts, which are illegitimate even from the point of view of Israel’s much-criticized legislature. Against a backdrop of impunity for crimes against the Palestinian people, the number of acts of violence continues to grow steadily. In the past month at least four Palestinian civilians have been killed and more than 50 wounded. In Masafer Yatta, more than 1,200 Palestinians continue to face the threat of forced evictions and confiscations of their property. Besides that, Palestinians are targeted by ongoing arbitrary arrests and a disproportionate use of force by the Israeli armed forces, whose victims are often women and children.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Ms. Lynn Hastings, the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process, for her briefing on the situation the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Once again, we have to note that the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues unresolved triggers frequent outbreaks of violence in the occupied Palestinian territories that undermine regional and international security. The deadlock in the peace process, compounded by provocative unilateral measures, is capable of igniting the situation in the conflict zone at any point.”
2022-07-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9099 (2022) · source
“We believe that in this situation, the best option would be a technical extension of the UNSMIL mandate for three months. That would give the Secretariat the time it so dearly needs, and, once the Special Representative has been appointed, we can then start talking about further steps, including the adoption of a substantive resolution.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“We are convinced that the United Nations envoy must have a mandate from the Security Council. Only then will that person have all of the tools that they need to fully support the national dialogue, and only then will the Libyan people fully trust that person. Incidentally, we cannot rule out the fact that the current domestic political deadlock could be largely aggravated by the absence of just such a person. We can see that the Secretary-General is trying to resolve the issue of the appointment of the Special Representative. Nevertheless, once again we urge him to redouble his efforts to find a special representative through a realistic and balanced approach to the problem. The candidate needs to be satisfactory to the Libyan people and regional players and be approved by all members of the Council.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“How quickly the country’s parties manage to find common ground will determine the future of the country. The approaches taken by external players must be consolidated in order to help the country emerge from the crisis, keeping a check on political actors and preventing further escalation. Russia agrees with the international consensus that the United Nations must play a central role in the Libyan settlement process. We would like to underscore our unwavering support for the efforts of the key element of that configuration, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), whose mandate expires at the end of this week. It is deeply regrettable that for more than six months now, it has been acting without leadership, which has had a serious impact on its ability to properly fulfil its functions.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“However, excessive hastiness rarely yields positive results. That work must be carried out in a thoughtful and balanced manner, taking into account the possible long-term implications for the country. There must be no impetuous steps. In that connection, we cannot fail to notice the eagerness with which our Western colleagues, first and foremost our American colleagues, are calling for the rapid resumption of work in the largest Libyan oilfields. Given the overall tensions in global energy markets and the volatility in oil prices, that could be interpreted as them essentially approving attempts to put the urgent task of a Libyan political settlement on the back burner in favour of their own mercantile interests. That is how they act in other regions of the world as well. We are approaching a turning point for Libya.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“The Libyan stakeholders realize that a relapse into armed confrontation would be very dangerous and are striving to prevent such a situation. We note the symbolic importance of the meeting of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission in Tripoli, which is a milestone development in terms of the unification of the country’s armed forces. No less important are the respective agreements on the simultaneous, well-balanced, gradual and phased withdrawal of all non-Libyan armed groups and military units from Libya. We realize the importance of stable oil production in Libya. At the same time, we emphasize that the revenue from the sale of hydrocarbons should primarily be used to improve the living standards in the country, pay salaries to civil servants and ensure an uninterrupted energy supply.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“In that regard, we welcome the efforts of the African Union and the personal efforts of the Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Committee on Libya, President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo. We support the African Union’s proposal to convene a Libya-wide conference on national reconciliation. For its part, Russia will provide all possible assistance in the implementation of that initiative. We welcome the ongoing efforts of Libya’s House of Representatives and the High State Council to seek consensus. The sides have accomplished a great deal of work. It is therefore especially sad that a lasting solution has not yet been achieved. Progress on the constitutional track is key to ensuring control over Libya’s institutional sovereignty and guaranteeing its territorial integrity.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“In the current conditions, incitement to violence and exploiting protests in one’s own political interests are unacceptable. The inviolability of the civilian population, the State and private property must be respected. At this stage, the most important thing is to narrow the differences among the Libyan political forces and help them find some common ground, based on which they can steadily move forward towards unifying the country in the spirit of the October 2020 ceasefire agreement and resolution 2570 (2021). We firmly believe that the national reconciliation process in Libya should be inclusive and transparent. That means the involvement of all leading political forces of the country, including representatives of the former Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing. We are closely following the developments in Libya. The inability to reach an agreement on the draft constitution and convene nation-wide elections within the time frame set out in the road map of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum led the country to a state of political uncertainty. The security situation then started to deteriorate, which triggered the recent protests and armed clashes. The situation is further exacerbated by the unresolved issue of the unification of economic and financial institutions and the general decline in the living standards of ordinary Libyans. We call on all participants in the political process to maintain peace and refrain from any acts that infringe upon it.”
