Draft resolution A/69/L.79, on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which has been introduced, is a significant departure from previous resolutions on the subject, especially the one adopted by the General Assembly in August 2013, at its sixty-sev…
I would like to begin by commending my colleagues from the African Union for this extremely timely initiative and for moving resolution 69/316 for the consideration of the General Assembly. As a sponsor of this resolution, my delegation fully supports the need to commemorate the seventieth anniversa…
I thank the President for convening this meeting.
We align ourselves with the statements delivered earlier today by the Ambassador of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the Ambassador of Indonesia on behalf of the group of like-minded countries, which includes India.
The dr…
We thank you, Madam President, for organizing today’s debate on regional organizations and contemporary challenges of global security. We also thank your delegation for the useful concept note (S/2015/599, annex) it has prepared. We also take this opportunity to thank the Secretary- General for the …
I will shorten my statement in the interest of time and circulate the full text for reference.
India shares traditional and strong bonds of friendship and kinship with small island developing States (SIDS). With a coastline extending more than 7,500 kilometres and with several groups of islands loc…
I thank you, Foreign Minister McCully, President of the Council, for convening of this quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. I also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing.
This quarterly debate is important in that it give…
At the outset, I would like to express our strong condemnation of this morning’s terrorist attack on the Afghan Parliament and express our solidarity with the people and Government of Afghanistan at this hour. Madam President, we thank
your delegation for organizing this debate on the United Nation…
We would like to thank our briefers in this debate and to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. On this day I would also like to convey our greetings to you at the start of the month of Ramadan.
As is evident from the Se…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report entitled “Future of the AIDS response: building on past achievements and accelerating progress to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030” (A/69/856).
We have set ourselves an ambitious goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To achieve this, international com…
Let me join other delegations in conveying our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Nepal, who have endured large-scale devastation in the aftermath of a massive earthquake on 25 April and several aftershocks. While we share the grief of the people of Nepal, we are gratified to se…
We thank the Lithuanian delegation for organizing this debate. We compliment you, Madam, on the very useful concept note (S/2015/306, annex) circulated earlier, and we also thank the briefers from this morning. We note that the Security Council had occasion to discuss this issue in depth in 2013 whe…
The Second World War was the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. The world witnessed horrific bloodshed and violence, which led to the mass deaths of millions of civilians and soldiers. We need to remember the victims. We also need to pay tribute to the millions of sol…
We thank you the President for organizing this debate, and we join other speakers in welcoming the presence among us, earlier today, of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Jordan. Countering violent extremism is one of the most important challenges before the international community note. We also…
I would like to express my appreciation to the President for convening this quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. We take this opportunity to extend our support to the newly appointed Speci…
We would like to thank the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for its report on its eighth session (A/69/818), and the Secretary-General for his report (A/69/745) on the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). The PBC’s report provides a useful overview of the Commission’s work during its eighth session. The Commissi…
My delegation would like to thank you, Madam President, for having organized this debate. We have read the concept note (S/2015/243,
annex) circulated by your delegation and reviewed the progress made in the implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions on the subject before us. We wo…
We thank you, Sir, for having organized today’s open debate on the victims of attacks and abuse on ethnic or religious grounds in the Middle East. I would like to compliment you for circulating the useful and well-structured concept note (S/2015/176, annex). I would also like to thank the Secretary-…
We thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate on the subject of children and armed conflict, with a special focus on child victims of non-State armed groups. We thank your delegation for the concept note that has been prepared (S/2015/168, annex). We also thank the Secretary- General, the Specia…
I hank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I also thank the Secretary-General for his quarterly report (S/2015/151) and our briefers this morning.
This is a critical decade of transformation for Afghanistan. India is proud …
We should like to congratulate China on its presidency of the Security Council for this month. We appreciate the briefing given to us today by the Secretary-General. We encourage the Secretary- General to elaborate the briefing into a report that can be given to world leaders when they meet later th…
