There is not very much I can add to what my American colleague just said and what was said by the two briefers at the very beginning of today’s meeting — this is a nightmare we are confronting.
Let me add a couple of quotations to those already cited. In his statement of 17 February, Mark Lowcock h…
Since my Russian colleague mentioned my intervention, I would like to give a very quick answer to one of the questions, namely, whether I believed that the separatists in charge in Donetsk and Luhansk were puppets of the Kremlin. Yes, I do believe that.
Let me first thank Martin Griffiths and Mark Lowcock for their comprehensive and insightful briefings. Let me also thank Ambassador Rhonda King for her work and her report as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014).
I wish to say a few words on the sit…
Germany would like to welcome to the Council all the briefers, in particular Ms. Heidi Grau and Mr. Halit Çevik, who follow their Swiss and Turkish predecessors, Heidi Tagliavini and Ambassador Apakan, to whom I would also like to pay tribute today. I welcome the fact that Russia requested a meeting…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, for sharing her valuable insights with us in her briefing this morning. We also thank the Permanent Representative of Brazil, His Excellency Mr. Ronaldo Costa Filho, for his briefing …
I would like to echo the expression of gratitude by colleagues to our briefers. I am delighted to see the High Commissioner for Human Rights briefing the Security Council. She has our full support. We look forward to more briefings from her in the very near future.
Colleagues and briefers have eloq…
I thank Their Majesties for the honour of their presence at today’s Council meeting, and I thank Belgium for having arranged this briefing on a very important topic. Minimizing the impact of armed conflict on the lives of children requires our undivided attention. Therefore, let me express our heart…
As the host country of the Berlin Conference on Libya, we are very pleased to see Security Council endorse the conclusions of the Conference today. With the adoption of resolution 2510 (2020), the Council sends an important signal for peace in Libya that reaffirms the concrete commitments of all par…
First of all, let me extend a very special welcome to His Excellency President Abbas. Let me also thank the Secretary-General, Special Coordinator Mladenov and Ambassador Danon for their remarks and statements. I would also like to extend a special welcome to the Secretary-General of the League of A…
First of all, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their comprehensive and insightful briefings. I would like to say a special thanks to Ms. Mona Freij for her powerful and sobering statement. That serves to underline the importance of the Securit…
I am still a bit speechless after having listened to the fairy tale of our Russian colleague. I am under the impression that, if we continue our discussions about Ukraine, one day our Russian colleague will say that Ukraine invaded Russia and not the other way around.
I hope that next time our coll…
I deliver this statement on the humanitarian situation in north-west Syria on behalf of the co-penholders, namely, Belgium and Germany.
At the outset, let me thank our briefers, Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock, for their insight into unbelievable human suffering…
It is an honour to have here the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I think it is very rare that the Security Council meets a person who is at the same time a basketball player, an artist, a Prime Minister and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. I we…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also congratulate your predecessor, the Ambassador of Viet Nam. I commend your choice of the important topic that we are discussing today. It is a topic that…
We welcome today’s adoption of resolution 2507 (2020) to renew the sanctions regime in the Central African Republic and we thank the penholder for its perseverance in trying to consolidate and bridge the views shared by the Council members. We engaged in these negotiations with the aim of sending a …
Let me first thank all those who have highlighted and supported the Berlin conference and the subsequent process. I wish to reaffirm that the conference was held exclusively in the interests of the Libyan people and in support of the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Mr. Ghassan Sala…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for putting this item on today’s agenda as the culmination of your presidency. I must say that I was very impressed when I heard the remarks of the Secretary-General with respect to the achievements of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN…
In accordance with paragraph 24 (e) of resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011, I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee established pursuant to the same resolution. The report covers the period from 5 September 2019 to 29 January 2020, during which time th…
I too would like to thank the Special Envoy and the Deputy Special Envoy, who is here today, for their work and the report.
I would like to begin my statement where the Deputy Special Envoy began — with the Constitutional Committee. For us, it is no surprise that, starting with the second round of …
I would like to start where my colleague of Belgium ended, by referring to the common position of the European Union, which will be expressed later in our discussion.
As the Ambassador of Germany, I would like to echo the remarks made by the Ambassador of the United States about the Holocaust and t…
