I would like to begin by congratulating the Nigerian presidency of the Council for convening this important meeting. Allow me to also thank Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization; Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Ebola; the Deputy Permanent R…
First of all, we thank His Excellency Mr. Murray McCully, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, for presiding over this open debate. We welcome and congratulate the New Zealand presidency of the Security Council for convening this timely debate on the security challenges facing small isla…
Angola abstained in the voting on today’s draft resolution S/2015/562, introduced by Malaysia, on the establishment of an international tribunal for prosecution of those responsible for crimes connected with the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17.
At the outset, let me be clear. We condemn i…
At the outset, we would like to extend a warm welcome to you, Sir, as well as our thanks for presiding over this debate. We also thank Mr. Mladenov for his insightful briefing and extend our support for his work.
We align ourselves with the statement to be delivered by the Permanent Representative …
The Angolan delegation is very honoured to take part in this meeting of the Security Council and to have cast its vote on the historic resolution 2231 (2015), which represents the triumph of multilateralism, negotiation and the peaceful settlement of disputes. The agreement that the Council has just…
We welcome and thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Eliasson, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Al Hussein, for their comprehensive briefings.
It is our great hope that drawing painful lessons from the past will enable us to improve our actions in the present and create appropriate…
Angola abstained in the voting today on the draft resolution submitted by the United Kingdom on Srebrenica for the following reasons.
First, Angola does not take a position of denial on the issue. Whether we call it mass murder, mass atrocities or genocide, the fact is that we acknowledge that on 1…
At the outset, we would like to congratulate the delegation of Malaysia on its presidency of the Security Council during the month of June, and to thank it for convening this meeting. We must acknowledge the heavy work load in the Council’s agenda, which sometimes puts unbearable pressure on small d…
We welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda. We thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing on the current judicial activities of the Court and on the
situation in Darfur, as contained in her twenty-first report submitted to the Security Council pursuant to resol…
We welcome Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, and thank him for presenting the Commission’s report (S/2015/174). We praise the work that Brazil has been doing for some time as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration and all of the efforts that have …
We thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for the presentation of the report and for his excellent work as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
We are pleased that no new incidents have been reported during the past three months, and we sincerely …
Angola would like to start by condemning in the strongest terms today’s heinous terrorist attack on the Parliament of Afghanistan, which reflects the terrorists’ hatred of the country’s institutions. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Head of the United N…
Angola thanks the Malaysian presidency of the Security Council for convening this open debate on an issue of critical importance, namely, the fate of children caught in the middle of armed conflicts and the suffering that they endure. The international community pledged to find solutions to this pro…
We welcome the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Leiutenant-General Tesfamariam,
Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Major-General Michael Lollesgaard, Force Commander of the United National Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization M…
At the outset, on behalf of the Angolan delegation, I would like to commend the Malaysian presidency for the initiative of convening
this meeting with the Chairs of the three Security Council subsidiary organs responsible for countering terrorism, whom we welcome.
The holding of this meeting less …
We thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman and the Deputy Chief Monitor of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Mr. Alexander Hug, for their briefings on recent developments in the situation in Ukraine.
We are deeply disturbed by the ev…
At the outset, Mr. President, let me express our congratulations to your delegation, Malaysia, on presiding over the Security Council for the month of June. I also commend the work performed by the Lithuanian presidency during the previous month of May.
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of th…
On behalf of the Republic of Angola, I should like to welcome you, Sir, to New York to preside over this important debate. We express our appreciation to the Lithuanian presidency for organizing this debate on an issue that is a matter of great concern and deserves our full attention, with a view to…
My delegation commends the Lithuanian presidency for holding this open debate on the protection of journalists in conflict situations. We welcome you, Sir, and thank you for coming to New York to participate in this important debate. We also thank Deputy Secretary- General Jan Eliasson. We welcome t…
We would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Kosovo, for his briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s debate of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Hashim Thaçi, Deputy Prime Mini…
