Germany is also concerned about the continuing military attacks. We condemn in particular the attacks on Saudi Arabia and the recent ones in general. It is very clear that for this conflict, as for many others, there is no military solution. We therefore support all the efforts of Martin Griffiths t…
The fact that Peru has put the issue of transition at the top of the Council’s agenda and that you, Minister, are here suggest that, for Peru, today’s meeting is the flagship event if its presidency. You put the issue of transition on the agenda and Germany fully supports it because we deeply believ…
I thank our two briefers for their comprehensive and substantive briefings. I would also like to welcome the Minister of Justice of Serbia, Ms. Kuburović, and the State Secretary for Political Affairs of Croatia, who will both speak to us later. Their presence shows the importance that they attach t…
A recent study showed that in 2016, there were 408 million young people who lived in settings affected by armed conflict or organized violence. Based on the statement just made on behalf of our African colleagues, the number could be as high as 600 million. We know about conflict-stricken places in …
Let me start on a positive note, namely, that Russia and Mr. Nebenzia’s intervention today insisted that we should not populate the issue of the language law with other topics. That is positive because, from our perspective, the adoption or the discussion of a language law does not really constitute…
I thank the Special Adviser and his team for their tireless efforts. Germany fully supports the work of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) and commends the important progress that has been made …
First of all, I thank you, Mr. President, for putting this topic on the agenda. At least from what we have heard so far, this is a matter on which the Security Council really is united — again, it is a very important issue.
Let me start by thanking Mr. Lacroix for his briefing and the work he is do…
Let me take this opportunity to join others in bidding farewell to our colleague, Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu and thanking him for his work on the Security Council. We wish him all the best and every success in his future endeavours.
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Germany welcomes the adoption of the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) for another year. I would like to highlight four aspects of resolution 2480 (2019) that are particularly important to us.
First, Germany welcomes t…
I too would like to thank you, Sir, for your presidency. I cannot do so in as dignified a way as Ambassador Matjila did, but I mean it. I was very happy to find when I entered the Chamber this morning that you had the curtains open. I see that they are closed again. I do not know if that is due to p…
I would like to start by returning the expression of gratitude to the United Kingdom in agreeing to co-penholdership on this and to work together on resolution 2479 (2019), and I would like to thank all delegations for their cooperation during the negotiations and for their support for the resolutio…
Allow me to start by reiterating Germany’s full commitment to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and underlining the importance of including it in the agenda of the General Assembly.
For us, R2P is in our DNA, and we always carry it with us — whether it be in the deliberations in the General Assem…
Let me first thank all our briefers this morning for their insightful presentations.
Germany welcomes the report of the Secretary- General (S/2019/492) on the ongoing implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015). It is a key contribution to monitoring compliance with resolution 2231 (2…
I would first like to thank all the briefers. I hope that David Shearer and Andrew Gilmour will forgive me if I single out Lydia Minagano first in my remarks. This is the second time since March that we have had a very impressive woman from civil society in South Sudan briefing the Council.
While w…
If you, Mr. President, were to put out the hourglass again, we would see more clearly that we are speaking within the five minutes.
I will deliver this statement on behalf of the three co-penholders: Kuwait, Germany and Belgium. I would like to thank the briefers for the information that they provi…
Germany welcomes today’s adoption of resolution 2476 (2019), although we are disappointed that it did not receive the Security Council’s full support.
We welcome the mandate for a strategic political United Nations presence that will support the Haitian Government in tackling the many challenges pr…
Kuwait, Belgium and Germany, the co-penholders of the humanitarian dossier, are in favour of a balanced approach to the choice of briefers. We expect every briefer to respect today’s humanitarian, non-political agenda, and we trust that the Head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre will support that…
First of all, let me thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing.
We remain fully and permanently committed to a negotiated two-State solution, based on the internationally agreed parameters, as the only viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that meets Israeli an…
I would first like to thank our briefers: the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Mr. Matondo and Mr. Vervaeke for their very comp…
Let me first thank Ms. Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing today. I thank her and her entire team for their dedicated and tireless efforts over all these years.
Like South Africa, we are also gravely concerned by the escalation of violence and the excess…
