At the outset, I would like to express Angola’s gratitude to you, Sir, for convening this plenary meeting to consider agenda item 33, “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict”. It is indeed a great honour for me to address the General Assembly today and to reaffirm my country’s commitment to the K…
I thank you, Mr. President, for coming back to New York. We welcome you here. I also thank the Uruguayan presidency for having convened this open debate on the critical issue of the protection of civilians.
We align ourselves with the statements to be delivered by the Permanent Observer of the Afri…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for having organized this afternoon’s meeting. Let me also thank Assistant Secretary-General Kyung-wha Kang for her briefing.
It is absolutely unacceptable by any standards to allow as many as 400,000 people or more to continue living and dying in besieg…
I will be very brief. At the outset, we would like to thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for his briefing, which contained relevant information.
Like other delegations, we are concerned about the possibility that non-State actors may manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer …
We would like to thank Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen; Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
We also take this opportunit…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr Nicholas Haysom, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (S/2015/942). We commend the work acco…
We thank the United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, for presiding over this important meeting.
We also welcome the adoption of the landmark resolution 2254 (2015), which delineates the process that will bring about the end of the Syrian crisis. Its pledge to support the ceasefire in Syri…
We fully support the initiative of the United States presidency and the co-sponsors to promote this meeting of the Ministers of Finance in the Security Council, as we believe it will contribute to the development of new and effective measures to achieve our common objectives in the fight against ter…
First, we would like to thank the briefers for their comprehensive presentations. Our special gratitude goes to Nadia Taha. We praise Nadia for her courage and strength in sharing with us a painful experience. Nadia’s testimony and plea raise the fundamental issue of the victims of trafficking and e…
We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing and for her twenty-second report on the situation in Darfur, submitted to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005), in which the Council determined that the situation in Darfur constitu…
We thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for his presentation of the 90-day report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We commend his excellent work as Chair of the Committee.
We are pleased that on 18 October — adoption day of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action …
We thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Šimonović, Mr. Ging and Mr. Apakan for their briefings.
Angola supports the peaceful resolution of conflicts through dialogue, negotiations and strict respect for the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law. On this occasion, …
We are meeting today at the request addressed to the President of the Security Council by nine separate Council Member States to discuss the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
On 22 December 2014, the Council decided to add to its agenda a new item, namely, the sit…
Let me thank Judge Carmel Agius, Judge Vagn Joensen, Judge Theodor Meron, Mr. Serge Brammertz and Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow for their comprehensive briefings. For the past
20 years, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)…
We welcome and thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel for her briefing on the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel.
We start by regretting that Security Council members were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a draft presidential s…
I would like to begin by paying tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack in Mali today. We strongly condemn such criminal acts.
We commend the United Kingdom presidency for organizing today’s meeting, which affords us an opportunity to assess the proposals for enhancing peace operations at a …
Angola voted in favour of resolution 2249 (2015) — submitted by France in connection with the terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as Daesh — in the expectation that it is an important step in the fight against terrorism and for the building f…
We would like to welcome Mr. Zahir Tanin and congratulate him on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Kosovo. We thank him for his briefing on the Secretary-General’s report (S/2015/833) on the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and we…
I should like at the outset to thank you, Madam President, for having come to New York to the Security Council to preside over this meeting. Let me also say that this meeting is not just timely but also important, and that the theme of the maintenance of international peace and security, with a focu…
First of all, let me express once again, on behalf of the Angolan delegation, our sincere condolences to and solidarity with the delegation of France on account of the attacks in Paris. We strongly condemn those barbaric acts.
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emerge…
