First and foremost, I wish to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed; Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings toda…
First of all, I would like to thank the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), the Permanent Representative of Spain, for his very comprehensive briefing. We appreciate the unfailing efforts of Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi and his team in leading the C…
In our work on the Security Council, we have attached high importance to the humanitarian situation in Syria because we firmly believe that we must alleviate the humanitarian suffering there. The region must also avoid the serious fall-out from the crisis.
We worked very closely with our partners i…
I would like to extend our profound thanks to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his comprehensive briefing.
Jordan again emphasizes the importance of providing ongoin…
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to the Secretary of State of the United States, whose country is presiding over the Council this month, for convening this important ministerial meeting to follow up on the constructive international work that has been accomplished with the aim of …
First and foremost, allow me to thank the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Jacob Lew, for presiding over this very important meeting. My country appreciates the efforts of the United States of America, which have led to the convening of this meeting, the very first in the history of the …
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for providing me and the other outgoing Chairs of the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council with an opportunity to take stock of our work and to share some personal observations as we complete our two-year terms as elected members of the Council.
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I would first like to thank the delegation of the United States of America for this initiative and for having convened this very important meeting. I also thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson; Mr. Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Fatima Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing today and for presenting the twenty- second report to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005), of which we take note.
Jordan reiterates the importance of …
I would first like to thank the Permanent Representative of Spain for his excellent presentation and for his role in leading the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). I would also like to thank the Panel of Experts for their work in preparing the latest report.
We are now nearin…
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, the Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan, the Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the Office for the Co…
I thank the President for holding today’s public meeting following the request of 9 members of the Security Council, including Jordan. I would like to thank the Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, and the United High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al H…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Judge Agius, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); Judge Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR); and Judge Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, …
We are extremely proud to present today something that we consider as the first draft resolution on youth, peace and security. Investing in young people guarantees peace and security, as well as development and progress in our societies. Draft resolution S/2015/935 clearly and directly calls for the…
Allow me to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on peace and security in the Sahel. We also thank Ms. Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, for her briefing and for the efforts she directs to marshall the needed support for the…
I wish to begin my statement by expressing our thanks and appreciation to the President for his efforts and leadership of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. We also extend our appreciation to the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian Peop…
Allow me at the outset to express our thanks and appreciation to the President for convening this very important meeting aimed at raising global awareness of the issue of asylum and migration in general, especially with regard to the biggest asylum crisis since the Second World War — that of Syrian …
I would like to begin my statement by expressing Jordan’s strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks that took place in Mali today, and by extending our condolences to the families of the victims.
Allow me to express my thanks and appreciation to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his comprehensiv…
At the outset, allow me to reiterate our condolences to the Government and the people of France over the atrocious, cowardly terrorist acts that struck Paris last week. We also pay homage to the victims of the bloody, criminal terrorist acts committed recently in the Sinai, Beirut, Susa, Ankara, Bag…
I would like to start by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Zahir Tahin, for his comprehensive briefing, to congratulate him on his appointment to his new position and to wish him every possible success in his endeavours. Similarly, I would like to welcome Mr. Dačić, F…
