Allow me to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, and the people of the Dominican Republic on your elected membership of the Security Council and for having convened this debate on an issue that, as you know, is very close to our hearts. With its membership on the Council, the Dominican Republic h…
On behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I would like to express our sincere thanks to Côte d’Ivoire for organizing this briefing. We wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun and Ambassador Vieira for their informative briefings.
Please allow me to focus on three important points in r…
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is pleased that the Council has ultimately been able to adopt unanimously a text that will increase the chances for peace in Yemen.
In line with resolution 2417 (2018), on the link between conflict and hunger, resolution 2451 (2018) calls on the parties to allow and f…
I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/73/L.72, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”, on behalf of approximately 40 sponsors.
The United Nations is the principal Organization dealing with matters relating to peace,…
Allow me at the outset to thank Côte d’Ivoire for having organized this briefing in a timely fashion. I also wish to thank all speakers for their briefings.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands wishes to emphasize the following three points: first, the need for an integrated and coordinated approach to t…
We thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing. On behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, we thank him for his leadership, dedication, tenacity and commitment during his tenure as Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria. He has our fullest admiration. Under the most difficul…
The Kingdom of the Netherlands aligns itself with the statement delivered yesterday by the observer of the European Union (see A/73/PV.59), and I would like to add the following additional remarks in my national capacity.
First, we would like to thank the President of the General Assembly as well a…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting. I also would like to thank the Mr. Fedotov, Executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for his very informative briefing.
Transnational organized crime causes and aggravates conflict, and that was on…
First of all, we thank Mr. Lacroix for his detailed briefing. Let me also at the outset express our appreciation for the work that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been doing since the discovery of the tunnels. We especially commend the able leadership of Force Commander Majo…
On behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Lacroix; Her Excellency Ms. Joanna Wronecka; and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, for their valuable …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
As we commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, we should take a mom…
First of all, let me thank Nickolay Mladenov for his frank and sobering briefing on the developments of the past months, including on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016). In that regard, let me refer to the letter (S/2018/454) that was sent to the Secretary-General in May, signed by 10 Secu…
I would like to start by thanking Special Representative Yamamoto and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings. I also thank Ambassador Umarov of Kazakhstan for his annual briefing on the excellent work of the Security Council Committee established
pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011). I would …
I would first like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean Pierre Lacroix for his briefing and welcome President Vučić of the Republic of Serbia and President Thaçi of the Republic of Kosovo to the Council. I will focus on three points — first, the sovereignty of Kosovo; secondly, the background to t…
I have had the honour this year to serve both as the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), on sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and as the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), on Iran. I thank the Counci…
Let me first welcome the new Permanent Representative of Yemen to the Security Council and to wish him success in his new function. We thank Martin Griffiths and Mark Lowcock for their informative briefings. They presented us with a message of hope but also one of continued extreme human suffering o…
The Kingdom of the Netherlands joins others in welcoming the Prosecutor back to the Security Council. We thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her briefing and her report.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands wishes to avail itself of this opportunity to reiterate its full support for the International Cri…
I would like to thank Mr. Lowcock for his sobering briefing.
In March, I had the honour to speak in this Chamber for the first time (see S/PV.8217). The same topic was on the agenda: the humanitarian crisis in Syria. I am addressing the Security Council today in the knowledge that this situation wi…
First, allow me to thank Special Representative Fall and Ms. Ghelani of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their very clear briefings today. Let me also thank their teams for the very important work that they are doing.
I will focus on three issues today: fir…
As we gather in this Chamber this afternoon, more than half of the people of the Central African Republic are fleeing the ongoing violence there. The attacks on civilians, peacekeepers and humanitarian workers continue, despite the peace process led by the African Union Initiative for Peace and Reco…
