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Polyanskiy

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first: 2018-01-31
most recent: 2023-12-22
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“At the same time, we note that, overall, the first phase of the implementation of resolution 2690 (2023) was completed without serious incident. We trust that the second phase of the process, due to begin on 1 September, which involves a larger-scale movement of Blue Helmets to the Gao and Bamako regions, will proceed in a similarly orderly and organized manner. We call on all Malian parties to refrain from engaging in armed provocations or ramping up militant rhetoric during this important period for Mali. We recall that the United Nations peacekeeping Mission is authorized to transfer its infrastructure exclusively to the official authorities of the host country.”
2023-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9407 (2023) · source
“We stress the need for strict adherence to the deadlines set out in this document for the withdrawal of the main United Nations forces, which must be completed by 31 December. The process of the subsequent dismantling of MINUSMA’s infrastructure, planned for the year and a half following the closure of the Mission must be equally streamlined. We look forward to further proposals from the Secretary- General on optimizing Mission costs until its drawdown is completed. We understand that the Mission’s withdrawal is taking place under difficult conditions, including due to the actions of terrorist groups. We condemn the attacks carried out against peacekeepers during this period and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded Burkinabe personnel.”
2023-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9407 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General El-Ghassim Wane and Ms. Beatrice Abouya for their briefings. We carefully read the letter of the Secretary- General (S/2023/611) regarding the modalities for the drawdown the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). We thank the United Nations Secretariat and MINUSMA staff for their efforts to implement the decisions of the Security Council in close coordination with Malian leadership. We note that the plan for the withdrawal of peacekeepers provided in the letter is indeed within the framework established by the provisions of resolution 2690 (2023), which we supported, guided by the fact that it took into account the main concerns of the Malian side.”
2023-08-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9407 (2023) · source
“Meanwhile, western donors, who loudly lament the misfortunes of the Syrians, in reality stubbornly refuse to help them to return to their homeland, preferring to pay for their stay in host countries. We see that as yet another example of the double standards of our Western colleagues. For our part, we believe it is necessary to ensure the fundamental right of return of refugees, as stipulated in resolution 2254 (2015), provided that such efforts are carried out in strict coordination with Damascus.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“We believe that the return of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Arab family and the mutual steps towards restoring relations with Türkiye contribute to the overall improvement of the situation in the Middle East and to swiftly overcoming the consequences of the Syrian crisis. In that context, we are convinced that the persistent attempts by Western countries to hinder those natural processes are counterproductive. We consider such unconstructive steps as interference in the sovereign decisions of States and as a politicization of purely humanitarian issues, such as facilitating the return of refugees, whose host countries — Lebanon, Jordan and Türkiye — have been clear about the limits of their capacity to further accommodate them.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“We believe that achieving sustainable stabilization in the Syrian Arab Republic is possible only through an end to the foreign military presence in violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and the unconditional cessation of regular air strikes by the Israeli Air Force, the most recent of which hit the suburbs of Damascus shortly before today’s meeting — the twenty-second such attack since the beginning of this year. Such actions, in violation of the sovereignty of Syria and neighbouring Arab countries, in addition to the lack of any proper response from United Nations leadership, are deeply regrettable and condemnable.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“Washington’s policy aimed at maintaining the de facto occupation of vast areas in north-eastern Syria, which are rich in oil, gas and agricultural resources, and at continuing the illegitimate sanctions pressure on Damascus is leading to a further deterioration of the social and economic situation and contributes to mobilizing the extremist underground in Syria. In that connection, we stand in solidarity with the legitimate demands of the Syrian authorities for the withdrawal of all military contingents illegally present in the country’s territory.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“We strongly condemn that terrorist act and express our solidarity with the leadership and people of the Syrian Arab Republic in their fight against terrorism. I would like to stress once again that terrorist threats to Syrians emanate from areas outside of the control of the country’s Government. At the same time, one of the main destabilizing factors remains the illegal United States military presence in the trans-Euphrates region and around Al-Tanf in south-eastern Syrian Arab Republic, where the active recruitment and training of fighters for various terrorist groups, including Da’esh, is under way. Against that backdrop, the Western States’ flirtation with the terrorist elements and attempts to use them for their own geopolitical purposes does not stand up to any scrutiny.