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Polyanskiy

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“I would like to underscore that even the High Representative has been obliged to acknowledge and document the existence of substantive disagreements on the issue of the country's further rapprochement with NATO. Banja Luka has consistently opposed it, finding it unacceptable that it would transform Bosnia and Herzegovina's border with militarily neutral Serbia into a new geopolitical dividing line. That simply cannot be ignored, and attempts to bring Sarajevo closer to NATO, in violation of the Dayton principles of consensus on external policy decisions, threaten to undermine all the work on the reform front and have other destructive consequences. We cannot help noticing that Mr.”
2019-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8522 (2019) · source
“Inzko's affection for the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina's European and transatlantic integration, which does not correspond to the High Representative's mandate and is detrimental to his direct responsibilities related to the implementation of the 5+2 agenda. As a result, there has been no progress in that direction in the past few years, and a good deal of the resources for the Office of the High Representative have been wasted, for all practical purposes. We are waiting for Mr. Inzko to finally start giving proper attention to winding up the Office of the High Representative, both in his reports and, most importantly, in his practical work. I want to address the issue of the relationship between Bosnia and Herzegovina and NATO separately.”
2019-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8522 (2019) · source
“The equality guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement has recently been increasingly attacked by various Sarajevo actors, and that is the main reason for most of Bosnia's problems. However, Mr. Inzko stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that, only in passing and uncritically mentioning some of the most reprehensible examples of the undermining of equality. They include the idea announced by the Bosniaks of disputing in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court the name of Republika Srpska, which is Dayton terminology, and their reluctance to meet the Bosnian Croats halfway on the issue of amending the Election Law to afford sufficient guarantees that only legitimate representatives of the three constituent peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be approved for its highest offices. Much has already been said of Mr.”
2019-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8522 (2019) · source
“Inzko continues to settle personal scores with the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs and Croats by blaming them without justification for all of Bosnia and Herzegovina's problems. Our substantive dialogue with their leaders, including a meeting in Belgrade on 17 January between President Putin and Milorad Dodik, the Chair of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, testifies to the exact opposite, which is that all of the responsible Serb and Croat politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina are committed to the 1995 Peace Agreement. However, they are also determined to ensure strict compliance with the Agreement's provisions relating to the inviolability of the decentralized architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the equality of its three constituent peoples.”
2019-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8522 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Unfortunately, the report of the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2019/364, annex) under discussion is far from an impartial assessment of the situation in the country, contrary to what its author, Valentin Inzko, would have us believe. What we see is an effort to use every possible means to justify maintaining elements of the international protectorate of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to prove that the Office of the High Representative is still needed at the current stage of the Bosnian settlement. The entire structure of the report is subordinated to that dubious aim and that has continued to have a negative impact on the substance of its content. First of all, Mr.”
2019-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8522 (2019) · source
“Some delegations refused to be actively involved until the very last round. However, we salute the efforts of the Indonesian delegation, whose extreme diplomatic skill ultimately made it possible to achieve a result that satisfied everyone. We believe we should continue to work on developing United Nations peacekeeping on the basis of consensus, listening carefully and respecting one another, which is the only approach that will make it possible to fully realize the Secretary-General's ambitious goals for the field of peacekeeping.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“Unfortunately, however, we are still encountering attempts to circumvent the Special Committee on Peacekeeping in order to push issues through the Security Council that have failed to reach agreement in the General Assembly. Needless to say, we cannot accept that approach. However, we are definitely not denying the significance of the Secretary-General's initiatives on very concrete issues of peacekeeping. That applies first and foremost to the training and capacity-building of peacekeepers. In this area we should act collectively to find appropriate and balanced solutions. We were pleased to see that it is precisely such balanced approaches that are reflected in the presidential statement issued today (S/PRST/2019/4). There is no hiding the fact that the drafting of the statement was not easy.