Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening today’s meeting and for your responsible leadership of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. We are grateful to you for decision 71/553, on the rollover of the consideration of Security Council reform to the seventy-second session. …
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened today’s timely meeting. We also thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union, Mr. Smail Chergui, for their detailed briefings.
We welcome the efforts of our African partners in the resoluti…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, Ms. Sandra Honoré Braithwaite, for her presentation of the Secretary- General’s report (S/2017/604) and assessment of the situation in the country during the critical period of…
We are grateful to Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his substantive and comprehensive report (S/2017/563). We agree with his assessment that the situation in the diverse and extensive region that he covers is a complex one. The terrorist threat remains …
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of the resolution 2366 (2017) on the establishment of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. This new resolution symbolizes a new step on the path to consolidating sustainable peace in the country through a political process and national di…
The Russian delegation would like to express its gratitude to the organizers of the Conference and its Presidents for their efforts in convening such a large-scale event on such an important topic. We would also like to highlight the contributions of the President of the General Assembly and his Off…
I would like to thank my American colleague Ambassador Haley for her comments. We too propose that we work together. The point of my statement was that we can see a meaningful way out of the situation on the Korean peninsula only by combining regional and international forces. It is clearly stated i…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing on the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of a ballistic missile.
The situation requires thorough clarification and investigation. The ballistic trajectory of the missile was confirmed and registered on the Russia…
We would like to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General for preparing the latest biannual report (S/2017/515) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). We note the professional work of Mr. Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy and Security Council Facilitator for the implementation…
We welcome you, Mr. President, in your capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We listened with great interest to your statement and the briefings by Ms. Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and Mr. Ballard, re…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his comprehensive analysis of the situation in Afghanistan. We listened with interest to the statement made by the Permanent Re…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov,
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General; His Excellency Mr. Aboul-Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States; and Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, member of The Elders, for their detailed briefing…
We too extend our condolences to our Chinese colleagues in the light of the incident that occurred at a preschool in the east of the country. We extend our sympathy to the families of the victims and wish the injured a speedy recovery.
We thank the briefers for their comprehensive statements. We ag…
The statement of the representative of Ukraine, which featured simple allegations, was made with the single goal of distracting from Kyiv’s lack of resolve to implement the Minsk agreements. Unfortunately, it was no surprise that he made uncorroborated allegations and siought to besmirch Russia. Ukr…
We appreciate Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev’s first but nonetheless substantive and multilingual briefing, and listened attentively to the statement by Ms. Nathalie Ochoa Niño, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) staffer in Colombia.
With the increasing numbers of hotbeds of ten…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic, Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, for his briefing. We also thank Mr. Andrew Gilmour and the representative of the Community of Sant’Egidio.
We share the concerns about the continuing instability …
We support the initiative to extend for a further year the special control regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya, established under resolution 2292 (2016), with the objective of ensuring respect for the Security Council’s arms embargo. Those measures apply to flows both into Libya and out o…
We have read the twenty-fifth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the situation in Darfur and wish to comment on its assessment of some of the developments mentioned therein.
The report quite rightly notes that progress has been made in normalizing the situation in Darfu…
We should like to extend our gratitude to Mr. Feltman for his detailed and comprehensive briefing.
Given present-day conditions, as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is morphing through the changing situation on the ground, the Secretary- General’s strategic analysis is especially imp…
We have attentively studied the reports of the leadership of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see S/2017/436 and S/2017/434, respectively) on the past six-month period. We note that as stated in the report of…
