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  1. “In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Agshin Mehdiyev, Permanent Observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations, and Mr. Gerton Van Den Akker, representative of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. I now give the floor to the Permanent Observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to the United Nations.”

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  2. “Significant international efforts are required to get the political process in Libya moving so as to unite the country, create unified governmental institutions and put an end to internecine clashes. Much more also remains to be done to help Iraq overcome the consequences of the war with ISIL and achieve sustainable national reconciliation. In conclusion, I would like to express the hope that today's debate will contribute to finding ways to strengthen peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Pakistan.”

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  3. “At the same time, we have to once again regretfully point out that in the year that has passed since the establishment of the de-escalation zone in south-western Syria, the United States, in spite of the commitments it undertook, has done nothing to support the fight against the terrorists there. On the Yemen crisis, I reiterate that there can be no military solution to the conflict. We can reach a long- term settlement only by taking into account the opinions of all of its participants. Russia is maintaining contact with all the opposing sides and assisting the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths. There is no question that special attention needs to be paid to resolving the severe humanitarian and food crisis there.”

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  4. “I would like to point out that the de-escalation areas, including the one in south-western Syria, which Russia set up in coordination with the United States and Jordan, were certainly not created in order to break up a State Member of the United Nations or perpetuate the presence of terrorists there. However, I regret to say that we have been compelled to conclude that at the moment more than 40 per cent of the south-western area's territory continues to be controlled by Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Islamic State in the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which, as we are all well aware, have been designated terrorist groups by the Organization. There can be no ceasefire between us and them.”

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  5. “In fact, active peace negotiations are under way there with the opposition groups that have rejected the terrorists, while the fight against the terrorists themselves continues. I want to emphasize that the Russian Federation is firmly committed to meeting its obligations, including those related to the ceasefire regime. No one has done more than Russia and its co-guarantors of the Astana process to bring about a ceasefire and reduce the level of violence, and certainly none of the countries whose money and weapons give aid to illegal armed groups.”

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  6. “Russia and the other guarantors of the Astana process have made a genuine contribution to stabilizing the situation in Syria and ensuring that it will not fall to terrorists. We now have an opportunity to focus on the political process under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva, for which we need constructive efforts on the part of all the external stakeholders. At the same time, as stipulated in the decisions of the Security Council and various international formats, we must continue to relentlessly combat terrorism until it is completely stamped out in Syria. I have listened carefully and respectfully to all of those who have spoken so far, including to the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States, who expressed particular concern about what is happening in the south-western de-escalation area in Syria.”

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  7. “The effort to mobilize the Middle East Quartet of international mediators is becoming ever more pertinent. We firmly believe that the starting point for our collective work should be through ensuring strict adherence by all to the international legal foundations formulated by the Security Council for resolving this issue, refraining from taking unilateral steps, including building settlements in the occupied territories, and ending the violence. That is the only way we will be able to open up the prospects for a two-State solution by negotiating a package of final status issues. The humanitarian situation in Gaza must be improved and under the control of a legitimate Palestinian Government. The efforts to unite Palestinians must also be intensified. The conflicts in Syria and Yemen are also awaiting lasting settlements of their own.”

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  8. “I would now like to make some concluding remarks in my capacity as the representative of the Russian Federation. In his most recent report (S/2018/6l4) on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), the Secretary-General rightly points out that regional conflicts are interconnected, something that many other speakers have talked about today. He also says that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is iconic, and its persistence helps to fuel the extremist agenda. I fully agree with Mr. Guterres when he says that is precisely why it is critically important to create conditions that will enable us to bring the parties back to substantive negotiations. In that regard, I would once again like to recall our initiative to hold an Israeli-Palestinian summit in Russia and our proposal to send a Security Council mission to the region.”

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  9. “In those areas and all others, Russia is ready to work together with interested partners in an open and impartial manner and without threats or negative pressure. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the members of the Security Council.”

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  10. “It is clear that insisting on creating mono-religious societies not only contradicts modern realities, it is a way to ensure that the conflicts will drag on for years or even decades. The Russian Federation has unique experience in the area of the coexistence of ethnic and religious groups, and we therefore support the proposal of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to work with the United Nations to organize a world conference on interreligious and ethnic dialogue with the participation of Heads of State, parliamentarians and representatives of world religions. We would be prepared to host such a conference in Russia in 2022. We are convinced that sending Security Council missions into conflict areas in the Middle East will help strengthen the Council's unity.”

