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Polyanskiy

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first: 2018-01-31
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“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to thank the United Nations Special Envoy, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths, on their briefings on developments in the political and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen. We are hopeful with regard to the progress achieved by the Yemeni parties in resolving the years-long military and political crisis in Yemen, with the mediation of the United Nations. We welcome the establishment of the long-awaited two-month truce, which provides for a cessation of all hostilities, including air strikes within and outside Yemen, and the partial reopening of the Sana’a International Airport and the seaports in Al-Hudaydah province.”
2022-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9017 (2022) · source
“I also want to believe that she will be liberated very soon and will be able to safely take the red flag out of the house on Victory Day, which is sacred to all of us, to honour the memory of her parents and those who liberated Ukraine from the Nazis without fear that someone will trample it.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“For example, few people were indifferent to the widely circulated video clip on social media of Ukrainian soldiers entering a village. An elderly grandmother mistook them for Russian soldiers and brought out a red Soviet victory flag. She greeted them with kind words about how long she has waited to be liberated. To their credit, the soldiers did not hurt her; quite to the contrary, they gave her a bag of food. However, in exchange, they took away the flag and began to trample it. After having realized her mistake, the grandmother defiantly returned the food and demanded the return of the banner, for which her parents fought. After that, the clip cuts off. We want to believe that nothing happened to the grandmother, as her heroism and courage have already inspired many people.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“The operation is necessary for the future of Ukraine as well as the security of not only Russia but also all of Ukraine’s neighbours. I highly doubt, for example, that peaceful Poles are able to feel safe when the organizers of the Volhynia massacre, which took the lives of tens of thousands of their compatriots in 1943, are now revered as national heroes in Ukraine. I am talking about peaceful Poles, not about the Polish authorities who have been blinded by Russophobia and whose policies have long since lost touch with common sense. I would like to conclude on a more optimistic note. There is, of course, another Ukraine that is being given another chance for peace and genuine good-neighbourliness thanks to our special military operation. That Ukraine already has its own symbols, including women.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“That is best illustrated by the patriotic video that has been actively disseminated on social media in recent days. In it a western Ukrainian actress, chanting patriotic slogans and cursing Russia, cuts the throat of a tortured Russian soldier with a sickle. The only thing that the video brings to mind is the terrorist members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which also disseminated videos in which they slit the throats of their victims. It is sad that Ukraine has plumbed the depths of such unbridled cruelty to the point of blindly rivalling ISIL radicalism and extremism. That only further convinces us of the imperative of, and lack of alternative to, conducting Russia’s special military operation.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“For example, what we saw in the building of elementary school 18 in Mariupol, which had long been held by the Nazi Azov Battalion, shocked even seasoned soldiers — on the floor in the corner of the basement lay the body of a woman with her hands cut off, her face mutilated, and a swastika burned onto her stomach. It is noteworthy that some in Ukraine and in the West continue to pass off those horrifying and previously published photographic pieces of evidence as proof of crimes committed by the Russian military. Ukrainian society has consistently been under the influence of nationalists for at least the past eight years. That is why Ukrainian women, unfortunately, are being presented in a rather strange — and I would even say savage — light.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“As it applies to Ukraine, of course, the situation has also been coloured with ideology and provocations. We see a clear desire to portray Russian soldiers as sadists and rapists, just as there were attempts to portray the victorious Soviet soldiers in Second World War as sadists and rapists in their time. We see that neither the goals nor the Russophobic nature of the propaganda methods inherited by Ukraine has changed. However, the reality is quite different. Despite the attempts made to distort the truth, even Western audiences occasionally learn about the brutal torture of peaceful civilians, including women, by sadistic members of Ukrainian nationalist battalions.