At the outset, I should like to express my sincere thanks and
congratulations on the adoption of the significant resolution 2341 (2017), on the protection of critical infrastructure from terrorist attacks. I would also like to thank the Ukrainian presidency of the Security Council for convening thi…
I would like to join those who have spoken before me in thanking you, Mr. President, as well as Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan and Mr. Stephen O’Brien for their briefings to the Security Council on the worsening of the situation in the Donbas region.
Egypt expresses its serious concern ab…
Egypt voted in favour of the Security Council’s adoption today of resolution 2337 (2017), on the developments in The Gambia, because we hope that it will eventually help to achieve a breakthrough in the current political impasse there. We believe in the importance of the Council’s aim, which is to p…
My delegation would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General and the Secretariat for preparing this important report (S/2016/1136) on monitoring the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), on Iran. I would also like to welcome my friend and colleague Ambassador Sebastiano Cardi as facilitat…
There has been a conviction that conflicts and events in the Middle East would undermine attention on the question of Palestine and that efforts to sustain the status quo would lead to tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, thereby affecting stability in the region.
That conviction, howe…
I would like to begin by thanking the three briefers on the security and humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin region. I thank Ms. Askira in particular for giving us a local view on the situation. Those briefings have given us some idea of the humanitarian tragedy that the region is facing. …
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency Secretary- General António Guterres and to express Egypt’s full support for his work under his important mandate. I would also like to express our appreciation to Sweden for convening this debate, which addresses a central aspect of the future ro…
With regard to the Syrian crisis, the efforts of my country have been focused on one priority, namely, putting an end to the suffering of the Syrian people. We are committed to that approach and support any approach that prioritizes the Syrian people, regardless of the interests that can be seen at …
My delegation deplores the fact that the Council has once again failed to reach a united position concerning a key question that falls under the mandate of the Security Council to on the maintenance of international peace and security.
Less than a week ago, we managed to adopt unanimously resolutio…
Since the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948 and the wait for the Palestinian people to exercise their right to an independent sovereign State and their inherent right to a life of dignity and freedom, despite the resounding silence of the international community and dozens of Security C…
I would like at the outset to express my heartfelt condolences to the delegation of the Russian Federation for the horrific terrorist act that claimed the life of the Russian ambassador in Ankara.
I would like to congratulate the Spanish delegation on its capable presidency of the Security Council …
I join my colleagues in thanking the briefers for the useful information we heard under this agenda item at the beginning of the meeting, the scope and diversity of which were surprising.
Many aspects have been highlighted here with regard to the current situation in Afghanistan. Egypt commends the…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing today on a central issue in the Middle East that is ever present in our minds but ever absent from the Council, namely, the Palestinian question.
We had hoped that, to guide our future work, the Secretariat wo…
My delegation voted in favour of resolution 2327 (2016), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS). Despite the impediments we faced during the negotiating process, the limited time the pen-holders made available for a serious, substantive negotiatio…
Egypt welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2325 (2016). Allow me to express our sincere appreciation
to the Government and the delegation of Spain for their leadership of the comprehensive review of resolution 1540 (2004). Today’s resolution is a well-deserved result following the efforts …
We have held repeated meetings in the Security Council and the General Assembly regarding the Syrian crisis during the past few months to no avail, but rather generating draft resolutions and statements and engaging in endless arguments while the Syrian people continue to suffer at the hands of such…
I would first like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing to the Security Council today on her twenty-fourth report, in implementation of resolution 1593 (2005).
In her report, the Prosecutor reviews a number of challenges and makes some …
At the outset, I wish to thank the Spanish presidency of the Security Council for having convened this important meeting and for the initiative to discuss the topic under consideration. I should like also to thank all briefers for their valuable interventions. In addition, I wish also to offer thank…
My country listened closely to the briefings on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and would like to make the following remarks.
The Charter of the United Nations has given a mandate to the Security Council to address cases that pose a threat to international…
Resolution 71/130, which we adopted this morning, contains
nothing new. It fails to identify the causes of the Syrian crisis. The two sponsors of the resolution described some of the facts, but the text is not commensurate with the scale of the crisis, which is one of the worst humanitarian crises …
