We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine Mahiga, for the valuable information he has provided, and we welcome him to the Council. We also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, Mr. Moses Wetangula, and the Permanent Representative of…
Like previous speakers, I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Edmund Mulet for his very comprehensive briefing and the commendable work that he has undertaken as head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). I also hail the presence of Ambassador Mérorès at this Security Coun…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting. We thank Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, and the commanders of the peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Sudan and of the United Nations Truce Sup…
Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August, and by thanking Ambassador Joy Ogwu and the Nigerian delegation for their work over the past month. I thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secreta…
Mexico voted in favour of resolution 64/292 as we believe that access to safe drinking water and sanitation is a matter of high priority and we share the spirit of the text presented by Bolivia and the other sponsors.
Mexico recognizes that access to safe drinking water and sanitation are part and …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements.
The events that have taken place in recent weeks confirm once again that the internatio…
We are thankful to you, Mr. Minister, and to your delegation for taking the initiative of holding a thematic debate on a subject that is of great importance on the international peace and security agenda. We are likewise grateful for the statements by Deputy Secretary-General Migiro and Ms. Cliffe, …
I would like to thank you, Madam President, and the delegation of Nigeria for convening this debate. I would also like to express my gratitude for the briefings by Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, Under-Secretary-General Holmes and High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay, which have once again serv…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Madam President, for your kind comments to my Ambassador, Ambassador Claude Heller, regarding the manner in which he served as Council President in June and by wishing you every success during the month of July. I also wish to endorse what other delegations hav…
Mexico welcomes the Assembly’s adoption by consensus of resolution 64/289 on system-wide coherence, establishing the new gender entity UN Women. Its broad mandate and necessary leadership in promoting the gender perspective throughout the United Nations system will give new impetus to a topic that i…
Ten years ago, the community of nations
demonstrated its determination to confront transnational organized crime by arming itself with a more effective legal framework to combat it. The Palermo Convention and its three complementary Protocols form the broadest and most concrete international instru…
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Chile on behalf of the Rio Group. Let me just add a few comments on how the epidemic has unfolded in Mexico and on the response of our national health and education authorities, particularly in the areas of preven…
We welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey and appreciate the briefing that Mr. Fernandez-Taranco presented to us.
We are dismayed and surprised by the grave events that took place along the coasts of the Mediterranean off the Gaza Strip today. We condemn in the strongest…
We highly appreciate your presence in the Security Council today, Sir, and thank the Government of Lebanon for its initiative of organizing this important meeting of the Council, at which we have the opportunity to reflect on a topic that is and should be of particular importance to the Organization…
At the outset, I too would like to welcome among us Mr. Haris Silajdžić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank them for their stat…
We welcome the presence of President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti. We welcome his initiative to address the Security Council. We feel that it is extremely valuable for the Security Council to obtain directly from the region’s leaders the information and inputs it needs to shape it…
Like other speakers, I welcome Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and thank him for his statement. I also thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for introducing the Secretary-General’s report (S/2010/169), and Mr. Skender Hyseni …
We welcome Mr. Abdurahman Ibrahim, First Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, and his delegation, as well as Ambassador Lamamra, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union. We listened very carefully to their briefings. We once again appreciate the valuable information provided by Special…
I wish at the outset to welcome Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, and to thank her for the information she has shared with us. I also thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria for his statement here today.
Of late, our debat…
Mexico joined the consensus on resolution 1920 (2010), which we have just adopted, thus expressing our support to the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and the steps taken by the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General to find a final solution to the question of W…
