I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014), pursuant to paragraph 19 (e) thereof. The last such briefing took place one year ago, on 18 February 2021 (see S/2021/167, annex III). As such, this briefing will cover the period fro…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Chen for their briefings. I would also like to thank all those individuals and entities that have contributed to the fourteenth report of the Secretary-General (S/2022/63), which makes for sober reading.
Wounds of the terrorist…
Let me congratulate Norway for an excellent presidency in January and wish Russia the best in presiding over the Security Council during this month. I also wish to thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
Sanctions are an important tool as pa…
Albania would like to extend its appreciation to the United Kingdom for leading the negotiations on the renewal of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and deplores the fact that no consensus was reached in support of the mandate as originally proposed.
Albania voted in favour of th…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this open meeting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing.
The primary responsibility of the Security Council is to maintain peace and security with a view to preventing conflicts in the world. We have argued here several times that…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this meeting. I too thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov for his information.
We join other speakers in condemning in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attack by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Shams (ISIS) at a prison in north-eastern Syria.…
Let me thank Under- Secretary-General Griffiths and Mr. Egeland for their valuable information on the situation on the ground.
At the outset, we fully support the efforts of the United Nations and civil society organizations, which, as we heard in today’s briefings, provide life-saving assistance t…
Let me also thank the Secretary-General for his evaluation of the situation and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Lyons and Ms. Seraj for the information they provided.
I also thank our colleague from India, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution …
I would like to welcome Special Envoy Pedersen, thank him for his briefing and commend him for his work and efforts. I also thank Ms. Hijazi for her passionate plea.
We have become so used to the violence and suffering emanating from Syria that the harrowing stalemate in which that ravaged country …
I would like to thank Norway for organizing this high-level open debate on such an important topic. I also thank Prime Minister Støre for chairing it — testimony of its paramount importance for all of us.
I thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of t…
Let me welcome Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and thank her for the detailed information provided and commend her for the very consistent engagement with Libya. I thank also Ms. Elham Saudi for her remarks. She showed the high spirit of resilience a…
Let me welcome Mr. Emilio José Archila, Presidential Adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation of Colombia, to today’s meeting.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and Ms. Luz Marina Giraldo for her insights. We appreciate the work and con…
Let me thank Special Coordinator Wennesland and the two briefers for their valuable information.
The Security Council has shown many times that it has the power to do great things when it galvanizes the collective will of its membership. But there is one issue that has proven itself to be hard to r…
It is a great honour for me to be the first Albanian Foreign Minister to address the Security Council as a non-permanent member of this esteemed body, but what makes this occasion really special for me and for my country is the issue that we are addressing today — women and peace and security — whic…
I welcome and thank Prosecutor Karim Khan for today’s briefing, for his thirty-fourth report and for the work that he is doing.
As a party to the Rome Statute, Albania supports the work of the Prosecutor and the International Criminal Court (ICC). In our view, it plays a crucial role towards ending…
I thank the briefers for their valuable information. We fully support the efforts of Special Envoy Grundberg and are anxious to see concrete and tangible results. War has ravaged Yemen for seven long years, causing massive casualties and destruction, still with no end in sight. Civilians have suffer…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane and Ms. Dicko for their insights today.
I would like to highlight three key issues: the deteriorating security situation, the threat of terrorism and the political transition process.
First, we are deeply concerned about the continuing d…
I would like to thank Special Representative Annadif, as well as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Ms. Waly, for the information provided. I would also like to thank Ms. Thiombiano Yougbaré for her remarks on behalf of
the People’s Coalition for the Sah…
Madam President, as I take the floor for the first time in the Security Council, I would like to congratulate you for assuming the presidency of the Council during the month of January and assure you of our full support in the implementation of a rich and ambitious work programme.
I thank all my co…
Since the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons in 2010 (resolution 64/293), significant progress has been registered in identifying and addressing many of the social, economic, cultural, political and other factors that make people vulnerable to human…
