I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting.
Let me express our condolences to the Government of Sweden and our Swedish colleagues. We condemn the terrorist attack.
I would like to raise several points. First, if the situation in Syria continues, it will result in the collapse of the …
I would like to begin by thanking you, Madam President, for organizing this important meeting. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his useful briefing and, frankly, for having been such a driving force for the revitalization of the United Nations, including in the area of peace and …
I would like to start by greeting and welcoming the Foreign Minister of Mali, His Excellency Mr. Abdoulaye Diop. I would also like to extend condolences to France and to our colleagues following the loss of one of their compatriots, who was part of peacekeeping efforts in Mali — a country whose peop…
I would like to begin by offering the sincere condolences of Ethiopia to Ambassador María Mejía Vélez following the death and destruction caused by the landslide in Colombia this past weekend. We are in sympathy and solidarity with the families of the victims as well as with the people and the Gover…
I wish to thank Mr. Kim Won-soo for his briefing. Let me take this opportunity to express my appreciation to him for his commitment and dedicated service as Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs since June 2015. I would also like to congratulate his successor, Ms. I…
Let me start by congratulating you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. I wish to assure you of my delegation’s full support and cooperation. I would like to thank Ambassador Matthew Rycroft and his team for their very successful pres…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2348 (2017), renewing the mandate of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), including the Force Intervention Brigade. We understand that it has indeed been a difficult negotiation process, a…
Once again, we welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2349 (2017) as a follow-up to the Security Council mission to the countries of the Lake Chad basin from 2 to 7 March 2017. There is no doubt that negotiations on the draft required some work. We worked as a trio, together with the countries…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2347 (2017) on the protection of cultural heritage in the event of armed conflicts and we appreciate the efforts of France and Italy in facilitating the negotiations on the resolution as co-pen holders. I also wish to thank the presidency for making al…
We would once again like to thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing today’s meeting on the situation in South Sudan. We express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his briefing and for all the efforts that he has made since assuming office to address the security and humanitaria…
We were indeed shocked by the Westminster terrorist attack in London yesterday, and we would like to offer our condolences to the families of the victims. We also join others in condemning that heinous attack in the strongest terms and expressing our solidarity with the people and the Government of …
We are very pleased to have His Excellency President Touadéra here at the Security Council this afternoon. We thank him for his presence here and for his important remarks. They were extremely useful and put matters in their proper perspective. We also thank Under-Secretary- General Ladsous and Amb…
I would like to start by thanking Ambassador Sacha Llorentty Solíz for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and for his positive remarks regarding African Union Member States with respect to the matchmaking platform they were part of, which he said…
Allow me, first of all, to express my appreciation to the presidency of the United Kingdom for organizing this high-level debate on trafficking in persons in conflict situations. I would also like to thank Secretary-General Guterres and the
other briefers for their presentations on the theme of our…
Ethiopia is pleased to co-sponsor resolution 71/278, on United Nations action on sexual exploitation and abuse. We believe that the General Assembly is the appropriate forum for the discussion of this serious issue.
The involvement and active participation of all Member States, including troop-cont…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for the comprehensive briefing on his recent visit to Yemen and other countries in our region, including Somalia and South Sudan, which are facing enormous humanitarian challenges. Nor can I forget to mention his visit to the Somali region of Ethiopi…
I would like to begin by expressing our appreciation to Mr. Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/189) on Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).…
At the outset, let me make it very clear that we have a firm and uncompromising policy against the use of chemical weapons, born of our own experience. We have no reason for laxity on that issue. We believe that the use of chemical weapons, for any reason and under any circumstances by any party, is…
We express our appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the latest situation in Kosovo and the activities of the Mission. I also welcome the presenc…
I wish to start by congratulating His Excellency Mr. Sebastian Kurz, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, on his becoming Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I would also like to thank him for his comprehensive briefing.
We welcome the si…
