#Polyanskiy: Ensuring lasting peace & security in the #MENA region remains one of the main tasks on the SC agenda. Regretfully, so far there's no progress in resolving numerous regional crises there. Alarmingly, most conflicts are exacerbated by external interference. #MiddleEast https://t.co/kXkhgEGruK

#Nebenzia: That is something that not all states are ready to discuss frankly. But if we do not call a spade a spade, the tragic situations in a number of states, primarily those in #MiddleEast, will repeat themselves. No attractive concepts can gloss over this fact. @mfa_russia https://t.co/zO5k47bdK7

#Polyanskiy: We keep interacting w/both Palestinians & Israelis, as well as intn'l & regional stakeholders, i.a. in the framework of the #MiddleEast #Quartet. Our initiatives aimed at enhancing the efficiency of this mediator mechanism remain on the table. https://t.co/u8ytSHGCH8 https://t.co/jiAAyMMfbD

#Polyanskiy: We believe it important that @UNRWA should be able to continue with its holistic efforts to bring humanitarian assistance to millions #Palestinian refugees in the #MiddleEast, without meeting any impediments. @mfa_russia https://t.co/xaHhcnBBzp

#Polyanskiy: It's essential that financial support to the #UNRWA must not be impeded so that it could set forth comprehensive efforts to render humanitarian support to millions of 🇵🇸refugees in the #MiddleEast. 🇷🇺will keep making annual voluntary contributions to UNRWA's budget. https://t.co/T6Vah7nF1q

#Polyanskiy:🇵🇸🇮🇱settlement can only be achieved through direct negotiations btwn the sides. Multilateral efforts remain highly relevant and need to be galvanized in order to create favorable conditions for negotiations, first of all within the intn'l #Quartet for the #MiddleEast. https://t.co/a3XUgmatin

#Nebenzia: Over that period, the #MiddleEast has seen some dramatic transformations. However #Iraq and its closest neighbors, #Kuwait in the first place, set forth dialogue in a consistent & standing manner in order to foster lasting peace and security in the region. @mfa_russia https://t.co/UIyoTnMP2f

#Polyanskiy: We reiterate the importance of holding a ministerial meeting of the Quartet [of international mediators for the #MiddleEast] and making this mechanism work closely with Palestinians, Isarelis, and key regional stakeholders. https://t.co/Ujr6l0O5qa https://t.co/nttXz3CHDK

#Polyanskiy: We draw attention to #UNRWA’s appeals to the global community and calls to accumulate the much-needed funds so that the Agency could keep rendering humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees in the #MiddleEast. 🇷🇺 will set forth its financial support for UNRWA. https://t.co/dXOrRr2AlO

#Polyanskiy: Conditions for resolving a conflict and starting collective efforts can never be perfect. If they could, there would be no conflicts at all. However if one chooses to stay idle saying that the environment is not favorable yet, there will be no progress. #MiddleEast https://t.co/bbAVngYJUg

#Nebenzia at UNSC meeting on #Syria: Starting from December 2018, 364 Russian🇷🇺 children have been repatriated from conflict zones in the #MiddleEast. At this moment, sets of documents have been prepared for evacuation of further 128 children. https://t.co/zOqepmXigo