We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his briefing. We would also like to express our gratitude to the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal…
We welcome the presence of United States Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as of the Ministers and Deputy Ministers who have joined us today.
We hope that resolution 2254 (2015) contributes to the ceasefire and the start of a process of formal negotiations to achieve a lasting political settle…
We thank the Secretary-General and the President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for their statements, and the United States and the Russian Federation for having put together resolution 2253 (2015).
Chile welcomes the convening of this meeting by the President of the Security Council, an…
I am thankful for this opportunity to address the Council in my capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2013) concerning South Sudan, and the Informal Working Group on Internati…
We would like to thank the United States for convening this meeting. We are also grateful for the briefings by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Mr. Nick Grono, Director of the
Freedom Fund, as well as fo…
I thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi and his team for presenting the quarterly report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for their effective conduct of its work.
Chile welcomes the start of the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actio…
I am honoured to be participating in this High-level meeting on the process of follow-up and review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Tunis 10 years ago. The General Assembly has done well to convene today’s meeting in order to review the p…
Once again, we welcome the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for introducing her twenty-second report on Darfur, Sudan, pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
As acknowledged by the Prosecutor in her powerful report, it is unacceptable th…
As we have mentioned on other occasions, it is once again a pleasure to see a woman presiding over the work of the Security Council, even though her presidency is coming to an end.
We highly welcome the briefings by Mr. Jan Eliasson, Mr. Ging, Mr. Šimonović and Ambassador Apakan. We also welcome th…
Chile aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of South Africa, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and of Ecuador, on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
I would like to thank the President for convening our commemoration of the twentieth a…
We thank the United States presidency for having convened this meeting. We also thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and their teams for their briefings today.
It is difficult for us to remain indifferent in the face of human rights situations that demand coordinated and specific…
We are grateful for the comprehensive briefings on the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in connection with the completion strategies for the Tribunals, in compliance…
We appreciate the briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, as well as her efforts to step up the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel.
The Sahel continues to face vulnerabilities in the area of comprehensive security. The growing activity of terrori…
We welcome the forceful message sent by the Security Council via its unanimous adoption of resolution 2249 (2015). All acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable. Those who provide material, intellectual or financial support for terrorism must be prosecuted and brought to justice. In addition …
We thank the presidency for convening this briefing, as well as for its concept note (S/2015/846, annex). I also thank the Secretary General for his briefing.
While we take note of the reports (S/2015/682) of the Secretary-General and of the High-level Independent Panel (see S/2015/446), we underst…
We welcome Mr. Zahir Tanin, the new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. We would like to thank him for his briefing on the situation in Kosovo. Our country wishes him every success in his efforts to promote peace and stability in Kosovo and the region. We would a…
We welcome the presence of Secretary of State Greening and thank the United Kingdom presidency for convening this open debate. We also appreciate the briefings made by the Secretary-General, the Chairman of the Peacebuilding Commission, and the President of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Tr…
We welcome the presence of the Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom, Ms. Justine Greening. We are also grateful for the briefings by the Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Stephen O’Brien; the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General on S…
We would like to thank the United Kingdom presidency for convening today’s informative meeting and the briefers for their valuable briefings.
Police work in peacekeeping and peacebuilding is relevant in terms of protecting the civilian population and playing a leading role in restoring national sec…
We wish to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing and report (S/2015/841, annex). The twentieth anniversary of the General Framework for Peace in Bosnia and
Herzegovina is an opportunity to encourage joint work in the search for a united, stab…
