At the outset, Mr. President, we would like to welcome the fact that you are presiding over this meeting. We would also like to welcome the Secretary-General and thank him for his participation and for his valuable briefing.
We thank you, Sir, for selecting the topic of today’s debate and for the c…
I would like to welcome our new colleague the representative of the United States of America. We wish him every success and look forward to working closely with him.
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central Afr…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). We take note of her briefing on the ICC twenty-seventh report on the Sudan.
The State of Kuwait, in its capacity as the Arab member in the Security Council, recalls the 514th resolution …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his valuable briefing on the latest developments in Mali, especially in the light of the upcoming presidential elections in July and the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations…
At the outset, I would like to thank Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their informative briefings on the progress made in the work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
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I will be brief. I would have preferred not to respond to the statement by the representative of Israel. Israel is a State Member of the United Nations, and when it became a member it pledged to respect the Charter of the United Nations. Article 25 of the Charter states that the Members of the Unite…
Kuwait voted against draft resolution S/2018/520. At the outset, I would like to underscore that our vote does not mean that we do not condemn all acts of violence targeting civilians. We have stressed that in our previous statements in meetings on the situation in the occupied territories, includin…
The draft resolution (S/2018/516), which was not adopted by the Security Council owing to the veto by the United States, was submitted by us on behalf of the Group of Arab States, as Kuwait is the Arab member of the Council at present. This draft resolution was also supported by the Organization of …
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. We wish you every success. I would also like to join you in expressing our thanks to Her Excellency Ambassador Joanna Wronecka of Poland for the outstan…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, Mr. Vladimir Voronkov and Ms. Michèle Coninsx for their briefings. I commend the efforts of the United Nations in providing advice and assisting the people and the Government of Iraq, in accordance with resolution 2367 (2017), through the United Na…
At the outset, we thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his valuable briefing on the recent developments in the Gaza Strip and the most recent developments in the occupied territories. We commend his endeavours and underscore our full …
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting and to commend you for presiding over it. We also welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Ukraine to participate in this meeting.
At the outset, we would like to thank the Under- Secretary-General for Pol…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Michel Kafando and the Permanent Representative of Switzerland, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their valuable briefings.
We have followed with interest the efforts made by the Government of Burundi …
I would like to begin by thanking Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping
Operations, Mr. Maman Sidikou, Permanent Secretary of the Group of Five for the Sahel, Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, and Мr. João Vale de Alme…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this important open debate to discuss this essential topic. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing today, as well as Mr. Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
I thank you, Madam President, for holding today’s meeting.
We appreciate the untiring efforts of Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), to achieve peace and stability in Libya, and we very much appreciat…
At the outset, I would like to express my best wishes to the Arab and Muslim nations on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. I hope it will be auspicious for our peoples and nations.
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s important debate on the topic of upholding i…
At the outset, I would like to sincerely thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Mr. Mauro Vieira, Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Comm…
At the outset, we would like to thank you, Madam President, for your swift response to our request to hold this emergency meeting. I would also like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for the important briefing he delivered today on the tragic even…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his comprehensive briefing to the Security Council on the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2018/407). The State of K…
