Let me start by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. I would also like to thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their detailed briefings and the members of the Security Council for their statements. Rwanda welcomes the good…
I thank you, Madam President, for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of Rwanda and on this matter of concern to our subregion. I thank the briefers and the members of the Security Council for their interventions.
Rwanda values building a strong relationship with the Democratic Republic of…
First and foremost, the Republic of Rwanda congratulates the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April, and we express our appreciation for it having organized this important briefing.
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General, Mr. Huang Xia,…
First of all, Madam President, allow me to wish you, your delegation and the members of the Security Council a Happy New Year 2022, which we hope will be a better one. We also thank you for this debate, as well as the briefers. We appreciate their contributions to this debate.
The past couple of de…
Rwanda congratulates the Niger on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their progress reports and detailed briefings. We commend them for their continued efforts in the execution of the mandate of the International Resid…
My delegation thanks you very much, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting for the consideration by the General Assembly of draft resolution A/76/L.8/Rev.1, entitled “Follow- up to the report of the Secretary-General entitled ‘Our Common Agenda’”. I have the honour to introduce the draft resol…
Allow me to join others in thanking the President of the Human Rights Council for presenting (see A/76/PV.24) its annual report (A/76/53 and A/76/53/Add.1). We believe that such reports provide useful updates on the current human rights situation in the world and give us an overview of the work of t…
Rwanda congratulates the Republic of Kenya and you, Madam President, for Kenya’s presidency of the Security Council during this month and, more importantly, for organizing today’s very important Council debate on supporting the renewed commitment of the countries of the Great Lakes region in seekin…
I would like to start by thanking President Carmel Agius for his very useful briefing about the activities of the International
Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and the court’s continued efforts in the pursuit of justice for the victims of the genocide. Rwanda welcomes today’s briefing and…
It is my distinct honour to introduce a pre-recorded statement by His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, on the occasion of the general debate at the seventy- sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
I will be very brief. We thank you, Mr. President, for circulating the draft oral decision and for your commitment to the process itself. We also thank the co-Chairs for their tireless efforts during the intergovernmental negotiations process.
I align my comments with the statements delivered by th…
I thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their progress reports and detailed briefings. We commend them for their continued efforts in the execution of the mandate of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. We appreciate the good cooperation existing between the Mech…
It is my distinct honour to introduce the address of His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, on
the occasion of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS.
Rwanda aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Costa Rica on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect, to which Rwanda belongs.
It is fitting that we are gathered here once again to discuss the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genoci…
At the outset, allow me to associate Rwanda with the statement delivered on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/75/PV.19). Allow me also to thank Justice Yusuf for presenting the annual report of the International Court of Justice to the General Assembly. We commend his leadership…
Allow me to join the speakers who spoke before me in thanking President Carmel Agius for his always useful briefings and continued efforts in the pursuit of justice for the victims of genocide.
Rwanda welcomes the appointment of Mr. Abubacarr Tambadou as the new Register of the International Residu…
It is my distinct honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement by His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, during the general debate of the seventy- fifth session of the General Assembly.
This high-level midterm review of the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024 comes at an
important time. Five years into the implementation of the Programme of Action, there are just 10 years left of the decade of action and to …
Rwanda aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Tunisia on behalf of the Group of African States.
Not long after the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, in 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst episodes in human history — the 1994 genocide agai…
First of all, I too would like to thank President Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf and his team at The Hague for their comprehensive report on the work of the International Court of Justice in the past year (A/74/4). The publication by the Court of its work is highly commendable and useful. Rwanda would also l…
