We appreciate the opportunity to hear directly from Minister Steinmeier on the priorities that Germany will pursue as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We welcome in particular the Chairperson’s goal of strengthening OSCE capacities in all aspec…
We too thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing, and we commend him for his determination and optimism in carrying forward a very difficult process. We also commend the United States of America and Russia for steering through the cessation of hostilities, which should have taken effect a few mi…
I, too, want to congratulate Venezuela for a very productive and busy month. I will come back to that in a minute.
I want to talk a little about working methods and a little bit about some of the key issues that we have dealt with this month.
On working methods specifically, I want to thank Venezu…
We thank the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for convening this meeting and thank the briefers — Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal.
In the past two decades, our understanding of what makes for effective peacebuilding has grown markedly. It is now accepted that effective political transitions …
We very much welcome this open briefing, which we believe increases transparency and helps implementation. The Somalia sanctions regime has transformed over its long history since the 1990s, and it now fulfils an important role in supporting Somali State-building goals.
As we said in last week’s de…
I welcome you, Foreign Minister Rodríguez Gómez, as our President,
and I also welcome the presence of Ministers from Angola and Spain. We thank Venezuela for organizing today’s open debate. We also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing, which we thoroughly endorse.
The international commun…
New Zealand welcomes the opportunity today to discuss an important and often overlooked aspect of the Council’s work. I thank the Permanent Representative of Sweden and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile for their very useful briefings.
There are 25 subsidiary organs of the Security Counc…
I, too, want to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on the very efficient and effective manner in which you and your team have managed our work during the past month, which has been a very busy one. I also want to commend the new members. I was very impressed at the way that all of them imme…
I thank Foreign Minister Nin Novoa for his presence here and commend Uruguay for convening today’s ministerial-level meeting. I thank also the Secretary-General for his briefing, which made for sobering listening.
New Zealand has been an elected member of the Council for just over a year. During th…
I wish warmly to thank Foreign Minister Nin Novoa, and I welcome Foreign Minister Holguín Cuéllar to the Council today.
New Zealand was very pleased to co-sponsor resolution 2261 (2016) and welcomes its unanimous adoption. The Council’s flexible and quick response to the request for a political mis…
I welcome the President of the Security Council back to New York. We congratulate Uruguay on organizing today’s debate. I also want to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Christine Beerli of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ms. Eveline Rooijmans of Oxfam for their briefings.
As …
I, too, thank Assistant Secretary-General Kang for her briefing.
New Zealand is pleased that, since the Council met on Monday, a second series of aid convoys were able to enter Madaya, Fu’ah and Kafraya yesterday and that a third series of convoys is planned in the next few days. However, as others…
I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed; the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang for their briefings. We welcome the upd…
We, too, thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi of Spain for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Security
Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), and we congratulate him on his energetic leadership of that very important Committee.
This briefing comes at an important …
I would like to thank Special Representative Haysom for his briefing and Ambassador Saikal for his statement.
The situation in Afghanistan is a sobering but compelling demonstration of how hard it is for a country to escape the ravages of civil war, terrorism and the breakdown of civil order, even …
We thank Secretary Kerry and the United States for convening today’s meeting and for preparing the resolution that we adopted today (resolution 2254 (2015)). We also acknowledge and thank the other Foreign Ministers for coming to our meeting today.
We appreciate that this meeting and the resolution…
Let me congratulate you, Secretary Lew, for convening this meeting today of so many finance ministers, and I acknowledge the presence of so many of your colleagues in the Chamber today. Sadly, the New Zealand Minister
of Finance was not able to join you, Mr. President, but he does send his greeting…
We thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Fedotov and Mr. Grono
for their briefings. And I pay tribute to Nadia in the same spirit as others have today. Her testimony is very confronting because of its reality, but it is also confronting to us in our reality in the Council.
When I came to this pl…
New Zealand welcomes the upcoming adoption of the draft outcome document of this high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (A/70L.33). We are pleased to have participated in this revie…
We thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi of Spain for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). New Zealand is a strong supporter of the mandate of the Committee. We commend the Panel of Experts on its good work and encourage both the Committe…
