We appreciate the briefings by the Assistant Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. António Guterres.
We did not want to say this, but in reading the report of the Secretary-General on the humanitarian situation in…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting to address the issue of cooperation between the United Nations and regional bodies and arrangements. We also thank Mr. Ivica Dačić, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), for his briefing.…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China for having organized this debate. We also thank the Secretary- General for his statement.
The purposes and principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter establish the fundamental basis for …
Chile joined the international community’s recognition of the contact group’s diplomatic efforts, which have led to the agreement on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. We are confident that it will contribute to ending the violence and the humanitarian crisis in the country by providing assistance thro…
The delegation of Chile is grateful for the initiative of the United Kingdom and Jordan in preparing and introducing the timely resolution 2201 (2015). We appreciate the effort made in the Security Council to agree on a text that reflects a firm common position in the face of the urgent issue of Yem…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his briefing on the current situation in Kosovo. We also thank Mr. Ivica Dačić, Deputy Prime Minister and Ministe…
Chile’s position vis-à-vis the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, has been expressed by my country in this and other international forums, and is widely known. We support negotiations between the parties and a solution that would allow both States to live in peace and …
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Zerihoun, and the Assistant Secretary- General for Human Rights, Mr. Šimonović, for their briefings. We also thank the Chadian presidency for facilitating the inclusion of the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea o…
We thank and commend you, Mr. President, and your team for guiding the work of the Security Council in December. We welcome the convening of this open wrap-up meeting, which we believe to be a vital tool of the Council that must be maintained in future.
I shall begin by referring to the sanctions c…
I would like to thank Chad, as current President of the Security Council, and you, Sir, for taking the initiative to convene this important debate on threats to peace and security: terrorism and cross-border crime. Both of the latter are threats to world peace and stability that make it essential th…
We welcome the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Nicholas Haysom. We congratulate him on his responsibilities and thank him for his briefing. We also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Off…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for introducing the quarterly report of the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We greatly value and acknowledge the role of Australia as Chair of the Committee for the past two years. We also want to thank the Panel…
We welcome the convening of this debate and the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, as well as her presentation of the twentieth briefing on the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We note with concern that the humanitarian and sec…
We note with great interest the briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, Ms. Guebre Sellassie, and reiterate our full support to her, as we did at the Council meeting on 19 June (see S/PV.7203).
We consider the implementation of the United Nations integrated strategy fo…
My delegation wishes to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and the Residual Mechanism, for their comprehensive briefings to the Council on the implementation of the completion strategy of the two ad hoc Tribunals…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for his briefing. We also welcome Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and Mr. Hashim Thaçi.
We are concerned by the scant progress in the negotiations between Pristina and Belgrade. Although the dialogue facilitated by the Eur…
At the outset, we congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your leadership and presidency in the month of November. We welcome the convening of this public wrap-up session, which is a working practice that we would like to see continue.
Let me begin by mentioning some of the highlights of …
We are grateful for Australia’s initiative in bringing the subject of sanctions to the Security Council’s attention. We also thank Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, and Jürgen Stock, Secretary General of INTERPOL, for their briefings.
We believe that the universal natu…
Chile thanks the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Ambassador Oh Joon, for his briefing to the Council today. We appreciate the leadership shown by the Republic of Korea in chairing the 1540 Committee over the past two years. We also commend the work carried out …
We thank the Australian presidency of the Council for the initiative to organize this debate on peace and security in Africa with respect to Ebola, and to the briefers, the Special Envoy, Mr. Nabarro; the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebol…