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  11. “The ultimate aim should be to establish a genuinely inclusive regional security architecture that would ensure the participation of every State in this part of the world. The first step here could be to hold a conference with the participation ofthe Gulf States to discuss issues of regional security. Obviously, that would require guarantees, above all from the permanent five members of the Security Council. Eventually such a conference could be expanded to other Middle Eastern countries. It will also be important to take immediate steps to disseminate a culture of peace on an inter-ethnic and interreligious basis, which would help to prevent further ethno-religious strife. Depicting the conflicts in the region as religious clashes, including between Sunni and Shia, is extremely dangerous.”

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  12. “The keystone of ourjoint efforts in the region should be creating conditions conducive to strengthening a general climate of trust. This is crucial with regard to relations between the Arab States, Israel and Iran. Let us not forget that in its resolution 598 (1987), adopted in 1987, the Security Council charged the Secretary- General with working with regional stakeholders on measures to strengthen the security and stability of the region. This is obviously a complicated issue that requires discreet, painstaking discussions and a sensitive approach. But the work on it must begin, and we are ready to give all the help in our power by talking with our partners in Iran, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and other countries of the region.”

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  13. “Attempts to introduce divisions in international organizations such as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in no way contribute to the logic of a collective search for solutions, and neither did the unwillingness to support a Security Council draft resolution on improving the methods of work of the OPCW-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism in Syria or the desire to assign functions to the OPCW that are not considered under the Convention on Chemical Weapons and that by their nature come under the Council's purview. Unfortunately, at the special session opening tomorrow of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, we run the risk of seeing attempts to turn a technical body into an arena for political battles.”

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  14. “It will be essential to work to present a truly broad front against the terrorist threat that still remains, despite the considerable successes we have already seen in Iraq and Syria. We must also put an end to use terrorist groups in the struggle for advantage in the new balance of Powers in the region. While it is important to work collectively to repel terrorism's use of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction, we should never play into the hands of such outlaws in their provocations with chemical weapons by using them as a pretext for acts of aggression. It is unacceptable for anyone to exploit such provocations by making accusations about Governments they do not like, making it all the more difficult for the experts to establish the real facts.”

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  15. “A genuine pooling of the efforts of all States to counter regional threats requires an honest partnership dialogue, and that dialogue must be founded on a rejection of attempts to resolve conflicts through force and on support for the good offices of the Secretary- General, regional organizations and individual Member States, without politicizing the humanitarian aspects of the issue and in full respect for obligations under international law and the Charter of the United Nations above all. The Russian Federation advocates developing a positive and unifying agenda for the entire international community with a view to resolving the situation in the Near and Middle East and in North Africa, for which respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the countries of the region is a crucial condition.”

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  16. “Both analysis and experience have shown that lone attempts to cut the Gordian knot ofthese conflicts are doomed to failure. The flawed practice of unilateral action, when one State Member of the United Nations declares the Governments of other States Members to be pariahs, pursuing a policy of undermining or removing regimes it does not like, has not only not helped to resolve the region's numerous problems, it has created new ones. It is clear that if we are to reduce the potential for crisis, we must unite international and regional efforts, including in effective and inclusive formats and with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central role - I repeat, with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a leading role.”

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  17. “I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. When we convened this meeting, we thought it very important to come up with united approaches to the problem of helping to resolve the crises quickly settling the crises in the vast expanse of the Near and Middle East and North Africa. We propose that together we reflect on what can be done today to stop people's suffering and avert other tragedies and shocks in one of the most turbulent parts of the world. We firmly believe, however, that any decisions we take will be effective only if two conditions are met. First, they must be truly collective, and secondly, they must be in keeping with the norms and principles of international law.”

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  18. “There being no objection, it is so decided. I propose that the Council invite the Permanent Observer of the Observer State of the Holy See to the United Nations, to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. There being no objection, it is so decided. The Security Councilwill now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2018/524, which contains a letter dated 1 June 2018 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration. I now give the floor to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Antenio Guterres.”

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  19. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. I propose that the Council invite the Permanent Observer of the Observer State of Palestine to the United Nations, to participate in the meeting, in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard.”

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