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“It seems that a bloody large-scale provocation — more precisely, a false-flag operation — is also being prepared in the city. I would ask my colleagues to remember that we warned about such events. The provocations that have already been planned and carried out, combined with the nationalists’ now- familiar practice of using the civilian population as human shields, are all the more appalling owing to the inhumane attitude towards the fate of the people of Ukraine and are a testament to the Ukrainian Nazis’ complete disregard for the norms of morality and international humanitarian law. As we have repeatedly stated, Russia does not wage war against Ukrainian civilian populations. Since today’s meeting also concerns the topic of women and peace and security, I feel duty-bound to offer some remarks in that regard.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Just today, the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that Western media have been invited to report on a staged event in the town of Seredyna- Buda, in Sumska oblast, previously under the control of Russian forces. In the town of Nizhne Sirovatka, near Sumy, bodies are being transported to a building basement. The staging of the so-called atrocities by the Russian army is being conducted by British film directors. I wish to recall that Russian forces left that town three weeks ago. Those reports are coming from residents of these towns and are clearly not indifferent to the aims of our military operation. Moreover, I cannot neglect to mention reports from residents of Odesa of large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers dressed in Russian military uniforms in the city.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Members of the Ukrainian security forces intend to transport the bodies of civilians killed by artillery shelling from the hospital morgue on Polevaya Street to the basement of a building on the eastern outskirts of the city. Then, in the Pushcha-Vodytsya forest area, the Ukrainian security forces will organize a staged incident with the shooting and destruction of a supposed Russian intelligence group that came from Irpin to kill witnesses of alleged Russian war crimes. At the same time, the bodies of Russian soldiers taken prisoner and then tortured and killed by Ukrainian nationalists will be placed in the forest as so-called indisputable evidence. We expect to see video footage of that staged event circulated by Western media.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“In recent days, we have transmitted information to the United Nations with regard to certain provocations being prepared. There is the staged discovery of mass graves in the town of Ragovka, near Kyiv. Western journalists arrived in the city of Kremennaya with the objective of reporting on the provocation prepared by the Ukrainian army of a supposed shelling by the Russian army of ambulances transporting patients. In the town of Belogorovka, a chlorine reserve on the territory of the water canal has been mined. The plan is to blow it up when national militia units of the Luhansk People’s Republic approach the town. In the city of Irpin, in the Kyiv region, a provocation is being prepared using the same scheme as in Bucha and Nemmersdorf.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Thirdly and finally, the serial number on the Tochka-U missile can easily be identified from those same images. It belongs to the SH-915 series. Missiles from the same series were used to repeatedly shell the cities in Donbas. There are fragments of those missiles bearing the same serial numbers. The same type of missile was used on 14 March by the nineteenth missile brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in an attack on the centre of Donetsk. Twenty-one Donetsk residents were killed on the spot, and another 36 were wounded. The horrific footage of that strike is still being passed off by the Western media as the shelling of Kyiv. The provocation in Kramatorsk was also unsuccessful for the Kyiv regime. However, the Ukrainian propagandists are clearly trying to learn from their mistakes and work better. They are trying very hard.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Why are we so sure that the Ukrainian army is responsible for the attack and not the Russian military, as was immediately portrayed by the Western media and as some of our colleagues claimed today? There are several reasons, three of which I shall mention now. First, the Russian army does not possess Tochka-U tactical missile systems. They are obsolete and were replaced a long time ago by Iskander missiles and are actively used only by the Ukrainian army. Secondly, the pictures taken by eyewitnesses shortly after the strike and before the arrival of Ukrainian propagandists made it possible to accurately determine not only the type of missile, but also the direction from which it was launched. That area is still under the control of Ukrainian troops for the time being.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“However, the Bucha provocation last week was overshadowed by another organized by Ukrainian Nazis in Kramatorsk, which for the time being is still under their control. That constitutes a classic false-flag operation. I shall dwell on it in more detail, especially as many speakers mentioned it today. On 8 April, from the vicinity of the town of Dobropillia, which is located 45 kilometres south-west of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian armed forces launched a strike with a Tochka-U tactical missile at the Kramatorsk railway station. More than 50 people were killed, including five children. Ninety-eight wounded people were taken to hospitals in Kramatorsk, including 16 children, 46 women and 36 men.