Mexico welcomes the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly (A/64/903) and notes the excellent work of the co-Chairs, Permanent Representatives Ms. Sanja Štiglic of Slovenia and Mr. Jorge Argüello of Argentina. Similarly, my delegation welcomes the adoption o…
I would like to join previous speakers in thanking Under- Secretaries-General Valerie Amos and Alain Le Roy for their very valuable briefings. I would also like especially to welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Pillay and Mr. Daccord.
The great number and complexity of contemporary …
At the outset, I wish to thank you and your delegation, Mr. President, for having organized this timely debate on the Sudan, which is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive topics on the agenda of the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General and former President Thabo Mbeki for the informatio…
In addition to the information presented in the joint
briefing that was presented by our colleague from Austria, I am pleased, in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), to summarize the main developments in the work of the Committee since the last j…
I would like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his briefing. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign affairs of Serbia, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, and that of Mrs. Vlora Çitaku.
Mexico recognizes the important work car…
At the outset, allow me to thank the President of the Assembly for having organized this joint debate, which provides Member States with an opportunity to address both the content of the annual report of the Security Council (A/65/2), of which Mexico has been an elected member since 2009, and the re…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Mr. Nebojša Radmanović, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would also like to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Special Representative of the European Union for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to tha…
I would like to thank the President of the Human Rights Council for presenting the Council’s report to the General Assembly, in accordance with the
relevance that must be given to the protection and promotion of human rights as one of the pillars of our Organization. We welcome the report on the ac…
Mexico fully aligns itself with the statements made by the delegation of the Netherlands on behalf of several States and by the delegation of Australia on behalf of those countries participating in the initiative on disarmament and non-proliferation.
Mexico also welcomes the action taken by the Sec…
Mexico would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyung Song, for the presentation of the Court’s sixth annual report (see A/65/313) to the General Assembly.
We welcome the recent accession of four States to the Statute, namely, Bangladesh, Saint Lucia, Seyche…
The delegation of Mexico would like to commend the International Court of Justice for the difficult work it carried out this year. Moreover, Mexico welcomes the appointment of Xue Hanqin and Joan Donoghue as the new Judges of the Court, replacing Judges Shi Jiuyong and Thomas Buergenthal, respective…
I am grateful for the valuable introductory remarks made by the Secretary-General, Michelle Bachelet, Alain Le Roy, Ambassador Hamidon Ali and Thelma Awori. I also thank Mr. Eriya Kategaya, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Uganda, for having convened this very important debate.
I should like to c…
I should like to join previous speakers, Sir, in thanking your country for its leadership on the issue before us today and for having convened this very timely debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for the information he presented to us. We again welcome Ambassador Lamamra to the Security Counc…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ameerah Haq, for her briefing today and for her commitment to fulfilling her mandate. We would also like to thank Ambassador Borges, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste, for her contribution.
I believ…
I thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for the briefing he has given us, as well as the representatives of Israel and the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine for their statements.
For decades, the international community has witnessed wars, tension and violence in the Middle East, quite often without ha…
We thank you, Mr. President, and your delegation for having organized this meeting. We welcome the statements by the Secretary-General and Ambassador Wittig, Permanent Representative of Germany, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission.
My delegation acknowledges the value of …
We thank Ambassador Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, for his briefing and for his commitment to peace and stability in Afghanistan. We also thank Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, to whose statement we listened attent…
Let me begin by conveying the warm congratulations of the delegation of Mexico to Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election as President of the General Assembly at this new session. I also wish to express our appreciation to
his predecessor, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, for his work, and our appreciation and s…
Thank you, Mr. President, for those kind words. And I wish to thank you, Minister Davutoğlu, and your delegation for the initiative of holding this important debate. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for the information he has provided to the Council.
Numerous attacks and recent failed att…
We wish at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene this meeting of the Security Council to debate at the highest level the issue of strengthening of the role of the Council in the maintenance of peace and security. We also thank your delegation for its gui…
