Let me join previous speakers in thanking the Permanent Representative of Colombia, Ambassador Néstor Osorio, for his comprehensive briefing. At the same time, we wish to express our acknowledgement of his demonstrated leadership at the head of the activities of the Committee established pursuant to…
My delegation would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their briefings with regard to the completion strategies of their respective Tribunals. Their extensi…
As this is our first intervention under your presidency of the Security Council, Sir, allow me to wish you every success in your efforts. You can count on our support and full confidence that with your wisdom, you will conduct our work successfully. I would also like to thank Ambassador Agshin Mehdi…
We thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for introducing his third report to the Council.
We welcome the progress made in the transitional process in Libya, despite its vulnerability, and we trust that with the passage of time its progress will be consolidat…
At the outset, we would like to welcome the President of the Transitional Federal Government, His Excellency Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and to thank him for his presence. It reaffirms his commitment to the struggle to resolve the conflict that has devastated his country for many years. We also than…
First of all, I would like to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thank him for his briefing, to which we listened carefully.
We are committed to the Dayton Agreement and to defending and maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and…
I thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), contained in document S/2012/275. I also welcome and thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his detailed introduction of the report.
We belie…
I wish to begin by thanking Ambassadors Peter Wittig, Hardeep Singh Puri and Baso Sangqu for their informative briefings and for the skill and dedication they have displayed at the helm of the Security Council subsidiary Committees that they respectively head.
First, with respect to the Security Co…
Mr. President, we thank you for having taken the initiative, through your Permanent Mission to the United Nations, of organizing today’s meeting and for doing us the honour of presiding over it personally. We also express our gratitude for the concept note that you have prepared (S/2012/281, annex),…
Guatemala joins the consensus in favour of resolution 2046 (2012). For months now, we have noted with growing alarm the collision course taken by the Sudan and South Sudan, in violation of the spirit and the letter of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by both countries. We are convinced that …
I should like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this open debate. We have taken note of the concept paper (S/2012/195, annex) prepared by your delegation to guide our deliberations, for which we are
also grateful. We also express our gratitude to the Secretary-General for his clear intr…
We appreciate your having organized this session, Madam President, and we thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his opening remarks. We also thank the representative of Israel and the observer of Palestine for their statements.
Given that the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine, i…
Exactly one week ago, Guatemala voted to adopt resolution 2042 (2012). In spite of the fact that not all the conditions laid down in that resolution have been met before the next step is taken, today we again voted to adopt the new resolution, 2043 (2012). We did so on the recommendation of the Secr…
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting on topics supposedly related to nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation. I say supposedly as a reflection of our disappointment that, after several days of discussing a draft presidential statement as the outcome docume…
As the Chair of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States for the month of April, it is my sad duty to express to the people and Government of the Republic of Malawi the most sincere and heartfelt condolences of the member countries of the Group on the sad passing away of His Excellency Mr. B…
Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 2042 (2012), consistent with the position that we adopted from the very beginning of the situation taking place in the Syrian Arab Republic. We have always maintained that the violence must cease immediately and that the only way out is through a process of po…
We wish to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his informative briefing and the leadership that he has shown in guiding the activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We are particularly grateful for the assistance provided by his team, the Chair of the Committee and …
We thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (S/2012/133), which is the basis for today’s meeting. We also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jan Kubiš and the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Zahir Tanin, for their respective briefings. Guatemala…
We thank the United Kingdom for having organized this meeting and we appreciate your gesture, Mr. President, in presiding over it. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his presentation to us.
I must say that the theme chosen for our debate today, while captivating, poses a great challe…
We thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/128) and welcome his Special Representative, Mr. Mariano Fernández, to New York. We commend him for his endeavours.
For many years, we have followed the evolving situation in Haiti and have been a formal stakeholder, given our participation in t…