2022-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9098 (2022) · source
“I call on our Western colleagues to finally exchange words for deeds and to abandon their perverse efforts to exploit the Organization as a blunt instrument for punishing States that they do not like. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that the leadership of the OPCW still has every opportunity to comply with its obligations in good faith, ensuring, as the Convention requires, a transparent and objective investigative process that distinguishes between staged incidents and imaginary threats and real instances of the use of chemical weapons. In order to do that, it is necessary to correct the mistakes made and restore the spirit of professional depoliticized cooperation based on the consensus that once prevailed at the organization. We trust that, in the very near future, Mr.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“We have repeatedly pointed out that Western countries’ politicization of the OPCW has damaged the chemical-weapon prohibition regime as a whole and undermined its ability to respond to the real threats facing the international community in the area of the disarmament and non-proliferation of chemical weapons. I would like to point out that at a meeting on 29 April (see S/PV.9026), the Security Council commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention. In the Council’s related press statement (SC/14876), we all reaffirmed that the OPCW must ensure the impartial, independent and professional implementation of all the provisions of the Convention.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“They include threats of the use of chemical weapons by terrorists on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and in neighbouring States. There is evidence that terrorist groups in the Middle East have access to chemical warfare agents. The conclusions of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suggest that ISIL has a full- fledged military chemical programme. However, we still hear nothing about any measures being developed to combat those threats.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“The flawed methodology of both the IIT and the Fact- Finding Mission directly violates the Convention itself in terms of the principles for conducting investigations, particularly where the collection of evidence and maintaining the chain of custody are concerned. We cannot take seriously any documents that are drafted on the basis of information collected remotely and retroactively, including from sources that have been shown to be unreliable, such as the White Helmets, who were directly involved in staging chemical-weapon incidents in Douma, again, and in Khan Shaykhun. Against that backdrop, other, more pressing and genuine problems that do not fit the picture of the Syrian authorities’ alleged guilt, have received far less attention.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“I have already mentioned that its final version underwent radical redaction by comparison with the original, which was confirmed by various sources, including former inspectors of the OPCW itself who were directly involved in investigating the issue. The same applies to the activities of the illegitimate Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), whose creation was forced through the OPCW Executive Council in violation of the principle of consensus and article XV of the CWC. I would like to once again make it clear that we reject any of the IIT reports, current or future, as illegitimate products of an illegitimate mechanism. Their purpose is not to establish an accurate picture of events but rather to shape a narrative that fits with the conclusions of Damascus’s guilt.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“The Secretary-General reported that to the Security Council back in June 2014, while the definitive elimination of Syria’s military chemical capacity was confirmed in 2016 by the OPCW Conference of the States Parties and Executive Council. The Technical Secretariat has no right to impose any enhanced verification requirements on Syria. However, the differences in the approach to this issue where Syria is concerned versus other countries that have encountered similar problems are clear to anyone. The bias against Damascus is long-standing, and it is often difficult to call it mere bias. It is enough to recall the infamous report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the incident in Douma in 2018.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“However it is important to remember that cooperation with the Declaration Assessment Team is part of the voluntary bilateral commitments that Syria undertook. The Team’s mandate does not envisage any investigative activities. Its job is simply to assist the Syrians in drafting their initial declaration. However, for more than a year now, what we have seen in the reports is a different approach, with an ever-increasing number of reasons put forward as to why the Technical Secretariat is allegedly cannot do this. Damascus has continued to demonstrate unprecedented openness. I should point out that Syria joined the CWC under exceedingly difficult circumstances of military and political instability and under threats of terrorism supported from outside, and despite all of that, conscientiously complied with all of its related obligations.