I welcome Australia’s initiative in convening this debate to allow us to reflect on the role of international
cooperation in combating terrorism and violent extremism. This year, we have been called upon to analyse and adopt concrete measures with regard to such phenomena, in particular within the …
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General ad interim for Political Affairs, Mr. Toyberg-Frandzen, and we appreciate the presence of Ambassadors Apakan and Tagliavini at this meeting. We also welcome Ambassador Sergeyev, Permanent Representative of Ukraine, to the Security Council today.
We regret th…
We welcome the convening of this meeting and we welcome the presence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda. We also appreciate her eighth report to the Council.
We begin our remarks recognizing the complex political and security situations in Libya. On 6 November,…
We thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing and for the presentation of his report (S/2014/777, annex).
We begin by welcoming the results of the general elections held on 12 October, and we commend the fact that they were held in an orderly way.…
At the outset, I congratulate you and your entire team, Madam President, for the way in which you have led the work of the Security Council during the month of October. We appreciate the fact that you have kept the briefing format for the wrap-up session, a working
mechanism that strengthens the tr…
First of all, my delegation would like to express appreciation for the work done by the International Court of Justice in the period covered by the report that the Court’s President, Judge Peter Tomka, introduced earlier (A/69/4). In the reporting period, the Court had the opportunity to decide, in …
Today we are urgently meeting at the request of the Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to address the dangerous escalation of tensions in East Jerusalem. We regret that the Security Council has to deal once again with the…
I am pleased to address the members of the Council in my capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004), concerning Côte d’Ivoire.
At the outset, I have the honour to summarize the main findings contained in the midterm report of the Group of Expe…
Fourteen years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), Chile thanks the presidency of Argentina for having convened this debate on this topic, in particular, the situation of internally displaced women and girls. We thank the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of UN-Women, the Assistant…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for his briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine and Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs. We appreciate the efforts that they, together with th…
We thank you, Madam, for convening this open debate under the Argentine presidency on the working methods of the Security Council. We commend this initiative and the exemplary manner in which this issue has been addressed under the direction of the Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural…
We would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this open debate. We also highly appreciate the presence of the Secretary-General and thank him for his tireless efforts towards dialogue between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Chile promotes peace between both peoples and the two-State …
Chile voted in favour of resolution 2180 (2014) as an expression of my country’s ongoing commitment to the democratic process, the rule of law and the promotion of
human rights and socioeconomic development in Haiti, in which the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has had and …
We thank the presidency for having convened this briefing. We also thank Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed, Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, and the Force Commanders of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nat…
We, too, wish to express our gratitude for the initiative of convening this meeting, given the relevance of the issue that we are addressing here today.
On behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz, and of our Government, I am here to cast a clear vote of solidarity with Ir…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, for his briefing and we appreciate the work that the Secretary-General continues to do to shed light on the facts surrounding the downing of
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17. We are also grateful for the work carried ou…
We thank the presidency of the United States for convening this debate and for presenting resolution 2177 (2014), which we adopted today and which Chile co-sponsored. I also wish to thank the other speakers and presenters who have preceded me.
Chile regrets that this tragedy has cost thousands of h…
We appreciate the briefings delivered by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, and by the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Zahir Tanin.
I begin my statement by underscoring the important role that the United Nations has played in the vote counting af…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for presenting the quarterly report on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We reiterate our appreciation for his able leadership of the work of the Committee.
Chile is closely following the negotiations between …
We appreciate the briefing made by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, and value her efforts and those of her team.
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be made by the Permanent Representative of Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends of Hait…