We are honoured to take the floor at this timely and important meeting on the imperative of building and sustaining peace, and we commend the President of the General Assembly for convening it.
Angola aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement…
Our delegation also aligns itself with the statements of other delegations in strongly condemning the terrorist attack yesterday in downtown Manhattan. We express our condolences to the families of the victims and wish those who were injured a speedy recovery.
Allow me to begin by extending a word …
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola, allow me to congratulate Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on having been elected to preside over the General Assembly at its seventy-second session and to assure him of Angola’s full support in the fulfilment of his mission, so that he may successfully provi…
At the outset, I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation and gratitude to the United Arab Emirates, the outgoing Chair of the Kimberley Process, for its distinguished leadership and hard work in facilitating and coordinating the negotiations on draft resolution A/71/L.55, before the Assem…
Like the other members of the Security Council, Angola voted in favour of resolution 2336 (2016), and we would like to thank the delegation of the Russian Federation for convening
today’s meeting for the unanimous adoption of a resolution aimed at establishing a ceasefire agreement in the Syrian Ar…
Angola welcomes the adoption today of resolution 2334 (2016). I would like to thank the sponsors — Egypt, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuel — for presenting it to the Council.
For far too long, a source of deep frustration and despair to the international community as a whole has been th…
Like other members, Angola abstained in the voting on draft resolution S/2016/1085, which sought to target sanctions and an arms embargo against the Government and authorities of South Sudan. Recently, the Government of South Sudan has continued to show its commitment to the implementation of the jo…
Angola voted in favour of resolution 2333 (2016), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) for more than 12 months, based mainly on our overall evaluation of the very positive role of UNMIL, especially in coming electoral period, and on the concrete request of the Govern…
Let me too join other colleagues in presenting our most heartfelt condolences to the Russian Federation for the terrible act that ended the life of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey.
Let me welcome and thank the President of the Government of Spain, His Excellency Mr. Mariano Rajoy Brey, for presidi…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Yamamoto, and to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Fedotov, for their briefings. We are also grateful to Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen of New Zealand, Chair of the Security C…
Let me also join you, Mr. President, in reiterating the condolences of the Council over the occurrence in Ankara this afternoon, which caused the death of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey.
We thank you, Mr. President, for giving us the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the activities of …
This is the last opportunity for us to speak in this Chamber on the question of Palestine and the Middle East peace process. As a non-permanent member of the Security Council, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General and commend him for his consistent engagement with the
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Angola voted in favour of resolution 2327 (2016), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), keeping the Security Council’s commitment to the country and its people. In fact, the situation in South Sudan has been, over the years, a matter of great concern for the Sec…
We commend Spain for convening today’s meeting on a critical issue of extreme concern for the international community and welcome Mr. Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, who is presiding over this important meeting. We also thank Deputy Secretary-General Mr…
I thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her report.
As a member of the African Union (AU), Angola reiterates its commitment to the fight against impunity, in accordance with the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and aligns itself with the African Union decision on the International Criminal Cour…
We would first like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, and to express our solidarity with his efforts to stop any atrocities being committed in the city of Aleppo against civilians, including women and children.
It is our collective responsibility to ensure that all parties to the con…
We commend the Spanish presidency for convening today’s important meeting on international judicial cooperation in the fight against terrorism. We would like to welcome Mr. Rafael Саtalá, Minister of Justice of Spain, to the Security Council and thank him for presiding over our debate. We also thank…
We are grateful to the honourable judges, Mr. Carmel Agius and Mr. Theodor Meron, and to Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for participating in today’s meeting. We are equally grateful to Uruguay for its important work in chairing the Working Group on the International Tribunals. The insightful briefings p…
Regrettably, we felt compelled to abstain in the voting on today’s draft resolution (S/2016/1026), which, if it had been negotiated with the sole objective of saving Syrian lives in mind, would have been adopted by consensus. A resolution designed to stop the bombing for 24 or 48 hours, or even seve…
