I wish, at the outset, to thank Ambassadors Peter Wittig, Hardeep Singh Puri and Baso Sangqu for their informative briefings and the great skill and dedication with which they guide the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council under their respective leadership.
Such joint meetings as this are very…
Allow me to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank him for his report (see S/2012/813).
We regret that the optimistic landscape of May has been overshadowed by ill-timed actions and rhetoric. We believe that it is vital that the international presen…
At the outset, allow me to welcome to the Council the Minister of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Luís Guterres. His statement today was very encouraging. We also thank Mr. Finn Reske-Nielsen, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of t…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important briefing, and we welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, to the Council. We are grateful for the presentation of the fourth report to the Security Council, in accordance with resolution 1970…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on India’s assumption of the presidency of the Council. I wish you every success in your work.
Our delegation voted in favour of resolution 2073 (2012) because we consider it essential for the Security Council to maintain its unanimous support for So…
I would like thank your Government, Mr. President, for having convened this ministerial debate and to express my gratitude to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Nabil Elaraby, for their respective interventions.
I am pleased to again participat…
I join those who have spoken before me in thanking the Permanent Representative of Colombia, Ambassador Néstor Osorio, for his briefing. We would also reiterate
our gratitude for his leadership in heading up the activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for the …
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/703).We would also like to welcome Mr. Ján Kubiš and thank him for his briefing and his excellent work at the helm of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Let me also recognize the presence of Minister Zalma…
We would like to thank Germany for organizing this open debate. We acknowledge its leadership as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and on resolution 2068 (2012), which we have adopted today. We appreciate the presence of Ms. Leila Zerrougui and her briefing to us, and we take…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing and presiding over this meeting, which draws our attention to the dramatic humanitarian situation in Syria. We regret the absence of our own Minister for Foreign Affairs, who had a prior commitment and is on an official mission. We thank the Ministers of Jord…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) contained in document S/2012/603. Likewise, allow me welcome and thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for his briefing. We are also grateful…
Guatemala joined the consensus and voted in favour of resolution 2063 (2012), which extends the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) until 31 July 2013. We hope that the adoption of the resolution will allow UNAMID to continue to exercise the mandate grante…
We would like to thank Mr. Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for the very comprehensive information that he has given us. We also thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel for their presentations.
As is our custom,…
Guatemala voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2012/538) that the Council just failed to adopt. In our judgement, that resolution was the best opportunity and perhaps the only remaining opportunity to put an end to the mindless violence that affects the Syrian Arab Republic and to initiate a p…
At the outset, Madam President, allow me to say that we are pleased to see you presiding over this meeting. We appreciate your personal presence, we appreciate the delegation of Colombia’s having organized this open debate and we appreciate the excellent concept paper you have prepared to guide our …
We would like to thank Mr. Abou Moussa for the informative briefing that he has given us concerning the work of his office and for his report on the areas affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). We also thank Ambassador Francisco Caetano José Madeira for the very useful information he has give…
Guatemala appreciates the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and its Group of Experts. We believe that they have done important and useful work since their establishment
to promote the heightened efforts of the international community to combat the dangers and thre…
We thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/462). We also thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous for his briefing and Ambassador Tanin for his helpful contribution. We would also like to congratulate Mr. Jan Kubiš on the excellent work he has done leading the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanis…
I am pleased that my presence in New York to attend to matters unrelated to the Security Council has also given me the opportunity to join you for the third time since I became Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala five months ago. I also take this occasion to thank the Secretary-General for the…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous for having launched this important meeting and for his guidance of this discussion. I extend a warm welcome to the Force Commanders. The clarity of their perspectives works for an increased synergy between the Security Council and the situation on the gr…
