It is my honour to stand before the General Assembly today on behalf of the co-facilitators — Bahrain, Libya and Tajikistan — to introduce the initiative and the historic draft resolution A/78/L.56, entitled “World Football Day”, which is joined by a wide cross-regional core group that consists of t…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, and the delegation of Malta on your assumption of the Security Council presidency for the current month. I also thank Mr. Bathily for his briefing, and I thank the representative of Japan for his briefing on behalf of the Security Cou…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and wishing you every success. I also welcome and wish every success for the other new members that have recently joined the Security Council — Algeria, the Republic of Ko…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Madam President, for organizing this important meeting during your presidency.
History is being written and history will remember that 100 days have passed since the beginning of the brutal acts of aggression against innocent Palestinian civilians. The Securit…
At the outset I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for assuming the presidency of the Security Council during this month, and I wish you every success. We would also like to thank Mr. Bathily for his briefing and the representative of Japan for his briefing on behalf of the Security Coun…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on China’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and to wish you every success. I also thank Mr. Karim Khan for his briefing and for his twenty-sixth report, of which we have taken note.
My remarks today …
At the outset, Libya aligns itself with the statement made by the Am bassador of Jordan on behalf of the Group of Arab States, as well as the statement just made by the Ambassador of Oman on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
I would like to express Libya and the Libyan people’s strongest pos…
At the outset, I congratulate Brazil on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and thank Mr. Bathily and Mr. Ishikane for their briefings. I also want to thank the members of the Council for all their words of sympathy and condolence to the Libyan people.
Five weeks…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (A/78/309) on the item under consideration. I would also like to thank the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for its efforts for the benefit of the African continent.
We align ourselves with the statement made …
I address the General Assembly on behalf of the President of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Unity of the State of Libya, Mr. Mohamed Al-Menfi, who is unable to attend owing to the flood disaster in the eastern part of Libya.
I wish to begin by expressing my condolences to th…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the United States presidency of the Security Council this month. I would also like to thank Mr. Bathily for his briefing, in which he demonstrated the scale of the challenges that my country is facing and underscored at the same ti…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council during this month, and I wish you every success in your endeavours. I also thank the Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency Mr. Ishikane, for his briefing as Chair of the Committee establi…
At the outset, we would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this very important high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. It provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the progress made in implementing th…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Switzerland on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I wish you, Madam President, and your team success in your presidency. I would like also to thank Mr. Karim Khan for his briefing today and for his twenty-fifth report, of which…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on presiding over the Security Council this month and to thank you for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassador Ishikane, Permanent Representative of Japan, in his new capacity as Chair of the Committee established …
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on joining the Security Council and on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month. I would also like to welcome the Council’s other newly elected members — Mozambique, Switzerland, Ecuador and Japan— and I wish them all ev…
At the outset, I want to congratulate you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and to take this opportunity to thank you for your country’s efforts during its membership of the Council for the past two years, as well as during its chairmanshi…
At the outset, let me begin by thanking the President for his efforts to ensure a successful seventy-seventh session and for convening today’s meeting. My statement will be brief, because frankly we are bored by hearing the same statements, data and appeals being made. The people of the world are ti…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to pay tribute to your skilful stewardship of the Security Council this month. I would also like to thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily for his briefing. We welcome the various visits that he has made
in Libya and his meetings with many stakeholders, to whom he li…
At the outset, I congratulate Ghana on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We wish you luck, Madam President. We also welcome Mr. Karim Khan, and we thank him for his briefing, delivered from Tripoli. We also believe that his visit to Libya, even if delayed, is very impor…