At the outset, I would like to associate ourselves with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar on behalf of the Group of Arab States, as well as with the statement to be made by the Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States (LAS).
My delegation has carefully …
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for her briefing on developments in the Sea of Azov.
The recent escalation of tensions in the Sea of Azov is very worrying. We call on both sides to exercise self-restraint and undertake all me…
At the outset, I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, Mr. Michel Kafando, and the Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Jürg Lauber, for their valuable briefings, in which they informed us on recent developments in Burundi.
In my statement …
I would like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Mr. Smaïl Chergui, for their comprehensive briefings.
The State of Kuwait aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuel…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States on agenda item 124 concerning the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council.
At the outset, I would like to assure…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for the painful briefing he delivered, which echoes what many among us have repeated time and again in this very Chamber — that the …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing today and for his ongoing work to advance the political process. I reiterate the appreciation and gratitude of the State of Kuwait for all his endeavours over the past four years to carry out his difficult task.
The Sochi …
At the outset, I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Executive Director of UN-Women and the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security for their briefings and for their visit to South Sudan from 7 to 10 October in order to closely assess the situation there.
To…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen; Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme; and Ms. Rasha Jarhum, …
At the outset, I thank Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Mr. Sidikou, Permanent Secretary of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel); Mr. Buyoya, African Union High Representative for Mali and the Sahel; and Mr. Serrano, Deputy Secretary- General for Common Securi…
First and foremost, I would like to express our sincere condolences to the Government and people of the brotherly nation of Somalia with respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mogadishu last Friday.
The States in the Horn of Africa have seen significant positive political developments i…
At the outset, I would like to thank our former colleague Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his comprehensive briefing on the report of the Secretary-General on UNMIK (S/2018/981). I a…
At the outset, I thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Ms. Joséphine Mbela, civil-society representative, for their valuable briefings.
We are less than t…
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), for his valuable briefing.
Despite the many challenges that Iraq is facing in the post-Da’esh period, the Iraqi people have proven t…
We would like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on strengthening multilateralism at a very important time in our world today. We also thank the Chinese delegation
for preparing the concept paper for this meeting (S/2018/982, annex).
We thank Secretary-Genera…
I, too, 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 will focus on two main topics: security and political developments, and economic developments.
First, with respe…
I would like to thank our briefers, Mr. Alexander Zouev,
Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, the Police Commissioners of the Missions in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti, and Ms. Reitano, of the Global Initiative against Transnational Or…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in thanking Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his valuable briefing and recent report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2018/974, annex). I also want to underline our full …
At the outset, we would like to thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing today and for submitting the sixty-first monthly report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the security Council purs…
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month and we wish you every success in carrying out the Council’s work. We also thank our colleague the Permanent Representative of Bolivia and the Bolivian delegation for wisely conducting the work of th…