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“Needless to say there can be no question of monitoring human rights with the use of force. We also stressed that United Nations peacekeeping missions' activity should prioritize working with host Governments. Lastly, we maintained, and continue to maintain, that the Special Committee on Peacekeeping should play a key role alongside the Security Council in defining the parameters for United Nations peacekeeping. At the time, we thought that a common understanding had been reached between the States Members of the United Nations and the Secretariat that it was essential to continue working to establish a consensus on general peacekeeping issues.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“Peacekeeping's job is maintaining peace, not creating new risks. I want to remind the Council that this became one of the key issues during the discussion of the Secretary-General's Action for Peacekeeping initiative, especially at the stage when the Declaration of Shared Commitments on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations was being drafted. It is no secret that despite the broad support for such initiatives, States still disagree about a number of very important aspects. In September of last year Russia circulated an official note as a Security Council document in which we explained that we couldnot support the linking of human rights issues to the protection of civilians, since the latter involves the use of force based on Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“It is their Blue Helmets and Blue Berets who understand better than anyone the kinds of tasks that have to be dealt with on the ground and the skills that are needed for them. We also want to point out that peacekeepers' effectiveness and security certainly does not depend only on how well their training went. The way the Security Council formulates their missions' mandates is no less important. In fact, that may be the most crucial stage, where we ensure that the tasks are commensurate with peacekeeping capabilities. In that regard, we continue to be alarmed by the excessive enthusiasm for so-called robust mandates. We should not forget that among other things, the right to use force increases security risks for Blue Helmets themselves, turning them into targets and even parties to conflicts. That cannot be allowed to happen.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“In general, we hope that the institutionalization of the light coordination mechanism and linking intergovernmental cooperation to the work of the Secretariat will not create additional obstacles or lead to unnecessary competition between States providing training programmes, and that it will lead to a better awareness among troop-contributing countries about the training programmes available to them. Of course, it is extremely important to take into account modern realities and needs. We have to understand what kind of peacekeepers are needed today and the areas where training is most relevant. It is essential to take into account the views and concerns of troop-contributing countries.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“We have developed an instruction system that includes both general and specialized training just prior to peacekeepers' deployment to specific missions. We also adapt language training to what is needed. We believe firmly in the need for robust triangular cooperation and the coordination of efforts on training and capacity-building issues between the Security Council, the troop-contributing countries and the Secretariat. However, direct contact between States that are developing training programmes and those taking part in them is no less important.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“High- quality training for personnel plays a decisive role in the process of putting together modern multicomponent peacekeeping missions, and the effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping is directly dependent on it. The issue ofpersonnel training cannot be resolved by the United Nations on its own. The main responsibility lies with the States themselves. We know that from experience. Russian men and women peacekeepers are serving in eight United Nations peacekeeping operations, and we take an active part in providing aviation services for United Nations needs. We have therefore gained significant experience in issues related to training peacekeeping personnel. We train foreign peacekeepers as well as our own - police, formed units and military observers - in Russian training centres.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to welcome you to the Security Council, Madam President, and to thank you for organizing today's debate on issues related to the training of peacekeepers and building the capacity of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We are also grateful to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the other briefers for their informative statements. We share the concerns about the fact that today's challenges demand particularly thorough training of peacekeeping contingents. That is especially important in missions with complex mandates operating in extremely difficult and dangerous situations.”
