- The Russian Federation noted that the central agenda of their presidency attracted a lot of attention within the international community.
- It said this reaffirmed the country’s "high authority and the respect it commands as a UN founding member and permanent member of the Security Council".
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The Russian Federation has outlined some of its achievements as it held the United Nations Security Council presidency in July 2024.
According to the Federation, its activities revolved around three central events, which saw the UNSC adopt our resolutions.
The resolutions included focusing the Central African Republic's (CAR) arms embargo on illegal armed groups and extending the mandates for the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) and the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
Also adopted was the UN Focal Point on delisting-related matters, as well as re-establishing the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General United Nations Security Council Sanctions Issues.
According to Russia, they went to great lengths to enable the Security Council to be effective and responsive in its work.
"We encouraged our colleagues within the Council to come up with collective responses when dealing with challenges to peace and security, while seeking guidance from a holistic view of the purposes and principles set forth in the UN Charter and their inter-connected nature," Russia's Ministry of Foreign affairs said in a statement.
It said they discussed the unrelenting flow of Western weapons into Ukraine, on July 25, insisting that it delays a settlement in the ongoing conflict and leads to more victims.
"The Ukraine crisis remained high on the agenda."
The Russian Federation noted that the central agenda of their presidency attracted a lot of attention within the international community.
It said this reaffirmed the country’s "high authority and the respect it commands as a UN founding member and permanent member of the Security Council".
Russia said its presidency focused on all regions including the Middle East, Africa, peacebuilding efforts in Columbia, as well as the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
"The Security Council held a quarterly ministerial-level debate on the agenda item titled 'The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question'.
"During this meeting, participants discussed the situation in the region with all its tension, while placing a special emphasis on the escalating violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone for finding ways out of this unprecedented crisis."
Russia said they also exchanged views on the activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia and the Cyprus settlement.
The Council held separate meetings on July 26 and 31 on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of the Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Russia held a high-level open debate titled “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” which reaffirmed the need to hold detailed discussions dealing with the underpinnings of the emerging multipolar world order, the objective to reinforce a UN-centred system of international relations, as well as the need to carry out a comprehensive review of the root causes of present-day conflicts and to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome them.
It held a debate titled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).”