Mexico thanks President Judge Theodor Meron for the sixth report on the work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals over the past year (see A/73/289), which reflects the Mechanism’s challenges and achievements.
My delegation echoes the words of appreciation expressed by the …
Mexico welcomes the convening of today’s meeting and thanks Kazakhstan for promoting the commemoration of this International Day against Nuclear Tests, because we consider it extremely important that it can serve as a reminder of the pressing need to eliminate not just nuclear tests but nuclear weap…
We thank the presidency of the United Kingdom for convening today’s very important debate. We also thank the Secretary-General and The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, as a member of the Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Board on Mediation, for their b…
Mexico welcomes the conclusion of the process of strengthening the Economic and Social Council and thanks the facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of Iceland and Qatar, for their efforts to reach a consensus text (resolution 72/305).
Before the start of this process, Mexico circulated a prop…
We thank Sweden for convening today’s open debate. We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2427 (2018) , which Mexico co-sponsored, and we welcome the recommendations contained in
the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/465) to help consolidate concrete actions for the protection of chi…
Mexico wishes to acknowledge the work of the delegations of Jordan and Finland in facilitating the consultation process leading to the sixth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Mexico believes that this process serves to advance an open and constructive dialogue that enab…
Mexico welcomes this first formal debate of the General Assembly on the responsibility to protect and the report of the Secretary-General, entitled “Responsibility to protect: from early warning to early action” (A/72/884).
We support the statement on behalf of the Group of Friends on the Responsib…
Mexico appreciates the Secretary-General’s introduction of his report (A/72/815) on the progress achieved in the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS. We welcome the progress achieved at the global level in meeting the 10 commitments …
Mexico would like to congratulate the facilitators, the Ambassadors of Algeria and Denmark, and their teams, as well as the Ambassador of Egypt.
On this important occasion we welcome the adoption of resolution 72/279, on the reform of the United Nations development system, because we believe in it.…
I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/72/L.54, entitled “Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”. The text outlines the links between our Organization and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and lays out a vision for the future wit…
Mexico is grateful to Poland for convening this important debate on respect for international law in the context of maintaining international peace and security.
International law is the essential foundation on which cooperative and friendly relations between States Members of the United Nations ar…
I take the floor on behalf of the Group of Friends of Sustaining Peace, an informal cross-regional group that brings together 40 Member States focused on deepening the dialogue and implementation of sustaining peace as a goal and a process.
We express our appreciation to the Secretary- General and …
We wish to express our gratitude to Peru for convening today’s open debate, to the Secretary- General’s Envoy on Youth for her briefing, and to Mr. Graeme Simpson for his presentation of the progress study on youth, peace and security (see S/2018/86), which reaffirms the important and positive role …
Mexico affirms that sexual violence in conflict, whether it is a tactic of war, an act of terrorism or criminal violence, is an abhorrent act and a flagrant and unacceptable violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
We appreciate Peru’s convening of today’s ope…
We thank the Netherlands for convening this timely high-level open debate, since it offers us the opportunity to highlight the importance of collective partnership in the implementation and improvement of the mandates of the United Nations peacekeeping operations.
In 2016, the number of violent con…
I thank Kuwait for this opportunity to participate in the open debate on the working methods of the Security Council and to exchange views on the topic.
By virtue of Article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations, we members conferred upon the Security Council the primary responsibility for the ma…
One of the greatest challenges that our Organization faces is anticipating challenges and preparing for their impact in a timely manner. In general, we react instead of preventing. Even when there are clear indicators, we often decide to ignore them due to our rigid mindset. That is the case with te…
We thank Japan for convening this open debate on a topic of great relevance to the United Nations, given that the world is at a critical crossroads where international peace and security are under threat.
In recent years, Security Council members have discussed the need to address the root causes a…
We need to have absolute clarity regarding the procedure that we are going to follow. We should like to ask whether the draft amendment to document A/72/L.37 has been withdrawn, or whether we will be voting on that amendment. We also heard the proposal of an oral amendment by deletion of the twenty-…
We thank Mr. Miroslav Lajčák for convening, during the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, this debate on one of the most important pending items of the United Nations: reforming the Security Council to bring it in line with the twenty- first century — a time when democracy, equality and…
