We thank this month’s United Kingdom presidency for convening this meeting with the heads of the police components of peacekeeping missions. We also welcome the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations and the Police Commissioners present in the Security Council Chamber today and thank t…
We are grateful to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for presenting the forty-eighth report on the implementation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2015/841, annex). The High Representative referred to the remarkable progr…
I should like, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for having come to New York to preside over this important meeting on Somalia. I wish in particular to welcome the presence of the Prime Minister of Somalia, whom I also thank for having come to New York and for having shared with the Counci…
I would like to begin by wishing you, Mr. President, and the delegation of the United Kingdom success in your presidency of the Security Council. We also congratulate the Spanish delegation for their excellent work during their presidency in October. We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the In…
Let me start by warmly welcoming the Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to this meeting.
The Republic of Angola voted in favour of resolution 70/5, on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America agains…
I would like to start by expressing our thanks to Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, and in particular on the Palestinian issue. Based on his briefing, we have to acknowledge the frustration resulting from the prevailing situation and the inabilit…
At the outset, I would like to commend and thank you, Mr. President, and the Spanish presidency of the Council for convening this very timely debate this morning. I also welcome the very valuable contributions by our three briefers, notably the Deputy Secretary-General, the President of the General …
We thank Jordan for convening this meeting and the Assistant Secretary- General for his briefing on the situation in Israel and Palestine. In the open debate to take place here next week, we will address at length the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Today we want to highlight our extreme alarm at the esc…
At the outset, we wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Mariano Rajoy Brey, Prime Minister of Spain, for presiding over this open debate, which demonstrates the commitment of Security Council member States to the high-level review of the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). We also thank the Secreta…
Today we have adopted resolution 2241 (2015) to reconfigure the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), taking into account the signing of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan by the South Sudanese parties and the international stakeho…
We wish you and the Spanish delegation every success, Mr. President, in presiding over the Security Council this month. You can rely on our full cooperation.
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We congratulate the Russian delegation on its successful presidency of the Security Council in the month of September.
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At the outset, on behalf of the President of Angola, Mr. José Eduardo dos Santos, I would like to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Mogens Lykketoft on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly. I also congratulate His Excellency Mr. Sam Kutesa, the outgoing President, on the capable mann…
First of all, we congratulate the Russian Federation on its accession to the presidency of the Security Council. We thank Minister Lavrov for presiding over such an important and timely debate on the issue of settling conflicts and countering terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa.
We also t…
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Angola, allow me to congratulate Mr. Sam Kutesa, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, for his role in the drafting of resolution 70/1, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. We welcome th…
We thank Special Representative Nicholas Haysom for presenting the Secretary-General‘s report (S/2015/684) on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for his briefing, and the Am…
We thank the Permanent Representative of Spain, Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi, for the presentation of the revised 90- day report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We commend and support the work of the Committee and the Panel of Experts on an issue to which the in…
We, too, take this opportunity to join other Security Council members in expressing our sincere condolences to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and to the Brazilian Government and its people for the demise of the Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
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We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for introducing the report of the Secretary- General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2015/579). We welcome the participation in today’s briefing of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Min…
Let me start by thanking Nigeria for organizing this debate on a very important topic. I am extremely pleased to bring back this topic to the Council, where it is crucial to have this discussion on security sector reform (SSR). We join other members of the Council in welcoming the Assistant Secretar…
I would like to thank the Nigerian presidency for organizing today’s open debate and for its choice of theme, which addresses issues that the Security Council has to deal with on a daily basis. I would also like to acknowledge and thank the Secretary-General for enriching our discussion this morning…