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“They should determine that platform in cooperation with the Special Envoy and in coordination with the Astana-format guarantor countries, Russia, Iran and Türkiye. We support the Special Envoy’s proposal for holding such meetings in Oman. Progress on the Syrian political settlement track is also particularly necessary now because the tensions in the situation remain, with the main security threats for both Syria and the entire region continuing to be related to the persistence of large-scale hotbeds of terrorism. On 10 August, in Deir ez-Zor governorate in eastern Syria, Islamic State terrorists attacked a bus carrying Syrian Arab Republic soldiers. Several dozen people were killed and injured as a result of the attack.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“We still see no alternative to advancing the political settlement process in Syria, led and implemented by the Syrians themselves with the assistance of the United Nations, in strict compliance with resolution 2254 (2015) and with respect for the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the country. In that regard, we believe firmly in the need to continue the direct intra-Syrian dialogue, for which the primary platform remains the Constitutional Committee. At the same time, we continue to believe that fundamental decisions on the modalities of the further work of the Constitutional Committee and the venue for the next rounds of consultations should be made by the Syrians themselves without external interference.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for providing an overview of the political situation in the country. We also listened carefully to Ms. Alkanawati, who long ago lost her connection to Syria. I think it would probably be hard to find something further from the truth than the fabrications and claims that we have just heard from her. We regret that the United States presidency has decided to turn our meeting into a farce and a useless anti-Syrian performance.”
2023-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9403 (2023) · source
“Moreover, we note the need to intensify efforts to create the necessary conditions for the integration of the country’s disparate military components into a single Libyan army. Achieving that goal requires a great deal of energy and political will. In that connection, we welcome the activities of the 5+5 Joint Military Commission, which is making further progress towards a complete resolution. One of the key areas in that regard is the ultimate removal of the foreign military presence from the territory of Libya. We are in favour of a synchronized, balanced, gradual and phased withdrawal of all non-Libyan armed groups and military units.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“At the same time, we are of course concerned by the attempts of some Western countries to use the situation in Libya to further certain geopolitical and economic interests, including in the hydrocarbon market. It is good to hear that there has not been any active fighting in Libya for more than two years now. However, the security situation is fragile, as evidenced by the recent clashes in Tripoli, Zawiya and other cities. It is also concerning to see the strengthening position of the cells of international and regional terrorist structures in the country and the growing chaos in the border areas of the former Jamahiriya, some of the neighbours of which are experiencing a period of instability.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“As stated by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, during the plenary session of the second Russia- Africa Summit on 28 July, it is important to achieve genuine national unity and to prevent Libya’s territory from becoming an arena for confrontation between third States. Russia understands the complexity of that process and will, in its turn, do its utmost to support constructive cooperation among all Libyan forces. The Libyan experience clearly shows that any separate initiatives including those that create different formats and round tables to support a resolution that do not include all influential international and regional players — and indeed, the representatives of Libya itself — will not achieve the desired result. Once again, we underscore that our country is ready to engage in constructive cooperation with all stakeholders.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“Therefore, the electoral process must be transparent, genuinely inclusive and include, without discrimination, the full spectrum of the leading political forces of the former Jamahiriya, including representatives of the former authorities. It is clear to us that in the current circumstances significant progress in Libya can be achieved only through the joint efforts of all Libyan stakeholders and influential global and regional players, with a central role played by the United Nations. In resolving the crisis, the United Nations and its key instrument, UNSMIL, are more important than ever. We reiterate our support for Mr. Bathily, Head of UNSMIL, in his tireless work to find acceptable ways to resolve the political impasse and boost political dialogue.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“Earlier at the end of June, within the framework of the 6+6 joint committee, which was created at their initiative in the Moroccan city of Bouznika, a number of important agreements were reached. We call on all Libyan players to redouble their efforts and finally create suitable conditions for the organization of presidential and parliamentary elections in the foreseeable future. We believe that Libyans themselves should ultimately determine when and how to hold elections. In that regard, it is vital to focus efforts on providing them support in that endeavour, but not to take decisions for them. If the outcome of the national elections in Libya is not recognized by all key political forces, the country will not be able to avoid worsening destabilization and another round of violence.