We thank you and the French presidency, Sir, as well as the United Kingdom for organizing today’s important meeting on force generation for United Nations peacekeeping operations. It is indeed a very important matter that needs to be considered seriously by the Security Council as part of the effort…
I would like to start my brief remarks by applauding the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Organization (A/72/1). It is indeed comprehensive and covers all aspects of the work of the Organization. It does that succinctly and is therefore very helpful for framing exchanges of views …
I would like to start by thanking the President of the General Assembly for convening this high-level meeting on an important issue. Ethiopia welcomes the Assembly’s unanimous adoption of the political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Traffickin…
I would like to join other delegations in congratulating the President on his election to preside over the work of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session, and I wish to assure him of the support and cooperation of my delegation in the discharge of his responsibilities through the course …
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2372 (2017), which renews the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). It is a Mission that has been playing a very vital and, so far, indispensable role in support of peace and reconciliation in Somalia. We thank the United
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I would like to express appreciation to you, Mr. President, and your team for all the hard work throughout the course of this month in effectively and successfully steering the activities of the Security Council. I speak on behalf of the three African members of the Council, and would like to focus …
I thank the Egyptian presidency for organizing this open debate on the theme “United Nations peacekeeping operations: their potential contribution to the overarching goal of sustaining peace”. That is a very important theme that has not been seriously explored, and we express our appreciation to Egy…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your comprehensive briefing and for the excellent work that you have been doing as Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We also wish to thank you for your…
I should like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Zahir Tanin, his comprehension briefing on the latest development in Kosovo. Obviously, Ambassador Tanin, and old colleague, faces a …
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his briefing on activities that have been undertaken over the past two months since the adoption of resolution 2359 (2017) to operationalize the joint force of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel). As usual, it was a very comprehensiv…
I should like to start by thanking the Deputy Secretary-General for the informative briefing on the first joint African Union-United Nations high-level visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Nigeria, in the context of Security Council resolution 2242 (2015), on women and peace an…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2371 (2017), condemning in the strongest terms the continuing ballistic-missile tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in violation of various Security Council resolutions. The step taken today, imposing additional sanctions measu…
We express appreciation to the Egyptian presidency for organizing today’s briefing on enhancing the effectiveness of sanctions, building on the Arria-formula meeting held last month.
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, for his very useful briefing.
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I would like to join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency for the month of August, and I assure you of our fullest cooperation and support in the effective discharge of your responsibilities. I also wish to express appreciation to you for organizing this …
I would like to thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing on the latest situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We thank him as well for always being as objective as possible. We understand how difficult the job is. I believe this must be said, altho…
Ethiopia welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2368 (2017), on the review of the sanctions regime on Al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) under resolution 2253 (2015). I would like to express my appreciation to the penholder for successfully steering the review proces…
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Wane, for his briefing, which is, as usual, very useful, balanced and insightful. We are also very grateful to President Mogae, the very wise man of our region, in whom we take great pride, for his remarks and for his dedicate…
I would like to begin by expressing sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate to facilitate discussion on enhancing Africa’s capacity in the area of peace and security. This is indeed, as Commissioner Chergui has said, a demonstration of China’s continued
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We would like to thank Special Representative Sandra Honoré Braithwaite for her briefing and for her admirable contribution to the work of the United Nations and to stress how much we appreciate her efforts. The mission was well executed.
We welcome the report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/604),…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2366 (2017) establishing the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia to verify the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace between the Government of Colombia and the Fuerzas Armadas …
