I should like to begin by thanking you, Sir, for your outstanding initiative in organizing this briefing on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Ambassador Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the Eur…
The delegation of Senegal would like to thank the Japanese presidency of the Council for having organized this open debate, which gives us the opportunity to examine the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, following the publication of the Quartet report. I would also li…
I would like to start by expressing the condolences of the Republic of Senegal to Turkey following the terrorist attack that struck that brotherly country yesterday.
Senegal would also like to commend the efforts of the penholder of resolution 2295 (2016). We welcome and thank Foreign Minister Abdo…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity you have provided us by convening this meeting to once again examine the situation in Afghanistan. At the outset, allow me to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom for the report (S/2016/532) he has just introduced to us and to commend hi…
(spoke in French): Before I go into my statement, I would like to thank the French presidency for quickly acceding, with the Security Council having such a busy programme, to the request by the delegation of Senegal to hold this briefing on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. On behalf of the members of…
I want to congratulate you personally, Sir, and the French Republic on its presidency of the Council of the month of June and for organizing this extremely important debate.
France, we must stress, has always stood firmly by our side in the quest for and the construction and consolidation of peace …
It is an honour for me to take the floor today on behalf of the delegation of Senegal at this high-level meeting of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, and to welcome the adoption of the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AI…
I should first like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this briefing today and to welcome the Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for her report and her briefing on the status of the investigations and procedures led by her Office in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005)…
My delegation welcomes today’s briefing on the International Criminal Tribunals, organized by the French presidency of the Security Council.
I would like to thank Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); Judge Theodor Meron, President of the Inte…
My delegation thanks the French presidency for organizing today’s debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security, with special attention on the European Union, after last month’s similar exchange, which focu…
At the outset, the Senegalese delegation would like to thank the French presidency for the timely choice of the topic of today’s debate, namely, responding to the threats of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in situations of armed conflict. Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, for th…
At the outset, on behalf of the entire delegation of Senegal, I would like to warmly congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team for the professionalism and efficiency with which you steered the work of the Security Council in the month of May.
The Egyptian presidency was certainly busy and prod…
I want to first express my profound gratitude to you, Sir, and my colleague from Spain and your delegations for taking the initiative of organizing this very important meeting. Our exchange today on the topic of peace and security in Africa and challenges in the Sahel region are in line with the bri…
I, too, would like to thank and congratulate the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the presentation of her eleventh report. I reiterate Senegal’s support for the Rome Statute, and reaffirm our commitment to resolution 1970 (2011), which was adopted unanimously on 26 February 2…
The delegation of Senegal thanks the Egyptian presidency for having taken the initiative to organize this important debate on the theme “United Nations- African Union peace and security cooperation: Chapter VIII application and the future of the African Peace and Security Architecture”. We also comm…
Senegal wishes to congratulate Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for the high quality of the report that has just been presented to us (S/2016/407). We also welcome the presence among us o…
The convening of this second open debate on terrorism, in line with the one held under the Chinese presidency (see S/PV.7670) in April, constitutes — if there ever was such a need — eloquent proof of the special attention that our Council devotes to the scourge afflicting modern times, namely, viole…
My country welcomes your initiative, Mr. President, to organize this debate on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the outstanding quality of his report (S/2016/395, annex). My delegation would also l…
I too thank Mr. Feltman and Mr. O’Brien for their briefings, amd the delegations of France and the United Kingdom for requesting this urgent meeting of the Council, following the unprecedented escalation of violence taking place in Aleppo. A city that has for millennia been the cradle of rich cultur…
At the outset, Mr. President, I welcome your outstanding initiative in organizing this joint briefing on the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated g…