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“After that, it was given out that all bilateral cooperation between the Technical Secretariat and Syria would be conducted through a single OPCW expert, without whose involvement they said that no consultations could take place. When it was proposed to hold the twenty-fifth round in Beirut, they again included in the mission the same expert, whose rejection Syria, like any sovereign State, has every right to insist on. But at that point Damascus once again demonstrated goodwill and agreed provisionally to continue cooperating with the DAT through an exchange of documentation. It is clear that it was not Damascus that created the problem — and which has every right to refuse the participation of any expert in the discussion of confidential issues — but rather the DAT, which turned the issue into a matter of principle.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“The fact that the Technical Secretariat is guided in this by a presumption of Syria’s guilt is clear simply from the phrase that the resolution of this issue hinges only on what is termed a change in attitude. The facts, however, say otherwise. I will list them briefly. The Syrians have never had any principled objections to holding those consultations. However, at a Security Council meeting in June of last year (see S/PV.8785), Director-General Arias himself said that he was not ready to send the DAT to Syria in the summer because the weather was too hot. The result was a serious delay. Later, Syria was willing to hold the consultations in The Hague, but at that point the Technical Secretariat refused to cover the costs of its experts’ visit.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“Arias should be making every effort, including through regular visits to Damascus, to turn this shameful page in the Organization’s history as soon as possible — from a time when at the behest of Western States and in violation of the CWC and the principle of consensus, a State that had been conscientiously complying with its obligations under the Convention was for the first time stripped of its rights. Perhaps Mrs. Nakamitsu can help to shed light today on the CWC norms that prevent Mr. Arias from visiting Syria. Another issue that is repeatedly presented in the report as evidence of Syria’s alleged non-cooperation is the delay of more than a year of the twenty-fifth round of consultations of the Declaration Assessment Team (DAT).”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“His attitude towards Syria is completely different and it cannot be said that this country is outside the focus of the OPCW. Nearly one quarter of the comprehensive statement by Mr. Arias at the 100th session of the Executive Council held, on 5 July, was devoted specifically to the Syrian issue. Incidentally, in that speech the OPCW Director-General took the liberty of saying something quite odd. He noted that “in any event, [he] cannot justify travelling to a State party deprived of certain rights by the Conference of the States Parties”. We would be curious to know what is behind such statements by the Director-General of the OPCW. On the contrary, logically Mr.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“We understand that many are on holiday in Europe at present; however, we expect the OPCW Director-General to find an opportunity to address the members of the Security Council at the next meeting. For the moment, questions to him and the body he leads are not fewer in number. The majority of those questions continue to be linked to the misinformation in the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission report on the incident in Douma and the persecution of those who are not afraid to speak the truth in that regard. We are also surprised by other things. For example, we have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that, in all the years of his work, Mr. Arias has not found the time to visit Syria in person. He eagerly visits other countries; he recently visited the United States of America, for example.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“The reports of the Director-General still prevent that from being achieved. Any progress made in cooperation with Damascus, such as the decision to extend until the end of the year the tripartite agreement among Syria, the OPCW and the United Nations Office for Project Services, is either barely mentioned or completely omitted. We have repeatedly pointed out the disadvantage of that approach at previous meetings of the Security Council on the Syrian chemical file. In order to be able to state this again, it is more than enough to convene an open Council meeting once every three months. During today’s meeting, we expected to see OPCW Director-General Arias among the briefers. We have a significant list of questions for him. We are grateful to the Brazilian presidency for sending an invitation to the Director-General.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Mrs. Nakamitsu presented us today with yet another report, the 105th report of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) (see S/2022/530). It is unfortunate that, like previous reports, it is built on the same pattern and geared towards the achievement of the same goal, namely, to create the impression that Syria is supposedly unhelpful and uncooperative. As a matter of fact, Damascus continues to fulfil its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and to engage actively with the OPCW. I think that our Syrian colleagues will today describe in detail the work that has been done, giving the Security Council an opportunity to have a more objective view of what is taking place.”
