I want to join others in acknowledging the presence of Deputy Foreign Minister Ludin and to thank him very much for his inspiring statement. I would also like to thank former Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura, not only for his remarkable success but especially for t…
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to brief the Security Council on my reflections as Chair of both the Council’s Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003), concerning Iraq and Kuwait.
I…
Nigeria appreciates the importance of this agenda item at a time when economies across the globe are grappling with the ongoing recession and its consequences. My delegation associates itself with the statements made by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and the r…
Let me join others in thanking the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their instructive briefings on the work of both Tribunals.
Nigeria welcomes the substantial progress ma…
Mr. President, allow me to convey our appreciation to you for having convened this timely debate on the working methods of the Security Council. We also appreciate the precise concept paper (S/2011/726) circulated by your delegation in advance of this discussion.
Reforming the working methods of th…
I would like to thank Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, for his insightful remarks. I also thank Mr. Enver Hoxhaj for his statement. I congratulate Mr. Farid Zarif on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and thank him for the update on the situation i…
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this seminal meeting to undertake a strategic review of emerging challenges to international security. I am grateful to the Secretary- General for his statement. I also thank Mr. Fedotov, Ms. Chan and Mr. Guterres, whose incisive contributions have i…
I am grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the Portuguese delegation for convening this timely meeting of the Security Council on Timor-Leste. I would also like to thank Mr. Da
Costa, the Timorese Minister for Foreign Affairs, for his pertinent contributions to today’s discussion. I also thank Ms.…
I would also like to join others in thanking Mr. Valentin Inzko, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his very succinct briefing. We appreciate very much his contributions to the efforts to consolidate peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, indeed, in the entire region…
I join others in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abou Moussa, for his comprehensive briefing. We are also grateful to Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma and Ambassador Téte António for their very inspiring and constructive contributions to our discussions this morning.
The dev…
I would like to thank the Permanent Representatives of Germany, India and South Africa for their very insightful briefings on the activities of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), respectively.
Nigeria commends the 1373 Committee, under the d…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for convening this important meeting. We welcome his commitment to move the reform of the Security Council forward during the Assembly’s current session. We therefore welcome the early decision to reappoint Amb…
Let me join others in welcoming President Silva to the Council and thanking him for his statement. The Nigerian delegation is grateful to Portugal for bringing us together to address an important and integral component of our common efforts to maintain international peace and security. Increasingly,…
Allow me, Mr. President, to convey the very warm congratulations of my delegation to you on your assumption of the Presidency of the Council and to assure you of our unalloyed support. We are also grateful to Mr. Moreno-Ocampo for his second report pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), which outlines …
I thank the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his statement on the work of the Agency in the past year.
I would also like to convey my country’s appreciation for the initiatives of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with regard to the effort to prevent future tragedie…
I wish on behalf of my delegation to commend President Al-Nasser for the effective conduct of the affairs of the General Assembly since the beginning of this session, and to state that I feel highly honoured to have the opportunity to address the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session on this i…
On behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, let me extend our sincere appreciation to Mr. Owada, President of the International Court of Justice, for his comprehensive and incisive report on the activities of the Court (A/66/4).
As a peace-loving State, Nigeria expresses its resolve and unequivoc…
Nigeria voted in favour of resolution 66/6. I would like to highlight the following salient issues that informed our action. Before doing so, however, let me commend the Secretary-General for his report (A/66/114) on the implementation of resolution 65/6, which calls for an end to the unilateral imp…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his reports contained in documents A/66/202 and A/66/214, as well as for the organization of this debate.
Nigeria associates itself with the statement made at the 32nd plenary meeting by the representative of Kenya on beh…
My delegation welcomes Foreign Minister Rassoul to this meeting and thanks him especially for his very important statement. I would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Staffan de Mistura for his very comprehensive briefing.
Our intervention this morning will focus on …
