I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her very informative briefing on the unrelenting tragic situation facing the Venezuelan people.
As Venezuela undergoes the most serious humanitarian crisis in its history and civilians, especially wom…
I would first like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director for Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for her very useful briefing, and to commend the excellent work of all the teams involved in responding to the urgent humanitarian situation in Syria. I als…
I should like to warmly thank Ms. Bintou Keita for her important and enlightening briefing. Her joint mission to Darfur with Assistant Secretaries-General Fernández-Taranco and Wahba is an initiative that I commend. It is a good practice, in conjunction with efforts to ensure genuinely integrated Un…
I thank the Equatorial Guinean presidency for organizing today’s meeting, which comes at a particularly important time for the Central African Republic, two weeks after the signing of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic, on 6 February. I would also li…
France aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union.
Five years have already elapsed since the illegal annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by Russia. Despite the guarantees it provided when it signed the Budapest Memorandum, wher…
At the outset, I would like to warmly thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his informative briefing and personal commitment to the matter at hand. I also thank the Swiss Ambassador, Mr. Jürg Lauber, who is doing extremely useful work as Chair of the Burun…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, as well as the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for their very informative briefings and their exemplary dedication and…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Miroslav Jenča; the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Ursula Mueller; the Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Mr. Ertuğrul Apa…
I should like to join others in warmly thanking Under-Secretary- General Vladimir Voronkov and Assistant Secretary- General Michèle Coninsx for their very informative
briefings and the exemplary commitment that they and their teams have demonstrated in our common struggle against terrorism.
As the…
I join others in thanking Special Representative Zahir Tanin for his clear and precise briefing, and I also thank Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Çitaku, the Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, for their statements. I would like to re…
I thank Equatorial Guinea for taking the initiative of organizing this meeting on transnational organized crime at sea, and I welcome the presence of the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. I also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs an…
I should like at the outset, on behalf of my authorities, to warmly thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate and for your presence among us. I also offer you our best wishes for your success in Equatorial Guinea’s presidency of the Security Council this month.
I thank the Secretary-General,…
As the penholder, France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2454 (2019), which renews the sanctions regime on the Central African Republic. In a context characterized by the holding of direct dialogue in Khartoum between the Government of the Central African Republic and armed groups unde…
I should like to begin by thanking Mr. Mark Lowcock for his briefing, which, as always, was very useful, and to reiterate to him our admiration for his work as well as that of his team in responding to the humanitarian emergency in Syria. I wish also to commend Germany and Belgium, which, along with…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the tragic situation of the Venezuelan people.
Indeed, for nearly three years, Venezuela has been plunged into an unprecedented crisis — with a depleted economy, a population deprived of basic necessities and the tyr…
I commend the Dominican presidency for organizing this open debate. Your country, Mr. President, is on the front lines of tackling climate change and you have rightly made that issue a priority of your presidency. I also thank our briefers for the excellent quality of their statements. The mobilizat…
I would first like to thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his very informative briefing on the outstanding work of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. Allow me to take this opportunity to again pay tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Jean …
I would like to begin my statement by honouring the memory of the 10 Chadian Blue Helmets of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) who lost their lives on Sunday in northern Mali. I offer my condolences to the families of the victims and to the people…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his detailed briefing on the most recent developments in Libya and, more broadly, for his exemplary commitment and that of his team. I also wish to thank Ambassador Juergen Schulz for his fi…
I should like to begin by thanking Ambassador Joanna Wronecka for her briefing on the activities carried out in 2018 by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591
(2005), concerning the Sudan, and to commend her work as Chair of that sanctions Committee for the past year. The initiatives…
