At the outset, I wish to welcome you, Mr. President, to New York and to thank you for having convened this meeting. I wish also to thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Mrs. Florentina Adenike Ukonga, Executive Secretary of the Gulf o…
Mr. President, at the outset I would like to welcome your Excellency and to congratulate your friendly country on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We thank you for convening this important meeting to discuss an important and vital topic in all its dimensions. I would a…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his valuable briefing. I would also like to pay tribute to all humanitarian and medical personnel for their efforts in the field to alleviate the human suffe…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the participation of the Ministers present at today’s meeting. We listened carefully to the briefing by Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and
Peacebuilding Affairs, and we appreciate her valuable information regarding the recent devel…
We are pleased that you are presiding over today’s meeting, Sir. We thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his briefing. I also join previous speakers in welcoming Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo …
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for his valuable briefing on the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territory, reminding us once again of the ongoing …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his briefing. I also thank the Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany for his briefing on the work of the Libya Sanct…
I would like to thank the Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, Ambassador Joanna Wronecka, for the briefing she delivered in her capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan.
After taking part in the meetings of the Com…
I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary- General for Political and Peacekeeping Affairs, for her valuable briefing on the most recent developments in the Republic of Mali. I would also like to thank and commend Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-Ge…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in thanking all the briefers this morning: 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); Mr. Corneille Nangaa …
At the outset, it is a pleasure for me to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and to thank him for his useful briefing on the most recent developments in the Sahel region. We also commend the efforts made by the United Nations Office …
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for their briefings today.
The Stockholm Agreement has given the international community and the Yemeni people a glimmer of hope for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Yemen. The Secur…
On behalf of the Group of Arab States, I request that a recorded vote be taken on the draft oral amendment introduced by the delegation of Israel, as we asked during the meeting of the Fifth Committee. Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/RES/S-28/1 seeks to mobilize resources for the Human Rights …
At the outset, I would like to sincerely thank Mr. Tayé-Brook
Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, in his capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), for their valuable briefings on the latest devel…
At the outset, we welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2451 (2018) by the Security Council and thank the permanent delegation of the United Kingdom for its tireless efforts as penholder on the issue of Yemen. We also commend the flexibility shown by the delegation during the negotiations on …
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, which builds upon yesterday’s discussions on drug trafficking, governance, organized crime and the rule of law in West Africa (see S/PV.8433). I would also like to thank all of the briefers who spoke today: Mr. I…
It is my pleasure at the outset to welcome Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and thank him for his informative briefing on drug trafficking in West Africa and its impact on security and stability in the region. I also thank the presidency …
At the outset, we thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, for his briefing today, his second one on this topic in less than a week. We also thank the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and all staff and force personnel of the …
I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Permanent Representative of Poland and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict for their briefings.
Today, I will address the subject of the debate from three perspectives: …
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his valuable briefing and reaffirm the full support of the State of Kuwait to his role in finding a solution to the protracted Palestinian question, which has had such a severe impact on the daily lives of the Palestinians who have been…