2019-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8521 (2019) · source
“However, we believe that consideration of the Secretariat's proposals with regard to the mission's civilian component should take into account the views of Khartoum and Juba, as the fundamental principles of peacekeeping prescribe.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“In our View, the Mechanism is an essential element in the system for preventing incidents between the parties, and withdrawing UNISFA's support to it could have a very negative effect on the prospects for achieving a final settlement of the situation around Abyei. We therefore supported the Council's adoption of resolution 2465 (2019), which extended UNISFA'S mandate to assist the Mechanism through 15 October. We are all familiar with the factors that are preventing Khartoum and Juba from expediting the process ofreaching a settlement on Abyei's final status. In that context, maintaining UNISFA's continued presence in the region continues to be crucial, and in that regard, the Russian Federation supports the Secretary-General's proposal to extend UNISFA's mandate for another six months.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“We have carefully studied the data provided by the Secretariat on the parties' implementation of the benchmarks established in resolution 2438 (2018) for launching the full functioning of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism. We note that Khartoum and Juba have been working on meeting them throughout the reporting period and have made significant progress. However, we are quite certain that the success of these efforts will depend not only on the political will of the parties, which they have demonstrated, but also on the concrete circumstances and dynamics of the situation on the ground.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“The measures undertaken by the United Nations to prevent intercommunal conflict and establish intercommunal cooperation on issues of law and order and economic activity in the area of the Amiet common market deserve all possible support, as it will be impossible to restore trust and achieve reconciliation between the two communities without it. We deplore the fact that few of the provisions of the agreement of 20 June 2011 are being implemented. The power vacuum in the region continues, and the demilitarized status of Abyei itself and of the buffer zone at the border between the Sudan and South Sudan is being violated. We would also like to see more regular contact between the parties.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“Khartoum's effective participation in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development's mediation efforts for the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan has helped the people of South Sudan overcome the deadlock in the peace settlement. We join the Secretary-General's call to build on this positive momentum in the interests of achieving a settlement in Abyei as well. We hope that the African Union High- level Implementation Panel will continue to be an important mechanism in assisting the normalization of relations between the two countries. We are pleased that the situation in Abyei remains stable. We believe UNISFA's efforts to maintain constructive relations with local communities are important.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We too would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his information on the inter-Sudanese settlement and the activities of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We welcome Mr. Onanga-Anyanga in his new role as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa and thank him for his briefing. We believe that the joint efforts of both parties are vital to the successful promotion of an inter-Sudanese settlement. The bilateral agreements concluded in September 2012 in Addis Ababa, along with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, represent a good basis for the cooperation between Khartoum and Juba. We should not omit to point out that relations between the Sudanese parties have warmed significantly since September 2018.”
2019-04-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8519 (2019) · source
“It is regrettable that in reporting such facts the Secretariat is making the same appeals to everyone concerned. We are convinced that courting the unreconciled parties in this way only harms the peace process. We also believe that rather than encouraging radicals to hold meetings in their capitals, the external sponsors of the Sudanese opposition should urge them to come up with more realistic demands that respond to the goal of advancing the peace process. Considering all of this, we see no basis for linking the events in Khartoum of 11 April with the processes of the UNAMID withdrawal and the review of the Darfur sanctions regime, which should progress in accordance with the existing plans.”
2019-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8513 (2019) · source
“It is regrettable that the unreconciled armed opposition, while it has lost its presence on the ground, has not given up its attempts to destabilize the situation and incite a new wave of violence in the region. It has been clear for a long time that the reason the Darfur peace process is stalled is because of the unconstructive negotiating position of the unreconciled parties, including the Sudanese Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid. That is clearly the story behind the refusal of the movements that did not sign the Doha Document to implement the 6 December pre-negotiation agreement concluded in Berlin and mediated by the African Union. Here we should also point to the Sudan Call alliance's decision of 20 March to withdraw from Thabo Mbeki's amended Roadmap Agreement.”
2019-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8513 (2019) · source
“We consider this the main task ofthe transition concept for UNAMID endorsed in the resolution and designed to support the Sudanese people in the context of the start of the peacebuilding phase of the Darfur settlement. We emphasize the importance of ensuring that donors deliver on the pledges they have made at previous donor conferences. Together with a relaxation of the unilateral sanctions on the Sudan, we believe that should help to normalize the humanitarian and socioeconomic situation in the Sudan as a whole and resolve issues related to peacebuilding and strengthening security in Darfur. We are pleased that almost all the provisions of the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur have been implemented.”