2022-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9097 (2022) · source
“We will continue to make a significant contribution to strengthening the international regime for protecting refugees and addressing migration-related problems, providing far-reaching humanitarian support and also actively participating in political efforts to prevent and resolve crises.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“Thus, according to the IOM, since the start of 2022 the number of people dying or going missing while crossing the Mediterranean has reached 970 migrants, including 32 children. In 2021, 2,048 people died, including 76 children. We are convinced that the most effective way of addressing the problem of those forced to migrate, including children, is to address the root causes that force such people to leave their homes. We believe that addressing that issue entails political solutions in migrants’ countries of origin and the provision of assistance for social and economic development and State-building in the fight against terrorism.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, I should like to underscore that we agree with the proposal contained in Brazil’s concept note (S/2022/540, annex) about devoting particular attention to refugee children. We share the concern of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) regarding the growing number of children forced to leave their homes. According to UNHCR data, 41 per cent, or 36.5 million, of the overall number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world are children. Of particular concern is the situation in the Mediterranean sea, where people, including children, are still dying as they try to reach Europe.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“No less cynical are the cruel actions committed in Afghanistan by the United Kingdom. Suffice it to remember the BBC’s discovery of the fact that British special forces had killed hundreds of innocent citizens, including children, in night-time raids during the United Kingdom forces’ presence in Afghanistan. Information on those crimes was made public in 2018 and 2019, but the scandal was quashed thanks to the vehement statements made by the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom about investigations and the punishment of the perpetrators if the accusations proved true. We understand that that has not been done. We call on the Special Representative to keep a focus on Afghanistan and carry out the necessary monitoring.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“The report of the Secretary- General (S/2022/493) also contains heartbreaking statistics on the violations against children committed in the first half of 2021, up until the rushed withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. Following its liberation from foreign occupation, the situation in Afghanistan radically changed. We also need to ensure that the United States returns the assets stolen from Afghanistan, which are currently being held in American banks. The Afghan people urgently need those assets to be able to ensure economic recovery, tackle poverty and create infrastructure, including schools and hospitals. The American authorities’ cynicism truly knows no bounds, holding forth on Afghan children’s rights while keeping monies destined for the people of Afghanistan.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“So far, 252 children have returned from prisons and shelters in Damascus and from temporary accommodations in the north-east of Syria. There is an effective system in place to fulfil the necessary legal, organizational and administrative procedures. In Russia, children have the necessary qualified support provided to them. Measures are taken to ensure their medical recovery and social adaptation. I should like also to touch also on the situation in Afghanistan. Years of unlawful occupation by the United States and its NATO allies of the territory of that State has brought incalculable misery to the people of Afghanistan. In many previous years, Afghanistan had one of the highest numbers of recorded crimes against children, committed, inter alia, by the armed forces of the former Government and their sponsors located oceans away.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“They are being deprived of access to education and subject to propaganda and radical ideology. The real breeding grounds for that phenomenon are the camps for internally displaced persons in the north-east of Syria, Al-Hol and Roj, where families of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant fighters are located. The majority of Western States persist in refusing to repatriate their citizens and members of their families despite the many calls made by the Secretary- General and interested States to that end. Unlike them, we are actively working to repatriate Russian children from armed-conflict zones, as decreed by the Russian Head of State. That work in Syria has been done by a specialized inter-agency working commission led by the Russian presidential commissioner on children’s rights.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“Against the backdrop of a gradual stabilization of the security situation in a large part of the Syrian territory, a main obstacle to ensuring the protection of children’s rights is the complex humanitarian situation combined with the worsening socioeconomic situation following the imposition of suffocating sanctions by the United States and the European Union. Washington should immediately end its unlawful occupation of part of Syrian territory and its pillaging of the country’s natural and agricultural resources. American troops should be withdrawn from the territory of that State, to which they were never invited. In regions held by illegal armed groups and terrorist organizations, children’s rights are being systematically violated. Children are being recruited into military units and involved in terrorist activities.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“We took note of the Secretary-General’s decision to take up the situation in Ukraine as a situation of concern in the next report and request a special representative to address the issue. For our part, we stand ready to cooperate with a special representative of the Secretary-General on the situation in Ukraine, including providing the information that we have. The topic of child protection in the Syrian Arab Republic is still relevant, particularly in the areas not controlled by the Government.