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“A key issue on the Libyan agenda is the preparation for and holding of presidential and parliamentary elections which would put an end to the protracted situation of having two authorities and ensure the restoration of the unity and territorial integrity of Libya, as well as address the challenges of its post- crisis recovery. In that connection, we have been closely following the constitutional track of the Libyan political process. On 25 July, it was announced that the heads of the House of Representatives and the High State Council had concluded negotiations and approved a road map within their respective structures for holding elections and forming a new national Government.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“The country is even more divided, owing to the influence of varied external interests and the lack of neutral and coordinated support for national dialogue. Nevertheless, ongoing efforts by the Libyan people to put the pieces of their country back together are bearing fruit. We welcome the decision taken by Libyans on 6 July to establish a high committee on financial oversight and the decision of 20 August to merge the western and eastern branches of the Central Bank of Libya, which had been operating separately since 2014. We hope that the work to reunite the institution, which is responsible for, among other tasks, the distribution of revenues from energy exports, can also spur integration on the political track.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kimihiro Ishikane, for their briefings. We also listened to the briefer from civil society. Unfortunately, for more than a decade now Libya has been unable to recover from the consequences of the military intervention of NATO countries, as a result of which its statehood was practically destroyed, its territorial integrity undermined and its economy ruined. As a result, despite numerous attempts, initiatives aimed at rebuilding the country have not been realized as quickly as hoped.”
2023-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9402 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to once again highlight the need to continue to provide comprehensive support to the Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and neighbouring countries through international humanitarian agencies, led by 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 and make a major contribution to stabilizing the situation in the Middle East.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“For our part, we have consistently stated that there is no alternative to continuing the necessary efforts, including in the framework of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, to revive the peace process and direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations on all final status issues. In that context, the key element remains the restoration of inter-Palestinian unity on the basis of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s platform. A significant step to that end was made at the 30 July meeting in El Alamein, Egypt, which resulted in a proposal to establish a special committee to continue the dialogue and monitor the implementation of previously reached agreements.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“In that regard, the Israeli Air Force continues to carry out arbitrary strikes on the territory of Syria, including the outskirts of Damascus. In such explosive conditions, a proper response from the international community is especially needed. In that connection, we are convinced that the planned visit of Secretary-General António Guterres to the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is very timely. At the same time, we would like to recall that for many years we have supported all relevant initiatives, including the idea of organizing a Council mission to the Palestinian territories and Israel.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“Against that backdrop, the Israeli Government reportedly has approved and financed a plan to preserve Israeli archaeological sites in Area C in the West Bank in order to “strengthen roots in Judea and Samaria”. Those plans are in direct violation of the Oslo Accords, as well as a number of international treaties on the protection of cultural property in the context of occupation. This year also risks becoming one of the bloodiest on record, with more than 200 Palestinians already killed, including women and minors, and thousands more wounded. The July Israeli operation in Jenin alone resulted in more than 140 casualties. Another new threat on the ground is the unprecedented spiral of violence against both Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“The greatest threats remain the unprecedented pace of Israeli settlement construction and the legalization of outposts in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as violent Israeli military raids in the West Bank — in Nablus, Jericho and Jenin — as well as systematic violations of the status quo of the holy sites of Jerusalem, in particular through provocative visits by representatives of the Israeli leadership to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. This year, the Israeli authorities used a simplified procedure to approve plans to build more than 12,000 housing units, accompanied by the forced eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and Area C in the West Bank, including as a result of illegal actions by settlers.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“The long-term stagnation of the Middle East peace process is compounded by Israel’s ongoing illegal unilateral actions to create irreversible facts on the ground, which negates the prospects for reviving direct negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on a universally recognized international legal basis with the two-State formula as its central element, which we have consistently supported.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. Based on what we have heard, it is clear that the ongoing lack of a resolution to the Palestinian issue continues to provoke regular bloody outbreaks of violence in the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, creating growing threats to stability and security in the entire Middle East region.”
