On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC), I have the honour to take the floor to extend our warm congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Tijjani Muhammad Bande, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, on his election by acclamation as Pre…
We thank Mr. François Louncény Fall for his very detailed briefing.
We commend the progress achieved with respect to the holding of legislative elections in Chad, the peaceful transfer of power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the signing of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconcil…
As the representative of Germany said, the situation is being brought under control. Why make a change now, rather than waiting for it be further consolidated?
The Dominican Republic voted in favour of resolution 2471 (2019). We are of the view that although it is true that there is an atmosphere o…
The Dominican Republic is grateful for the convening of this meeting and thanks Ms. Muller for her valuable briefing. We welcome the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
We are meeting once again to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. The challenge…
I commend the convening of this important meeting and thank the speakers for their valuable briefings. I should also like to thank, in particular, Minister Annen and you, Madam, for your presence today.
Seventy years after the adoption of the Geneva Conventions and 20 years after the Council placed…
I would like to thank Mr. Zenenga, Ms. Mueller and Mr. Madeira for the information they provided today.
We welcome the efforts of the Federal Government of Somalia to develop and approve the draft framework for national reconciliation, with the goal of ending the violence and restoring trust among …
It is a pleasure to have you back with us presiding over the Council, Madam. We thank Mr. Mladenov and Mr. Krähenbühl for their updates today and are grateful for their commitment and vital work. We also welcome Mr. Greenblatt.
Once again, this issue brings only accusations and counteraccusations, …
We thank the speakers for their valuable briefings this morning. We also commend the mediation efforts undertaken by Mr. Salamé and his team at the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to reduce tensions and resolve conflicts in that nation. The Dominican Republic fully supports Mr. Sala…
We would like to thank Ms. Hennis-Plasschaert for her valuable briefing and the work she has been doing since her appointment, in December, as Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). We also thank the Permanent Mission of the United States for drafting and facilitating the re…
Our deepest thanks go to our colleagues and friends Dian Djani of Indonesia, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), concerning the Islamic State, Da’esh, Al-Qaida and associated individuals, undertakings and entities, and…
We appreciate the convening of this meeting and thank Under-Secretaries-General DiCarlo and Lowcock for their valuable briefings.
The Dominican Republic notes with great concern the increasing military escalation in southern ldlib and northern Hama in the Syrian Arab Republic, which has resulted in…
We thank today’s briefers, in particular His Excellency Foreign Minister Barry, for allowing us to put the situation in the Sahel into context. At the same time, we commend the progress made with respect to the operationalization of the Joint Force.
Taking into account the information provided by t…
We thank today’s briefers for their briefings. First of all, we thank Mr. Griffiths for his leadership in this very delicate stage in the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement; and, through Mr. Lowcock, all members of his agency and humanitarian partners in the field, who make every effort to me…
At the outset, we would like to commend the convening of this meeting and extend our gratitude to Mr. Inzko for having presented his report (S/2019/364, annex) today. We take this opportunity to express that we greatly appreciate his personal efforts, as well as those of his Office, to fulfil his ma…
We are pleased to begin by commending the briefing provided by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on a subject that so urgently needs a solution.
The Dominican Republic takes this opportunity to commend the efforts of the Office of the Prosecutor and reaffirm our full cooperation with and support for the wo…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and the other speakers for their briefings today.
Peacekeeping is an arduous task to which we have been committed since the Organization was founded. From the beginning, peacekeeping operations have been the vital and indispensable tool for…
We would like to express our satisfaction for the adoption of resolution 2468 (2019), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), thanking the United States for the work done in drafting a resolution that we consider balanced. The Dominican …
We extend our thanks to Mr. Lacroix and Mr. Onanga-Anyanga for their briefings.
We welcome the relative calm in the Abyei Area, although we are concerned about the sporadic incidents of intercommunal violence, the presence of armed elements and the abundance of small arms and light weapons, as well…
We wish to express our appreciation for the briefing provided today by Mr. Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, following his extensive consultations in the framework of finding an inclusive and sustainable political solution to the conflict in Syria. We reiterate our support …
We join others in thanking Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her ever-concise briefing, and Nada Majdalani and Gidon Bromberg for briefing us on the environmental dimension of the
peace process and the precarious situation in Gaza and the West Bank in the face of such challenges as seri…
