We would like to thank Special Representative Abou Moussa for his briefing and for his invaluable work as the Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). We also extend our gratitude to the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Lord’s Resistan…
We are deeply appreciative of the efforts made by the Permanent Representative of Canada, Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski, facilitator of the Counter-Terrorism Strategy review consultations, towards a consensus resolution on the review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
The d…
As always, today’s debate carries with it a very interesting sense of timing and history and, of course, of the important, essential aspects of the United Nations and its contribution — as well as that of the rest of the world — in Afghanistan. We are as ever grateful to Ambassador Zahir Tanin for h…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate and for your able stewardship of the Council this month. We welcome His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Guatemala to the Council. We thank the Secretary-General and the other briefers for their statements.
It has been over a decad…
Today is a very appropriate time to address the situation of peacekeepers, as well as to meet with them and hear some of their opinions. We thank Mr. Ladsous and we thank and welcome all the Force Commanders for their insightful briefings, their clarity and incisiveness in presenting perspectives on…
We thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for the 90-day report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), covering the period from 21 March to 11 June 2012. We are studying the final report (S/2012/395) of the Panel of Experts that was presented to the Committee last …
Despite considerable gains in different parts of the world, we are not likely to achieve our shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths in the near future.
The overall thrust of the Secretary-General’s latest report (A/66/757) is positive with regard …
I would like to join other members of the Council in thanking our briefers this morning, Judge Meron, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the two Prosecutors, Mr. Brammertz an…
On behalf of the Pakistan delegation, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on China’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for June. Let me also express our appreciation for the able manner in which Azerbaijan led the Council’s work last month. We would like to acknowledge the pres…
Let me begin by thanking Mr. Moreno-Ocampo for his briefing today. We have taken note of his third report to the Security Council, submitted pursuant to paragraph 7 of resolution 1970 (2011).
At the outset, I should like to mention that Pakistan is not a signatory to the Rome Statute or a member of…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for arranging today’s meeting. We warmly welcome His Excellency President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to the Security Council and thank him for his briefing. Our appreciation also goes to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Augustine
Mahiga and his team…
We would like to join other Council members in thanking High Representative Valentin Inzko for his report (see S/2012/307) and for his briefing this afternoon.
Pakistan is fully committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We therefore support all efforts to str…
We thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his briefing. We welcome Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia, and Mr. Enver Hoxhaj to the Council.
We are pleased to note that the overall situation in Kosovo has remained stable during the past four m…
I would like to thank Ambassador Peter Wittig, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri and Ambassador Baso Sangqu for their briefings today. We appreciate the coordination among the three Committees and their efforts in promoting greater transparency and dialogue with Member States concerning their respective…
We would like to extend a warm welcome to you, Mr. President. Your presence in presiding over this meeting testifies to your strong commitment to the work of the Security Council and the importance that we collectively attach to strengthening international cooperation on counter- terrorism. Let me t…
Allow me to begin by reiterating our congratulations to you and your
delegation, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month, as well as our appreciation to Ambassador Rice and the United States delegation for their work in leading the Council last month.
The deter…
At the outset, we would like to associate ourselves with the letter (S/2012/257) sent to the Security Council by the Permanent Representative of Egypt on behalf of the Member States of the Non-Aligned Movement regarding the theme of this open debate. We also thank the Secretary- General for his brie…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having convened today’s debate.
We align ourselves with the statements to be delivered by the Permanent Representatives of Egypt and Kazakhstan on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, respectively.
Pakistan contin…
Let me begin by thanking the Kingdom of Morocco for its condolences on yesterday’s tragic air crash in Pakistan.
Pakistan welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2043 (2012), which builds on resolution 2042 (2012) and earlier agreements of the Council. Today we have taken another significant …
We thank the United States of America for convening this meeting and we take note of the briefing by the Secretary-General.
Pakistan is fully committed to nuclear security. We are active participants in global nuclear security efforts and in the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency …
