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Zabolotskaya

lines on the record: 103
first: 2020-02-13
most recent: 2023-12-12
sittings or episodes: 13
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“Unfortunately, the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States have no interest in investigating sexual crimes against women in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet for some reason pay greater attention to the issue when it comes to the situation in Ukraine. In conclusion, we would like to note once again that the creation of a safe environment for women’s participation in peace processes is possible only when we achieve general security for all participants in the process. Only that approach can produce a genuine, lasting and long-term peace that takes account of the interests of all the parties concerned. For our part, we reiterate our willingness to cooperate constructively with all States on the equal participation of women in resolving issues pertaining to security and the peaceful settlement of conflicts.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“The scale of that humanitarian disaster is expanding. Women are falling victim to acts of terrorism and indiscriminate strikes on densely populated areas. We call on the parties to the conflict to exercise restraint, de-escalate, return to dialogue and reach a political and diplomatic settlement of the long-standing conflict. For our part, we are making every effort to end the bloodshed through all possible channels, including the Security Council and the General Assembly. It is very important to avoid politicization in our discussions, and unfortunately, some delegations are still flouting that rule. As we see it, it is vital to monitor our own armed forces’ fulfilment of their obligations.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“In general, it is the implementation of the Council’s key resolution 1325 (2000) and strict adherence to the mandate it defines — the consideration of women’s issues in a context of the maintenance of peace and security and in connection to situations that are on the Council’s agenda — that ensures the effectiveness of its efforts. It is essential for the Council to focus on specific tasks and avoid duplicating the work of the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council or the Peacebuilding Commission. We are seriously concerned about cases where women are being killed or injured, including as a result of indiscriminate or excessive use of force. In that regard, we cannot ignore the situation in Gaza and the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation, whose victims are primarily women and children.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“Unilateral coercive measures are a major problem in that regard, as they have an extremely detrimental impact on the position of women and the well-being of their families, depriving them of prospects, job opportunities, education, social protection and other benefits. We call on the United Nations to actively monitor the negative effects of such measures. Those and other problems should remain the focus of the work of the Council’s Informal Expert Group on Women and Peace and Security, which ought to pay them more attention. It is important to avoid politicization. The decision-making procedures within the Group should meet all members’ requirements for transparency and coherence.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“In that context it is also essential to ensure that States work to defend the family, motherhood and traditional family values as moral underpinnings of all societies and a guarantor of the successful development of society now and in the future. In the context of States’ sustainable post-conflict recovery, ensuring women’s access to resources, technology and the banking sector is an important area of cooperation. Greater attention should be paid to development issues affecting women, and to poverty reduction and women’s access to education in countries with situations of armed conflict.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“Such engagement allows for more sustainable and trust-based relations with the local population, prevents the occurrence of new cases of violations against women and children and promotes the investigation of existing cases of such violations, and helps to develop subsequent measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims. The conditions for women’s participation in every aspect and at every stage of peacebuilding and political processes should be tailored to take into consideration the particularities of each specific situation. Women’s professional qualifications and their personal interests should also be a priority.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Executive Director of UN-Women Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ms. Spoljaric Egger, Director General of Rio Branco Institute Ms. Glivânia Maria de Oliveira and the civil society briefer for their briefings and assessment of the current situation. As a country with some of the most advanced legislation on the protection of women’s rights, Russia supports women’s participation in peacekeeping processes, including in negotiations and peacekeeping, as well as their contribution to addressing security issues and resolving armed conflicts and in post- conflict recovery.”
2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source
“The Council would also like to learn about the results of the Team’s work, not only in terms of the number of cases transferred to third countries but also in terms of the substance of those cases. We expect to see that information in the Special Adviser’s final report and that of the Secretary- General, which are expected to be issued during the reporting period. We hope that the implementation of these Council directives will speed up the process of bringing to justice not only ISIL terrorists but also those who finance them.”
2023-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9419 (2023) · source
“The main beneficiaries of its work have been Western countries, which received information without Iraq’s consent. Essentially, the Council does not know what the results of UNITAD’s activities are or what it has managed to accomplish. In that regard, Russia took into account and fully supported the demand of the Government of Iraq for an accelerated completion of the Team’s mandate by 17 September 2024. The Russian Federation voted in favour of extending the Investigative Team’s mandate only on the understanding that those conditions would be met. During the coming period, the Team must hand over all collected evidence to the Iraqi authorities, inform them of what evidence was transferred to third countries and henceforth refrain from transferring materials to third countries without the express consent of the Iraqi Government.”
