We would like Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her seventeenth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
As indicated in paragraph 2 of that resolution, the Government of the Sudan and all the parties involved in the situation in Darfur must cooper…
Our delegation thanks the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, for his briefing regarding the latest developments. We also thank the Secretary-General for his recent report (S/2013/297).
We suppor…
Once again, we meet to consider the recent evolution of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. It will be recalled that the Commission was established in September 2007, as an innovative effort whereby the State of Guatemala and the United Nations joined forces to fight impunity…
We welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also take note of the presentation of his report (S/2013/263, annex), which we listened to with concern owing to the lack of progress reported in the period under consideration. We wouldl like to make five comments wit…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the President of the Republic of Togo for attending the beginning of today’s meeting, as well as his senior Minister. That is a sign of the political support that their Administration attaches to our work. We also commend the outstanding work done by Am…
I would like first to thank the Ambassadors of Australia,
Morocco and the Republic of Korea for their informative briefings and for the great skill and dedication with which they lead the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council under their respective responsibility.
These joint meetings are very…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this morning’s important meeting. We welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for her statement and her briefing.
Within the complex transition process which Libya is now undergoing, we welco…
Allow me at the outset to welcome Minister Leonid Kozhara, whom we thank for his presentation. I congratulate him on his assumption of the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and I wish him every success during his term.
Guatemala is convinced that region…
At the outset, allow me to thank the delegation of Rwanda for having organized this informative meeting. We would also like to express our appreciation to Ambassadors Abulkalam Abdul Momen and Ranko Vilović for their briefings on the recent evolution of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We also ap…
At the outset, we wish to thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Although the intervals between meetings where we take up this issue are short, the situation in the Middle East is dynamic enough to provide new developments…
We thank the Rwandan presidency for convening this important open debate. It is particularly relevant that our debate is being chaired by Minister Louise Mushikiwabo, to whom we convey our thanks. We also thank the Secretary-General for the presentation of his report (S/2013/149). We are very aware …
We are grateful to the Government of Rwanda for having organized this briefi ng and for the concept note (S/2013/204, annex) that it prepared on a topic of such relevance for the Security Council. Madam Minister, we welcome your presence among us. We also wish to thank the Secretary-General for the s…
Allow us first of all to congratulate Ambassador Peter Woolcott of Australia on his work and on all his efforts throughout the two weeks of negotiations at the Final United Nations Conference on Arms Trade Treaty. We also congratulate his team, the facilitators and the Secretariat. We thank him for …
Guatemala voted in favor of resolution 2098 (2013), just adopted. We did so in part owing to our unwavering commitment to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), in which Guatemala has participated since March 2005. We were moved to do…
We thank the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for 2012, for having presented the report of the Peacebuilding Commission on its sixth session (A/67/715). We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Croatia,…
I thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2013/72). We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for presenting the report and Mr. Ivica Dačić and Mr. Hashim Thaçi for their statements.
The S…
I am pleased to join the Council for today’s debate. This provides me the first opportunity, since I took office several weeks ago as Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country, to take part in a debate of the Council and thereby renew the political support of my Government for this body.
Moreover,…
I wish to thank the Russian Federation for convening this debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the presentation of his report (S/2013/133) and for joining us today. I also thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his important statement, and I welcome the presence here today of M…
My delegation wishes to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his informative briefing. We should like to congratulate him and his team on having assumed the chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
During the reporting period, the Committee continu…
Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 2093 (2013) given the importance of supporting the efforts of the Government of Somalia, the United Nations and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Thanks to such collective efforts, Somalia now has new prospects. Similarly, we support the extension…