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Nowadays, newspapers are read less and less, and such guidelines are appearing instead on social media, without any substantial attempts to even conceal them. Content creators are recruited as extras in crowd scenes and given instructions on which aspects to focus on. In other words, Goebbels would have been pleased with the ambition of his Ukrainian heirs. However, they were betrayed by the quality of their performance. The staged events in Nemmersdorf, aimed at creating myths of mass murders and rapes allegedly committed by the Red Army, were subsequently convincingly debunked by various experts, and the town became synonymous with crude propaganda stunts, just like the one carried out in Bucha.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“We already briefed the Security Council on the key issues last Tuesday (see S/PV.9011) after the United Kingdom presidency did its utmost to prevent a separate meeting on the provocation, in violation of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. I will simply say that, after a thorough analysis of the actions of the Ukrainian Nazis, it is hard to shake the sense of déjà vu. In 1944, the ideological forefathers of the Kyiv radicals, acting in the best traditions of the main Hitlerite propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, staged a provocation with civilians that were allegedly brutally murdered by the Red Army in the town of Nemmersdorf in East Prussia. That was preceded by a letter circulated among the major German newspapers, which described in detail how best to present the so-called atrocities of the Soviet soldiers.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“The Permanent Representative of Albania today read out virtually an entire list of crimes attributed to us without bothering to mention that not one of them has ever produced any convincing evidence. The presumption of innocence has clearly long been completely defied. Recently, the joint Western and Ukrainian fake factory has reached a new level and started fabricating and performing in the best traditions of the infamous British-Syrian White Helmets. Everyone is still hearing about the provocation in the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, unprecedented in terms of its cruelty and clumsiness. That is still being propagated as a crime allegedly committed by the Russian army despite irrefutable evidence proving the staged nature of the incident, which is only increasing. I will not dwell on the details.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to today’s briefers for the information. We had no doubt that today there would once again be many fabrications on the part of our Western colleagues regarding what is now happening in Ukraine in the light of the special military operation that we are conducting. Their scheme of action has long been clear to us, namely, to distort and denigrate the aims of the special military operation, silence facts that are inconvenient to them and promote the fabrications and propaganda of Ukraine and of professional Western consultants working for the Kyiv regime. All their efforts perfectly fit the context of the information war being waged against Russia, which is as intense as the fighting on the ground. Our Albanian colleagues set a new benchmark of disinformation today.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I think perhaps we were not understood correctly. We are not against having meetings continue on the items the United States representative mentioned in relation to maintaining international peace and security in Ukraine. We simply expressed our comments and hope that they will be taken into account.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“In this regard, we think that it would be a good idea to delete two other items pertaining to Ukraine from the agenda of the Security Council, namely, the letters from Russia and Ukraine dating from 2014 (S/2014/264 and S/2014/136, respectively), which reflects common sense as well as the current situation. Bearing in mind the foregoing, we call on the current presidency of the Council to take the necessary procedural steps to formalize adding the new agenda item and deleting the two older ones. We expect that this should be done well at an early date so that future presidents of the Council will not have problems in the coming months on agreeing on the Council’s programme of work.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): In connection with the adoption of the agenda of today’s meeting, which sounds like us maintaining peace and security in Ukraine, we would like to make the following statement. As we have informed you, Madam President, in the context of our work, we are not against adding this item to the agenda of the Security Council. However, seeing that its authors have attached all kinds of topics to it, including women, children and education, we conclude that it covers all kinds of aspects of the situation in Ukraine, and is therefore in essence universal in character.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Arabic): As this is the last meeting of your presidency, I would like to thank and congratulate you, Madam President, at the end of your Council presidency. It is no exaggeration to say that we had a very busy month. Nevertheless, your presidency was very successful. Your credible stewardship of the Council was very effective, professional and balanced. Those are the characteristics that distinguish the diplomacy of the sisterly United Arab Emirates. We also wish every success in April to our colleagues from the delegation of the United Kingdom. The meeting rose at 12.15 p.m.”
