My delegation would like to welcome and thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, for his extensive and informative presentation.
On behalf of my country, I would like to commend the progress and positive …
At the outset, I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their very detailed briefings and congratulate them on the tremendous work that they are doing in Yemen.
At the last Security Council meeting on Yemen held in 2018 (see S/PV.8439), we were convinced that we had turned a new page i…
It is with great satisfaction and enthusiasm that Equatorial Guinea expresses its appreciation for the convening of this meeting, which allows us once again to analyse and share perspectives on the political and institutional situation in Guinea-Bissau.
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Tayé-Br…
It is a pleasure to have with us once again the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura. The briefing he has just delivered makes clear that he has spared no effort to achieve the formation of the constitutional committee after four years of strong commitment to the peace negotiat…
At the outset, Equatorial Guinea wishes to thank Côte d’Ivoire for having convened this meeting, which is being held exactly one day after we marked the fourth anniversary of the creation of the Group of Five for the Sahel. There can be no doubt that, since the creation of that institutional framewo…
I join the delegations that took the floor before me in thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting and in welcoming the presence of Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix and thanking him for the detailed information he has just given us on the most recent developments concerning the current tense sit…
I would like to congratulate the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire on convening this relevant briefing on drug trafficking in West and Central Africa as a threat to stability. I also welcome Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and thank him for his…
I thank Mr. Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his clear and detailed briefing. I would also like to express to him and his team our appreciation and recognition of the continued work carried out and efforts made this year.
We encourage them to keep up the same spi…
At the outset, allow me to express my thanks to the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean Pierre Lacroix, for the hard work he has undertaken within the scope of his mandate and especially for the excellent briefing he gave us today. I am also grateful for the briefings deliv…
At the outset, I would like to express our delegation’s welcome to His Excellency Mr. Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia, and Mr. Hashim Thaçi, who honour the Security Council with their presence at this important briefing on Kosovo. We also thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant t…
I welcome the presence among us of Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for
Yemen, and Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and thank them for the informative, clear and comprehensive briefings that they have j…
In taking the floor on this particular agenda item, we would like to once again welcome Ms. Fatou Bensouda and thank her for her report, which is virtually the same as the preceding one on the most recent judicial activities and ongoing investigations of the Office of the Prosecutor and on the speci…
My delegation welcomes the convening of this meeting and reiterates our gratitude to Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and his entire team for their work and for keeping us informed on a monthly basis about the humanitarian situation…
First and foremost, allow me to thank Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), and his team for the comprehensive and enlightening briefing on the activities of UNOCA in Central Africa.
In …
At the outset, my delegation would like to express its gratitude and satisfaction to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs; Ambassador Karel van Oosterom, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands, in his capacity as Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 22…
In thanking the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire for including this important item on the December programme of work, I would also like to welcome Ms. Helen Meagher La Lime, the new Special Representative for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), for her c…
First of all, allow me to express our gratitude to President Theodor Meron and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their informative briefings and for the comprehensive and exhaustive report on the work of the International Residual Mechanism of the Criminal Tribunals. We also thank the Permanent Represe…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea should like to thank His Excellency Mr. Marcel Amon-Tanoh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cote
d’Ivoire, and his country for organizing this open debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations. We also w…
First of all, I would like to convey the apologies of His Excellency Mr. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, to the
Security Council, as despite his desire to be here he was unable to participate in today’s important meeting, owing to previous State-related obliga…
