We welcome the presence of Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa and we are very pleased to see him preside over the Council, in particular as his country is one of the representatives of our regional group. We congratulate him and the Uruguayan Mission on their work at the helm of the Security Council this mo…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements made by the representative of South Africa, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and by the representative of Ecuador, on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (see A/70/PV.76). We acknowledge and commend the outstanding and…
Costa Rica aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Estonia on behalf of the Accountability, Consistency and Transparency (ACT) group.
Costa Rica would like to thank the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom for his presentation of the annual report of the Securi…
My delegation would like to express its gratitude for the
detailed and accurate report (see A/70/350) presented by the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi. Costa Rica welcomes her election and would like to assure her of our support as she carries…
It is an honour for me to participate once again in the annual meeting of the General Assembly to consider the work of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the only international court of a universal character with general jurisdiction.
My delegation congratulates Judge Ronny Abraham on his re…
Costa Rica associates itself with the statement (see A/70/PV.45) made by the representative of Estonia on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency group (ACT), with whom we co-chair the ACT working group on transparency.
My delegation is grateful for the convening of this joint deba…
My delegation welcomes the appointment of Ms. Sylvie Lucas, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg, as the new facilitator for the intergovernmental negotiations. We also express our deep appreciation to Ambassador Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica for the work he has done.
We reiterate our commitment t…
Costa Rica congratulates Spain on having organized this debate and welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2242 (2015), which we co-sponsored. The adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) was a landmark in the history of the Organization. It marks a normative shift in the way we talk about women in …
Costa Rica aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Estonia on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency group. Allow me to make some remarks in my national capacity.
First, we appreciate the leadership and commitment of the Ambassadors of Croatia and Namibia, a…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for this important initiative to discuss for the first time the peace and security challenges that small island developing States (SIDS) face.
Costa Rica may not be a member of that group, but it fully empathizes with the peace and…
My delegation aligns itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of South Africa on behalf of a group of States parties. In our national capacity, we wish to address some further issues.
The International Criminal Court is undoubtedly the most important achievement in recent year…
We thank the Jordanian delegation for having organized such an important debate. We are participating here today firmly convinced of the key role that youth have to play in the attainment of democracy and the promotion of peace.
The world continues to view with alarm the serious threat posed by ter…
We congratulate the Jordanian delegation on its accession to the presidency of the Council this month. We also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Mr. Nasser Judeh, for his statement.
Costa Rica decided to participate in this debate because o…
Costa Rica thanks the presidency of Jordan for convening this open debate. The recent trend of using sexual violence as a tactic of terror, described in the Secretary-General’s report (S/2015/203), is a source of great concern for us because that abhorrent practice annihilates in the cruellest way p…
Allow me to congratulate China for convening this debate, which gives us an opportunity to reiterate our commitment to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. My delegation associates itself with the statements made by the representatives of Maldives
on behalf of the Accountability, Co…
Costa Rica thanks the Chilean for having convened today’s open debate on the protection of civilians, focused particularly on protection challenges and needs faced by women and girls. The twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action provides us with the most fitting frame…
I would like to make a general statement following the adoption of these country-specific resolutions.
Our concern about the human rights situation in the specific countries referred to in the resolutions submitted for consideration in the plenary today led us to vote in favour of all three resolut…
On behalf of the Government and the people
of Costa Rica, I want to express our solidarity on this very special day with the people of Palestine. We wish to join with the people of Palestine this year in recognition of the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Sixty-seven ye…
Costa Rica is a member of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group of the Security Council, a transregional group comprised of 23 States. We are honoured to speak on its behalf with regard to agenda item 28, entitled “Report of the Security Council”.
Allow me at the outset to than…
We thank the President of the Human Rights Council for his briefing and welcome the report on the essential work performed by this body (A/69/53). Costa Rica is pleased
with the progressive consolidation of the Council, the fulfilment of its mandates and the strengthening of its working methods.
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