I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and commend his personal commitment to disarmament and non-proliferation.
I would also like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. Three years after the Council’s groundbreaking summit on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation o…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2042 (2012). We hope that it will mark a turning point in the crisis in Syria. The point is to quickly deploy a strong and reliable United Nations mission with the task of verifying the implementation of Mr. Annan’s plan. With this resolution the …
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his quarterly briefing and for his effective chairmanship of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
The Security Council has once again taken up a very worrying report from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Age…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing. I also welcome Mr. Tanin’s presence in the Council. I endorse the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union.
A strategic review of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in…
The United Nations Charter entrusts to the Security Council the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The Organization also recognizes the sovereignty of nations and non-interference as fundamental principles. In 2005, the evolution of our work led us to recognize …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mariano Fernández, for his briefing. I align myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union and the representative of Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends.
This biannual de…
I, too, would like to welcome the Prime Minister of Libya and to assure him of our full support in the current crucial phase that his country is going through. I was not planning to take the floor but since the representative of the Russian Federation has done so, I will make a statement.
The Inter…
First, I would like to congratulate the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Council and to ensure it of our full support. I also thank Togo for its presidency in February. I thank the Secretary-General and Special Representative Augustine Mahiga for their presentations and personal comm…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative to convene this debate, which allows us to evaluate maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, based on the report of the United Nations assessment mission (see S/2012/45). I would also naturally like to thank Mr. Pascoe for his briefing,…
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Wallström; the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Ladsous; and Ms. Megheirbi of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Securi…
I would like to thank Ms. O’Brien and Mr. Fedotov for their presentations. I would also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/50).
For several years now, the Council has regularly discussed the scourge of piracy along the Somali coast. When Mr. Jack Lang presented his report on the leg…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing. Allow me also, above all, to welcome the presence among us of President Ramos-Horta in difficult family circumstances.
I associate myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European U…
The situation in Somalia is worrisome and demands the international community’s priority attention. This is why we voted in favour of resolution 2036 (2012) today. We hope that it will contribute to the success of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). We pay tribute to its personnel, who are ca…
I thank the delegation of Togo for organizing this debate, which gives us a chance to exchange ideas about the impact of organized transnational crime on international peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel. I also thank Mr. Fedotov for his briefing and I would like to take this opportunity…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene this important meeting. I also thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights for having updated the General Assembly on the situation in Syria.
I associate myself with the statement just made by the representative o…
Allow me to welcome to the Security Council today the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. Like its European partners, France shares his vision and will…
I should like at the outset to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, for his briefing, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for participating in this debate by videoconference, which is a welcome practice at this time of budg…
It is with great sadness and concern that I note the exercise today of a double veto against a draft resolution on Syria that had been supported by all other members of the Council. This is a sad day for the Council; it is a sad day for the Syrians; and it is sad day for all the friends of democracy…
We meet today so that the Security Council can shoulder its responsibility towards a people that is suffering, in a region where peace is threatened by the bloody downward spiral of a regime gasping its last. The months-long silence of the Council is no longer acceptable. To its credit, the League o…
I would like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his statement and for the assessment work that has been carried out by the United Nations, in close cooperation with the African Union and on the basis of the needs expressed by the authorities of the States of region.
The assessment report’s (see S/2012/42…
