I thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her objective and comprehensive briefing and for her valuable contribution to today’s deliberations. We also commend her able team for its effective work. We welcome the Prime Minister of Sint Maarten and the Permanent Representative of Haiti to t…
I thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu for her informative briefing and you, Madam President, for having organized this discussion in an open format. Transparency and openness are extremely important and necessary for objective discussions with sober assessments of exact recent or ongoing devel…
My delegation congratulates you and your team, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September, and conveys our felicitations to our United Kingdom colleagues for their able stewardship of the Council last month.
At the outset, we would like to thank o…
We thank Special Representative Salamé and Ambassador Skoog for their comprehensive updates on the situation in Libya and on the activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya.
Despite some positive steps undertaken by the Libyans, the United Nations Sup…
First of all, we would like to join you, Madam President, in commending the British presidency for its exemplary stewardship of the Council’s work in August. The delegation of Kazakhstan would like to congratulate the United States on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the …
I commend Special Representative Filho, Ambassador Ndong Mba and Ambassador Vieira for their insightful briefings on the most recent developments in Guinea-Bissau and their tireless efforts to bring peace and stability to the country. I thank Ms. Tavares Pinto for highlighting the role of civil-soci…
At the outset, the delegation of Kazakhstan would like to thank the presidency of the United Kingdom for convening today’s timely debate, which provides a good opportunity to discuss how to strengthen the role of the United Nations and the Security Council in mediation and the settlement of disputes…
We thank Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Ging, for his briefing on the very critical humanitarian situation in Syria.
We have carefully studied the most recent report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the relev…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the update on the latest developments in Myanmar and the plight of Rohingya refugees who fled from Rakhine state to Bangladesh exactly one year ago. We are grateful to Cate Blanchett, Goodwill Ambassador of the Office of the United Nations High Commiss…
We join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zerrougui for her insightful briefing. I also extend our appreciation to the President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo, Monsignor Marcel Utembi, and the representative of Rien Sans Les Femmes, Ms. Solange Lwa…
I thank the United Kingdom presidency for convening this briefing. We welcome Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, whom we are honoured to see presiding over today’s meeting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov, Head of the Office of Counter-Terrorism; Assistant Secretary-General Michél…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, President Kafando, for his insightful briefing.
Kazakhstan reiterates the importance of implementing the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement and of establishing meaningful inter-Burundian dialogue. Those, we can say, are the mos…
We too join others in congratulating the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August, and in expressing our appreciation to the delegation of Sweden for its successful stewardship of the Council’s work in July. I also join others in thanking Special Envo…
As mandated by sub-paragraph (g) of paragraph 11 of resolution 1844 (2008), I have the honour of briefing the Security Council in my capacity as Chair of the Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, covering the period from 14…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Virginia Gamba for their comprehensive and very informative briefings.
While carefully studying the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/724), we are also closely following developments on t…
We join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Leila Zerrougui for her highly informative update. We would also like to thank Ambassador Mansour Alotaibi, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Rep…
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency the Vice President of Colombia, Mr. Óscar Naranjo Trujillo, to the Security Council. I would also like to thank Special Representative Arnault for his briefing and the active role of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia.
Kazakhsta…
I would like to thank the delegation of Sweden for this well-conceived debate and express its appreciation to our colleagues for their timely insights for follow-up action. We express our sincere appreciation to Special Coordinator Mladenov for his insightful and comprehensive briefing, as always.
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I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting. I join
others in congratulating the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, on her new assignment and assure her and her staff of our full support for the United Nations Office to the African Union. I thank …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Chambas for his insightful briefing on the Secretary-General’s semi-annual report on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) and recent developments in West Africa and the Sahel (S/2018/649). I would l…