2023-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9419 (2023) · source
“The resolution identified the Iraqi authorities as the main recipient of the evidence collected by the Team, without any preconditions. During the six years of UNITAD’s activity, Russia has recalled those key objectives of the Team and encouraged it to act transparently and in cooperation with the Government of Iraq. However, the Team never fulfilled the bulk of its mandate to support Iraqi national law enforcement and judicial efforts to bring to justice ISIL members and their sponsors. At the same time, the transparency of this entity raises more and more questions every year. Evidence has been collected from unspecified non-governmental organizations, the list of which — for unknown reasons — has not been revealed even to the Security Council.”
2023-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9419 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Russian Federation supported the establishment of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) in accordance with resolution 2379 (2017), as its main task was to document the crimes of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a terrorist organization that poses a threat to international peace and security, as well as its sponsors, and to transmit the evidence of criminal activity collected to the Government of Iraq. That was done with the consent and at the request of the Government of Iraq, which was the legal and political basis for the Security Council decision.”
2023-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9419 (2023) · source
“The Russian Federation will continue building its cooperation on counter-terrorism issues with all parties prepared to engage in constructive and practical interactions aimed at achieving the common goal of eradicating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, without hidden agendas or double standards. We call for a pooling of efforts to improve the efficiency and coordination of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism based on the norms of international law, including the United Nations Charter, in particular its provisions relating to the sovereign equality of States and non-interference in their internal affairs.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Under the West’s guidance, the neo-Nazis were given the opportunity to become deeply entrenched in the Government, law-enforcement and military bodies of the country. For many years, they terrorized the civilian population of Donbas, under the cover of silence created by Western media and, sad as it may be, by United Nations entities as well. Today the Government in Ukraine, which exists solely thanks to Western handouts, does not shy away from using terrorist methods; indeed, it openly flaunts such tactics. It is in this difficult context that we must engage in international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. While some are fighting this scourge, others are fuelling it in new forms and in new territories.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Al-Qaida was never successfully defeated, and now the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has also appeared in Afghanistan. Consequently, the Western weapons brought into the country to fight terrorism ended up, among other places, in the hands of the terrorists themselves, who threaten peace and security in Central and South Asia. Once again, we see a familiar scenario supporting the spread of controlled chaos. The West’s use of terrorists and extremists for their geopolitical purposes can also be seen in Ukraine. The United States and its European satellites have nurtured and fostered neo-Nazis, whom they then used as a battering ram to overthrow the legitimate Government in the bloody coup of 2014.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“It is important that those resources stay on the continent and not go to equip other people’s Gardens of Eden in the West. The struggle against colonialism and neocolonialism must be completely carried out. Our African partners know that our country supports and has always supported them in that endeavour. We also cannot fail to mention Afghanistan. The situation in that country is also a vivid example of the West’s leveraging of counter-terrorism issues to serve their selfish geopolitical interests. Foreign troops led by the United States were in that country for more than 20 years under the pretext of fighting terrorists; back then it was Al-Qaida. All of a sudden, the United States decided to flee the country, leaving behind an enormous number of weapons and military equipment.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“The situation changed after the collective West attacked and destroyed Libya, seeking to overthrow a Government that they saw as undesirable, pillage the country’s resources and natural wealth and spread a blazing fire of controlled chaos to the Middle East and Africa. Today the highest threat level is being experienced in the Sahel region, and the West talks endlessly about helping to combat it. However, against that backdrop, information has emerged that France is cooperating with terrorist organizations in the region, in particular, Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. Turning back to socioeconomic problems, which, we must not forget, are a consequence of the colonialist and neocolonialist policies carried out towards African States, Africa has all the resources it needs to develop harmoniously.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Let us turn now to the situation in Africa. There is no doubt that ISIL emerged in Africa as a result of the NATO aggression against Libya, which led to the collapse of the statehood of that once prosperous country. We remember very well that France and the United States were at the forefront of that illegal military invasion. To divert attention from their own destructive role, those countries and their allies attempt to reduce everything to the poor economic and social conditions of States, weak governance institutions and even climate change. However, those problems are not new and have not previously led to the radicalization of populations nor encouraged terrorists to establish strongholds in the region.