Please allow me to congratulate Malaysia on having organized this public debate. Resolution 2225 (2015), just adopted today by the Security Council, is a key contribution to strengthening the agenda on children and armed conflicts, which, as is well known, is of particular importance to Luxembourg. …
Allow me to thank Jordan for having taken the initiative of convening this open debate under the presidency of His Majesty Crown King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein. The Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Neumann and Mr. Scott Atran illustrated the importance of this debate by identifying the role of youth in…
Allow me at the outset to thank Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil and outgoing Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PCB), for his commitment throughout 2014. I wish Ambassador Olof Skoog, Permanent Representative of Sweden, every success as Chair of the Comm…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Zainab Bangura, as well as the representative of civil society, Ms. Hamsatu Allamin, for their briefings and for their daily commitment. I am grateful to the Jordanian presidency for convening this important o…
At the outset, I would like to thank France for organizing this open debate on a topic of concern to all of us. I also want to thank the speakers who bore witness today to the violence that minorities are suffering in the Middle East. Luxembourg fully supports the statement made by the observer of t…
Allow me to thank France for organizing this public debate on the plight of children in armed conflict and all those who have taken the floor and shed light on the situation, in particular Mr. Junior Nzita, a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Luxembourg associates itse…
Allow me to thank Chile for organizing this open debate on the protection of civilians, and for choosing to focus on the specific needs of women and girls in armed conflict and post-conflict settings.
Luxembourg fully associates itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union.
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I should like to congratulate Chile on having organized this open debate on the topic of inclusive development, which is of fundamental importance to the maintenance of international peace and security. The Secretary- General, the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and Ms. Leymah Gbowee, recipien…
In July of last year, after three years of stagnation, the United States administration had extracted an agreement on a resumption of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. We all began to hope again. Nine months later, despite intense negotiations and the tireless efforts of Secreta…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for taking the necessary steps to ensure that the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea could be formally placed on the Council’s agenda and this briefing meeting held at the request of 10 members of the Council, including my cou…
As 2014 draws to a close and the Chadian presidency of the Security Council reaches the end of its term, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and your entire team for the excellent role you have played in guiding our work.
Since this is the last wrap-up session in which we are taking part as a no…
I would like to congratulate your country, Sir, Chad, for having organized, during its presidency of the Security Council, this open debate on a very crucial issue: the fight against terrorism and cross-border organized crime, two scourges that mutually reinforce each other, particularly in Africa a…
Like others before me, I, too, would like to thank the Permanent Representative of Australia, Ambassador Gary Quinlan, for his briefing. I would also like to congratulate him and his entire team for the excellent work they have achieved in the past two years as Chair of the Committee established pur…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Nicholas Haysom, for his briefing. I wish him a warm welcome to the Council in his new role. I also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, and the Permanent Representative of Afghanista…
I should like at the outset to join those who have condemned in the firmest possible manner today’s cowardly terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, which killed many innocent children and wounded numerous others. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families of the victims and to …
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for the presentation of her twentieth report on the situation in Darfur and the judicial proceedings in progress.
Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the referral to the International Criminal Court by th…
I thank Chad for having convened this meeting devoted to the Sahel under its presidency of the Security Council. My thanks also go to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Ms. Guebre Sellassie, for her briefing on the progress achieved in the implementation of the United Nations integrated str…
I thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for
their reports (see S/2014/546, S/2014/556, S/2014/827 and S/2014/829) and comprehensive briefings on the work of the Tribunals and stra…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this briefing, which allows me to review the work accomplished as Chair of two subsidiary bodies of the Security Council in 2013 and 2014.
I would like to begin by sharing my ideas as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution …
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of Serbia, and His Excellency Mr. Hashim T…
