We would also like to thank the delegations of the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea for convening today’s meeting. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing.
We join others in strongly condemning the latest launch of an international intercontinenta…
I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Feltman; the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), Ambassador Cardi; and the observer of the European Union, Ambassador Vale de Almeida, for their briefings on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
We have not…
I would like to start by commending Bolivia for organizing today’s debate and for its leadership in steering the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu and Mr. Joseph
Ballard for their respective briefings.
Ethiopia aligns itself with the…
We express our appreciation to Special Representative Mr. Yamamoto for his comprehensive briefing on the most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/508) on the overall situation
in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
I would like…
I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Mr. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit and Mr. Michael Doran for sharing their insights and perspectives. They all spoke with passion — and rightly so — and their briefings were very useful. I am very appreciative.
We understand that there is one his…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this briefing on behalf of the Secretary-General regarding options for authorizing and supporting the African Union (AU) Commission’s peace support operations. We also thank the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for his report on res…
I wish to express my appreciation for the Bolivian Presidency for organizing today’s debate on mitigating the threats posed by landmines and other explosive hazards.
As it has been more than a decade since the Security Council pronounced itself on the issue, we welcome the discussion, as well as th…
I would like to express appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing, which was based on the fifth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations ef…
We thank Prosecutor Fatour Bensouda for her briefing. We have great respect for her and the responsibility that she has. There should be no doubt about that, despite the differences that we have had — and still have.
We strongly condemn the recent attack carried out by an unidentified group against…
I would like to start by thanking the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Theodor Meron; the President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Carmel Agius; and the Prosecutor of the ICTY and the Residual Mechanism, Prosecutor…
We wish to express solidarity with the United Kingdom and Afghanistan. Of course, the United Kingdom knows that we stand shoulder to shoulder with it during these difficult times.
It is indeed a great opportunity for me to be able to extend a warm welcome to you, Sir, and to thank you for presiding…
I would like to start by welcoming the unanimous adoption of resolution 2356 (2017), which once again sends a strong and unified message of the Security Council in response to the repeated ballistic missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The situation in the Korean peninsula ha…
Let me start by expressing my appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Aïchatou Mindaoudou, for her briefing and for the successful work that she and her team have carried out in order to ensure the successful completion of the mandate of the United Nations Operation …
I wish to express appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Mr. Stephen O’Brien for his briefing. As usual, it was very exhaustive and clear.
We also express our appreciation to the United Nations and its partners for their sustained efforts in trying to deliver the much needed humanitarian
assistan…
I would like to start by commending Uruguay for convening this open debate one year after the adoption of resolution 2286 (2016). Let me also thank the Secretary-General for his report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2017/414) and his briefing this morning. We are grateful to him…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2354 (2017). We express our thanks and appreciation to Egypt for its important role as facilitator, and to Council members for demonstrating flexibility and a spirit of compromise in achieving consensus on this important draft resolution.
There are a …
I thank Special Representative David Shearer for his briefing and commend him for his good work in the past few months.
It is very understandable that we all remain extremely concerned about the situation in South Sudan on the security, political and humanitarian fronts. What we continue to see is …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and all the Force Commanders for their respective briefings. We also join others in paying tribute to the brave men and women who are serving in different peacekeeping missions around the world under the United Nations umbrella as we…
We express appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing on the latest report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Iraq (S/2017/357) and the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). We also join others in exp…
I would like to begin by thanking the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his comprehensive briefing on his latest report (S/2017/379, annex) concerning the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovin…
