It is with a heavy heart that we voted for today’s resolution 2202 (2015), and with a clear understanding of the terrible toll that this uninvited war has imposed on Ukraine. More than 20,000 people have been internally displaced owing to the illegal annexation of Crimea; at least 5,665 people have …
Lithuania welcomes the adoption by consensus of resolution 2201 (2015), on Yemen, which we were happy to sponsor. In the past months, the Security Council has not always been at its best, and we have been too slow to act on several occasions. This particular signal that the Council is ready to rise …
I welcome to the Council Deputy Prime Ministers Ivica Dacic of Serbia and Hashim Thaci of Kosovo, and I thank them for their statements. I also thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative and the Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his briefing.
Over the past few years, posi…
Mr. President, I thank you for organizing today’s open debate. I would also like to thank our three briefers for their sobering contributions to our discussion today. My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union.
As others before me have said, women and …
Mr. President, I join my colleagues in expressing my delegation’s appreciation to you personally and to your team for your efficient presidency of the Council during this month. A good part of the work of the Council in January was carried out in the form of open debates and open briefings, includin…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this urgent meeting on the situation in Ukraine. Let me also thank Under- Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing and insights into the current situation.
Lithuania condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on Mariupol and extends its since…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing, and I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting in view of the recent deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine and continuous violations of the Minsk agreements. Both Russia and the Russian-sponsored illegal militant…
It is a great pleasure, Madam, to have you presiding over this important debate, which has also attracted such an impressive number of speakers today. I would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassador Antonio Patriota of Brazil, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, and Nobel Peace Pr…
Let me start by welcoming you, Sir, as President of the Security Council. I thank Assistant Secretary-General ad interim Toyberg-Frandzen for his briefing.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union (EU).
Before I turn to the situation in the region, …
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, for their comprehensive briefings. My delegation commends the Chilean presidency of the Security Council for this initiative and welcomes the adoption of presiden…
It is with regret that Lithuania had to abstain in the voting on draft resolution S/2014/916 before the Council today. Our vote should not be understood as an abstention on the solution itself. On the contrary, most elements of the draft resolution constitute a good basis for further collective work…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this open meeting at the request of 10 Member States, including Lithuania. I also thank the Assistant Secretary-Generals Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Ivan Šimonović for their briefings. Lithuania welcomes this public briefing on the situation in the Democratic People’s Rep…
Mr. President, I wish to convey my delegation’s appreciation to you and your team for an efficient and productive presidency of the Council during this month. We are approaching the end of 2014, arguably the most intensive year the Council has ever had. I wish we could conclude this year with a sens…
Whatever pretexts terrorists may employ to justify their murderous acts, there can simply be no justification for what they do. Terrorism is nothing less but an assault on our very humanity. Horrific events, like the massacre of school children in Peshawar three days ago, reinforce the sense of dram…
At the outset, I thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan and his very able team for the 90-day report, as well as for his chairmanship of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) during the last two years. My delegation truly appreciates his efforts in promoting a consultative approach in …
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his first briefing to the Security Council. I extend my delegation’s congratulations to him on his appointment to this post. We wish him and the entire United Nations family on the ground best success…
I thank the Chadian presidency of the Security Council for organizing this open debate on cooperation between regional and subregional organizations on peace operations, with a focus on the United Nations and African Union (AU) partnership.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made …
I would like to thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her report and briefing on the situation in Darfur.
Next year will mark 10 years since the referral of the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC) — 10 years in which the people of Darfur have continued to suffer. The ongoing…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, Ms. Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, for her briefing on the progress towards implementation of the United Nations integrated strategy for the Sahel. I also wish to commend the United Nations Office for West Africa for its dedicated efforts …
I have the honour to report to the Security Council pursuant to paragraph 19 (e) of resolution 2140 (2014) on the work of the Committee from 15 May 2014 to date. This is my second report to the Council.
I will start with the most significant development in the work of the Committee, which occurred …
