We align ourselves with the part of the statement made earlier by the representative of Venezuela that was on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
We are grateful to the briefers in this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, on which we wil…
We are grateful to Ms. Honoré for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and the activities of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). We welcome the Permanent Representative of Haiti to this meeting and through him, the Republic of Angola conveys its heartfelt condolences to t…
Members of the Security Council were confronted today with a peculiar situation. They had to cast two consecutive votes on two draft resolutions on the same issue — the cessation of hostilities in Syria.
First and foremost, we would like to state our deep distress about the current humanitarian sit…
We welcome and thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and his clear recommendations (S/2016/722, annex) for the protection of civilians and of health-care workers and facilities in armed conflicts and for his compelling call on the parties to conflicts to strictly uphold and implement them.
W…
We thank Special Envoy De Mistura for his briefing and for his stated determination not to give up on his mission, in which he has our full support.
We deeply regret that this meeting is being held due to such a negative turn of events in Syria, with the collapse of the ceasefire agreement, renewed…
The Republic of Angola very much welcomes and is satisfied with the adoption of resolution 2310 (2016) this morning.
Having signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test- Ban Treaty right after the conclusion of the Treaty negotiations, Angola ratified it only in 2015 due to the military conflict with apar…
It is a great honour to speak on behalf of the President of the Republic of Angola, His Excellency José Eduardo dos Santos, in the General Assembly, which seeks to address and find solutions to the multidimensional challenges facing the world.
The General Assembly is indeed a privileged forum whose…
We thank the New Zealand delegation for convening this meeting on the terrorist threat to civil aviation. We are grateful to Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), for her comprehensive briefing on the crucial issue of civil aviation in contemporary …
First of all, we wish to thank the delegation of New Zealand for organizing this meeting. I take this opportunity to congratulate New Zealand on the efforts that it has been making in its presidency of the Security Council to bridge the gaps between Council members on sensitive and contentious issue…
We thank you, Sir, for presiding over this important meeting and for your very insightful remarks on such a troubling and sensitive issue. We also thank Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon for his briefing and his continued commitment to a just resolution of this intractable conflict, which has been a sou…
Mr. Minister, we welcome your presiding over this debate and the adoption of the presidential statement (S/PRST/2016/14) that you have just read out on behalf of the Security Council as a demonstration of the Council’s support of and commitment to Afghanistan. We also welcome the new Special Represe…
Angola voted in favour of resolution 2307 (2016), which approves the Secretary-General’s recommendations on the size, operational aspects and mandate of a United Nations mission in Colombia. We warmly welcome the signing, on 24 August, of the Final Agreement between the Government of Colombia and th…
We join other members of the Security Council in thanking Special Representative Zahir Tanin for presenting the report (S/2016/666) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, Fir…
We thank the delegation of Malaysia for convening today’s open debate and
welcome you, Mr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs of Malaysia, for presiding over this important meeting. We also thank the briefers for their important insights on this critical issue, …
We thank Mr. O’Brien for his comprehensive briefing and for his continuing commitment to the humanitarian relief efforts in Syria.
In the past few weeks, we have reiterated on numerous occasions our collective resolve to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria, with particular reg…
The Security Council has just adopted resolution 2304 (2016) renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Angola voted in favour of the draft resolution, and we would like to outline our point of view on the issue.
As a member of the African Union and Chair of the Int…
We congratulate Malaysia on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August. We express our gratitude for the convening of this open debate and commend the Malaysian delegation for its excellent work and dedication in chairing the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.…
Mr. President, we welcome your efforts in convening this meeting late on a Friday afternoon, which means that it is important for the Council to deliberate on this question.
Angola abstained in the voting on resolution 2303 (2015) for the following reasons.
First, we welcome the active engagement …
We congratulate Japan for the manner in which it has been conducting the
Security Council during its presidency for the month of July. Angola applauds Japan’s decision to convene this important meeting on the theme of peacebuilding in Africa, thus translating Japan’s commitment to cooperation with …
We start by commending the delegation of the United Kingdom for calling for the convening of today’s meeting. We thank the Under- Secretaries-General for Political and Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, respectively, for their insightful briefings on a critical situat…
