At the outset, we would like to thank all today’s briefers — Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Monseigneur Utembi and Ms. Furaha — for their valuable briefings.
Today’s meeting follows the announcement of President Joseph Kabila Kabange of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that he will not run for the presid…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism; Ms. Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate; and Ms. Joana Cook, Senior Research Fellow at the International Cen…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, President Michel Kafando, for his valuable briefing at the beginning of this meeting.
We have followed with interest the political developments in the Republic of Burundi in recent
months, the most important of which…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important meeting. I also thank the briefers, Mr. Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI); Mr. Philip Spoerri, Head of the International Committee of the Re…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to wish you every success. Through you, we would also like to thank the delegation of Sweden for its outstanding presidency of the Council last month.
Of course, we tha…
I would like to thank the presidency of the Council for proposing to focus today’s meeting on the plight of children in Syria. Let me also thank the Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-G…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor to speak this time in my national capacity.
First of all, 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) for her b…
At the outset, I would like to welcome again to the Security Council Mr. Óscar Naranjo Trujillo, Vice-President of Colombia. I also thank Mr. Jean Arnault, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his valuable briefing and h…
I have the honour to deliver a statement in my capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In my briefing this morning, it is my intention to provide an overview of the work of the Committee since I assumed the ro…
At the outset, we wish to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his valuable briefing on recent developments in the occupied territory, which revealed the serious situation there. We commend him for his endeavours and reiterate our ful…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. At the outset, we congratulate Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde on assuming her new post as Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the AU. We also would like to thank Mr. Smaïl Chergu…
I would first like to join speakers before me in welcoming the Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire and wishing him every success in his work.
At the outset, we thank all the delegations of Member States for their flexibility during the conduct of the negotiations on resolution 2428 (2018), an…
We congratulate you, Madam President, on participating in and presiding over this important meeting. We also welcome the participation of the President of Nauru and the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. We thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohamed; the civil society repr…
At the outset, we would like to commend you, Madam President, for participating in today’s important meeting. We also welcome Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the African Union Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security, Ms. Bineta Diop, and thank them for their very valuable briefings.
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At the outset, we would like to welcome you, Mr. President, as you preside over today’s important meeting. At the same time, we pay tribute to Sweden as it carries out its chairmanship of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, as well as for its efforts aimed at reaching consensus on the …
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation for the valuable briefing by Mr. Alexander Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
We are discussing an extremely important topic today on the Security Council’s…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
At the outset, allow me to express the Group’s appreciation to you, Sir, for focusing during your presidency of the General Assembly on one of the most important items on our agenda, “Question of equitable representa…
I would like to thank Mrs. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for her briefing on the biannual report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2018/602). I would also like to thank my colleague the Permanent Representative of the Neth…
At the outset, we thank and commend Mr. Staffan de Mistura
and Mr. John Ging for their comprehensive and detailed briefings. We reiterate our appreciation for all United Nations efforts in every facet of the crisis in Syria.
Ambassador Olof Skoog will speak on behalf of Kuwait and Sweden during th…
At the outset, I would like to thank the briefers: Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Vladimir Voronkov and Mr. Yury Fedotov. We underscore our
appreciation for the efforts of UNAMA i…