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“The main aim is to help these children forget all the horrors they have lived through over the last eight years, when Kyiv, with the complicity of its Western sponsors, started to destroy peaceful civilian life in the Donbas, and this with impunity. A separate area of the work carried out by the Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova is locating relatives of minors whose parents have died as a result of bombing and shelling from the Ukrainian forces. The Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines the rights to life and development for children, access to housing, health care, education and protection from all forms of violence. Children have a right to specific care and assistance. Russia is helping children in the Donbas to benefit from these rights.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“All refugees receive individual support, and we provide assistance to address various pressing issues in terms of further accommodation, ensuring that food and basic necessities are met and that social benefits being paid. Particular attention is paid by the Russian Federation’s Presidential Commissioner for Children Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, with regard to families with minors, orphans and unaccompanied children. Children younger than school age attend nursery schools, and school-age children go to general or vocational educational institutions. Many of them are provided with targeted humanitarian and medical assistance, including psychological rehabilitation.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“According to data from the Interagency Coordination Office, as of the 12 July, since the start of the special military operation, 2,497,432 people have been evacuated from the dangerous regions of Ukraine, namely, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, to the Russian Federation, including 392,890 children. All of these people came to our country voluntarily, saving their own lives and the lives of their children. We categorically reject unfounded accusations that the Russian authorities are abducting children. In constituent entities of the Russian Federation, we have more than 9,500 temporary accommodation points working permanently. We also have field offices, with regional children’s ombudspersons, to work with evacuees.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“We turned to the Secretary-General and asked for assistance to remove this child’s personal data from a Ukrainian neo-Nazi website so as to protect her, but unfortunately we have not seen any results. At the same time, the situation is only worsening. I can inform the Security Council today that Russian non-governmental organizations have found that the personal data of at least 327 minors has been published on the Peacemaker website, which poses a real threat to their lives. Today we will pass information about this on to the Secretary-General. I would also like to draw Ms. Russell’s particular attention to this unacceptable situation. One of the aims of Russia’s special operation is to protect the people and children of the Donbas from the crimes committed by the Ukrainian regime.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“These statistics represent a single week. Over the last months, in the Donetsk People’s Republic alone, 249 civilians died, including 16 children. Some 1,493 people were injured, including 83 children. As a result of shelling, 72 medical institutions and 238 educational institutions have been damaged. But that is not all: the Kyiv authorities do not balk at directly targeting children either. For example. a schoolgirl from Luhansk, Faina Savenkova, whose personal data were published on the infamous Peacemaker site in October 2021. On the eve of the Day of the Protection of Children, Faina wrote an open letter to the United Nations requesting that it not to forget the children of the Donbas. She and her family immediately started to receive threats.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“On 8 July, Ukrainian armed forces shelled nursery school No. 118 and a music school in Horlivka, medical facility No. 3, an Olympic reserve school and a children’s educational health centre in Donetsk, and school No. 19 in Shakhtarsk. On 9 July, Ukrainian forces shelled nursery schools Nos. 380 and 398, school No. 113 in Donetsk and a nursery school in Horlivka. On 10 July, school No. 4 was shelled, as were school No. 51 and a centre of primary medical care No. 3 in Donetsk, together with school No. 19 in Horlivka. On 12 July, nursery school No. 86 in Horlivka was shelled, as were a children’s centre in Makiivka and a primary medical service centre in Donetsk. On 13 July, the Republican Clinical Psychological and Neurological hospital, was shelled in Donetsk. On 14 July, school No. 46 was hit in Makiivka.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“Children are dying as a result of artillery shelling and from sniper fire. They are being blown up by mines laid by Ukrainian army as far back as 2014 and 2015 on forest footpaths and near bodies of water. These children are being seriously traumatized. For eight years, children in the Donbas have been born, gone to school, lived and grown up under constant shelling from Kyiv. Armed units of Ukraine are cynically shelling civilian infrastructure in the Donbas nursery schools, schools and medical institutions. Children are also being killed using weapons provided by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Czechia, Slovakia, the Netherlands and other countries, which are therefore complicit in crimes of the Ukrainian regime against children. I will share some statistics just from the week of 8 to 14 July.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to express our gratitude to you, Mr. Simas Magalhães, and to the entire Brazilian delegation for organizing today’s open debate. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mrs. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter, Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine Russell and Mr. Patrick Kumi for their comprehensive briefings. The Russian Federation truly values the work that they do for children. The war started by the Kyiv authorities in 2014 against the people of the Donbas has hit children in the cruellest ways. Over the eight years of armed conflict in this region, hundreds of children have died. Ten times more have been injured. The youngest victim of the Ukrainian aggression was only 27 days old when killed.”