2023-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9400 (2023) · source
“More and more our international partners are becoming aware of the real causes of the Ukrainian crisis and the fact that the supply of Western weapons to the Kyiv regime is hindering the search for ways to resolve the crisis and compounding the suffering of ordinary Ukrainians. That trend is a direct result of, among other things, our efforts to draw attention to this narrative in the Security Council. We will therefore continue that effort, whether the Western backers of the Kyiv regime like it or not.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“The supply of Western weapons is not bringing peace any closer, as Western delegations claim, but they are the only thing keeping Zelenskyy’s regime afloat for now. However, no matter how hard they try, sooner or later the Ukrainian people, which has paid too high a price for the promotion of Western geopolitical interests, will start asking the right questions and will want to hold to account the true architects of this crisis. Many of them, as all are well aware, are represented in this Chamber, and today they will again repeat their unconvincing mantra that there is a need to continue military assistance to Ukraine as a “victim of aggression”. The number of those still believing it is steadily dwindling, as recent international contacts show.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“The people of Ukraine are starting to understand more and clearly that the Kyiv regime is driving it down a suicidal path to serve the interests of Western countries. This understanding is growing stronger at all levels. One clear example is that, according to the Ukrainian media, approximately 60 per cent of diplomats have not returned from Ukrainian embassies abroad since the beginning of 2022. If we are to believe Ukrainian journalists, approximately 20 embassy staff were supposed to return from the United States last year, but only one did. The Ukrainian leadership cannot help but realize that its aggressive Russophobic policy has failed, yet Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has driven his country into an impasse, has no other choice but to continue going to foreign summits and begging for aid.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“That regime, which is covering up this disadvantageous trend, however, has announced the forced evacuation of 37 towns and villages, including Kupyansk. That is not surprising, as a substantial share of the local population express an affinity with Russia and would prefer to await the arrival of Russian troops. That said, Zelenskyy’s regime has not hesitated to take children away from their parents, who have been hiding them from Ukrainian patrols in basements. In Kupyansk alone, more than 500 children face that threat. We draw the attention of the United Nations and our colleagues on the Security Council to those numerous flagrant violations of international humanitarian law being committed by Ukraine. We have been documenting and consolidating them in order to find those responsible later.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“Since our previous meeting (see S/PV.9390), we have seen an increase in the number of civilian sites struck by Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles. We all remember how those hit the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, and recently Ukrainian missile crewmen also burned down a supermarket there. Ukrainian social networks are calling upon citizens to beware of their national anti-aircraft systems deployed in residential areas in contravention of international humanitarian law. The Ukrainians understand very well that Russian high-precision weapon strikes on the facilities related to Ukrainian military capabilities in and of themselves pose no threat to the civilian population. Meanwhile, the Russian military are making substantial progress in the Kharkiv oblast and are preparing to liberate Kupyansk. The Kyiv regime.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“That process is already well under way. I will give you just a few recent examples. Anatoliy Kilyushyk, the commander of a branch of the neo-Nazi Azov battalion, was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison. Azov soldiers Pavel Artemenko and Anton Rokanyuk, who shelled residential buildings in the Donetsk People’s Republic as their forces retreated last spring, were sentenced to 24 years in prison. Vitaliy Minenko, who had admitted to the murder of a civilian in Mariupol, was sentenced to 21 years in prison, while Ukrainian serviceman Vasily Shitrya, who killed four civilians in Mariupol, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Ukrainian marines Vladimir Pafitsevich and Yevgeny Vakhnenko have also been convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for the murder of a Mariupol resident.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“In this very Chamber, our former partners from the United States have foamed at the mouth, denying that they developed biological weapons in laboratories on Ukrainian territory, and they blocked a Russian- initiated investigation into the matter in the context of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. What will they say now that Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democrat candidate for president, has confirmed those facts? There is no doubt that going forward, the people of Ukraine will definitely want to learn about how the United States has effectively used them as guinea pigs for their own military and biological experiments. All persons responsible for those and many other crimes against civilians committed by the Kyiv regime with Western backing since 2014 will be identified and receive the punishment they deserve.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“The Kyiv regime has been carrying out daily strikes with cluster munitions against northern areas in Donetsk, where no military targets are located. Their only aim is to terrorize the civilian population — an act that is also expressly prohibited under international humanitarian law but that is fully in line with the tactics of the Kyiv regime, which has long since resorted to open terrorism. Moreover, cluster bombs do not afford any real military advantage, and Washington understands that very well. Unlike that of the United States, Russia’s position on the use of cluster munitions is consistent and hews fully to the norms and requirements of international humanitarian law.