At the outset, I would like to congratulate the French football team on their World Cup victory and the Croatian team on an excellent game. I would also like to commend the Russian Federation on its superb organization of the World Cup. It was a very interesting time, and everyone very much enjoyed …
My delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2428 (2018) because it does not reflect the positions and concerns of the countries of the region and the relevant regional organizations, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the African Union, with regard to the timing of the…
Let me start by congratulating you, Minister Wallström, and Sweden on assuming the Council’s presidency for the month of July. I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary- General Ms. Amina Mohammed, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq Mr. Hassan Janabi, and civil society briefer Ms. Hindou Ibrahim …
I thank Her Excellency Ms. Margot Wallström, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, for convening today’s meeting. It is a pleasure to have you with us again, Madam President.
I would also like to warmly thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the African Union Special Envoy for Women, P…
I congratulate the delegation of Sweden for organizing this open debate on children and armed conflict. I thank His Excellency Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden, for being personally present today and presiding over this debate, which underlines the importance of the theme and
highlights the …
My delegation would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting. We hope that today’s discussion will foster consensus among Member States on this important topic.
Kazakhstan reaffirms its commitments to paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit
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As this is the last open meeting of the Council this month, I should like first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the successful completion of your presidency of the Security Council. I would like to point out that you have been very skilful in steering our deliberations.
I wish the Russian na…
I join previous speakers in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her comprehensive update on the situation in South Sudan, as well as her tireless efforts and those of her able team to bring about peace in Africa. Allow me to make the following observations and recommendations.
Lik…
We thank Special Envoy De Mistura for his insightful update and commend his exceptional commitment and determination to pursue peace in Syria. We welcome his multifaceted diplomacy to resolve the crisis.
Kazakhstan welcomes the consultations held on 18 and19 June in Geneva, with the participation o…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo; the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), Ambassador Karel van Oosterom; and the Head of the European Union Delegation, Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, for their inf…
The delegation of Kazakhstan would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting and to express our appreciation to the Permanent Representatives of Jordan and Finland and their able teams for facilitating the informal consultations on the sixth review of the Global …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Russian presidency for convening this important debate on the situation in Afghanistan
and express my gratitude to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto, Under- Secretary-General Voronkov and Under-Secretary- General Fedotov for their comp…
I would like to thank the delegation of the Russian Federation for convening this well-conceived debate and express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his very thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of the situation in the Middle East and North Africa region.
We agree that the frequency a…
We would like to thank our three briefers and welcome Ambassador Jonathan Cohen, the new Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States, to the Chamber today. We wish him every success. My delegation has the following comments to make.
First, with regard to the political front, we note the ef…
We would like to echo the congratulations offered by the representative of Equatorial Guinea on the victory of Russia’s football team and wish the team continued success.
We are pleased that Mr. Iliichev is present at today’s meeting. He is the Director of the Department of International Organizati…
We express our appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his comprehensive briefing. My delegation joins others in warmly welcoming Mr. Tiéman Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, to today’s meeting.
We fully endorse the recommendations of the rep…
My delegation thanks our briefers, Special Representative of the Secretary- General Fall and the Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS),
Mr. Ahmad Allam-Mi, for their informative updates and contributions to our deliberations today. We would like to make our o…
At the outset, I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (A/72/815).
Today’s meeting is another important opportunity to discuss the implementation of our shared commitments that will shape our course of action to end the HIV epidemic, which is far from being era…
I would like to thank the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Theodor Meron, and the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Mr. Serge Brammertz, for their reports (see S/2018/347 and S/2018/471) and for their informative…
Kazakhstan regrets that we cannot achieve unity in the Security Council on the two draft resolutions that were submitted today (S/2018/516 and S/2018/520). My delegation notes the importance of continuing to strive towards achieving a well-balanced draft and welcomes all efforts to that end. We appr…
