I am taking the floor following the voting on the two draft resolutions (S/2018/175 and S/2018/321) above all to express our frustration over the fact that the Security Council was not able to adopt either the first or the second draft, which sought to give the Council an independent and professiona…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea expresses its satisfaction with the renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) in order to ensure the strengthening of its State institutions over the next 12 months of the mandate. It will provide support to Haiti…
I would like to begin by thanking the Peruvian delegation for having convened this meeting, and the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Djinnit, for his informative briefing. We also thank the Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Congo, Mr. Balé, for the illuminating information…
I thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. Thomas Markram and their respective teams for their exhaustive briefings.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea expresses its gratitude to the French Republic and to the other members of the Council that called for the convening of this afternoon’s meeting. We als…
On 14 March, when we met in this Chamber at the request of our colleagues from the United Kingdom on the same issue of the chemical attack in Salisbury, United Kingdom (S/PV.8203), the first thing we did was to condemn the perpetration of that attack and to stand in solidarity with the victims and t…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea appreciates the convening of this meeting. We would like to reiterate our gratitude and appreciation to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, represented here today by Mr. Thomas Markram, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Unsurp…
In taking the floor on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea at this meeting on the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), allow me to address through you, Mr. President, our most sincere congratulations to Peru on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Coun…
We deplore the fact that almost at the end of your presidency, Sir, and following the receptions held on Wednesday and Thursday, we must now call upon you to exercise the role of president in the light of today’s incident. Given the urgency of the situation, we thank Kuwait for its initiative and th…
I would like to begin by personally
welcoming you to New York, Prime Minister Rutte, and congratulating you on the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ excellent presidency of the Security Council for the month of March, which is ending with this timely initiative of convening a high-level open debate on Un…
We welcome Mr. Stef Blok, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, to New York. We take this opportunity to congratulate him for the commendable presidency of the Netherlands during the month of March.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is grateful for the holding of this informative meeting…
At the outset, I would like to commend the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General for having convened this meeting to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
I align myself with the statement delivered by Amb…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Ms. Karen Pierce as the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations. We wish her great success in her post and would like to
affirm that she can count on the same full support and cooperation that we extended to her predecessor. We…
We are pleased to see you here in the Chamber again, Madam President, and we would like to thank the Netherlands for convening today’s meeting on such an important subject. I would also like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. David Beasley, Executive…
I sincerely thank you, Sir, for including today’s very important issue in your programme of work, enabling us to discuss the situation in the Lake Chad basin region for the first time this year and give greater visibility to a serious crisis that has received very little media attention.
We also th…
First of all, our delegation commends the presidency of the Netherlands for placing this important topic on this morning’s agenda. Moreover, we thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, for providing the Securit…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock; Abbé Donatien Nshole, Secretary-General of the Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Congo; and Ms. Jeanine Bandu Bahati, Coordinator of the Encadrement des Femmes Indigenes et des Ménages Vulnérables, whose briefings illu…
I would like to begin my statement by paying well-deserved tribute to and thanking Mr. Jeremiah Kingsley Mamabolo, Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), for his excellent briefing on the bimonthly report the Secretary-General…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea has learned of the attack involving the use a chemical nerve agent in Salisbury, United Kingdom, and we hope that events such as those will be duly investigated, that the results of those investigations will be made public, and that those responsible will face justi…
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to Secretary-General António Guterres for his informative briefing. I also thank him for his leadership and all his support, in particular his tremendous efforts, as well as those of his Special Envoy, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and of the entire Unit…
I would like to begin by welcoming Her Excellency Ms. Sigrid Kaag, Acting Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands. We all welcome your presence in the Chamber, Madam President. I also congratulate the Netherlands for having chosen to convene a debate on the United N…
