I wish to thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s timely
and important debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his thoughtful briefing to guide our deliberations.
The negative consequences of the misuse of arms — small, light or heavy — are well known and amply doc…
Mr. President, my delegation thanks you for having convened this important debate. Violent extremism has emerged as one of the most complex challenges of our time. It has claimed innocent lives, caused wide-scale destruction and disrupted social order as well as State structures. Its scope, nature, …
The Pakistan delegation thanks the Foreign Minister of Jordan for presiding over this meeting earlier. We also thank the Secretary- General for his perceptive briefing to the Council.
The Middle East is the cradle of human civilization. Today, sadly, it appears to have become the cradle of chaos — …
We commend Ambassador Patriota of Brazil, former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), and Ambassador Skoog of Sweden, the current Chair, for their statements and contribution to the work of the Commission. We would also like to put on record our deepest appreciation for the dedicated support…
We appreciate the presence of your Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. President, today in the Council for the deliberations on this vital issue. We have heard the statements of the Secretary-
General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with great interest.
The recent escalatio…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s important debate. We appreciate the insightful briefings by the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, as well as the perspective provided by the Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and civil society representatives. We hope that our deli…
It is an honour to make my maiden statement in the Security Council on the vital issue of Afghanistan and under your skilled presidency, Mr. President.
We thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2015/151). We welcome the perceptive briefing by Special Representative of the Secretary-General N…
First of all, Sir, I would ask you to kindly convey our warm welcome to Foreign Minister Wang Yi, as well as our utmost pleasure at seeing him chairing this open debate of the Security Council. His presence in this organ is reflective of China’s unwavering commitment to the Charter of the United Nat…
We thank Chile for having organized this important debate and Assistant Secretary-General Kyung-wha Kang for her insightful statement earlier today. The briefings by Ms. Helen Durham, of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Ms. Ilwad Elman, of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and S…
We are honoured that Micheline Bachelet, President of Chile, has presided over this important Security Council debate. We thank Ambassador Patriota and Ms. Gbowee for their insightful briefings.
Peace and security, development and human rights are the three pillars of the United Nations system and …
Over the past several months, we have seen both positive and negative developments with regard to Palestine. The Palestinian Authority has ratified more than a dozen major international treaties and conventions, including the Geneva Conventions, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuma…
I thank you very much, Mr. President, for convening this very important debate here in the Security Council.
Let me first thank my colleagues for their words of sympathy and support for Pakistan. This debate comes in the wake of the heinous and horrendous act of terrorism in Peshawar, Pakistan, an …
At the outset, allow me to thank everyone for all the words of support and sympathy that we have received and heard on the horrendous terror attack in Pakistan.
We welcome to the Council Mr. Haysom as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General. We thank him for his briefing. We look fo…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chad and the members of the Security Council for their condolences and sympathies regarding the horrendous terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar this morning. It was a heinous, unconscionable act of savag…
It is my great honour to join the Permanent Representative of the Philippines, Mr. Libran Cabactulan, in introducing the draft resolution entitled “Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace” (A/69/L.41).
Following last-minute consultations with …
We thank the General Assembly for giving observer status to the Developing Eight Countries Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8) in the General Assembly. We are grateful to all members of the General Assembly for unanimously adopting this resolution (resolution 69/129).
The D-8 Organization h…
At the outset, I thank the President of the General Assembly for having convened this very important debate on
agenda item 74, concerning the oceans and the law of the sea and sustainable fisheries. In this context, the importance of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as the multil…
Today Pakistan expresses its full solidarity with the people of Palestine. The people of Pakistan steadfastly stand by Palestine in its quest to fulfil its legitimate aspiration to enjoy the right to self-determination and full statehood.
The Palestinians continue to pass through a dark chapter in …
Let me first thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting on the report of the Security Council (A/69/2). We are grateful to the President of the Security Council, Ambassador Gary
Quinlan of Australia, for presenting and elaborating on the report.
The Security Council acts on behalf of all States Me…
I have the distinct honour to make a statement on behalf of the States members of the Group of Asia-Pacific States, all of which have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We thank you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention. We…