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“The answer is quite obvious — the destructive role of the West. Let us start with the Middle East, where ISIS emerged as a direct result of the aggression of the United States and its coalition against Iraq. Even now, when ISIL has been largely defeated in Iraq and Syria, pockets of terrorism remain in areas illegally occupied by the United States military. The threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters and their families, who remain and are radicalized in prisons, camps and detention facilities in north-eastern Syria, also emanates from those areas. The United States provides guidance and advice to other States on addressing that threat. But, first, it must itself withdraw its occupying troops from Syria. National authorities will then be able to address that and other issues much more quickly and effectively.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Under the guise of counter- terrorism, the appropriation of other nations’ natural resources is in full swing. To realize its geopolitical ambitions, add fuel to smouldering conflicts and create the appearance of supposedly popular resistance to “undemocratic regimes”, the West uses every means possible, not shying away from providing support to terrorists. That explains attempts to divide terrorists into “good”, “bad” and “not so bad”. The Secretary-General’s report on the threat posed by ISIL to international peace and security, which is under consideration today, perfectly illustrates the arguments we have outlined. It highlights the Middle East, parts of Africa and Afghanistan as the most problematic regions in which ISIL and its affiliates continue to grow stronger. What do they have in common?”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“However, we must not forget that those problems are often the result of the collective West’s interference in the affairs of sovereign developing States and the implementation of managed chaos strategies through the organization of colour revolutions involving extremists and terrorists of all stripes. The former colonial empires have not changed their colonizing habits. Today, under the pretext of so- called counter-terrorism operations, they maintain their military presence, of which affected countries have long tired. The blatant ineffectiveness, if not failure, of those so-called counter-terrorism operations in curbing the terrorist threat is noteworthy. That fact clearly shows that the real objectives of foreign military presence are completely different.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Gherman for their analysis of the activities of the United Nations entities entrusted to them for combating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We express our full support to the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. We agree with several assessments contained in the Secretary-General’s report on the threat posed by ISIL (S/2023/568). When analysing the terrorist threat, it is important to focus not on symptoms but on its root causes. In that context, the Council often mentions issues related to development, socioeconomic underdevelopment, weak State administration institutions and complex security or humanitarian situations.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9405 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to raise a point of order regarding the participation in this meeting of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. As we all remember, Ms.Patten said that Russian soldiers had been — allegedly — given Viagra to rape Ukrainian women. Then a recording of her conversation with people she thought to be representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was leaked online. In that conversation, she admitted to having no reliable information on that matter. Therefore, Ms. Patten abused her status as Special Representative of the Secretary-General, spreading false information with regard to a United Nations Member State. We would like to put on record that we oppose her participation in this meeting.”
2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source
“We suggest that those States that sincerely seek to restore justice, inevitably punish crimes and have national reconciliation should consider strengthening their national justice systems and stop participating in this politicized entity that has nothing to do with justice.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“And the focus immediately shifted to State leaders, up to and including former and even current heads of African States. It is noteworthy that the absolute majority of cases on the ICC’s docket are concerning Africa, despite the fact that the most massive and bloody atrocities in modern history were committed by Western countries, which steamrolled not just across countries, but across entire regions, with their aggression. Throughout its existence, the ICC has filed charges against 52 people, 47 of whom are Africans. There are no Western nationals on that list at all. We must therefore draw the obvious conclusion that the ICC is simply an instrument for punishing those who displease the West. Accordingly, we must honestly acknowledge that the ambitious project of a genuinely universal and impartial international court has failed.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“The Court was planned as a comprehensive international body of justice, but from the very beginning, something went wrong in the practical implementation of this ideal. Western countries immediately started using the Court as an instrument for imposing their will under the infamous “rules-based order”. Initially, they proceeded carefully, making sure they did not frighten potential allies. In its first years, the ICC pointedly limited itself to investigations against non-State actors. However, as soon as the West saw that a sufficient number of countries were in bondage to the Rome Statute, the ICC moved on to more decisive work under its direct remit, becoming an instrument of fighting those who crossed the path of the hegemon and its satellites.