I should like to begin by greeting everyone here and thanking France for the initiative of convening this debate and for the concept note (S/2015/168, annex) that was circulated to guide our discussions. I wish also to convey my congratulations to the delegation of Malaysia and Ambassador Hussein Ha…
I congratulate France on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. We appreciate your delegation’s intelligence and temperance — qualities that are crucial for guiding the work of the Security Council.
I would also like to express my warm congratulations to all the peoples, includ…
The commemoration in July this year of the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, described by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as “the worst crime committed on European soil since the Second World War”, in which more than 8,000 people were killed and more 25,000 women and girls were forcibly…
Allow me to express Argentina’s pride at seeing the sister Republic of Chile as a member of the Security Council and, on this occasion, at seeing you,
Madam, preside over it. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on joining the Council, and …
Argentina believes that an explanation of its affirmative vote is unnecessary. The history of the Palestinian people, international law and resolutions of the United Nations are the deepest justification of the position taken by my country. We lament that the Security Council has not today adopted a…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Šimonović, for their briefings.
I do not wish to reiterate the contents of the report before the Council (S/2014.276, annex), but I shall explain Ar…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for your initiative to convene this wrap-up session, the tenth this year and the fifteenth public format of its kind. We hope that this practice will continue in the future and become an institutionalized practice of the Security Council, with
a view towar…
I would like at the outset to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chad, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, for the invitation to participate in this debate. I would also like to thank, through him, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and the Permanent Observer of the African Un…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (S/2014/876). I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his appointment and to wis…
At the outset, as this is the last meeting in which Ambassador Quinlan will act as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), I should like to thank him and his team for their dedication and effective work in steering the Committee over the past two years.
Like the Chair…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on a topic to which Argentina attaches great importance, that is, the partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. Your presence and participation here to…
I will not speak today of hunger or poverty or the ineffectiveness of the Council’s sanctions, nor of the need to review unilateral sanctions, nor of the obscene proliferation of weapons, nor of the silencing of traditional cultures — we have a hard time understanding how traditional cultures contra…
It is an honour for the delegation of Argentina to introduce to the General Assembly the draft resolution on the White Helmets initiative (A/69/L.37).
This year marks 20 years since the adoption of resolution 49/139, which endorsed the White Helmets initiative proposed by Argentina as a tool for pr…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to welcome and thank Ms. Sellassie, the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Sahel, for her briefing, which we have studied and carefully.
In our view, Mr. Prodi’s outline of the United Nations integr…
I would like to acknowledge the presence in the Security Council of Presidents Meron and Joensen and Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz.
I take this opportunity to thank Chile and to acknowledge the way in which it has guided the work of the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals. I extend…
We wish to speak in explanation of position on resolution 69/109, on sustainable fisheries, which was just adopted.
Argentina joined the consensus on the resolution. However, we wish to inform the Assembly once again that none of the recommendations in the resolution can be interpreted to mean that…
Allow me at the outset to thank both coordinators, Ambassador Eden Charles of Trinidad and Tobago and Ms. Alice Revell of New Zealand, for having conducted the negotiation of the draft resolutions that are before the General Assembly today. I would also like to recognize the presence of Mr. Nii Odun…
I would like to thank the Security Council for this opportunity afforded us to share our points of view and assessments of the work undertaken by the two subsidiary bodies that I have had the honour of presiding over during my country’s mandate as a Council member. I will begin by addressing the wor…
Argentina supports the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Bolivia on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
At the outset, we wish to congratulate the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing for its work carried out in the preparation of the report u…
I would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his presentation of the report (S/2014/773) on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I also welcome the participation of Mr. Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of Serbia, and …
