Let me begin by thanking the Peruvian presidency for organizing this important high-level briefing. We are pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over this meeting.
I would like to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (S/2018/43) two years after the tw…
We thank the Peruvian presidency for taking the initiative to organize today’s first open debate on the follow-up to the implementation of resolution 2250 (2015). We thank the briefers for their respective remarks. I would also like to commend Mr. Simpson on the independent progress study on youth a…
We thank Mr. Alexander Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, for his briefing. We also appreciate Sweden’s efforts in its role as Chair of the Liberia configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, and we thank Ambassador Irina Schoulgin Nyoni for her briefing…
Let me say how heartbroken we are to learn of the passing of our dear friend and brother, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations. We thank you, Sir, for arranging the minute of silence in his memory and for your remarks on our behalf.
The depart…
We thank the United Kingdom for taking the initiative to convene today’s meeting. We also thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is the appropriate international body to address th…
We thank the Russian Federation for calling for this meeting. We are once again very grateful to Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his briefing. We reiterate our appreciation to the United Nations and its humanitarian partners for continuing to provide assistance to millions of Syrians in dif…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, for his maiden briefing. We congratulate him on his appointment and express our support to him as he embarks on his heavy responsibilities of facilitating a diplomatic solution for the Yemeni crisis. We find it enco…
We thank the Peruvian presidency for organizing today’s open debate on the women and peace and security agenda relating to the prevention of conflict-related sexual violence. We express our appreciation for the Secretary-General’s annual report on this topic (S/2018/250). I would also like to thank …
We would like to explain why we abstained in the voting on the draft resolution proposed by Russia (S/2018/355). We abstained not because the text does not contain a great deal of truth — indeed it does — or because it does not adhere to principles to which we should all adhere; it does. We abstaine…
I would like to thank the Peruvian presidency for responding quickly to the request for the holding of this meeting, and we would like to express our appreciation to Russia for making the request. It would have been a serious dereliction of duty on the part of the Council if it had failed to meet in…
We thank the Secretary- General for his briefing and deeply appreciate his efforts to weigh in on the grave challenge that we are facing, in order to ensure that what should and must be avoided will not happen because of miscalculation or a lack of thoughtfulness or of appreciation for the tremendou…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassador Llorentty Solíz for his briefing and commending him and Bolivia for their efforts in steering the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). They deserve our praise.
Ethiopia welcomes the progress made in the implementation of …
I wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mahamat Saleh Annadif and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2374 (2017) concerning Mali, Ambassador Olof Skoog, for their comprehensive briefings on the activities of the United Nations Multidimensional Integ…
We voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2018/322) because we saw value in its adoption as it offered, we thought, the possibility for the protection of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact-finding Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic. Frankly, we tried to find weaknesse…
It is indeed regrettable that the Council could not adopt a resolution to establish a new mechanism that would identify those responsible
for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Establishing such a tool would have sent a quick and unified message regarding the resolve of the Council not to tolera…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2410 (2018) renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH). It is unfortunate that the resolution could not be adopted by consensus, no doubt for good reason. We had hoped that some of the concerns expressed on the dr…
I wish to thank Special Envoy Said Djinnit for his comprehensive briefing on the general situation in the Great Lakes region over the past six months. I would also like to thank Ambassador Balé, Permanent Representative of the Congo, for his presence in the Chamber today and for his very useful stat…
We would like to thank Special Envoy De Mistura and Mr. Thomas Markram for their briefings.
Reports of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma on Saturday and the videos and pictures that we saw through media outlets are indeed very worrisome. It is also deeply disturbing that such reports of …
Our position on the use of chemical weapons is well known, and we had an opportunity to reiterate that position yesterday (see S.PV.8221), one year after the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria. It is absolutely important to underline again and again that the use of chemicals as weapons is unacc…
We thank Deputy High Representative Thomas Markram for his briefing. As he noted, it has been a year since the chemical attack in Khan Shaykun claimed the lives of innocent civilians in Syria. We reiterate our strong condemnation of this
inhumane attack. I thought that I should tell the Deputy High…
