At the outset, we very much thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), for her valuable briefing, as well as for the briefing of Ms. Anny Tenga Modi, E…
We want to thank you, Madam President, for calling for a minute of silence in honour of the victims of the terrible terrorist attack in New Zealand, and we want to express our condolences to the Government and the people of New Zealand and to the families of the victims.
Kuwait today voted in favou…
At the outset, I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would like to welcome Ms. Mogherini and thank her for her detailed and comprehensive briefing on the aspects of cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations.
We agree with her that our cooperation togethe…
At the outset, I express our sincere condolences to the Government of Ethiopia and to all the Governments and the families of the victims of the tragic accident involving Ethiopian Airlines.
We thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nati…
We welcome you, Madam President, as you preside over this meeting which clearly has particular significance. I believe the message is clear to all States of the
world. I also would like to join others who preceded me in congratulating women all over the world on International Women’s Day. I would l…
We would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We wish you and your friendly country every success in managing the work of the Council during this month. We also thank Equatorial Guinea for its presidency of the Council in February.
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At the outset, we thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his valuable briefing. We take this opportunity to offer him and his team our full support in undertaking their difficult task. We hope that his efforts will be crowned by future success in order to move forward the Syrian political process.
W…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, Ms. Christine Sсhranеr Burgener, for her briefing to the Security Council. We appreciate her tireless efforts and those of her team with regard to the crisis in Myanmar, especially the Rohingya refugee crisi…
I welcome you, Mr. President, as you preside over our meeting today. I would also like to thank the
briefers — Ms. DiCarlo, Mr. Lamamra and Mr. Gounden. I thank them for their detailed and valuable briefings, which included a wealth of information on various aspects of the Silencing the Guns in Afr…
First of all, I wish to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her briefing.
At the outset, I would like to emphasize our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations when dealing with issues on the Coun…
I would first like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her valuable briefing on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and her visit to the Sudan. I also thank Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco and Mr. Mourad Wahba for their presence at this meeting. Today I…
At the outset, I join previous speakers in thanking the briefers for their important presentations during this meeting. I would like to address three fundamental topics today.
I turn first to the political developments and the reconciliation agreement. The most important development since the Secur…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. The State of Kuwait renews its full support for his role in bringing about the resumption of the stalled peace process and improving the daily lives of Palestinia…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Michel Kafando; the observer of the African Union, Ms. Fatima Mohammed; and the Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Jürg Lauber, for their valuable briefings. I would like to addr…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for their informative briefings. I will focus my statement on two main issues, namely, the status of implementing the Stockhol…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for reading out presidential statement S/PRST/2019/1, whose adoption by the Security Council we welcome. We would like to thank all Council members for their support for the statement.
The adoption of the presidential statement today on the issues of detain…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation for the efforts of the United Nations to help the Government and the people of brotherly Iraq at this important juncture. We also appreciate the work and coordination with the Iraqi Government pursuant to resolution 2421 (2018) through the Unite…
At the outset, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their briefings. I would also like to welcome my former colleagues, Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan and Ambassador Martin Sajdik, and to thank them for their insightful brief…
I thank you, Mr. President, for holding this important meeting. We also thank the briefers Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office
of Counter-Terrorism, and Ms. Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, for their brie…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) for his detailed briefing to the
Council on the report of the Secretary General on the Mission’s activities in Kosovo (S…
