I thank you, Sir, and Senegal for providing us with the opportunity to discuss the linkages between water, peace and security, in the light of the success of the Security Council Arria Formula meeting in April. I also thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their important statements.
Wate…
I would like to begin by expressing Spain’s support for the adoption of draft resolution A/71/L.17, on cooperation between the United Nations and INTERPOL, as well as to thank Australia and Rwanda for their work as facilitators.
We have before us a draft resolution that will help to raise the level…
My thanks go, above all, to Stephen and to Elizabeth for their respective briefings and for their excellent
work. I should like also to thank the Ambassador of New Zealand, who described very clearly the joint efforts that Egypt, New Zealand and Spain are making to ensure the adoption of a series o…
Spain and the United Kingdom are participating jointly today under the so-called Toledo formula. As such, Spain aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the United Kingdom. We also align ourselves by the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union…
My delegation welcomes the fact that again, for another year, the resolution on the situation in Afghanistan
(A/71/L.13) will be adopted by consensus. I wish to acknowledge, at the outset, the splendid part played by the delegation of Germany and the statement delivered earlier by the Permanent Re…
Spain supported today the extension of the mandate of the Joint Investigation Mechanism since it considers it fundamental that the Mechanism continue carrying out its work and that, as the Security Council decided in previous resolutions, those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria be…
I thank you, Sir, for your work at the helm of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) on South Sudan at a particularly difficult time. We wish to thank Ms. Løj for her efforts; she has Spain’s full appreciation, gratitude and recognition for her commitment to her work as Head o…
I shall begin by stating the obvious: the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is a fundamental actor for the maintenance of international peace and security. It is a fundamental actor in the relations of the Security Council with other organizations. I also underscore that the role of the OIC …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, my good friend Ambassador Tanin, for his briefing and for sharing his thoughts with us. I also once again welcome the presence in the Security Council of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, His Exce…
I express great thanks to the four Police Commissioners for briefing the Council on their experience on the ground. I also thank Mr. Ladsous for his briefing.
As the previous four Council members have said and subsequent speakers will say, we fully believe in the importance of the role played by po…
It is an honour for us to see Ms. Bensouda in the Security Council once again. I am very grateful for the updated information she has given us.
In my statement, I shall focus first on two specific aspects of Ms. Bensouda’s briefing, namely, the situation of Mr. Al-Qadhafi and on the situation of to…
Many thanks to Ambassador Valentin Inzko for his presentation of his biannual report (S/2016/911, annex) and, more important, many thanks for the special report on the referendum held on 25 September in the Republika Srpska.
I also wish to express our appreciation for the adoption of resolution 231…
I wish to begin by thanking you, Mr. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, President of the Security Council for this month, for having organized this open debate to allow the Council to address the complex subject of the maintenance of international peace in asymmetrical situations. I also thank…
First and foremost, I congratulate the Russian Federation on the way in which it has led the deliberations of the Security Council this month.
After having carefully listened to our excellent briefers today, I will pick up on the eloquent comment made by the Ambassador of Angola: “Enough is enough.…
It is a great honour to address the General Assembly once again on an issue to which Spain attaches the greatest importance. The fight against the most heinous international crimes is, without a doubt, an essential component of the maintenance of international peace and justice, and it is also an un…
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and Mr. Bordyuzha, Mr. Alimov and Mr. Ivanov for their briefings. I am also grateful to the Russian presidency for having organized a debate of such relavance, given both the strategic importance of the Central Asia region and the growing cooperation b…
I want to begin by commending the Russian presidency for organizing this debate. We need only look around the Chamber to see the high number of delegations of Member States that are joining us today, and look further up to see all the representatives of civil society, to realize that there is a very…
I thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing, as well as Mr. Stephen O’Brien. They have described for us in great detail the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East region in general.
This is a debate in which one could speak about the critical situation in Syria, one could speak about th…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2016/753), as well by expressing my gratitude for the briefing provided by Special Representative Sandra Honoré.
As a consequence of Hurricane Matthew, Haiti is once again suffering a new humanitarian crisis, the most …
Along with France, Spain has supported this draft resolution (S/2016/846) on Aleppo in order to try to respond to a desperate situation. During more than five years of a heart-breaking conflict in Syria, we have seen indiscriminate attacks against civilians. We have seen both parties destroy hospita…
