I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, and Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their valuable briefings. Today I would like to address three issues.
The first is the poli…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on presiding over this important meeting, which reflects the significance of the relationship between the United Nations and the African Union. I also appreciate the valuable briefing of the Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
Kuwait voted in favour of resolution 2494 (2019), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until 31 October 2020, because we believe in the Mission’s positive role. We would like to have seen it adopted unanimously. However, we thank the …
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, and your delegation for having convened this important open debate. I also wish to thank the briefers for their valuable presentations and relentless efforts on behalf of the effective implementation of the women and peace and security agend…
At the outset, Madam President, we wish to welcome both your presence in the Security Council today and the fact that you are presiding over this meeting. We also welcome the presence of the State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. We wish to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coo…
At the outset, we thank the Permanent representative of Belgium in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Sanctions Committee pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia, for his detailed briefing on the Committee’s activities and the relevant information on its most salient work cov…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, and Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, for their invaluable briefings.
In the context of our debate today, I would like to focus on thr…
I will deliver this statement on behalf of the Syria humanitarian co-penholders: Belgium, Germany and Kuwait.
At the outset, we would like to express our appreciation to Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for her comprehensive briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria. Our thanks also…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming your responsibilities as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. We wish you every success in this task.
My delegation is pleased to commend the progress detailed in the report of the Secretary-General on the…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Lacroix for his briefing. The current delicate phase in the Sudan’s history requires a concerted effort to respond to the aspirations of our brothers and sisters in that country to a bright future. We hope that our deliberations today will serve their intere…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings. I want to focus on two main issues: political and security developments, and humanitarian developments.
With regard to the political and security developments, Mr. Griffiths’ briefing earlier gave indications of a…
At the outset, we welcome the participation at this meeting of His Excellency Mr. Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, and wish him every success as he takes up the duties inherent in his new role. We also sincerely thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Pea…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting. I also welcome the Foreign Minister of Colombia, who is present with us today to participate in the meeting. And I thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification …
At the outset, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting on a vital and essential topic. I also appreciate the invaluable briefings by the Secretary-General and all of today’s briefers.
The resolution of conflicts through mediation is …
I would like at the outset to express our appreciation for the valuable briefing by Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and to welcome him today on his first briefing to the Council. We fully support his efforts to stabilize the situation in the Great La…
We welcome the unanimous adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2491 (2019). We thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for its considerable efforts as penholder on the issue of Libya. At the same time, we commend its flexibility during the negotiations on the draft resolution.
Today, we…
At the outset, we would like to sincerely congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We wish you every success in your work. I would also like to thank the Russian Federation, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia and the members of his team for their e…
We welcome your participation, Mr. President, in this meeting and the fact that you are presiding over it.
At the outset, we thank the Special Envoy, Mr. Geir Pedersen, for his valuable briefing on the Syrian political process. I also take this opportunity to reaffirm to him the full support of the…
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine, Mr. Riad Al-Malki, and His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Mr. Ayman Safadi, to our meeting. I also thank Mr. Nickolay Mla…
I apologize once again for taking the floor.
I shall begin where the Syrian representative ended, asking the Security Council to implement its own resolutions on counter-terrorism. I, in turn, call on the Syrian authorities to implement the resolutions of the Council on chemical weapons and politic…
