First of all, we would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Mr. Geir Pedersen for their comprehensive briefings. Allow me to make four remarks.
First of all, on the situation in northwest Syria, we associate ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Belgium on behalf of the co-p…
We welcome today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2485 (2019), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). We want to explicitly thank France, as penholder, for the professional and constructive conduct of the negotiations. The extension of UNIFIL’s mandate is pro…
First of all, let me thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing. She has Germany’s full support, as does the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Germany also continues to stand by the Iraqi Government and the Iraqi people.
Since 2014, Germany has cont…
First of all, let me begin by extending a very warm welcome to you, Mr. President; it is great to have you here in New York. Let me also thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his comprehensive and unfortunately, once again, very sobering report.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is first and foremo…
First of all, I thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov and Ms. Michèle Coninsx for their briefings. I also thank the various United Nations
entities and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team for preparing an excellent report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/612).
As the report states, the thre…
Let me first of all thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Commissioner Chergui for their comprehensive and insightful briefings.
Let me start by commending the agreement signed on 17 August and the establishment of the transitional Government. We acknowledge and commend the people of the Sudan …
First of all, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her comprehensive briefing.
Under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, almost 3,000 ground-based intermediate-range missiles were verifiably destroyed. The INF Treaty was an important pillar and a real cornerst…
Let me begin by thanking our two Special Representatives of the Secretary- General, Mr. James Swan and Ms. Pramila Patten, for their comprehensive briefings. I would also like to extend a particularly warm welcome to Mr. Swan, who is joining us in the Council for the first time. I further thank Amba…
Germany welcomes the initiative taken by Poland to put today’s meeting on the agenda. We particularly appreciate United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s presence among us today.
The Middle East has always been looked at as a volatile region, and one of the truisms was, and is, that it can…
I thank the Polish presidency for convening this meeting today. I remember that, only two weeks ago, Mr. President, we commemorated together the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Warsaw uprising. In the final months of the Second World War, 200,000 innocent men and women — most of them civilians — we…
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa for her update and briefing.
We strongly condemn the cowardly attack that took the lives of staff members of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and injured others, including Libyan nationals. We extend our heartfelt condolences t…
First, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing, as well as Ms. Amina Khoulani and Dr. Hala for sharing their moving stories with us. The losses and heavy blows of fate they and your families have suffered stand for thousands of other Syrian families who have l…
First of all, I would like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland, His Excellency Mr. Jacek Czaputowicz, for convening this important debate.
Today some 420 million children worldwide are affected by conflict. We therefore face the real danger that the Security Council sits idly by as …
It is high time to send a strong signal to all parties involved that the fighting has to stop. That is what we heard today from many members of the Security Council. It has to stop immediately. All the parties and their international supporters must hear it loud and clear from the Council: the only …
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 by the same resolution. The report covers the period from 22 May to 29 July, during which time the Committee held two infor…
Mr. President, I thank you for putting this item on the agenda. It was not difficult to convince you, Sir, as we co-chair the Informal Expert Group on Women and Peace and Security. I thank you very much and I also thank my colleague from Indonesia, with whom we are penholders on Afghanistan, so, in …
I can be brief because I feel there is general unity in the Security Council on this issue. I should like to align myself in particular with the statements delivered by my European colleagues who have already taken the floor today.
First of all, I would like to express Germany’s support for the wor…
I would like to add my voice to those who have thanked Ms. Zerrougui and Ambassador Alotaibi for their work. I would like to underline Ms. Zerrougui’s personal engagement on the issue. We really appreciate it. I thank both of them very much for their briefings and for the written report (S/2019/575)…
I will be relatively brief because we are basically turning in circles in view of the previous discussion that we had here (see S/PV.8557) and because I will align myself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Croatia on behalf of the States members of the European Union.
I wou…
Let me thank the presidency of Peru for having put the issue of Colombia on the agenda. Your presence here today, Mr. President, is a sign of the importance that you attach to this agenda item. The visit to Colombia was, for me personally, an eye-opener. I think it was a very important trip; it show…
