We thank the United States for convening this open debate and we thank Foreign Minister Asselborn of Luxembourg for his country’s leadership of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. Important recommendations have emerged from its work. We also thank the guest briefers and, in particular,…
We thank Mr. Farid Zarif for presenting the report on the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2014/558), and we welcome Foreign Ministers Ivica Dačić and Enver Hoxhaj.
I would like to begin by highlighting the formation of the new …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing and express our appreciation for the efforts that the Secretary-General has continued to undertake to end the current situation in Ukraine.
Chile would like once again to express its deep concern about the serious escal…
We join in congratulating your delegation and your presidency, Mr. President, for the effectiveness and the leadership you have shown throughout the month of August. We also thank you for convening this wrap-up session.
We welcome your choice of conflict prevention as the theme of your presidency. …
Chile thanks the presidency of the United Kingdom for having convened this open debate. We also thank the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for their briefings. We are grateful to the High Commissioner for her tireless efforts in the difficult task of protec…
We thank the Deputy Secretary-General, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Director of The Liaison Office for their briefings. Chile commends the President’s initiative in organizing today’s meeting, which we consider particularly timely since it coincides with the …
I thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership, as well
as the Security Council Affairs Division, which made this historic mission possible.
I will now present the report on behalf of the delegations of Chile and Luxembourg, which co-led The Hague component of the Security Council mission.
On Mo…
I would like to start by thanking the United Kingdom for preparing resolution 2170 (2014), which the Council has just adopted. We also thank Member States for their flexibility in achieving consensus.
Chile sponsored the resolution because we believe that, through it, the Security Council is respon…
At the outset, we thank Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for his briefing.
Chile reiterates its concern about the human rights situation in eastern Ukraine, in particular in Donetsk and Luhansk, described in the report of United Nations monitoring mission, especiall…
We thank Mr. Martin Kobler, Mrs. Mary Robinson and Mr. João Gonçalves Lourenço, Minister of Defence of Angola, for their briefings. We would like to welcome Lieutenant General dos Santos Cruz and commend him for his outstanding and dedicated work. We also commend the staff of the United Nations Orga…
At the outset, we thank the Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
We regret the worsening humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine as a result of the escalation…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and
your team on your continuing leadership and successful presidency in July. We welcome the convening of this open wrap-up meeting, which we consider an essential tool in the Council’s work. We urge that it be maintained.
I wish to begin by m…
We commend the Rwandan presidency for convening this open debate and and appreciate the concept note it has prepared (S/2014/478, annex). We would also like to thank Secretary-General and the observers of the African Union and the European Union for their briefings.
As we have stated before, my cou…
I would like first of all to thank the Secretary-General for the information he presented to us this morning, as well as the statements made by my colleagues from Palestine and Israel.
In less than two weeks we have met urgently more than three times to address the latest developments in Gaza. Desp…
Let me begin by thanking the delegation of Australia for preparing today’s resolution, as well as by welcoming the flexibility shown by Member States in its negotiation. The delegation of Chile sponsored and voted in favour of resolution 2166 (2014), as we believe that this is the appropriate respon…
On behalf of my country, I would like to begin by expressing our outrage at the attack carried out yesterday in which Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, including children. We condemn that act in the strongest terms, and we extend our sympathy and co…
Eight days ago we met in urgent consultations to address the situation in Israel and Palestine, particularly in the Gaza Strip, after which we released a statement to the press expressing the deep concern of the members of the Security Council with regard to the crisis.
Unfortunately, the call to r…
We thank the delegation of Rwanda for having convened this briefing. We also convey our gratitude to the current Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Antonio Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil, and would like to thank his predecessor, Ambassador Vladimir Drobnjak, Permanent Re…
We thank the delegations of Australia, Jordan and Luxembourg for having submitted resolution 2165 (2014), which Chile co-sponsored and which was adopted unanimously today. However, as has been said, we must not forget that it is a resolution that would not have been necessary if all parties to the c…
At the outset, I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for having taken the initiative of organizing this High-level Meeting on a subject which is common to and affects the entire international community. My delegation supports the statement made earlier by the Permanent Represen…