2022-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9096 (2022) · source
“One thing is clear, which is that without an urgent and broad dialogue on determining ways out of the crisis and related terms acceptable for all Haitians acceptable, we will never be able to solve all the other problems. That is why we believe that the special political mission’s main task is to assist in establishing a political dialogue. On its part, the Council must ensure that its decisions ultimately guarantee that the Haitians can resolve their problems independently and without external direction. We will contribute to that end in any way we can. All things considered, we did not object to the adoption of today’s resolution, and we hope that the strengthened text will make the United Nations efforts in Haiti more effective.”
2022-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9095 (2022) · source
“While it cannot be compared to Haiti, the mandate of the United Nations mission there is renewed every six months, which enables us to keep our finger on its pulse. But when it comes to Haiti, some members seem to believe that the less the Council considers the rapidly deteriorating situation there the better. We believe that with such an approach we can hardly speak of providing the Haitian people with effective assistance to in overcoming the problems they face. One is compelled to wonder whether the Council is making the right decisions on this dossier at all, because we are hearing increasingly loud Haitian voices saying that the mission there has become part of the problem rather than the solution.”
2022-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9095 (2022) · source
“The same applies to countering the uncontrolled flow into the country of weapons, which inevitably fall into the hands of rampant gangs. Everyone seems to acknowledge that the problem has reached an unacceptable scale, yet we see no desire to take concrete action. By comparison, we are seeing the total opposite in countries such as the Sudan, South Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic, where there are attempts to cling on to sanctions regimes at all costs, even when they are becoming a real obstacle to equipping law-enforcement forces. What is that if not a double standard? Even the duration of the mandate of the special political mission in Haiti has become a stumbling block. Take the situation in Cyprus, which is also on the Security Council’s agenda.”
2022-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9095 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We note that once again, it was anything but simple for Council members to arrive at an agreement on resolution 2645 (2022). In our view, the problem lies in a discrepancy between words and actions. We hear voices on all sides advocating the importance of a speedy political settlement in Haiti, without which no sustainable resolution of the other outstanding issues, including, above all, the most urgent of them, the security situation. At the same time, neither in the reports of the Secretary-General nor the positions of some Council members do we see any willingness to take concrete steps to incentivize Haitian actors to establish a dialogue as soon as possible.”
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“We express our full support for the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, under the leadership of Carlos Ruiz Massieu, and to Cuba and Norway, the guarantors of the Final Agreement.”
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“In every one of our statements we have reiterated that genuine peace in the country is impossible without the consensus of all of the main players, and Colombia’s relations with its neighbours are no less important to lasting peace. We hope that the Government of Gustavo Petro will show political acumen and consider the possibility of re-establishing relations with Venezuela, beginning with the issue of border security. That would be a major blow to criminality and could provide some insurance against any possible misunderstandings or provocations that might have dangerous consequences. As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia will continue to support the Colombian peace process to ensure that it is lasting and irreversible.”
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“We are hearing appropriate assurances and hope that we will see palpable positive change. Russia is firmly committed to continuing to help Colombia, a country that is a friend to us, to a thorough restoration of peace. In that context, we welcome the remarks by the President-elect and the head of the National Liberation Army concerning their efforts to begin negotiations without the deliberately unacceptable preconditions that have previously hindered the prospects for peace. We hope that the renewed management team will enable the inclusion of forces that were previously on the sidelines of the peacebuilding process.”
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