Allow me once again to congratulate you, Mr. President, and the State of Kuwait on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. I wish you every success and assure you of our full support. Allow me also to express my congratulations and appreciation to Ms. Izu…
In taking the floor at this meeting on the humanitarian situation of Syrian Arab Republic, I should like to begin by sincerely thanking Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, for her detailed briefing on the very unfortunate
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It is an honour to speak on behalf of the Group of African States upon the adoption of decision 72/550, on the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, under agenda item 66, “New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and internation…
At the outset, let me thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, and his team for the comprehensive and detailed briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question,
which …
I would like to begin by thanking the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix; the Chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. Festus Mogae; and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinat…
The use of chemical weapons, the issue we are considering is critically important to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. We categorically repudiate and condemn their use by any country, State or non-State actor. We also condemn in the strongest terms the recent chemical-weapon attacks in Syria. With …
Allow me to welcome to New York and to the Security Council His Excellency Mr. Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali. His presence among us today attests to the importance that His Excellency President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and …
At the outset, I convey to everyone warm greetings and a happy new year on behalf of His Excellency President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. The Government of Equatorial Guinea expresses its gratitude to the United Nations and to the Government of Kazakhstan for having jointly o…
The presence of persons of note at this meeting of the Security Council is a testament to the great importance of the topic under consideration — the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As such, we wish to congratulate and thank Kazakhstan for including this issue in its programme of w…
Allow me at the outset to express my thanks to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Ghassan Salamé, and his team for their broad-ranging and detailed report on the situation in Libya.
I would …
It is a source of great satisfaction to the delegation of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to have Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations
Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), with us today.
In congratulating and thanking M…
I would like to preface my remarks by extending a very warm and cordial welcome to the Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, His Excellency Mr. Óscar Adolfo Naranjo. I would like to convey to him and to President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón my country’s appreciation for the tireless efforts th…
Allow me to start by expressing my gratitude to Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) (S/2017/1113). The report sheds a great deal of light …
Allow me, first of all, to express the gratitude of the delegation of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix and his team for their comprehensive and detailed briefing this morning on the situation and recent developments in the D…
First of all, I would like to congratulate all the members of the Security Council at the start of the new year 2018, with the hope that it will bring us good health, prosperity and success in our endeavours. In particular, we congratulate Kazakhstan, through Ambassador Umarov, on assuming the presi…
I align myself with the statement delivered by the Ambassador of Cabo Verde in his capacity as Chair of the Group of African States.
The commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade organized by the General Assembly on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victi…
Allow me at the outset, on behalf of our Head of State and Government, His Excellency Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to express my delegation’s most sincere congratulations on Sweden’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, a task that it is carrying in a manner that reflects its skill and gr…
This is the first time that I have taken the floor from this rostrum since the election of the President
of the General Assembly for the seventy-first session. Allow me to express my sincere congratulations and appreciation to the President on the effective manner in which he has been conducting th…
In taking the floor at the General Assembly on behalf of His Excellency Mr. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, I would like first to congratulate His Excellency Mr. Peter Thomson for his fitting election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first se…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea associates itself with the statements made by Ambassador Mamabolo of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the representative of South Sudan on behalf of the Group of African States (see A/70/PV.73).
For me, it is a great honour to speak at thi…