2022-03-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9010 (2022) · source
“Of course, such symbols do not mean anything, and it does not mean anything if its military tortures prisoners of war and brands Nazi symbols on their bodies. Apparently, Council members do not consider that to be Nazism. If the President of a country considers the national hero of the country to be someone who fought alongside Hitler, killing Jews, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians, apparently that does not mean anything either in the view of Council members. However, we see things differently, and so do the majority of the people in Russia and Ukraine.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Council members know who Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych were. They know how many things those people did that were harmful and bad for humankind. They collaborated with Nazis and took part in the killings of Poles, Jews, Russians and Ukrainians. If Council members have any doubts, they should ask the Polish people — not Polish politicians — but ordinary people. I worked in Poland for three years, and I am well aware of how Poles view Bandera there. And yet Bandera and Shukhevych are national heroes of Ukraine, and their national battalions have Nazi symbols in their insignias. NATO recently had to remove a picture of an Ukrainian female soldier from its official webpage because there was a Nazi symbol on her uniform.”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to respond to the statement by Ms. Sherman. I will not comment on the part about her participation in the negotiations. Of course, she is much more informed about that than I or my colleagues are. However, because the negotiations did not succeed, perhaps she fell short in some way in that area, and perhaps she should have worked better and should have made more serious proposals, but now we are where we are. I would like to comment on her remarks with regard to Nazism in Ukraine. It has already become a common excuse for people to say that the Ukrainian President is Jewish, so he cannot be a Nazi. I will not try to convince Security Council members of the opposite, rather I will just cite some facts. What do Council members think?”
2022-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9008 (2022) · source
“We urge Council members not to forget this point and not expect us to turn a blind eye to failures to comply with resolution 2585 (2021), which are becoming more and more egregious.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“For our part, we consider it necessary to ensure the fundamental right of refugees to return, as provided for by resolution 2254 (2015), under the strict condition of coordinating such efforts with Damascus. As we are all aware, the mandate of the cross- border mechanism expires this summer. Only one of the provisions of resolution 2585 (2021) is being implemented today: the cross-border humanitarian shipments. It seems no one intends to implement any of the other provisions. Yet, at the same time, Damascus has proven that deliveries to Idlib across the contact lines are quite possible, so humanitarian aid can reach the civilian population directly from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“In parallel with the politicization of humanitarian assistance, Europe and the United States continue to suffocate Syria with unilateral sanctions, which are having a detrimental effect on the humanitarian situation and are significantly hampering the efforts of relevant organizations, including through the chilling effect and overcompliance by banks, insurers and economic actors. Again, have we not decided that using starvation as a method of warfare is unacceptable and contrary to international humanitarian law? We should not lose sight of the task of assisting Syrian internally displaced persons and the return of refugees, which remains on the agenda. The receiving countries, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, are openly saying that their ability to host further refugees is limited.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“At the same time, according to information we are receiving, the Al-Nusra Front is openly saying that until the next extension of the cross- border mechanism in July, which it is, for some reason, convinced will happen, it will not let domestic convoys through to deliver assistance to approximately 43,000 people in need. There is also no access to the other three Turkish operation zones. Even coronavirus disease vaccines cannot be delivered. All of this is being accompanied by an attempt on the part of our Western colleagues to link the obligations of Member States under unanimously adopted resolution 2585 (2021) to political preconditions.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“The bombing of Baghouz killed at least 80 people, mostly women and children. Following the emotional assessments of what is happening in Ukraine — assessments that have been made on the basis of unverified or even unconfirmed information no less — the Head of the United Nations is simply obligated to call a spade a spade in the context of the ongoing United States occupation of Syrian territory, based on information confirmed by international agencies. On the humanitarian track, we share Martin Griffiths’ assessment that every year the international community is letting Syrians down more and more. The implementation of resolution 2585 (2021), which was meant to mobilize comprehensive humanitarian assistance to Syria, is stalling. The planned cross-line convoys from Aleppo to Sarmada have been blocked by militants in Idlib.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“Guterres to be consistent and finally provide his assessment of the compliance of the presence of United States and other forces in Syria with the United Nations Charter. We expect him to publicly name those who are illegally occupying Syrian territory, primarily in Al-Tanf, and indicate who is responsible for the situation in internally displaced persons camps outside the control of Damascus. Otherwise, we will regard the silence of the Secretary-General as a vivid example of double standards. Further, we would also like to remind the Secretary-General that we never heard his assessments of the United States bombings in Raqqa, Hajin and Baghouz. According to the United Nations itself, there is not a single medical facility left in Raqqa that was not damaged as a result of the hostilities.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“We also believe it is important to recall that the United States and its allies have repeatedly used the far- fetched pretext of destroying chemical weapons to, in violation of international law and the United Nations Charter, launch massive missile and bomb strikes on the military and industrial infrastructure of the Syrian Arab Republic. It would seem that this is what the rules- based order promoted by Western colleagues looks like. Given the foregoing, and also in view of the fact that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in the context of the situation in Ukraine, has abandoned the customary neutral language that is appropriate for an international official, we ask Mr.