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“Khan becoming active in the Sudan, we will know that they have established their priorities. We need to consider the following: did it make sense to spend millions on the ICC in Darfur? Maybe it would have made been better spent on more effectively helping the Sudan to strengthen State institutions. Maybe justice should be in the hands of the people of the country, and not the forces from across the seas. Practice has shown that had that been the case the process of justice would have been more effective and would certainly not have been accompanied by the collapse of the State. The main question that we need to be considering in this context is who actually needs the ICC and why. This question also arises in context beyond that of the Sudan.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“ICC justice has become synonymous with impunity for the architects and the main beneficiaries of the all- consuming chaos that follows the collapse of a State. The bloody price for the various “colour revolutions” organized by Western countries is always measured in the hundreds of thousands of civilian lives lost and broken. The blood of those victims is in part on the conscience of the ICC officials. Currently, for example, we are again witnessing a conflict in the Sudan. The level of suffering among the civilian population is clearly higher than during the “electoral violence” of 2005, and the ICC still adopts a wait-and-see position. Why is that? That is because its “Western patrons” have not yet decided who they are going to support in the conflict that is taking place in the country. However, once we see Mr.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“The situation in the Sudan perfectly illustrates the false Western premise that there can be no peace without justice. We are, of course, talking about ICC justice. The situations in Darfur and Libya referred by the Security Council to the ICC are similar. In both of them, the ICC, though progressing at different paces, did fulfil its main and only function — being a battering ram to destroy the statehood of developing countries that are out of favour. The ICC is a direct accomplice in the collective West’s crimes. It is equally enthusiastic in fabricating cases against those who have been designated “bad guys”, closes its eyes to the atrocities of “very bad but loyal to the West guys” and, of course, it sweeps under the carpet the numerous crimes committed by its masters.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“As soon as the story of “electoral violence” in Darfur ceased to be of interest to its Western masters, the ICC switched to the mode of sluggishly imitating work, which it has been doing for almost two decades. At the same time, the ICC chose the simplest way to explain its ineffectiveness — by blaming its failures on national authorities. Indeed, with a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, why would it not report two times a year that the ICC is powerless because the Sudan is supposedly not cooperating? But it is very difficult to reproach the Sudan, given what the ICC has become since 2005, the date the Darfur file was referred to it by the Security Council to it, and the consequences of the Court’s activity, including for this country.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“In that context, we could not overlook the fact that Mr. Khan, in his briefing, characterized the only trial, against Ali Kushayb as “the most efficient proceedings in the history of the Court.” Let me recall that this case was opened 17 years after the situation was referred to the ICC. Here, the obvious comparison is the following: as the Court is, so too is its “most effective trial”. After all, the ICC did not see anything objectionable in the mass war crimes committed by NATO in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Against that backdrop, even one person accused in Darfur was truly an impressive success. The current report on Darfur is as empty as the previous ones. We must finally honestly admit that the ICC is unable and not particularly willing to fulfil the mandate conferred to it by resolution 1593 (2005).”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): What the Security Council just heard from the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) was not a briefing. The briefings of the officials of this politicized entity to the Council have long since turned into a theatre of the absurd. This entity, which is an obedient tool in the hands of the West, operates in two modes. The first is the speedy fabrication of cases against unwanted persons from out-of-favour countries and the second is an imitation of work, accompanied by explanations of why said work is not yielding results. At present, the ICC is in the second mode when it comes to the Sudan file. As a result, every six months the Council has to listen to verbal gymnastics and explanations about who is to blame for the fact that nothing is happening.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9375 (2023) · source
“Given that piracy and armed robbery at sea are often linked to other forms of criminal activity, we continue to advocate the establishment of a specialized structure under the auspices of the United Nations to coordinate efforts to tackle the entire spectrum of issues related to maritime crime.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“Given our active assistance to States in the region, we would be interested in contributing to the activities of the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum and hope to receive an invitation from the Nigerian chairpersonship. We stand ready to share our extensive experience gained in the field of maritime security. It is important to bear in mind that countering piracy and ensuring the safety of navigation in the Gulf of Guinea is possible only through the coordinated efforts of the entire international community, working together. We are focused on seeking the most effective solutions, including within the Security Council.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“We believe that the United Nations can help coordinate the relevant efforts and facilitate the mobilization of the necessary financial resources. Our country is increasing its contribution to countering piracy and armed robbery at sea off the west coast of Africa. Russia’s annual voluntary contribution to the Global Maritime Crime Programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime provides technical assistance to States in the region, including Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sao Tome and Principe, focusing on capacity-building for national maritime security structures.