On behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3) — Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique — we thank the United Kingdom for its efforts in facilitating consensus on the text of resolution 2687 (2023), which was just unanimously adopted. We welcome the extension of the mandate of the African…
Our vote in favour of the resolution just now adopted unanimously is part of our trend and efforts to improve the security
landscape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by tightening the noose around the armed groups and offering the Congolese authorities the full capacity to effectively counte…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my country, Gabon.
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her comprehensive briefing and welcome her contribution and that of the United Natio…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
The bloody violence and human suffering remain unsustainable in the intensifying fighting in Ukraine, despite the peace initiative of African Heads of State, the objective of which continues to be paving a path towards de-escalation…
I would like to thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, for her informative briefing on the state of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea. I also thank Mr. Gilberto da Piedade Verí…
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and, my country, Gabon.
We thank Special Representative Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza for her enlightening briefing, as well as the Executive Director of UN-Women,…
I congratulate the United Arab Emirates for initiating this important public debate and thank the Secretary- General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, for defining its scope. I also thank the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, His Eminence Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Archbishop Paul Richard Gal…
I commend the United Arab Emirates for taking the initiative to convene this important debate. I thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón for their informative briefings. I also followed with gre…
I would like to express how pleased we are to see you preside over this meeting, Madame President. I thank you for convening this meeting on the progress report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
I would also like to thank the President of the Mechanism, Judge Graciela …
I thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative in convening this important meeting on cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
I thank the Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing. I welcome the participation at this meeting of the Secretary-General of…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s briefing on the tenth report on the activities carried out by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) (see S/2023/367) to establish t…
I would also like to thank the Deputy- Secretary-General for his enlightening briefing.
It was exactly one week ago today that the Security Council met in this Chamber to discuss the imminent risk to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant following its disconnection from the national power grid (see …
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the Permanent Representatives of the three African members of the Security Council (A3) — Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We welcome the Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/389) and thank Special Representative Abdou Abarry for his c…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
The Security Council is meeting once again this afternoon, following another launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of a military device, which crashed off the coast of the Korean Sea. The launch of a reco…
Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique just voted in favour of renewing the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) in order to enable the Mission to continue its mandate, despite the deteriorating security and political context.
The security situation in …
I would like to thank Director General Rafael Grossi for the information he has just shared with the Council on the volatile situation around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
The fact that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was again disconnected from the national grid for several hours last…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Deputy Director Ghada Mudawi for their informative briefings. We also listened attentively to Ms. Morga…
At the outset, we would like to thank the delegation of the United
States for its involvement and commitment throughout the negotiating process.
Gabon abstained in the voting on the renewal of a sanctions regime with regard to South Sudan. That position is in line with our firm conviction that the…
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing and reiterate my delegation’s support for his work. We listened to Ms. Tania Hary’s briefing with great interest.
This month of May has been characterized by an escalation of particularly deadly violence, despite the international communit…
I congratulate Switzerland on the initiative of this important debate, and convey the compliments of His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic. I welcome the participation in this important meeting of the President of the Republic of Mozambique and the President of the Rep…