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“During the operation to clear that prison and its urban environment of ISIL militants, United States aircraft and armoured vehicles were used, and measures to protect civilians were disregarded. The massive exodus of civilians from the combat zone is eloquent evidence of this: more than 45,000 people left the area, according to OCHA. Despite the fact that Washington presents its military presence as a counter-terrorist operation, we fail to see any active measures to combat terrorists there. Moreover, according to available information, ISIL and other extremists from east of the Euphrates are being transferred to other hot spots where it is beneficial for the United States to sow chaos.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“The solution to this problem lies in continuing to wage an uncompromising fight against internationally recognized terrorist groups, primarily the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, as well as ending the illegal foreign military presence that violates the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, and in the cessation of arbitrary Israeli air strikes. The root causes of the general volatile situation lie in the West’s continued policy of pandering to terrorists in an attempt use them for their own aims. The latest manifestation of the dangerous consequences of this approach was a large-scale terrorist attack on Al-Sina’a prison in Al-Hasakah.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“In this regard, we hope that methodological reservations will not interfere with the successful completion of this round of the Constitutional Committee and that the work will be based mainly on a dialogue between the Syrian delegations and their readiness to reach an agreement on constitutional reform. We call on Geir Pedersen to focus on this particular area without being distracted by other initiatives. Progress on the political track is also particularly needed now because the situation on the ground remains tense and potentially explosive. The main security threats in Syria and for the entire region are associated with the mobilization of terrorists who have taken refuge in territories not controlled by Damascus — in Idlib, east of the Euphrates and in Al-Tanf.”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Hossam Zaki, for sharing their views. We welcome the commencement of the work of the seventh round of the drafting commission of the Constitutional Committee on 21 March in Geneva. We continue to see no alternative to advancing the political settlement process led and carried out by Syrians themselves with the mediation of the United Nations and without external interference or imposing artificial deadlines and strictly within the framework of resolution 2254 (2015).”
2022-03-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9003 (2022) · source
“We reaffirm our readiness to assist in every possible way to normalize the situation in the Persian Gulf, both in our national capacity and in a collective format, including through cooperation between the League and the United Nations. In that context, we recall the renewed Russian concept of collective security in the Persian Gulf aimed at renouncing confrontational approaches and promoting a constructive, unifying agenda. Our initiative is an invitation to dialogue, in which the League of Arab States can play an important role. Russia will continue to strengthen its partnership and cooperation with the League of Arab States on the most urgent international and regional issues.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“Given the potential of the League of Arab States in spreading an interreligious and inter-ethnic culture of peace and combating radical and extremist ideology, it is important to conduct a dialogue between the United Nations and the League on the situation of Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities affected by conflict. It is in the interest of all States in the Arab region and beyond to set aside mutual recrimination and suspicions, and especially to avoid the use of unilateral sanctions, pressure and provocations. Unfortunately, tensions in the Persian Gulf continue unabated, which has had a destabilizing effect on international relations as a whole. In that connection, we welcome the declared intention of leaders of the region to seek diplomatic solutions to the current problems.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“We reiterate our interest in seeing a strong and effective League of Arab States and strengthening the role of Arab States in preventing and resolving conflicts. We support the participation of all members of the Arab family in developing solutions on an equal footing. We recall the relevance of Syria’s return to the League of Arab States. We are convinced that such a step would be in the interests of both Damascus and the organization. We believe that cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations should be based on the recognition of the leading role that regional organizations play in identifying ways of resolving conflicts in that part of the world.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“Such cooperation could contribute to the peaceful settlement of existing disputes without external interference while respecting the interests of all parties concerned and in accordance with the norms and provisions of international law. The Russian Federation has consistently called for stepping up cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States. In order to strengthen that cooperation, a United Nations Liaison Office was opened at the League headquarters in Cairo in 2019. We are in favour of effectively using of that channel. We believe it is important to intensify coordination between the League and United Nations special envoys in addressing crises in the Arab region with a view to seeking joint measures to address them.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“In that connection, we think that the Quartet’s role as international mediator is especially important, and we call on our colleagues from the Quartet to support our initiative to convene a ministerial meeting. We hope that the recent normalization of relations between a number of Arab States and Israel will not affect the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the achievement of a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on an internationally recognized basis. The current situation in the region increases the need for cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States on countering new challenges, peacekeeping and jointly preventing the escalation of conflicts in the region.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“The Middle East and North African region is experiencing a complex and intense period, owing, inter alia, to the multiple acute crisis situations that remain unresolved, often provoked by external interference; the colonial legacy and its terrible consequences that still need to be overcome; and the numerous countries that are still in the throes of political and economic crises that only strengthen radical attitudes and provoke an escalation of terrorism and extremism. Furthermore, the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the already complex socioeconomic and humanitarian situation in a host of Arab States. The conflicts in Syria, Libya and Yemen are still raging. We are seeing tensions in Western Sahara. Urgent steps are needed to overcome the stalemate on the central question for the region: the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We welcome the participation of Minister of State Khalifa Shaheen, President of the Security Council, at today’s meeting. We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, for their briefings. We also carefully listened to the representative of the civil society, Ms. Razan Farhan Alaqil.”
