I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Aristides Gomes, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, to the Council today, and to thank our briefers, Special Representative Filho, Ambassadors Vieira and Ndong Mba and Ms. Tavares Pinto, for their valuable remarks.
More than three months ago, in mid-May, we …
At the outset, let me thank the Secretary General, as well as The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ms. Mossarat Qadeem, for their valuable briefings. I would also like to express our appreciation to the presidency for choosing the topic of today’s debate…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Mr. Tegegnework Gettu for their detailed briefings and remarks. I also welcome to the Council and thank Ms. Cate Blanchett, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador, for her invaluable remarks.
It has been a year since the mos…
At the outset, allow me to thank our briefer, Mr. John Ging, for his comprehensive analysis.
First, let me very briefly underline once again our strong support for the relaunching of a United Nations- facilitated political process for Syria. We strongly support a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned inclusi…
I would like to begin by extending my thanks to the briefers: the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui; Monseigneur Marcel Utembi, President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo; and Ms. Solange Lwashiga Furaha, spokesperson for Rien Sans Les Femmes, for th…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov, Executive Director Michéle Coninsx and Ms. Joana Cook for their informative briefings. Let me also express my gratitude to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team and …
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing.
Noting the adoption of the new Constitution through a referendum on 17 May, as well as the concerns about
the compatibility of some of its provisions with the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, Poland welco…
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and to assure you of our full support. I would also like to thank the delegation of Sweden for leading the Council through the month of July in an exemplary manner. I would like to thank Special En…
I should like to thank Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock and Special Representative Virginia Gamba for their impressive briefings. We deeply appreciate their dedicated service.
Even as we meet today to discuss once again the humanitarian situation in Syria, military logic, unfortunately, continu…
I would like to begin by extending my thanks to Special Representative Leila Zerrougui, Ambassador of Kuwait Mansour Ayyad Alotaibi and Ms. Justine Masika Bihamba for their important and very informative briefings.
The upcoming months will be critical in preserving all efforts made by international…
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Óscar Naranjo, Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, to today’s Council meeting. Let me also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jean Arnault, for a very informative briefing.
The presidential and legislative elections that…
At the outset, let me thank Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for, as always, a very comprehensive and insightful briefing.
I would also like to align myself with the statement of the European Union to be delivered later on in today’s meeting.
Despite our constant calls for de-escalation in th…
Let me begin by joining other speakers in thanking Special Representative Zewde and African Union (AU) Commissioner Chergui for their insightful briefings. Allow me also to take this opportunity to congratulate Ms. Zewde on her new appointment and wish her every success in fulfilling her mandate, in…
Poland voted in favour of resolution 2428 (2018), and we regret that we were unable to reach a consensus on that important text. We supported the resolution because we are appalled by the continuing violence in South Sudan, and we believe that it is the Security Council’s responsibility to introduce…
At the outset, let me thank the Swedish presidency for organizing this highly important debate. I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Minister Hassan Janabi for their excellent briefings. Last but not least, I am very grateful to Ms. Hindou Ibrahim for her very touch…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening and presiding over this meeting today. We are deeply honoured by your presence among us.
Let me also join all other members of the Council in expressing my thanks to Deputy-Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the African Union Special Envoy on Women, Pea…
I would like to begin by indicating that Poland aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union.
I thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for presiding over today’s important meeting. We very much appreciate Sweden’s work on resolution 2427 (2018), which the Security …
Let me to start by thanking the Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Alexander Zouev, for his very informative and thorough briefing. Let me also express our appreciation to the personnel of the United Nations Mine Ac…
I would like to thank both briefers, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. John Ging, for their comprehensive briefings. I should like in particular to thank Staffan for having shared with us what he calls cautious optimism and by bringing hope to our deliberations. He has our full support.
Allow me to fo…
I would like to thank all of today’s briefers — Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo; Ambassador João Vale de Almeida; and Ambassador Karel van Oosterom, in his capacity as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) — for their respective reports.
We believe …
