Today is indeed an important day for the peaceful resolution of the situation in Syria. It is also proof that the Security Council can indeed come together to fulfil its role in the global scheme of things. We are deeply appreciative of the spirit of accommodation exhibited by all Security Council m…
We thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his briefing to the Council this morning. Allow me to take this first opportunity as a new Council member to offer our perspective on the various Security Council resolutions relating to Iran and on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 17…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate. We commend you for your able stewardship of the Council. We are grateful to Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement. We also thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Ján Kubiš for his presentation to the Security Council…
I wish to thank the President for having convened today’s debate. We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Rwanda for his able stewardship of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011. We also extend our best wishes to the present Chairperson, the Permanent…
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to Mr. William Hague and the
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom for convening today’s high-level debate. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the Secretary- General and the honourable Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the United…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mariano Fernández for his very insightful briefing. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/128). From the opinions we have heard around the table today, it is clear that there is a shared objective…
We warmly felicitate the delegation of the United Kingdom on its assumption of the Security Council’s presidency for this month. We welcome you, Sir, as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom. We also thank Togo for its sterling stewar…
We thank the delegation of Togo for organizing this meeting on an issue of key importance to the States of West and Central Africa. Our thanks also go to Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. We are also grateful to Mr. Abdel Fatau Musah and Mrs. Florenti…
Spawned by misanthropism, sexual or gender-based violence in any form and in any society is reprehensible. Such crimes assume a more sinister dimension when employed as tactics of war and tools of humiliation during armed conflicts. All parties to a conflict have the moral and legal responsibility t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for holding this debate on Timor-Leste. We join other Council members in welcoming His Excellency Mr. José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, to the Security Council. I would also like to offer heartfelt condolences upon the demise of his brother-in-law. We also thank…
The Pakistani delegation thanks the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Executive Director of the United Nations
Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for their briefings.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is a serious problem that threatens maritime traffic in the Horn of Africa, endange…
May I congratulate Togo and the President for being with us today, which is testimony to the importance of the issue that the Security Council faces today. I believe that, by and large, all those who have spoken so far have been fully supportive of this timely initiative.
I would like to thank Mr. …
Pakistan has acceded to the collective wisdom of our brothers in the Arab world
and voted in favour of resolution 66/253. We share the concerns of the international community on the situation in Syria. Continued violence and bloodshed cannot be condoned. We strongly condemn the use of force against…
I would like to join the other speakers in thanking Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland and Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), for his comprehensive briefing on the programme of work of t…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Edmond Mulet for his briefing on Kosovo for the period from October 2011 to January 2012. We would also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia, and Mr. Enver Hoxhaj for their statements. We also note the participation of the Spec…
Many congratulations, Mr. President, on assuming the post of Council President, and with such an important world issue at the very start of your tenure.
The problem in Syria has assumed dimensions that are not only regrettable but condemnable. We have to understand that while we have made civilizat…
At the outset, let me extend a very warm welcome to His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar, and His Excellency Mr. Nabil Elaraby, Secretary- General of the League of Arab States, and thank them for sparing their valuable time to brief the Council.
Pakistan…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the report of the assessment mission to the Sahel (S/2012/42). The report provides a basis for discussing the challenges facing the region in the aftermath of the Libyan crisis.
Pakistan is extremely concerned at the repo…
I welcome you, Sir, to the Security Council and thank you for convening today’s debate.
I should like to thank Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for a very difficult assessment, which he gave in a very honest fashion. I also align my delegation with the statements to be delivered by the representatives of Eg…
Pakistan welcomes this debate and is grateful to the South African presidency for its initiative. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict
societies (S/2011/634*), and for his statement this morning.
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