2019-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8513 (2019) · source
“As far as the state of affairs in Darfur itself is concerned, we note that on the whole the situation in the region has remained stable. There have been no reports of major armed clashes for some time, and intercommunal violence is now virtually non-existent. The Sudanese Government has done a great deal to normalize life in Darfur, and we hope that those efforts will continue. It is important that, given the positive momentum in the region, the process of further drawing down the military component of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) continues in accordance with resolution 2429 (2018). We share the view that in order to prevent any relapses into conflict we must avoid the possibility of creating a power vacuum in the region and focus on building the capacity of State institutions in Darfur.”
2019-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8513 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Jeremiah Mamabolo, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the African Union, and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their detailed briefings on the situation in Darfur. To be honest, after hearing a number of our colleagues' statements, we have the distinct impression that they mistook today's meeting as an opportunity mainly to discuss the internal situation in the Sudan rather than the situation in Darfur. In our view, that is not right. The Security Council has no mandate to discuss the evolving political processes in that country. It is important to avoid any statements or actions that could be interpreted as interfering in its internal affairs, and we urge all our colleagues in the Council to keep that in mind.”
2019-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8513 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I will be very brief. It is just to clarify the situation of vaccines. I just wanted to say that the Government of Venezuela was ready to buy the vaccines but, as I said, the money that had been deposited in British and American banks was stolen from it. It is very simple. First, the problem is created. It is then proposed that it be resolved. That is by way of clarification.”
2019-04-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8506 (2019) · source
“In conclusion, allow me to affirm that Russia supports Port-au-Prince and will continue to work to ensure that the Security Council's efforts will result in genuinely normalizing the situation in Haiti and strengthening its sovereignty and self-sufficiency.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“a great deal of work lies ahead for the United Nations staff, whose task is to provide the Haitian authorities with the greatest possible assistance. The issue is how exactly international assistance can be most effective. For example, we have long said that the situation in Haiti is not a threat to international peace and security. That means that there is no need to continue to act under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in the country. That is why a year ago, we abstained in the voting on resolution 2410 (2018) (see S/PV.8226), which, at the insistence of the American delegation, extended the application of the provisions of Chapter VII even to the Mission's mandate to support human rights monitoring in the country. Our position on that remains unchanged.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“We have always said that we see attempts to forcibly oppose legitimate authorities to be extremely dangerous, as they do not help to consolidate society or meet the demands of States' gradual development. Like the Secretary-General, we therefore hope that the people of Haiti will be able to overcome their differences through a constructive internal dialogue that is as inclusive as possible and, crucially, peaceful. That is particularly important in the light of the country's upcoming elections. At this difficult moment for Haiti, we also believe firmly that the international community cannot remain indifferent and must help the Government and the people of Haiti to implement their national responsibility for post-conflict peacebuilding.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“While we see that the leadership is attempting to normalize the situation, we have nonetheless been compelled to conclude that the resignation of the Prime Minister and his Government could not prevent the opposition forces from calling for a general protest. Needless to say, while peaceful assembly and freedom of expression are inalienable rights, we should not forget that they should be exercised in strict compliance with national legislation. Such disagreements between Government and society are not new. They occur in other parts of the Western hemisphere and indeed all over the world. We will continue to reiterate that the only effective way to resolve internal differences is through an inclusive national dialogue, which is the only path to a viable and sustainable resolution regardless of the State in question.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“On the other hand, the Haitian people's awareness of their national responsibility for the future of their country is spurring society to greater social activism and the expression of its civic Views. That has led to challenges that are typical for mature States. We have been watching the spiralling new tensions in the social and political life of the country with alarm. The popular unrest of recent months has been unfolding in waves, with outbreaks in October and November of last year that ripened into mass protests by February that swept across the entire country and claimed dozens of lives.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): As you suggested, Mr. President, we will dissolve all our welcomes and diplomatic formalities in the sand of the Thuringian hourglass and get right down to business. We have very mixed feelings about the situation in Haiti. On the one hand, we are seeing increasingly optimistic assessments of the restoration of national ownership in each succeeding report on the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti. The Secretary-General's assertion that the Haitian National Police will be able to assume full responsibility for the country's security and protection by October is quite indicative in that regard.”