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“That is why Laos and Cambodia asked Ukraine not to use those weapons, as those two countries had experienced first-hand the dire repercussions of their use in the context of United States aggression. Washington itself has for decades moralized about and branded as war criminals all those who have used those weapons. It seems that according to their own logic, Zelenskyy and his henchmen are war criminals, while Washington is directly aiding and abetting them, and it bears full responsibility for their past and future crimes. We have heard assurances from the West that the cluster weapons it supplied to Ukraine will not be used in violation of international humanitarian law. That is a blatant lie.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“The decision by London and Washington to deliver depleted uranium and cluster munitions has shocked not only the international community but even their NATO allies. The Polish media are already saying that radiation levels in the Western regions of Ukraine and Eastern provinces of Poland have increased following the destruction in May of depleted uranium munitions at a storage site in Khmelnytskyi. However, Britain and the United States do not care about continental Europe, just as they did not care about the consequences of the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia with depleted uranium. Cluster munitions, if used in violation of international humanitarian law in civilian areas — which is what Kyiv is doing — pose a severe and long-term threat to civilians.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“With chilling cynicism, Polish President Duda remarked the other day that “right now, Russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply, because American soldiers are not dying”, meaning that in London, Warsaw, Paris and Berlin the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, who are being sent into so-called human wave attacks, are considered to be cheaper than not just American lives but also expensive NATO military equipment. It does not get any more obscene than that. There is no doubt that in its proxy war with Russia to the last Ukrainian, the West is deliberately turning Ukraine into an uninhabitable testing site contaminated by radioactive elements and unexploded ordnance, which are inhumane.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“By emptying out the military arsenals of their satellite States and promising them discounted Western military equipment in return, the United States military has cleared the market for the American military industrial complex’s products, so that they can sell those to their own partners, following the scheme that has been successfully used as far back as after the Second World War. And these new weapons are once again being paid for by Europe — not only with money, but also with its sovereignty. The independent defence policy that the European Union had once been so assiduously building for years has been completely subjugated to Washington’s interests, just as it was during the cold war. As for ordinary Ukrainians, neither Kyiv nor Western capitals care about their fate.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“Public opinion in Germany and France is also against supplying Taurus and SCALP cruise missiles to Ukrainian nationalists. Yet the Western authorities, despite their claims to “democracy”, are completely deaf to the calls of their own citizens. They are demanding that the Kyiv regime continue its suicidal “offensive” so that they will see at least some results and can justify new shipments of arms and equipment. Who is the main beneficiary of such a policy? It is certainly not ordinary Americans and Europeans.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“It is Ukraine’s Western suppliers who are fully responsible for that and who are ignoring all of their obligations to track the end users of their weapons. But the Western political establishment has not been stopped by any of this. Last week, United States President Joe Biden asked Congress for more than $24 billion for Ukraine on top of the $113 billion already spent in official aid. That amounts to approximately $900 for every American family. Ordinary Americans, as polls by the American media itself have shown, are quite rightly asking why, given that the United States itself is facing acute socioeconomic problems, such colossal sums of money are not being spent on resolving them. Why should the American people pay out of their own pockets for the military ventures of the Democratic Party?”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“The complete collapse of Ukraine’s military command system, along with widespread corruption and disorganization, are now repelling even Western mercenaries, who are beginning to realize that they have been assigned roles not as valiant fighters for the freedom of Ukraine but as mere cannon fodder. Against that backdrop, the main intelligence directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has begun recruiting all over the world — including, we have learned, in Latin America — for asocial elements who are prepared to fight for much less money. Due to the total corruption in the Ukrainian army, Western weapons are proliferating uncontrollably around the world, surfacing on the black market in conflict zones in the Balkans, Africa and Latin America, directly undermining regional security.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“Even the West has been forced to admit that the only result of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is tens of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of destroyed units of expensive Western equipment. And as the entire world has seen, that equipment is not just hardly unique or invulnerable to Russian weapons but in many cases even inferior to Soviet equipment produced 50 years ago. The military training for troops and operational planning by the Armed Forces of Ukraine further reflect that sad state of affairs, as attested to by captured Ukrainian servicemen who were trained according to Western standards.