As this is the first time that that I take the floor under the United States presidency, allow me at the outset to thank the presidency for convening this important meeting on the Ebola crisis. It comes at an opportune moment. Let me also congratulate the President on assuming the presidency of the …
As my term is coming to an end and this is the last time that I will address the Security Council as the Permanent Representative of my country, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for all that the Security Council has done for my country and for its representatives. Things have not alway…
I too wish to greet, on behalf of the Government of Burundi, all the members of the Security Council, and in particular you, Mr. President. I congratulate you on your country’s accession to the presidency of the Council for this month.
I would like to begin my statement by recalling that, on 13 Feb…
I have the honour to address the Security Council on behalf of the Government of Burundi, as well as on my own behalf, on the occasion of the adoption of resolution 2137 (2014), on the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB), which determines the future of our cooperation with the United Nations. Th…
It is a pleasure for me to convey, on behalf of the Government of Burundi and myself, the sincere greetings of the President of the Republic, Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, to all members of the Security Council. I have been asked in particular to convey the President’s best wishes to the Secretary-General …
On this special occasion, when I have the honour to speak to various delegations that have come from the four corners of the world to participate in the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session, I would like, on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi…
I should like, on behalf of the Government of Burundi and on my own behalf, to convey the warm thanks of His Excellency Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic, and the entire Burundian people to the Security Council and the international community for the broad range of support that we hav…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council — a responsibility that does honour to you and your country. The Council will undoubtedly benefit from your experience and leadership. Through you, Sir, I would also like once again to …
At the outset, I would like to join those who spoke before me in congratulating you, Mr. President, on behalf of my delegation, for your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January 2013. Allow me to also extend to the members of the Council, on behalf of the Governm…
It is a great pleasure for me to address the representatives here today and to express my congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, and to his cabinet as well. I also thank his predecessor, Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nas…
On behalf of the Government of Burundi, which it is my privilege to represent here, I would like first of all to express our gratitude for the attention and manifold support that the Security Council has given to Burundi and its people.
On Monday 2 July, the people of Burundi celebrated the fiftiet…
The Burundi Government will never tire of expressing its gratitude to the Security Council and the international community for the multiform support that they gave to our people during critical moments of the fratricidal war. Indeed, without their invaluable assistance, we simply would not have been…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting to adopt the resolution on Burundi. I would in particular like to thank the delegation of France for its efforts to organize informal
consultations on the text of the resolution. I also thank all delegations for the s…
Allow me, first of all, to convey greetings to the Council from His Excellency Mr. Laurent Kavakure, Burundi’s new Minister for External Relations and International Cooperation. He would have liked to be here in person to take part in the presentation of this first report (S/2011/751) on the United …
My delegation would like to second the proposal made by the representative of Solomon Islands with a view to try to determine how to finalize this process. We cannot continue with elections forever.
In Panel 5, we had productive and fascinating discussions on the various opportunities for expanding and strengthening the response to AIDS through integration, and on the way in which the AIDS response could be used to improve other challenges to health and development. I would like to recall the m…
At the outset, let me convey the greetings of His Excellency Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi, who asked me in particular to congratulate you, Sir, on having convened this High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is a threat to the entire world that every day…
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Sir, for having invited us to this meeting. I would also like to acknowledge and confirm the various points made by the previous speakers, especially the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Ambassador Seger in his capacity as Chair of the Bu…
It is my honour and pleasure to take the floor following the presentation of the seventh report (S/2010/608) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB) to the Council. Allow me to thank the Security Council and the Secretary- General for having invited the Go…
Allow me first of all to convey to the Assembly the warm and fraternal greetings of His Excellency Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, who has just been re-elected for a second term of five years. He had planned to take part in these meetings himself, but the Unity International Foundation insisted on awarding h…
