I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Caroline Ziadeh for her briefing on the latest developments on the ground and for her intense activity since taking office. I welcome the participation at this meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, His Excellency Nikola Selakovi…
I thank Ms. Kelly Clements, from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Mr. António Vitorino, from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for their informative briefings. I welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Simon Coveney, Minister for Forei…
I thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General Martin Griffiths for their enlightening
briefings. I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Yemen in this meeting.
Since our previous meeting (see S/PV.8995), there have been significant developments in the sec…
I thank you, Sir, for taking the initiative of convening this important debate on accountability as a means of preventing and addressing cycles of sexual violence in conflict.
I thank all the briefers, in particular Special Representative of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten and Ms. Nadia Murad,…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership in the conduct of our work. I thank Ms. Sima Bahous and Mr. Manuel Fontaine for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Kateryna Cherepakha.
The devastating escalation of violence in Ukraine threatens the safety of women and children, who now represent the …
I thank Mr. Ted Chaiban, Ms. Martinez and Mr. Ojwang for their briefings.
Since its emergence in 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has proven to be a formidable enemy that has challenged many of our certainties, our resilience to many challenges and our ability to predict and combat them eff…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation to the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates for her remarkable presidency. I would like to thank the Secretary-General António Guterres, Under-
Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mr. Martin Griffiths for their briefings. I welcome the par…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Msuya and Executive Director Beasley for their respective briefings.
The war in Ukraine is now entering its second month. Hostilities continue on the ground, as does the flow of civilians. including African residents and students, who are attempting…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Kenya, Gabon and Ghana.
I take this opportunity to commend the outstanding work of Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita. Her detailed briefing provides additional …
We took the floor this afternoon in the General Assembly (see A/ES-11/PV.8). We take it again now to make clear and underline our principled position on the humanitarian issue. It will not change because we believe in the values underlying humanitarian issues. We believe that the Geneva Conventions …
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing on the latest developments in the Middle East, including with regard to the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
This meeting is being held in a particularly tense regional context, with Ramadan, Passover and Easter approaching.
Viol…
At the outset, my delegation expresses its condolences to the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations.
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
In the absence of new developments since our most recent meeting on the same topic last Friday (see S/PV.8991), let me reiterate the essence of…
I would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Mr. Raouf Mazou for their briefings on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
The intensification of the fighting and the resulting mass exodus of civilians, the deterioration of the living conditions and health conditions of th…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya. We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo; Ambassador Tirumurti, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011…
I thank the Special Envoy for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths, for their respective briefings. I welcome the participation of the representative of Yemen in this meeting.
The briefings we just heard from Mr. Grundberg and Mr.…
I thank Mr. Zbigniew Rau, Chairperson-in-Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), for the information he shared with us this morning. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
We have noted the Chairperson-in-Office’s reading of the situati…
First of all, I would like to thank my colleague, the Permanent Representative of Mexico, as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), and to express to him and his entire team our appreciation for their remarkable commitment in conducting the work of th…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and High Representative Nakamitsu for their briefings and the information provided. I also welcome the participation of our Ukrainian colleague in this meeting.
The meeting is being held in a context marked by the risk of the use of weapons of mass destructio…
I welcome this high-level meeting because it echoes one of the priorities of Gabon’s international advocacy, namely, the resilience of women in fragile States and in conflict situations, together with the primary role that they should play at all levels of peace processes, from conflict prevention t…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, for their very informative briefings.
We take note of the appointment of Mr. Amin Awad as United Nations Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine.
A dozen days after the start of the war in Ukraine, we …
