At the outset, following on from the President of the Council and the colleagues who spoke before me, I should like to express once again the deep sorrow and sincere condolences of the Haitian Government and people to Egypt, Sweden and Somalia, where the deadly attacks
of the past weekend caused in…
I thank you, Sir, for your invitation in French to take the floor.
First, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Haiti, I would like to thank the Government of Ukraine for its kind invitation to this open debate in the Security Council devoted to a topic of major importance — the protection…
Allow me, first of all, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Haiti, to congratulate Sweden once again for its election to the Security Council and for taking the initiative to organize this very important open debate, which is based on the need to take a new look at peacekeeping,
that pri…
First, I would like to extend my condolences to the Russian Federation and to Germany following the tragic events in Ankara and Berlin. We firmly condemn such unspeakable crimes.
On behalf of the President and Government of the Republic of Haiti, I thank the Spanish presidency of the Security Counc…
At the outset, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, I wish to convey our heartfelt thanks for the convening of this meeting in the General Assembly at the initiative of the Permanent Mission of Uruguay, which, on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti, submitted resolution 71/161, entit…
Allow me, first of all, on behalf of the Government of Haiti, to welcome the initiative taken by Senegal and to warmly congratulate its Government. By inviting the Security Council and the entire international community to address the important issue of water in relation to international peace and s…
First of all, on behalf of the Haitian delegation, I would like to welcome Senegal’s initiative, a country with which Haiti has strong ties, to organize this debate under into the framework of the necessary consideration of asymmetrical threats with a direct impact on the maintenance of internationa…
I would be remiss were I not to begin my statement by conveying the heartfelt thanks and gratitude of the people and
the Government of Haiti for the kind words and demonstrations of solidarity expressed to my country following the destructive strike of Hurricane Matthew last week, with its tragic c…
On behalf of my delegation, I would first like to warmly congratulate the President on the leadership he has shown in steering the work of the General Assembly at its seventieth session, which is closing today.
I would like to focus the attention of the Assembly on the scale of the tragedy of irreg…
Five years ago, the General Assembly adopted the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (resolution 65/277, annex), which built upon the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. The 2011 Declara…
It is an honour to participate in this open debate on countering the narratives and ideologies of terrorism. I would like, on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Haiti, to welcome this timely initiative of the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The Government of the…
I would first like to thank the Security Council for inviting the Haitian delegation to comment on the Secretary- General’s latest report (S/2016/225) on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). I have the honour to convey to the Council the greetings of the interim President of…
Perhaps never before in the recent history of the situation in the Middle East has the region been fraught with so many threats to international peace and security. It is therefore the honour and duty of the Security Council, aware of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and secur…
I would like at the outset to thank the Security Council for inviting the Government of Haiti to participate in this meeting and to share its response to the report of the Secretary-General (S/2015/667) of 31 August concerning the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Allow me al…
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the President of the Republic of Haiti, His Excellency Mr. Michel Joseph Martelly.
At the outset, allow me to extend the warm congratulations of the Republic of Haiti to the co-Chairs appointed to head this extraordinary Summit on development. It is a ha…
Allow me at the outset, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Haiti, to congratulate the New Zealand presidency of the Security Council for its initiative to convene this important debate on the specific challenges linked to peace and security facing the small island developing States (SIDS…
More than twelve years ago, the General Assembly decided to proclaim 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. The choice of today’s date, which marks the bicentenary of the proclamation of Haitian independence, was intended at the same time to be a g…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate the Secretary-General for the quality of his report (S/2015/157) on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
The Haitian Government has considered with great interest the contents of the report, which follows the Secretary-General’s field…
The Group of Latin American and Caribbean States learned with shock and regret of the sudden death, on 27 January, of our esteemed colleague, His Excellency Mr. Mårten Grunditz, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations in New York. This news had the effect of a cold shower on the ent…
It is a great honour for me to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States in expressing our heartfelt sadness at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s plunge into mourning with its loss of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. In this time of sorrow, the Latin American and Caribbean …