I would like to explain China’s vote on resolution 73/295.
The Chinese Government is a consistent and firm supporter of the decolonization process. We fully understand and support the legitimate claims of the Group of African States on the issue of decolonization. We support the United Nations in p…
I thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing. We also welcome the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2470 (2019), which reflects the Council’s important support for the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Ira…
I would like at the outset to thank Special Representative Salamé, African Union Commissioner Chergui and Ambassador Schulz for their respective briefings. I commend Mr. Salamé for coming to New York to brief us.
Since early April, the military conflicts that have broken out around Tripoli have res…
The letter from the Permanent Representative of Russia addressed to the President of the Security Council and contained in document S/2014/264 is an item on the Council’s agenda. Russia, as a member of the Security Council, asked for a meeting to be held under this agenda item and proposed a time fo…
China would like to thank Mr. Ion Jinga, Permanent Representative of Romania and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) at its twelfth session, for introducing the PBC’s report on that session (A/73/724). China appreciates the work of the Peacebuilding Commission and the achievements obtained o…
China would like to thank you, Mr. President, and Mr. Meza-Cuadra for this morning’s briefings. The Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated
individuals, groups, undertakings and entities…
I would first like to thank Under-Secretaries-General DiCarlo and Lowcock for their briefings.
China is closely monitoring the situation in north- western Syria. Last September, Russia and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding reiterating their determination to combat terrorism in all its for…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Keita, His Excellency Foreign Minister Barry, African Union High Representative Buyoya, European Union Special Representative Losada Fernández and Executive Director Fedotov for their respective briefings. I commend Foreign Minister Barry for coming to New York to…
I should like at the outset to thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock, Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore for their briefings.
China commends the tireless efforts of the United Nations and other humanitarian actors in adva…
The situation in Abyei remains generally calm. It has benefited not only from the assistance provided by the
European Union and the international community but also, more importantly, from good cooperation between the Sudan and South Sudan on the relevant issues.
Whether the Abyei issue can be pro…
At the outset, I thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing.
China is highly concerned over recent developments in Libya and consistently believes that the Libyan issue must be resolved through political means. We hope that the parties to the conflict in Libya will keep the interests of the country and it…
China thanks High Representative Inzko for his briefing.
China has maintained a consistent position of respecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty, independence, national unity and territorial integrity, while respecting the choice of its people in charting the way forward for their country and…
At the outset, I would like to thank Indonesia for its initiative in convening today’s open debate during its presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also welcome your coming to New York, Madam Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, to preside over this meeting. My thanks also go to…
We are grateful to Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, and Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, for their briefings. We support the Special Envoy in his very important new role.
At present, the situation in the Abyei Area …
At the outset, I thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing. I also appreciate his active consultation and extensive mediation activities since assuming office.
The Syrian conflict has entered its ninth year and brought unprecedented suffering to the entire country. The Chinese side deeply sympa…
Recently, thanks to the mediation efforts of Mr. Horst Köhler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, and the bona fide engagement of the parties concerned and of neighbouring countries, two round-table meetings on Western Sahara have been successfully held. The prevailing atmos…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. I also listened very carefully to the presentations of Mr. Bromberg and Ms. Majdalani.
There are complex and intertwined hotspot issues in the Middle East with ongoing conflicts and confrontations. The developing situation is cause for incre…
China thanks Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary-General Mueller, the Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Apakan, and the Special Representative
of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukrain…
I was hoping that Ambassador Pierce would still be here so that she would have the opportunity to listen to my response. Instead, after acting like a judge and firing a few questions at us, she simply left.
Ms. Pierce raised a question that Mr. Cohen also touched on. As far as China is concerned, p…
The Bandung Conference of 1955 gave birth to the Bandung spirit of unity, friendship and cooperation that helped advance national liberation movements across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It proposed 10 principles for handling relations between countries, based on the five principles of peaceful c…
