First of all, I would also like to thank Ambassador Oh Joon and the entire Mission of the Republic of Korea for all the work done over the past two years at the head of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). During its chairmanship of the Committee, South Kore…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting at a crucial point in the Ebola epidemic. I thank the briefers, Mr. David Nabarro, Mr. Anthony Banbury and Mr. Thomas Mauget, as well as the Ambassadors of Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone. Through
them, France wishes to pay tribute to th…
Let me begin by thanking Australia for its commitment to a subject that is one of the most pressing threats to international peace and security today. This was an issue raised by the State visit just carried out by President Hollande to Australia.
The horrific murders of the young American humanita…
At the outset, I should like to welcome the appointment of Ambassador Ambassador Rattray of Jamaica as facilitor of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. We wish him every success in his mission.
Discussions on Security Council reform in the General Assembly have been going…
I thank Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen for his briefing, and Ms. Tagliavini and Mr. Apakan for theirs.
Almost a year ago, Ukraine entered into a period of unprecedented transformation after years of administrative inefficiencies and political blockage. This transformation came from deep within Uk…
I wish to begin by thanking the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing and for his sincere, direct statements, which are those of a true friend of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I also associate myself with the statement to be made later by the Head of the Del…
I thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her report and her briefing. I wish to take this opportunity to reaffirm our full support to her and to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
There have been moments in history when the Council has united to prevent or stop atrocities that, in the terms of the Rome…
I would like to thank the President of the International Court of Justice for his very informative presentation of the report on the Court’s activity for the past year (A/69/4).
As the list of cases on its docket serves to highlight, the Court’s litigation activity has increased remarkably over the…
I should first thank you and all your team, Madam President, for all the work you have done in October. In an extremely busy period you have led our discussions with great professionalism and energy, for which many thanks.
It is always a challenge to be the final speaker and to produce a synthesis …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing.
A week ago, we convened in the Chamber (see S/PV.7281) to note just how threatened the two-State solution was as a result of the war of July and August, which led to a critical humanitarian situation in Gaza, which was largely destro…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. I would also like to warmly thank for their briefings the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet; the Special Rapporteur on the human r…
I would like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco and Mr. Šimonović for their briefings, and my British colleague for initiating this meeting.
The human rights situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, as the sixth report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights based o…
I would like to warmly thank Argentina for organizing this debate on an amibitious set of topics, and the two speakers — Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Ms. Kimberly Prost, Ombudsperson of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, for his statement. I associate myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union. I will talk briefly about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the situation in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, and the crisis in Libya.
The two-State soluti…
I thank the Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations, Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed, and the Force Commanders of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Cong…
First, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty- ninth session.
I would like to align myself with the statement delivered earlier by the observer of the European Union.
The health crisis caused by Ebola has by its scale turned i…
The terrorist group Daesh has seized control of part of Iraq and Syria. They wish to be known as the Islamic State. In reality, they are butchers. Daesh does not have the legitimacy of a State nor does it represent Islam. The Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt did not mince his words, and ri…
I too thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing. I also thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Mr. Timmermans, for his briefing and his participation in our work.
Two months have passed since the tragedy of Flight MH-17. The memory of the victims and their shattered futures does not go…
Resolution 2177 (2014), which we have just adopted, describes the Ebola epidemic as a threat to international peace and security. This is the first time in history that the Security Council has defined a health crisis in that manner.
On the one hand, the epidemic represents an international threat …
I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, and the representative of Afghanistan, Mr. Tanin, for their statements.
As Mr. Kubiš recalled a moment ago, Afghanistan has just experienced an intense phase of electoral activity. Despite the threats and…
