I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tanin, for his briefing. I also welcome the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and the Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, Ms. Vlora Çitaku, for their…
We thank Equatorial Guinea for organizing this important and timely debate on maritime security. We also thank Mr. Fedotov and Mrs. Ukonga for their briefings.
As you mentioned, Mr. President, 90 per cent of world trade is maritime, and Belgium has always been a hub of international maritime trade.…
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate you on Equatorial Guinea’s assumption of the presidency of the Council. I should like also to
congratulate the delegation of the Dominican Republic on the outstanding work it did during its presidency of the Council last month.
I wish to thank…
When 3 million people flee their country because of its economic and political collapse, the threat to the stability of the region becomes evident. For Belgium, it is clear that the Security Council has a responsibility to address the situation in Venezuela, which constitutes a threat to internation…
First of all, I would like to thank the Dominican Republic for convening today’s meeting. Belgium welcomes the role of the Security Council in addressing the impacts of climate change on international peace and security. I also thank those who spoke at the beginning of the meeting for setting the st…
I, too, would like to congratulate Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu on his new role and thank him for his briefing. I also thank his predecessor, Jean Arnault, for his considerable contribution to the peace process. Finally, I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Col…
I should like at the outset to sincerely thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing and for the work that he and his team are doing. I should like also to welcome the presence here today of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia.
As t…
Allow me first to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing. I would like to particularly commend his efforts, as well as those of the entire staff of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), who work in a particularly challenging enviro…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this briefing. I also thank my colleague the Permanent Representative of Poland for her detailed account of the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan. I commend her dynamic way of l…
At the outset, I wish to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her briefing, all the more valuable as it was informed by her recent visit to Mali. I would also like to welcome the Malian Foreign Minister, Ms. Kamissa Camara, who is participa…
I would first like to thank Special Representative Leila Zerrougui, Mr. Nangaa Yobeluo, representing the Commission électorale nationale indépendante, Ms. Mohammed, the Permanent Observer of the African Union (AU), Mr. Malanji, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Zambia, representing the Southern Africa…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Chambas for his very comprehensive briefing. Belgium salutes his daily work on behalf of prevention, reconciliation, lasting peace and the promotion of the rule of law in West Africa.
The precarious security situation continues to worry us. I…
I would first like to thank the United Kingdom for requesting this briefing on the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement. I would also like to thank
the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency…
Belgium notes the various statements made by the European countries that have endorsed the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, implying their support for the Compact. We also want to point to the statements made by Secretary-General Guterres and by Prime Minister Charles Michel o…
This month of December has brought us all together on several occasions to commemorate two historic birthdays, the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, last week, and today’s twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Grou…
Belgium fully associates itself with the statement made by the representative of the European Union.
Like others, I would like to thank Representative Yamamoto for his briefing, but also for his tireless efforts towards lasting peace in Afghanistan. I also thank Commissioner Ghizaal Haress, Executi…
At the outset, I welcome and thank Côte d’Ivoire for its initiative to convene a debate on a subject that is so crucial to the work of the Security Council in exercising its responsibilities.
For Belgium, the importance of regional and subregional organizations in conflict prevention is irrefutable…
Like others, I would like to thank all delegations that participated in the consultations on draft resolution A/73/L.44, in particular my Afghan and German colleagues for having so ably facilitated the negotiations. We are proud to co-sponsor the draft resolution and look forward to its adoption.
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Belgium fully aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union and would like to make the following comments in its national capacity.
I would also like to pay tribute to the peacekeepers who fell in the service of peace, especially the Blue Helmets from Malawi and Tanzan…
First of all, Belgium associates itself with the statement delivered earlier by the observer of the European Union.
Today’s open debate on multilateralism is very timely. Given the scope of the challenges we are facing, we want to emphasize more than ever our support for multilateralism and the imp…