2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source
“The links between the terrorists operating in Mali and in the region as a whole are becoming increasingly clear. In that regard, we support the concrete steps that the countries of the Group of Five for the Sahel have been taking to form a joint force to combat terrorism and organized crime, and we hope that their role in ensuring regional security will increase.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“The worsening humanitarian situation is extremely worrying. The numbers of those in need of assistance are growing. We urge all external donors to fund the humanitarian appeal as quickly as possible. We all know that when the situation seems hopeless, Mali's young people have no option but to join the ranks of terrorist, extremist or criminal groups. In that regard, it will be crucial to ensure that the efforts to stimulate economic activity and restore social services in the central and northern areas do not let up. The situation in Mali is an important factor in African security as a whole. However, it is very unlikely that peace can be achieved there without normalizing the situation in the region. The Libya factor continues to play a negative role in this.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“We have seen that the number of terrorist attacks on both military personnel and civilians has increased in recent months. There are human rights violations everywhere. In central Mali inter-ethnic and intercommunal conflicts are not just simmering but increasingly often are full-on erupting. It seems that the issue here is not merely the centuries-old differences between herders and farmers. Militants are intentionally trying to gain the support of local residents by providing protection and basic services and by skilfully playing on existing disputes. If those challenges are to be dealt with, the presence of State authority must be restored. However, we should not fail to point to the results that the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali has achieved in reconciling the warring parties.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“We hope that the existing positive momentum in implementing its key provisions with regard to the reconstitution of Mali's security forces, administrative and territorial reforms and the preparations for a constitutional referendum will continue. Ensuring that the parliamentary elections scheduled for June are held on time would be an important step towards strengthening Mali's internal dialogue. The international community should prioritize those issues in providing assistance to the country. While recognizing the obvious positive developments in Mali's peace process, we cannot ignore other trends there that are unfortunately less encouraging. In a situation where there is no Government control in large parts of the country, it should be no surprise that those areas are becoming ideal breeding grounds for extremist activities.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“This tragic event, which occurred while the Security Council mission was visiting the country, demonstrated once again the size and gravity of the threats facing the country and the region, as well as their vulnerability to the proliferation of destabilizing forces represented by terrorists, organized criminals and ideological extremists. In general, we share the views that the Secretary- General expressed today and in his two reports for March on the situation in Mali (S/2019/207 and S/2019/262). We welcome the efforts of Bamako, Malian political stakeholders and the Platform coalition and Coordination des mouvements de l'Azawad signatory groups to implement the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We welcome Prime Minister Soumeylou Maiga of Mali to today's meeting and thank Secretary- General Guterres for his briefing. At the outset, we would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mali regarding the horrific tragedy in the village of Ogossagou, where more than 160 peaceful residents were killed as a result of an inter-ethnic clash on 23 March. We wish all the wounded a speedy recovery and hope that those responsible for what happened will be found and duly punished.”
2019-03-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8497 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in French): I would just like to say a few words, speaking in French so as not to disrupt the francophone atmosphere of this meeting. On behalf of us all, I would like to pay tribute to our French friends for their excellent logistical support and assistance throughout the mission. The United Nations experts, including the members of the Security Council Affairs Division and the interpreters, also did excellent work.”
