I thank you, Madam President, for convening this open debate and I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Lithuania aligns itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union.
The surge of violent extremism has reached an unprecedented scope. The Islamic State in Iraq …
Lithuania welcomes this annual opportunity to hear direactly from United Nations Force Commanders about the most pressing challenges in today’s peacekeeping. I thank the Force Commanders for their briefings. Let me also express our appreciation for their service, under increasingly demanding and cha…
As I was listening to the representatives of the countries affected, what struck me basically was that every single country affected that has lost its citizens and whose people are waiting for justice and closure has expressed its full support for the Netherlands-led investigation. Not a single coun…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this critical meeting. Let me also thank Iraq’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Al-Jaafari, for his statement, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nikolay Mladenov for his insightful briefing and dedicated work.
A united and democratic Iraq within th…
In August, many of us on the Council had an opportunity to visit the memorial at Schiphol International Airport dedicated to the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17. No one can forget the haunting, powerful emotions expressed of love, loss and longing for those who perished, as Under-Secretary…
I thank the United States presidency of the Security Council for organizing this emergency debate on the unprecedented outbreak of Ebola. Lithuania aligns itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union.
My delegation commends the leadership of the Secretary-General and the Uni…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ján Kubiš, for his briefing and to express my delegation’s appreciation for his leadership throughout his tenure at the helm of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I also thank Ambassador Tanin for h…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his quarterly briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). I would also like to commend the Panel of Experts for their meticulous work.
Lithuania has long called for a comprehensive, negotiated…
I would like to start by thanking Sandra Honoré, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, and her team for their dedicated work on the ground.
Lithuania aligns itself with the statement to be delivered on behalf of the European Union.
In my national capacity, I would like to stre…
I wish to thank the United States presidency of the Security Council for holding this debate. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, for her tirelessness dedication in carrying out her work. I also thank all the other bri…
I thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for the update. I also thank Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, for their stat…
We note the request by the Russian Federation. I am also very well aware of certain labels that my delegations has been given. In spite of that fact, since those labels have been repeated on various occasions — “killer amendments” and things of the kind — we appreciate the drafting of the statement …
I wish to congratulate the United Kingdom delegation for its wise steering of the Security Council with an experienced hand during the month of August. During this very busy month, on more than a dozen occasions, the Council was called upon to react on an emergency basis, including today, to unfoldi…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent meeting.
Lithuania condemns in the strongest terms the invasion of Ukraine’s territory by the armed forces of the Russian Federation as an open and blatant violation of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and a serious …
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate. I also thank the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights for their briefings. We sincerely thank the High Commissioner for her extraordinary service.
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2171 (2014), which Lithuan…
I would like to thank the United Kingdom for organizing this timely briefing on World Humanitarian Day, and the three briefers for their sobering contributions.
With an unprecedented number of level 3 humanitarian crises and over 50 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world, the…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for his extensive briefing. The presence of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in eastern Ukraine and their reporting from there remain esse…
Allow me to begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Martin Kobler, Special Envoy Mary Robinson, Minister João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço and Force Commander Dos Santos Cruz for all their dedicated work aimed at advancing peace, stability and security in the Democratic Repub…
I thank Mr. John Ging, Director of the Coordination and Response Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for his briefing.
Perhaps no other crisis has given rise to as many meetings this year as the situation in Ukraine. The number has, if I am correct, s…
Mr. President, I wish to congratulate you on your astute steering of the Council during the month of July. Our appreciation goes to you and your team, Sir, for your patient, professional and diligent work during a demanding
and difficult month where multiple crises had to be tackled simultaneously.…
