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the Russian and Chinese veto unable to take any steps towards accountability in Syria In May 2014 Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have referred the situation in Syria 42 International...Court 47 Later Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have established an investigative mechanism to document Syrian use of...

insecure The ultimate responsibility for this continued tragedy rests with Bashar al Assad backed by Russia and Iran who brought his country to this terrible state and remains intransigent refusing to provide...is central to our strategy Last year we successfully negotiated with members of the UNSC including Russia to adopt UN Security Council...

and reduce the risk of inadvertent escalation or miscalculation The United States continues to urge Russia to adhere to mutual de confliction processes and not to take any provocative action Movements and...U S service members in Syria has been essential to preventing these interactions from escalating Russia s military campaign in service of the...

women children and elderly were tortured executed gassed and bombed by the Assad regime Iran and Russia and then callously thrown into trenches their fate unknown to loved ones Their lives have been lost...is to tell you that they are digging mass graves right now to bury more victims of Assad Iran and Russia I am a civilian Before the war I was an...

reduce that dependence The United States has long recognized the vulnerability that dependence on Russia poses to European energy security Indeed the President and Members of this Committee have focused...entirely dependent upon Russian sources Russia provided around 45 percent of the EU s total natural gas imports and 27 percent of oil imports And...

closing I would like to underscore the critical importance of the OAS Permanent Council suspending Russia s Permanent Observer status over its war in Ukraine and gross human rights violations It sent an...

COVID deaths in a region with only 8 of the world s population Many countries came to see China and Russia as stronger pandemic partners than the United States given how slow the U S was to provide personal...

by rising global prices for food and agricultural and other commodities a challenge made worse by Russia s invasion of Ukraine UNCLASSIFIED 3 UNCLASSIFIED To drive the region s economic recovery we must...

efforts at Nuremberg but of all those who liberated Europe including the Soviet Union Tragically Russia has turned its back on this history and its international and domestic legal obligations including...crimes against humanity to enable more prosecutions At this moment there is global consensus that Russia s conduct is intolerable and those...

commitment to an independent democratic Ukraine We began preparing for a potential crisis long before Russia s troops initiated its full scale invasion In the months leading up to the war USAID in concert with...humanitarian organizations and the Government of Ukraine to maximize the effectiveness of humanitarian aid Russia s brutal war is having a...