At the outset, I should like to congratulate the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on its assumption and effective discharge of the presidency functions of the Security Council during the month of January. We are also grateful to the delegation of Jordan for having organized this open debate on such an im…
I would like to thank the French presidency of the Security Council for having convened this meeting to reiterate the Council’s commitment to addressing the destabilizing effect of drug trafficking in West Africa and the Sahel. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing and for p…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. Azerbaijan highly values his tireless work and the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in promoting peace and security in the country. …
Let me commence by expressing our gratitude to the French presidency of the Security Council for having convened this important meeting to review the implementation of the United Nations integrated strategy for the Sahel. I would like to thank the Secretary-General and other briefers for their compr…
I would like to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his work as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for presenting the 90-day report of the Committee. We also take note of the midterm report of the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1929 (2010) an…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her briefing and for presenting the eighteenth report of her Office to the Security Council, and to thank the Ambassador of the Sudan for his statement. We take note of the efforts of the Office of the Prosecutor aimed at investigating viol…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for providing me
and other outgoing Chairs of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council with an opportunity to summarize our work and share some observations as our countries complete their two-year terms as non-permanent members of the Counc…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their reports (see S/2013/463 and S/2013/460, respectively) and comprehensive briefings. I would also like…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassadors Gary Quinlan, Mohammed Loulichki and Oh Joon for their briefings and updates on actions taken over the past six months. We are grateful for their efforts and leadership of the Security Council Committees with counter-terrorism mandates. Terrorism is a se…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abou Moussa for his comprehensive briefing and for presenting the Secretary-General’s report (S/2013/671) on the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and on the areas affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for his briefing.
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Prime Minister of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, and thank him and Mr. Thaçi for their statements.
I would like to reaffirm the position of Azer…
Azerbaijan is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Nevertheless, we strongly believe that the protection and vindication of rights, as well as insistence on accountability, contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security. Our decision to vote i…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing and
for presenting her sixth report to the Security Council, pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011). The contribution of the International Criminal Court to fighting impunity …
Let me start by congratulating you, Mr. President, and your delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I wish you and your team every success. I would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for presenting the forty-fourth…
It is unfortunate that the delegation of Armenia has once again used the opportunity of our debate to make groundless, propagandistic statements. In reality, we have witnessed yet another unsuccessful attempt by that Member State to mislead the international community.
The remarks just made by the …
I would like to exercise my right of reply to the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia in the general debate on 28 September (see (A/68/PV.19).
As can be noted from that statement, Armenia is denying the facts that point to its policy of aggression, hostility, hatred, outright l…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. John Ashe on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session and wish him every success in fulfilling this highly responsible duty. We are also grateful to Mr. Vuk Jeremić for his able presidency of General Assembly a…
Azerbaijan welcomes the adoption of resolution 2118 (2013) and
expresses its hope that the unanimous and strong position demonstrated today by the Security Council will contribute to finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria, bringing an end to the suffering inflicted on the Syrian peop…
First of all, I would like to express our thanks to the Australian presidency for convening the meeting. We are also grateful to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Yemen, my good friend Mr. Abubaker A. Al-Qirbi; the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, my good friend Mr. Abdul Latif b…
I would like to start by expressing my profound gratitude to the Australian presidency of the Security Council for having convened today’s meeting on the very important issue of small arms and light weapons.
The high-level participation today attests to the importance accorded by the members of the…