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“We welcome corresponding efforts and initiatives, including those aimed at establishing mechanisms for effective coordination. The Gulf of Guinea Maritime Collaboration Forum, established in 2021, which serves as an informal platform for expert coordination in countering piracy on the high seas, is especially significant in that regard. Turning to the role of the international community, it should focus on providing assistance to coastal States in capacity-building for coastguard services to improve their technical equipment and help organize joint patrols and the regular exchange of operative data. Such assistance should be provided at the request of interested States and take into account their national approaches, priorities and specific features.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“That poses a serious threat to the lives and health of seafarers and affects the safety of maritime navigation, international trade and the economic prosperity of coastal States. In general, piracy in the region increasingly resembles a well- established criminal business. The attacks on ships in the Gulf of Guinea have specific features. The majority of them take place close to shore, often in the territorial waters of coastal States. In those cases, that is not piracy, which by definition can take place only on the high seas, but armed robbery at sea. Using the correct legal designation helps to determine the most effective response. Where preventing and countering armed robbery at sea is concerned, the coastal States and regional associations should play the leading role.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee, Mr. Veríssimo, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Mr. Touray, the President of the Economic Community of West African States, and Mr. Abeso, the Executive Secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, for briefing us on the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea. Today’s meeting clearly shows that as we focus on new and emerging threats and challenges we must not lose sight of old issues such as piracy and armed robbery at sea. These twenty-first century freebooters are well organized and well equipped. Their actions are audacious and their tactics sophisticated. In the Gulf of Guinea, they attack ships mainly in order to take hostages for ransom.”
2023-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9355 (2023) · source
“We would like to emphasize that as a matter of principle the ICC, as a politicized puppet structure, and moreover one created based on a treaty signed by a limited number of countries, should not be able to interfere in the normal functioning of the United Nations and its bodies. Not a single penny from the regular budget of our Organization should go to this puppet tribunal. We demand that the Secretary-General monitor it strictly.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“It is known in legal circles as The Hague Invasion Act because it not only prohibits cooperation with the ICC but allows the use of any means, including the force, to liberate Americans detained by the Court. The result is that the United States itself is not subject to the ICC but will not allow others to leave the Rome Statute. But those tactics cannot work forever. Developing countries will free themselves from the clutches of the ICC, which will find its rightful place in the dustbin of history, as a shining example of what the highest aspirations of the international community can become if they are crushed under the wheels of political expediency.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“They were invariably accompanied by the statement that the ICC’s jurisdiction cannot extend to nationals of States that are not party to the Statute. It is hard to disagree with the United States on that point. However, the United States has rapidly changed its position and now supports the ICC’s prosecution of nationals of third countries that are not party to the Statute. Obviously, however, that is as long as they are not citizens of the United States or its allies. As the Council knows, the United States enacted a law on the ICC that is still in force and has not been repealed, despite all of the current Administration’s political rhetoric.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“We withdrew our signature from the Statute and announced that we would not be party to it. We urge other countries that are unwilling to finance this piece of theatre to do the same. We know for a fact that many States have long had no illusions about this illegitimate and politicized body. Where the ICC is concerned, the United States has taken a road of deceit that is nonetheless as clear as day. It was the first to issue a formal depositary notification that it had no intention of ever becoming a party to the Rome Statute and has concluded many agreements on the non-extradition of its nationals to the ICC. We also well remember American statements in the Security Council on the ICC issue before Mr. Khan’s notorious deprioritization.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“Those same Western countries send whole teams of national investigators and prosecutors who gather information in its stead. The ICC has therefore become a mere international facade behind which the United States and its satellites resolve their political issues. The ICC has not lived up to the idealistic aspirations of its founders. Its sole function is to oppose undesirable countries. No one here has been deceived by the ICC’s recent attempt to portray itself as a charitable organization trying to increase States’ potential. But that is merely the cheese in the mousetrap. We should not forget who is at the controls of the ICC. That is why developing countries are beginning to seriously consider withdrawing from the Rome Statute. Russia took that decision as early as in 2016.