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“Mr. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank today’s briefers, and Mr. Haiphong in particular, for his brave testimony as a representative of civil society. His position is shared by many Europeans and Americans whose voices, however, are nowhere to be found in Western media. For three months now we have been witnessing the death throes of the Kyiv regime in the context of Ukraine’s so-called strategic counteroffensive, which according to Western propagandists was supposed to yield a military victory. The entire NATO war machine has been focused on that end, using billions of dollars from the pockets of Western taxpayers. But in the end, as the saying goes, the mountain gave birth to a mouse.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9399 (2023) · source
“We are convinced that the Council and the United Nations in general should not indulge the policy of the United States and its allies of using human rights as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign States. Those actions are the ones that represent the main threat to peace and security, something that dozens of States in various regions of the world have been able to see for themselves. No amount of manoeuvring by Washington and its allies is going to fool anyone here.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“This meeting is an instance of blatant hypocrisy on the part of the United States of America and its allies, which even as they speak about human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continue to consistently oppress the North Korean people with inhumane unilateral sanctions. Today, we have not heard anything from United Nations representatives or our Western colleagues about how people are suffering as a result of those measures. That further indicates the futility of today’s discussion, the only aim of which is to cater to Western double standards with respect to both the work of the Security Council and human rights.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“That is against the backdrop of the clearly expressed position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the lengthy history of the issue, which clearly indicates that there is no way to resolve the problems that exist, other than through dialogue and constructive interaction, taking into account the legitimate concerns and rights of all the States involved, including of course the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Recent events further confirm that refraining from provocative acts and returning to the negotiating table represent the only possible way to resolve any problems. In that connection, I would like to draw attention once again to the Russian-Chinese plan of action on the comprehensive settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula, which provides for concrete steps in various areas.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“We have also heard dangerous warnings about the plans of Japan and the Republic of Korea to bolster nuclear cooperation with the United States, going as far as the possible deployment on their territories of American nuclear weapons and the development of their own arsenals. Russia has consistently opposed any military activity that would jeopardize the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries of North-East Asia. Dangerous actions and statements directly oppose the goal of easing tensions around the peninsula and finding ways to resolve the situation by political and diplomatic means, as set out in the relevant Security Council resolutions.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“Everyone is well aware that the United States of America, Japan and the Republic of Korea, as part of their so-called extended deterrence policy, are continuing to build up their military activity in the region. One of the main trends is the increasingly large-scale nature of the exercises they are carrying out and their increased military cooperation. Recently, the world also witnessed the appearance of a United States nuclear submarine off the Korean peninsula and United States-South Korea air drills involving United States fighter jets and strategic bombers. Nor should we forget the plans to redeploy part of NATO’s military infrastructure to the region.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“Any attempt by the sponsors of today’s meeting to link human rights with threats to international peace and security is absolutely artificial. Moreover, attempts to introduce into the Security Council’s work issues that do not fall within its mandate divide its attention, politicize the discussion and thereby undermine the Council’s overall authority. It is clear that convening today’s meeting is nothing more than a cynical and hypocritical attempt by the United States and its allies to advance their own political agenda, step up pressure on Pyongyang, and divert attention from the reckless escalatory actions of Washington and its allies in the region. They are the ones that are creating a real threat to international peace and security. There is no need to describe in detail yet again what we are talking about.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source
“We therefore wonder, Madam President, whether today’s meeting is another signature event of your presidency and if so, why was it not properly announced at the beginning of the month? If not, on what basis do the United States, Albania and Japan arrogate to themselves the right to steer discussions at the Security Council? Such actions are nothing more than a gross violation of established practice in the Council’s work. The steps taken are unjustified, serve purely propaganda-related purposes and contravene the mandate of the Security Council. As is well known, human rights issues are not part of that mandate. Those issues are discussed in the relevant forums, primarily at the Human Rights Council and the Third Committee of the General Assembly.”
2023-08-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9398 (2023) · source