2019-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8492 (2019) · source
“We believe that lasting solutions to all these problems can be found only independently, with support from the ICGLR and other regional mechanisms, in accordance with the principle of African solutions to African problems.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“These efforts are being implemented in the spirit of the Year of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa proclaimed by the African Union, and reflect the commitment of the countries of the Great Lakes region to finding collective responses to the challenges facing it. We hope that the continuing differences between the leaders of some countries of the Great Lakes region will not affect their commitments to the principles outlined in the Framework. We call on the States of the region to set aside their differences and continue to cooperate on the key issues that affect the stability and security ofthe entire region.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“However, we can point to some positive developments in addressing the refugee problem, in particular the gradual repatriation of Burundian refugees from neighbouring countries that has begun thanks to the stabilizing situation in their homeland. The first reports of citizens of the Central African Republic and South Sudan who had previously fled to the Great Lakes region returning home are also grounds for optimism. We welcome the measures being implemented within the framework of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) to harmonize national strategies for repatriating and reintegrating refugees and eradicating the underlying reasons for the problem.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“The Congolese army's operation, supported by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the Allied Democratic Forces, which has been going on for several months now, has had no tangible results either. Opposition from illegal armed groups is complicating the ongoing fight against the Ebola epidemic in two of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern provinces. We hope to see effective cooperation between the countries of the region in preventing the virus from spreading across their borders, and we are working on the issue of supplying the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a Russian-made vaccine against the disease. We share the Secretary-General's concern about the difficult humanitarian situation in the Great Lakes region.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“One of the major factors in ensuring security in the Great Lakes region is the stabilization of the situation in its largest country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Unfortunately, the successful holding of elections has so far not resulted in any perceptible strengthening of the country's stability or improvement in its socioeconomic situation. Militants from neighbouring countries, particularly from the Forces democratiques de liberation du Rwanda and the Lord's Resistance Army, have been taking advantage of the overstretched army and police, which have been busy at polling stations, to become more active in the eastern regions of the country.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“We call on all signatories to unconditionally uphold all their obligations, including respect for sovereignty, non-interference in the internal affairs of others and the strengthening of confidence-building measures. We are convinced that the full implementation of the provisions of the Framework will have a positive impact on the overall situation in the region, which remains tense. In that context, we supported the appointment of Mr. Huang Xia, of the People's Republic of China, as the new Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, and hope that he will be able to continue his productive cooperation with the leaders of the countries of the region, accelerate the implementation of the Framework and make a significant contribution to normalizing the situation.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for his comprehensive briefing. We thank him for his great personal contribution to the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region, as well as for his contribution to the settlement of a number of acute crisis situations in the Great Lakes region. We believe that the Framework continues to serve as a the cornerstone of regional stability. We note progress in the implementation of that document, in particular the launching of the Joint Follow-up Mechanism for the repatriation of former combatants.”
2019-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8491 (2019) · source
“For our part, we are ready to work constructively on the draft resolution extending the Mission's mandate. Russia, including as a member of the Friends of the Great Lakes Region, intends to continue to actively promote the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the stabilization of the situation in the Great Lakes region as a whole.”
2019-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8486 (2019) · source
“We join the Secretary-General in urging that the window of opportunity opening there not be missed. We also expect the Congolese authorities to work to curb the illegal exploitation and export of the country's mineral resources. We believe that the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should continue to support the efforts of the authorities to normalize the situation in the country during the post-electoral period. We note the constructive approach that the new President, Mr. Felix Tshilombo Tshisekedi, has expressed about cooperating with the Blue Helmets. However, we want to emphasize that any interference by anyone, whoever they may be, in the internal affairs of Kinshasa is unacceptable.”
2019-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8486 (2019) · source
“We are worried about the fact that the difficult military and political situation in the country's eastern provinces continues, as have the attacks by illegal armed groups, including the so-called Allied Democratic Forces. The situation has also been exacerbated by escalating intercommunal clashes and the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Beni area. We hope that the fight against the armed groups will produce the necessary results. There should also be qualitative progress in the disarmament, demobilization and social reintegration of former combatants. In that regard, we note the fact that armed groups in Kasai province have expressed the desire to lay down their arms and the advances in the disarmament process in Ituri and Tanganyika provinces.”
2019-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8486 (2019) · source
“We view the presidential elections that took place after repeated postponements as a milestone event in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's political life. For the first time in their country's history, its citizens were able to achieve a democratic transfer of power to an unarmed, legally operating opposition. It is notable that the long-awaited vote was held in a calm atmosphere unclouded by any serious violations of public order. We welcome the fact that in the difficult post-electoral period all the country's political forces have competed through exclusively political methods, and we call on the Congolese people to continue to act in the interests ofpeace and to take steps to prevent any form of violence.”
2019-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8486 (2019) · source