I too thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his statement and for the commitment he has shown with his team as the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). The Committee’s work is highly important.
Luxembourg expresses its appreciation to the Panel of Expe…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing and for his work as Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Yury…
I, too, thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs, and Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for their briefings.
Luxembourg welcomes the resolute action taken by the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, t…
I thank Russia for organizing this meeting on the Sahel under its presidency of the Security Council. My thanks also go to the new Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Sahel, Ms. Guebre Sellassie, for her introduction of the report of the Secretary-General on the progress achieved in impl…
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for presenting her nineteenth report on the situation in Darfur and the Court’s ongoing judicial activities.
The Council is meeting again at a time when the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Cou…
Luxembourg thanks the Russian Federation for taking the initiative to organize this debate on peacekeeping operations, an important topic that comes directly under the purview of the Security Council. I also thank the Secretary-General for his statement and for his personal commitment, within the co…
I too would like to thank Presidents Meron and Joensen and Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow for their briefings and reports on the activities of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). I also thank them for the informatio…
At the outset, I would like to join others in thanking Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaité, Ambassador Gary Quinlan and you, Mr. President, Ambassador Oh Joon, for the briefings and the commitment with which all have presided over the Committees established
under resolutions 1373 (2001), 1267 (1999) and…
I too would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, , Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, for his intervention.
Luxembourg welcomes the holding on 25 May of the presidential election, during which the Ukrainian people expressed their will. The election featured a high voter turnout and a …
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I welcome the President of Kosovo, Her Excellency Ms. Atifete Jahjaga, and the President of Serbia, His Excellen…
For over three years, Syria has been foundering each day a little further into the horror of an indiscriminate violence that kills in a climate of absolute impunity. That absolute impunity is one of the reasons that the parties to the conflict in Syria continue to engage in a bloodbath in which civi…
I too thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, for his briefing and commitment.
Luxembourg associates itself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union.
The High Representative has painted a bleak picture of the situation in Bosnia and Herz…
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for introducing her seventh report under resolution 1970 (2011). Luxembourg fully supports the objectives that the Prosecutor has presented. I reiterate to her our full support.
After 40 years of dictatorship, bui…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the Regional United Nations Office for Central Africa, Mr. Abou Moussa, for his briefing. Since this is his last statement before the Council in that capacity, I would like to take this opportunity to commend his work to promote…
Luxembourg commends the Republic of Korea for taking the initiative to organize this open debate on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1540 (2004). Your presence, Sir, bears witness to the commitment of your country to the
non-proliferation of weapons of mass destru…
I want to thank Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Mr. Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, for their poignant words, which illustrate both the gravity of the situation in South Sudan and the…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, for his briefing.
The situation in eastern Ukraine is deteriorating in a worrying manner. Everything must be done so that it does not degenerate into an open conflict with incalculable consequences for international pea…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Robert Serry, for his briefing.
Luxembourg fully associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union.
The peace process in the Middle East is at a critical stage. The settlements are expan…
I join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the developments concerning Ukraine. We share his assessment that the situation in eastern Ukraine is deteriorating alarmingly, especially in Kharkiv, Luhansk and in the Donetsk area. We a…
Luxembourg welcomes the Nigerian delegation’s initiative in organizing today’s public debate. The presence here today of the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs emphasizes the importance that Nigeria attaches to security sector reform. Mr. President, we welcome your leadership in the area. I also…
