Beyond trying to shed light on the act of sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines, today’s vote is a particularly sombre moment for international investigations. It is a requiem or, at least, a dark day for the logic of attributing responsibility in an independent, impartial manner in the case of illi…
I would like to thank His Excellency Ambassador Hernán Pérez Loose, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations and Chair of the Security Council
Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I also express my thanks for Mexico’s excellent work throughout its chairmanship.…
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing and reiterate my delegation’s support. I welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine.
My country expresses its deep concern about the status quo observed on the ground dur…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing, and I welcome presence among us of the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea.
We are meeting this morning in the wake of the launch on 16 March by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of yet another intercontinen…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for his enlightening briefing.
There has already been a year of destructive war, and there is no way out in sight. On the contrary, the escalation continues and is becoming increasingly widespread on the ground and in the air. After a year, the cost …
We appreciate the importance and timeliness of this briefing on security sector reform in the context of peacekeeping, at a time when the risks of post- conflict countries relapsing into the vicious cycle of violence are becoming ever greater. Gabon welcomes such an approach aimed at preventing the …
I wish to thank the briefers for their respective briefings.
Eighteen days ago, the Security Council met (see S/PV.9269) to mark the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine. Around this table we deplored the human suffering on the ground, marked by the colossal loss of human life, attacks against c…
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.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Otunbayeva for her informative briefing, and I listened closely to Ms. Akbar’s statemen…
I congratulate Mozambique for its initiative in holding today’s high-level debate, which addresses one of the priorities on Gabon’s international agenda. It is a great opportunity, two years before the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), to assess the progress that has been made and to draw …
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 Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for their informative briefings. We listened carefully to the…
I thank the Secretary-General for re-establishing the significance of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and for outlining the terrible state of affairs of the war in Ukraine, 12 months after its outbreak.
It is a year to the day since the war in Ukraine began — an entire year of a…
I commend Malta on taking the initiative of convening this important debate, which highlights the leading role that regional
and subregional organizations play in the development and implementation of United Nations programmes, in accordance with the principles set forth in Chapter VIII of the Char…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Mr. Ray McGovern for their briefings.
The Security Council meets again today to discuss the aftermath of the explosions on 26 and 27 September 2022, causing major gas leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which ca…
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the African members of the Security Council, namely, Ghana, Mozambique and Gabon (A3). We thank Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ambassador Omar Hilale, Chair of the Central African Republic conf…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing, and I welcome the participation in this meeting of the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea carried out a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last Saturday an…
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and the Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Ms. Leni Stenseth, for their briefings. I reaffirm my delegation’s support for the
Special Coordinator. I welcome the presence among …
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Mr. Miroslav Jenča, as well as Mr. Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the Minsk negotiations from 2015 to 2019, for their briefings.
We…
I congratulate Malta on taking the initiative of holding this important debate. I thank the Secretary-General for having perfectly spelled out the stakes of the threat posed by rising sea levels. I would also like to thank the President of the General Assembly, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ro…
I thank the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, Ms. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter and Ms. Najat Maalla M’jid. I listened carefully to Ms. Divina, and we thank her for her contribution and commitment.
Wars are claiming an increasing number of victims among children. Thousands of girls ar…
I wish to congratulate Malta on taking the initiative to convene today’s debate on the threat that terrorism continues to pose to international peace and security. I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Acting Executive Director Chen and Ms. Praxl for their enlightening briefings.
Between Januar…
