We thank you, Mr. Minister, and the presidency of Nigeria for convening this open debate to address the challenges and opportunities of security sector reform. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the report before us (S/2013/480).
The establishment of an effective, professional …
Chile would like to thank the Nigerian presidency for convening this open debate on sexual violence in conflict. We would also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, for their briefings. And we are grateful …
We thank Nigeria for organizing this important meeting in the framework of the activities commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, whose victims, among them many children, we remember today with deep respect and solidarity. We appreciate the statement made by Deputy Secreta…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for his briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine.
Chile supports the appeal made by Mr. Šimonović to ensure accountability for all human rights violations committed during the demonstrations in Kyiv that took place between December 2013 and Fe…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez- Taranco for his briefing and welcome the convening of this meeting at this critical time for Ukraine and the region. We face a sensitive development in the crisis in Ukraine. Chile regrets the outbreaks of violence seen in the easte…
I have the honour to speak at this meeting on behalf of the delegations of Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and my own country, Chile. As the group of like-minded Latin American countries, we participated throughout the en…
We thank Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski, Chair of the Sierra Leone configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their presentations to the Council and for their efforts and concern. We welcome the presen…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States on the 2014 International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade under the theme “Victory over slavery: Haiti and beyond”.
On 25 March every year, the General Assembly pays h…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her briefing, and encourage her to continue to contribute to the process of Haiti’s restoration through her leadership of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). We also thank the…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
The GRULAC countries reiterate their support for the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. We emphasize the urgent need for its effective implementation as a solid foundation for the total elimi…
We thank Ambassador Quinlan for presenting the quarterly report on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We value the work of Ambassador Quinlan as Chair of that Committee.
Given that this is our first opportunity to participate in a briefing by …
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and Permanent Representative of Ukraine Sergeyev for their statements.
The Security Council is meeting at a sensitive moment. The 16 March referendum was held in Crimea and has been judged as unconstitutional and has b…
We are grateful for the briefings by Mr. Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, and Ms. Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. They have given us an assessment of the work, progress …
We welcome the presence of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Ján Kubiš, and thank him for his briefing. We also welcome Ambassador Zahir Tanin and thank him for his statement.
Chile welcomes the holding …
The delegation of Chile voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2014/189) because we believe that it is the appropriate response of the Council to the current crisis in Ukraine. Given that situation, at stake here are fundamental principles of international law, such as abstaining from the threat…
Chile expresses its profound concern about the very serious consequences of the announced referendum in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the holding of which
could lead to an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. It is critical for the Council to contribute to ensuring the maximum stability and th…
We thank Luxembourg, Minister Asselbourn and you, Madam, for convening this open debate and for your country’s leadership of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.
My country welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2143 (2014), proposed by Luxembourg and sponsored by Chile at a cri…
We express our deep concern over the serious escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, which must be urgently reversed. We call for the greatest restraint and moderation.
We would once again reiterate, as we have stressed previously, the obligation to respect the sovereignty, independence and territoria…
I thank the Chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for his briefing, in which he not only reviewed the activities of the organization that he is chairing but also notes the priorities of his country’s chairmanship. We also thank the Lithuanian preside…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the delegations of Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan for preparing this resolution (resolution 2139 (2014)) and for the flexibility that they showed in negotiating it.
Through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2139 (2014), the Security Council has ta…