2022-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9001 (2022) · source
“For our part, we will pursue our efforts to build international consensus and coordinate joint action in promoting a just solution to the Palestinian question. We call on our Quartet colleagues to consider our well-known initiatives, including the holding of a ministerial meeting, as well as consultations in the extended format with the participation of regional States. At the same time, we count on the support of the international community in carrying out those activities.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“Against that background, we attach great importance to providing comprehensive humanitarian assistance to those in need in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as Palestinian refugees in the neighbouring Arab countries. We support the efforts of specialized international organizations, first and foremost the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, whose activities have not only a humanitarian but also a political dimension in providing an important stabilizing effect in the Palestinian territories and countries of the Middle East. In that regard, we note the Agency’s appeal to the international community to help meet financial shortfalls so as to maintain uninterrupted support for the Palestinians this year.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“We do not agree with those who believe that framework to be irrelevant. The problem does not lie with the framework itself, as its final details in every instance should be discussed by the Palestinians and Israelis in direct negotiations, but with the factors that are preventing the resumption of the negotiation process. In that context, we are convinced of the need to step up appropriate multilateral efforts, including within the framework of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators with a view to creating the necessary conditions for the swift resumption of direct Israeli- Palestinian talks. Furthermore, it will be impossible to advance the settlement process without restoring the unity of the Palestinian ranks, based on the authority of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the holding of elections.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“Against that background, there has been a sharp increase in settler attacks, as well as the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli military against Palestinians, resulting in civilian deaths and injuries. One example of such misconduct was the high-profile eviction and demolition of a house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in January. In the current circumstances, we believe that the primary goal should be to achieve the long-term stabilization of the situation, avoid provocations and unilateral steps to create irreversible facts on the ground, and restore the political horizon for reinvigorating the peace process within the agreed internationally recognized parameters, including the relevant Security Council resolutions, the Madrid principles and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“The situation is further exacerbated by Israel’s unlawful unilateral actions, with their potentially dangerous disruptive consequences for the entire Middle East region. They include the confiscation of Palestinian land, forced evictions, the demolition of property, the illegal building of settlements and attempts to change the historical status quo of the holy sites. The announcement of Tel Aviv’s plans to expand settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is deeply disturbing. The continuation of settlement construction and the intention to double the number of Israelis living in the Jordan Valley and the Syrian Golan Heights by 2026 can be seen as the de facto annexation of most of the occupied Palestinian territory.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East settlement process in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016). We listened with concern to his report on the continued impasse in the settlement process in the Middle East and the unresolved core issue of the Palestinian question. Unfortunately, we must note that there has been no let-up in violence with regard to the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation, leading to casualties on both sides and potentially escalating into the type of full-scale military escalation that we have seen so many times.”
2022-03-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9000 (2022) · source
“Clearly, 11 years on, the country has still not managed to address the consequences of the collapse of Libyan statehood, spawned by NATO’s unlawful intervention. We also wish to underscore that international restrictions should help facilitate the political process to restore stability in Libya and not obstruct efforts to that end, as well as ensure that Libya’s assets are safeguarded and not capitalized on for the enrichment of Western States.”
2022-03-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8996 (2022) · source