At the outset, I would like to thank this morning’s briefers, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, from Jerusalem, and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, for the clarity of their briefings, which highlight once again the alarming situation on the ground. It continues to be characterized by the pursuit of settlements and violen…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her detailed statement, as well as for her outstanding work at the head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
On behalf of the Senagalese people and its Government, I should also lik…
The situation in Syria is intolerable. Against the backdrop of exploding bombs, meeting after meeting, negotiation after negotiation, resolution after resolution, human beings are annihilated. Homes, markets, schools, health facilities are all reduced to rubble, in violation of all the rules of inte…
Allow me to begin by thanking Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and for the relevant recommendations appended to his letter dated 18 August 2016 (S/2016/722, annex). We would also like to thank Ms. Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, and Mr. Peter Maurer, Pr…
By convening today’s emergency meeting on a Sunday, it is our collective conscience that you, Madam, are appealing to. Just some four days after the high-level meeting that was organized here by your country, we meet here once again at the joint request of France, the United States and the United Ki…
We are gathered here again to express our commitment to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 20 years after it was opened for signature here in New York on 24 September 1996. The adoption of the Treaty was the result of grave concerns over an alarming nuclear arms race and an attempt to save th…
It is a pleasure for me to see all Security Council Members here at this public debate on a clearly important and relevant topic. Terrorist attacks on civil aviation have happened with alarming frequency in recent years. They pose yet another threat to international peace and security.
The Senegale…
Mr. President, I should like to start by commending your initiative of holding this meeting, which provides us with an opportunity to once again exchange views on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. I wish to convey my gratitude to Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon fo…
Senegal welcomes the holding of this debate and we are pleased to see Minister McCully participate in it personally.
This debate, taking place in the context of the consideration of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2016/768) on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international pe…
Given the continuous flow of migrants through the Mediterranean Basin, Senegal is in favour of the inclusion of agenda
item 130 in the agenda of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly.
In January, at a ministerial-level Security Council meeting (S/PV.7609) held under the Uruguayan presidency, we adopted resolution 2261 (2016), which created a monitoring mission in Colombia designed to begin its work during the 12 months following the signing of a final peace agreement between the …
I would like to start by congratulating Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his briefing. I would also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ambass…
My delegation welcomes seeing you, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs of Malaysia, preside in person over the 7758th meeting of the Security Council, which your country has judiciously chosen to dedicate to the crucial issue of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destructi…
Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate Mr. Stephen O’Brien for his efforts in addressing the Syrian crisis and to thank him and all humanitarian workers who make daily sacrifices in that connection. I would also like to thank Mr. O’Brien for the clarity with which he presented the thirtieth report…
The delegation of Senegal welcomes the adoption of resolution 2304 (2016) today, Friday, August 12, which marks the end of the current mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). In doing so, the Security Council is responding to the earnest pleas by the Intergovernmental Authorit…
Mr. President, at the outset may I congratulate you on Malaysia’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council in this month of August and assure you of the full support of the Senegalese delegation. I would also like to thank Malaysia’s predecessor in the post, Japan, for its outstanding pr…
The Senegalese delegation welcomes the adoption of resolution 2303 (2016), which authorizes the deployment of a police component to Burundi.
Just yesterday in this Chamber, our debate on peacebuilding (see S/PV.7750) demonstrated, inter alia, that the political and security situation in Burundi rem…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you personally, Mr. President, and your Government for acceding to the presidency of the Security Council this month and to thank you for convening this high-level ministerial meeting on an issue that is of great concern to us as an African country. Allow …
The Senegalese delegation should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having accepted the request of the British delegation to convene this important open meeting on one of the most sensitive regions of Africa and the world. I also thank both of this morning’s briefers, Mr. Feltman and Mr. O’Brien,…
At the outset, I would like to commend Mr.Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for the clarity of his briefing. I would also like to commend the high quality of the twenty-ninth report (S/2016/631) presented to the Council, pursuant to r…
