Allow me to join other delegations in expressing our congratulations to the United Kingdom on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August. I also wish to express my delegation’s sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, for taking the initiative to convene this importan…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his current report (A/68/825) and for his continued devoted attention to the issues of women’s and children’s health, the elimination of violence against women, and the prevention of mother- to-child transmission of HIV. We also particularly appreciat…
I would like to join other delegations that spoke before me in extending our sincere congratulations to you, Madam President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of March. In the same vein, I wish to thank you on behalf of my delegation for convening today’s o…
The Botswana delegation joins in sincerely commending the presidency of your country for hosting today’s debate and in thanking you, Madam President, for the very insightful and comprehensive concept paper (S/2014/75, annex) that has been produced to guide our deliberations. My delegation is therefo…
Let me congulate Lithuania on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February and for organizing this debate. We appreciate the briefings by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Re…
Let me, at the outset, thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this very important debate. I also wish to thank the Chair of the intergovernmental negotiations, Ambassador Tanin, for continuing to consult us and engage with as we search for a solution to this long- pending question…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate. We welcome this opportunity to continue to engage the Council on matters of international peace and security.
Our appreciation also goes to the Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman, for…
We join other delegations in congratulating your country, Mr. President, on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month, and we extend our gratitude to you, Sir, for convening this important debate. Today’s deliberations
reaffirms the great importance that we, individually and co…
At the outset, I would like to join other delegations in welcoming the convening of this High-level Dialogue. As a small developing country faced with many competing needs, priorities and development challenges, Botswana attaches great importance to the issues of migration.
Migration is a complex p…
Allow me, on behalf of the Botswana delegation, to join previous speakers in congratulating President Ashe most sincerely on his assumption of the presidency of the Assembly. His election demonstrates the confidence and high esteem in which he personally and his great country, Antigua
and Barbuda, …
My delegation is wholly in sympathy with the plight of internally displaced persons in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Indeed, we are concerned that it has taken us far too long to find a solution to the problem. We very much respect the need for unimpeded humanitarian access to the affected population,…
At the outset, allow me to join other delegations in thanking the President for convening this meeting. Botswana welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the review by the General Assembly of the draft decision entitled “Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political …
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June, as well as for convening this thematic debate. We also thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Ms. Zainab Bangura, and the other speakers for their briefings th…
Allow me to join other delegations in thanking the President for convening this high-level meeting. Botswana welcomes the opportunity afforded by this meeting to contribute to the review of the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons.
We would lik…
Allow me to join everyone here in congratulating you and your country, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. In the same vein, I would like to extend our gratitude for all the information that we have received during the open thematic deb…
Let me begin by thanking and congratulating the Indian presidency of the Council for the initiative to hold this open debate today on women, peace and security, with a focus on the role of women civil society organizations in contributing to the prevention and resolution of armed conflict and peaceb…
Botswana warmly welcomes the President of the Human Rights Council to the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly and thanks her for the comprehensive report that she presented to the Assembly (A/67/53).
My delegation associates itself with the statement made earlier in the meeting by the rep…
Allow me, on behalf of my delegation, to join preceding speakers in expressing our felicitations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- seventh session. Let me also seize the opportunity to sincerely commend his predecessor, Ambassador Nassir Ab…
I have the honour and privilege to deliver this fitting tribute on behalf of the Group of African States in New York.
It was with a profound sense of shock and grief that the whole of Africa received the sad and heartbreaking news three days ago about the demise of the President of the Republic of …
I have the honour and pleasure of delivering this statement on behalf of the African Group, Africa being the continent worst affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We are here today to review the progress that has been made in implementing the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS (resolution 65/277, an…
