Russia positively assesses the potential of the UN peacebuilding architecture, but believes that it has yet to prove its effectiveness, Russia’s First Deputy UN Permanent Representative Alexander Pankin said. "The Russian Federation supports the work of the Peacebuilding Commission," he stressed.
Pankin added that one of the key functions of this structure is to "provide quality consulting assistance to the Security Council on countries uppermost on its agenda.”
However, he expressed regret that seven years since the establishment of the Commission, its work is "still stalling.” "In practice, despite efforts of individual components of the Commission, it’s not always possible to achieve coherence, even in the work of the commission itself," said the Russian diplomat.
Question (addressed to US Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov): After your recent discussions, including on Syria and the episode of detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow on a charge of espionage, do you think that your collective work is constructive? Sergey Lavrov (answers after John Kerry): Regarding the incident of the detention of a US Embassy official in Moscow that you have mentioned, everything, that the Russian party wished to say about it, was said yesterday in the comment of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. I have nothing to add.
Dear Mr Chairman,Dear colleagues, friends, First of all, I would like to thank our Swedish hosts for their hospitality, good organization of the today’s meeting and to congratulate Mr Carl Bildt with the results that were reached by the Arctic Council under Swedish chairmanship.
Today we sign the second in history legally binding panarctic document – Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic. This is another evidence of high responsibility of Arctic countries for the state of affairs in the region. The next is the preparation of the Agreement on Marine Oil Spill Prevention.
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