Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 2092 (2013)
owing to the importance we attach to the work of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS), the situation in that country and the need for the political situation to move in the right direction, namely, a retur…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. We would also like to thank the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Catherine Ashton, for her informative briefing on the activities of the European Union in the various areas th…
We welcome the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Mr. Kim Sung-hwan. We thank him for having convened this open debate at such an opportune time and for presiding over it . We regret that our own Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Fernando C…
First of all, we want to thank Mr. Robert Serry for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We also thank Mr. Riad Malki and the representative of Israel for their briefings.
Some question the frequency with which we address this issue in the Security C…
We would like to welcome Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Foreign Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Guatemala thanks Pakistan for his excellent preparation for today’s open debate and for the concept note prepared for the occasion (S/2013/4, annex). The concept note seeks to open the discussion …
I wish to thank the delegation of Pakistan for having convened this open debate. Our thanks also go to Pakistan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, for presiding over it. We are also grateful for the concept note that has been distributed in the annex to document S/2013/3. We appr…
At the outset, let me thank the delegation of the Kingdom of Morocco for having organized this open debate. We also express our appreciation to Ms. Judy Cheng-Hopkins and Ambassador Momen for their presentations, as well as the Secretariat for the report before us (S/2012/746), concerning the progre…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2012/907). We also welcome Mr. Ján Kubiš and thank him for his valuable briefing. We are also grateful for the statement by Ambassador Zahir Tanin. We would like to highlight four issues in the report of the S…
My delegation is grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, for his presentation updating us on the most recent developments and for the recently circulated report of the Secretary-Genera…
Our delegation thanks the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her briefing and for presenting the sixteenth report of the Prosecutor to the Security Council in accordance with resolution 1593 (2005).
As indicated in paragraph 2 of resolution 1593 (2005), the Gove…
My delegation would like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his presentation of the 90-day report on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). Now, at the end of his mandate, I congratulate him and his team for having chaired the Committee so ably …
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this timely briefing to promote an exchange of views on cooperation between United Nations peacekeeping missions. We are also grateful for the concept paper that was circulated for this meeting. We note the presentations of Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Under-Se…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting on the situation in the region of the Sahel. I am grateful for your personal presence in leading our discussion. I would also like to apologize on behalf of our Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Harold C…
My delegation would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their briefings on the completion strategies of their respective Tribunals. My
delegation also wishes to p…
I join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency this month. I wish you the full success that you deserve, and I am certain that you will play an outstanding role in the Council. We also thank the Indian delegation for its exemplary presidency in November.
I wis…
I thank you, Sir, having convened this open debate. We all know that the original idea was to hold it precisely one month ago under the Guatemalan presidency of the Council, but Hurricane Sandy decided otherwise and everything had to be placed on hold. We are therefore gratified that the initiative …
Guatemala abstained in the voting on resolution 67/19, just adopted, despite the fact that we accept the principle of the right of peoples to self- determination and firmly support the establishment of an independent and sovereign State for the Palestinian people under the well-known formula of two …
I thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), contained in document S/2012/818. We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for having introduced the report, and Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister fo…
Allow me to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on the issue of the Council’s working methods. I would also like to thank you for the concept note you have circulated to inform our debate (S/2012/853, annex). We trust that our deliberations will make it possible to r…
We would first like to thank the delegation of India for its initiative in convening this timely open debate on maritime piracy, which is a major challenge for the international community. We also express our appreciation to the delegation of India for presenting a concept note on the subject (S/201…
