The Chinese delegation welcomes the United Kingdom’s initiative to convene this debate on children and armed conflict. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Zerrougui; the Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Brandt; and the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Ope…
I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I welcome the presence of the Prime Minister of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, at today’s meeting. I have also listened carefully to the statement made by Mr. Thaçi.
China has always he…
We wish to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for their respective briefings on the implementation of the completion strategies of the ICTY, the ICTR and the Residu…
I welcome Foreign Secretary Hague and I am grateful for his coming to New York to preside over today’s meeting. I would also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Bangura, and the Special Envoy of …
I would like to thank the United Kingdom for its initiative in convening this meeting on Somalia, and to thank Mr. Simmonds for presiding over our discussion. I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson for his briefing, and to welcome Her Excellency Ms. Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan, Dep…
I have listened attentively to the briefing by Prosecutor Bensouda.
The question of Darfur is a complex one, as it involves many areas, including the political process, security and stability, humanitarian assistance, development, reconstruction and justice. The political process is key among those…
I thank the Special Representative, Mr. Moussa, for his briefing.
At present the countries of Central Africa are actively committed to the maintenance of international peace and security, the promotion of economic and social development, and the strengthening of regional integration. They have achi…
I thank High Representative Inzko for his briefing.
China welcomes the achievements made by Bosnia and Herzegovina in promoting national reconciliation and economic development and in building the rule of law. We have also noted that Bosnia and Herzegovina still faces difficulties and challenges in…
The Chinese delegation thanks Togo for its initiative to hold this debate of the Security Council on the challenges in the fight against terrorism in Africa. We welcome President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé and his Foreign Minister presiding over today’s meeting. We also thank Secretary-General Ban K…
I would like to thank Ambassadors Kim Sook, Quinlan and Loulichki for their briefings. I appreciate their leadership roles as the Chairs of, respectively, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qai…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Ms. Bensouda.
Thanks to the efforts of the people of Libya, important progress has been made in the country’s political transition. We hope that the people of Libya will work to achieve national cohesion and State unity, continue to move its political proces…
China would like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Leonid Kozhara, for his briefing on behalf of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an important regional organization, over the years the OSCE has made a positive contribution to efforts to condu…
China supports the adoption of resolution 67/260 on the modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons.
These days, global human trafficking is rampant. China attache…
I would like to convey my gratitude to Ambassador Momen and Ambassador Vilović for their briefings.
During the past year, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) has continued to very actively implement the tasks entrusted to it under the relevant mandates of the General Assembly and the Security Counci…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing. I have also listened carefully to the statements made by the observer of Palestine and the representative of Israel.
The core and root causes of the Middle East questions remain the Palestinian issue, to which dialogue and nego…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Rwanda for the initiative of holding today’s open debate. I welcome the presence of Her Excellency Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, to preside over today’s meeting. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Special Repres…
The Chinese delegation thanks the delegation of Rwanda for
its initiative in convening this open Security Council meeting on the theme “Prevention of conflicts in Africa: addressing the root causes”. I welcome Her Excellency Minister Mushikiwabo in presiding over today’s meeting. I also thank Secre…
China consistently supported the negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty and expected all parties to reach consensus on an effective Treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade and to combat the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons. China participated in the negotiations in a constru…
I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Chinese delegation voted in favour of resolution 2098 (2013), which the Council just adopted. China is seriously concerned about the worsening security and humanitarian situation in the eastern pa…
I welcome Ambassador Momen’s introduction of the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on its sixth session (A/67/715). We also welcome the Secretary-General’s report (A/67/711) on the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF).
The work of peacebuilding after conflicts will help eliminate the root causes of …
