At the outset, through you, Mr. President, I would like to begin by thanking Ambassador Quinlan for presenting the quarterly report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and, as we always do, for his dedicated work at the head of that subsidiary body.
As noted …
I thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Mr. Ivan Šimonović for their briefings on the situation in Ukraine. Argentina will concentrate specifically on the theme and the focus of today’s meeting, namely, to analyse the report of the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
In that rega…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I also thank Ms. Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, the Secretary- General’s Special Envoy for the Sahel, for her briefing. We welcome her following her recent appointment to a post of such enormous responsibility. Argentina believes that her responsibili…
Argentina thanks the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for presenting her nineteenth report in accordance with resolution 1593 (2005).
Argentina deplores the continued violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Darfur. In resolution 2138…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (A/68/841) on the progress made on the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism
Strategy, the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force for organizing this event and for its continuing efforts aimed at strength…
Mr. President, we congratulate you on the coming 40 years and on your effective and lucid diplomacy. Argentina would also particularly like to commend the Russian Federation because tomorrow, 12 June, is Russia Day. We very much hope that your delegation will enjoy an excellent day for the country’s…
Allow me to begin my statement by paying a sincere and well-deserved homage to Mrs. Carmen Argibay, on behalf of my country, Argentina, and of all the women and men who are fighting to eradicate violence of any kind committed against women in times of peace and in conflict situations. Mrs. Argibay p…
At the outset, allow me, through you, Mr. President, to thank the Permanent Representatives of Lithuania, Australia and yourself, in your capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), for your informative briefings and your work in leading the subsidiary bodies.
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I thank Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the latest developments in Ukraine and the status of the issues being dealt with by the good offices of the United Nations. Argentina continues to follow the situation
in Ukraine very closely and remains conce…
First of all, on behalf of Argentina, I would like to express our full solidarity with Serbia in the light of the regrettable situation it is experiencing due to the recent floods, which, as has been said, are the worst in the past 120 years. We would like to express our condolences to the family me…
Since we joined the Council in January 2013 and on numerous occasions, Argentina has supported the referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court so that the Court could impartially exercise its jurisdiction with regard to all parties to one of the most cruel, atrocious and o…
Argentina resolutely supports enhancing the interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). We therefore welcome the efforts made by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to achieve greater and sustained political support for the work of the United Natio…
At the outset, I thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing and the report on the implementation of Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2014/314, annex).
Argentina has previously reaffirmed its support for the Dayton Agreement and for the…
Argentina wishes to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for introducing her seventh report to the Council as required by resolution 1970 (2011). We also welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of Libya.
The referral of situations to th…
At the outset, we would like to join others in thanking Mr. Abou Moussa for the work he has carried out at the Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and his leadership in support of regional efforts in conflict prevention.
The crisis in the Central African Republic i…
I would like to thank you Mr. President — Minister Yun Byung-se, member of the Cabinet of the first woman President of the Republic of Korea, President Park Geun-Hye — for your initiative in convening this meeting on an issue of such great importance for the international community, especially on …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I also thank Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Mr. Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, for their briefings on their mission, which was …
I join other speakers in expressing my confidence, on behalf of the delegation of Argentina, in Korea’s leadership during the month of its presidency. I also express my recognition and gratitude to the Nigerian presidency of last month.I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, …
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. Our respect and appreciation go to Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Serry for his briefing. I recognize and extend my respect to the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine …
I would like to thank Mr. Feltman for his update on the difficult situation in Ukraine.
I am wondering, and I would also like to ask the Council, why we are having this meeting. Going over the difficult situation and the worsening of the crisis once again is undoubtedly one reason, although I know …
