I thank Mr. Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, former Presidents Bachelet and Mbeki and Ms. Echavarría Álvarez for their briefings.
In 1992, when Ecuador held a seat on the Security Council, we wer…
I thank Ms. Catriona Laing and Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef for their interventions, and I acknowledge the presence of the representative of Somalia at this meeting.
My delegation hopes that Somalia furthers dialogue and consultations on key State-building priorities, including constitutional review …
We voted in favour of the draft resolution proposed by the Brazilian presidency (S/2023/773), as did many other members of the Security Council. It was the result of a constructive and collective negotiating process that included all Security Council members, and we are convinced that collective wor…
We are grateful for the briefings we heard this morning and for the convening of this emergency meeting following the tragic news that is fuelling the escalation of violence that began on 7 October.
I would like to express our profound sadness and condemnation in the strongest terms regarding the k…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Mr. Huang Xia, for his briefing. I also want to take this opportunity to thank him for the support he provides for the implementation of the existing agreements that promote peace and regional in…
In my statement, I will refer to the draft resolution on which we have just voted (S/2023/772).
My delegation regrets that the Russian Federation has presented to the Security Council for its consideration a draft resolution that was not the subject of a process of negotiation and that consequently…
I thank Special Representative Bathily and Ambassador Ishikane for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya, Ambassador Taher Elsonni.
I would like to begin by expressing Ecuador’s solidarity with the people and Government of Libya following the devastating t…
I thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for his informative briefing.
I want to reiterate all the points that my delegation made at the Security Council’s 12 September meeting on the same topic (see S/PV.9415) and at all the meetings that preceded it. In …
I am grateful for the briefings this morning on cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union on issues of peace and security in Africa.
As we have said before, Ecuador considers that cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations goes beyond what is stated in Chap…
I welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán. I thank the Special Representative
of the Secretary-General and Mr. Rodrigo Botero García for their briefings. I also thank the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for his interven…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and Ms. Dhefaf Al-Jarahi, Country Manager of the Iraq Foundation, for their briefings. I also welcome the presence of the representative of Iraq.
Once again, we recognize the work carried out by the United…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, at the request of Ukraine, in accordance with Articles 34 and 35 of the Charter of the United Nations. I acknowledge the presence of the Permanent
Representative of Ukraine in the Chamber. I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-S…
I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti at this meeting. I also acknowledge the presence of the delegations of Jamaica, Guyana and Kenya. I commend Albania on its presidency for September, and I wish Brazil every success as President of the Council for October.
What …
We acknowledge the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Permanent Representative of Rwanda at this meeting. I thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organ…
I would like to thank Ms. Ruven Menikdiwela, Director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New York, and Mr. Pär Liljert, Director of the International Organization for Migration Office to the United Nations, for their briefings today.
Global migratory flows and the…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his briefing this morning. I reiterate Ecuador’s support for his efforts to prevent the further deterioration of a delicate and volatile situation.
The reports are worrisome and the …
I am grateful for the information provided by Special Envoy Pedersen; the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Wosornu; and Ms. Su’ad Jarbawi, regional Vice-President of the civil society organization the International Rescue Comm…
I have listened carefully to the speakers. As we mark the year that has passed since the explosions that occurred in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, and as it is clear that they were acts of sabotage, I want to reiterate my delegation’s condemnation of the incident. There ca…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous and Ms. Karima Bennoune, civil society representative, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the representatives of Afghanistan, India, Iran and Pakist…
I thank Mr. Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his briefing. Ecuador takes note of the letters from Armenia and Azerbaijan on the situation that were recently circulated in the Security Council and welcomes the Ministers for Foreign Affairs present in the Chamber.…