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“And now it has even less interest, because it has received a new assignment from the collective West and is hard at work on it in the way it does so well, with crude fake facts and accusations that are not merely unfounded but simply insolent, amoral and inhumane. According to Khan’s cannibalistic logic, children in areas of armed conflict should simply be left in the line of fire. The financial side of the activities of the institution, which is so fond of trumpeting its alleged independence, is another issue altogether. The collective West is not the least embarrassed about openly paying for the ICC processes in which it is interested. That is done in the guise of so-called voluntary donations, whose amount long ago exceeded the acceptable limits for funding of that kind and risks equalling the ICC’s regular budget.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“Khan, a British citizen, has even invented a special term for it — deprioritization. The fine art of verbal gymnastics is a very Anglo-Saxon pastime. Why talk about shielding someone when we can talk about deprioritization and forget the whole thing? Very handy, no? And that is perhaps the best illustration for understanding who really determines the priorities of this puppet Court and its tame Prosecutor. That is why we are not surprised by the decades- long imitation of activity on the situations in Libya and Darfur referred to the ICC by the Security Council. The political goals have been accomplished but it was never interested in justice.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“The ICC clearly believes that the extrajudicial elimination of undesirable leaders is normal. Overall, the situation in Libya has been a vivid demonstration that the ICC’s so-called justice has an on-off switch. At the West’s signal, in a matter of days it begins to replicate fakes and fabricate cases and just as quickly halts any activity that is an inconvenience for its masters at the first shout from Washington. No sooner had the United States imposed sanctions on the ICC Prosecutor and judges than the preliminary inquiries into the war crimes perpetrated by Americans, British and other NATO members in Afghanistan and Iraq were promptly shut down. The result was hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and no perpetrators. The ICC is a true champion at sweeping the evil deeds of its patrons under the rug. Our briefer today, Mr.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“We have become familiar with what happened after the shameful performance surrounding the business with Al-Qadhafi during the 12 years in which the Security Council has regularly heard reports about why the ICC has done nothing. Having executed the task set by the West, the ICC has moved on to a sluggish imitation of investigative and judicial activity concerning the country in question. The stories about some sort of so- called secret arrest warrants are a good illustration of that tactic. The ICC showed no interest in NATO’s war crimes during that so-called strictly defensive alliance’s invasion of the Arab Jamahiriya — it was hardly about to go against its masters, was it? Neither did it pay any attention whatever to the massacre of Al-Qadhafi.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“The Internet still has the statement by the ICC Prosecutor, who effusively and with no shame talked about these horrors, with the United Nations building in the background. As we know, these accusations turned out to be basic lies. They were even refuted by Western non-governmental organizations. A scandal was brewing, and it was necessary to put out the flames. For that purpose, the ICC very quickly put together an internal investigation commission. But we know nothing of the outcome of the commission’s activities or the people who were held responsible for those false accusations. As a result, the country was destroyed, its leader was executed without a trial, and no one has been found guilty. Apparently the fake facts at the ICC are self-made in the best traditions of “highly likely”.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“The West tasked the Court with developing a cover, a fig leaf for the unprovoked and unjustified NATO military aggression. This was to be done by dehumanizing the Libyan leadership, in general and Mr. Al-Qadhafi, in particular. Former Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo approached that task creatively. In just three days, he put together a so-called indictment of the Libyan leader, based on very crude fakes. The first one had to do with the supply of Viagra to the units advancing on Tripoli in order to stimulate their capacity to conduct mass rapes. The second was the use of mysterious dark-skinned mercenaries to commit atrocities that the regular army was incapable of. It is truly incredible to look back and recall these events.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“Yesterday a question was voiced about the tangible contribution of the ICC to Libya, so let me recall when the contribution was made. Serving the interests of the collective West, the ICC was fully complicit in NATO’s military aggression against Libya. The United States-led coalition’s crusade against the once-prosperous country led to the total destruction of its statehood and a protracted civil war — which alternately subsides and flares up — that has claimed hundreds of thousands of ordinary Libyans. Libya suffered enormous economic losses and saw its development set back decades. The countries of the region are still suffering from the terrorist threat that is a direct result of those events. It is a real catastrophe to which the ICC is directly linked.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source
“Ms. Zabolotskaya (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The Security Council is meeting today to hear yet another briefing by the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC). This body has, once again, shown its disrespect for the Council by submitting empty pro forma documents under the guise of investigation reports. These documents invariably boil down to a list of yet new excuses for continued inaction and for why Security Council requests are not being implemented. The most recent document is no exception. As a deeply politicized institution that has nothing to do with rendering justice, the Court is not engaged in the implementation of resolution 1970 (2011). Its main task on the Libyan track was already carried out in 2011.”
2023-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9320 (2023) · source