Let me also begin by thanking the High Representative, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his informative briefing today. Sweden continues to fully support his mandate and his important work for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Twenty-three years have passed since those intense November weeks in Ohio, when the DaytonA…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Zouev and the Police Commissioners for their valuable briefings today. I also thank Tuesday Reitano for her important contribution and perspectives on transnational organized crime.
It is very encouraging to see so many representatives of United Nations police in…
Since this is the first meeting for me personally this month, let me also congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your presidency and to thank Bolivia for its very active presidency last month.
During the conflict in Syria, we have witnessed the repeated use of chemical weapons as well as…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2441 (2018), reaffirming the Council’s sanctions measures against Libya, and we would like to thank the United Kingdom for the transparent and inclusive negotiation process.
Sweden, together with the Netherlands and with the strong support of partners, is parti…
Let me join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency and, of course, assure you of Sweden’s full support during this month. I also take this opportunity to thank Bolivia for a successful presidency last month. We thank the Prosecutor of the International Crim…
Sweden voted in favour of resolution 2440 (2018) today, as it extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and expresses full support for the Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, as well as for the resumption of the negotia…
I thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, as well as Ms. Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings to the Security Council today.
It has been almost five years since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and the beginning of its agg…
We too welcome the unanimous adoption today of resolution 2439 (2018), on the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the ongoing efforts to respond to this crisis. We appreciate the close collaboration with our Ethiopian partners and we thank all Council members for thei…
Sweden, together with France, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States, has asked that the situation in Ukraine be addressed in the Council today, with updates on the broader situation from the Department of Political Affairs and the Office for the Coordinatio…
I too would like to express our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Indonesia for the plane crash this morning.
The representative of Kuwait has already spoken on behalf of Sweden as co-penholder, but after listening to this morning’s statements, I want to take the floor just to…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria for his briefing this morning. We commend Mr. Staffan de Mistura’s intensified efforts to reach a political solution and bring an end to the conflict in Syria. We very much appreciate his update today following his visit to Damascus, altho…
Council members may be aware that when the formal peace talks between the Colombian Government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) opened in Havana in November 2012, only 1 of the 20 negotiators around
the table was a woman. A year later, civil society leaders organized the f…
I thank Mr. Darusman for his informative briefing. We really commend the dedicated and meticulous work of the independent international fact-finding mission in Myanmar, and we believe it was important that his report, establishing the facts and circumstances of the crisis, in particular Rakhine stat…
I would like to thank all today’s briefers for their valuable input and perspectives, and for their efforts to build peace in the Central African Republic. I would especially like to thank our colleague Ambassador Adom for his leadership on the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2127 (2013…
Allow me to start by expressing our condolences and sympathies to the Government and the people of Yemen following the devastating tropical cyclone.
I also want to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock for his update and for having drawn our attention to the acute food crisis — indeed famine — in Yemen, as forese…
Let me begin by thanking the Permanent Representative of Mali, Ambassador Konfourou, for joining the discussions today, and let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his informative briefing.
We recognize recent progress in the implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation…
I would like to start by thanking Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing and for his tireless efforts. The United Nations and its agencies deserve to be commended for the work that they are doing on the ground every day in a very challenging environment. We stand fully behind their efforts an…
I would like to start by thanking Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his comprehensive and forward-looking update to the Security Council today. We commend his continuous and tireless efforts towards reaching a political solution and bringing an end to the conflict in Syria. I want to echo the regret other …
I thank the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing, good analysis and, as always, action-oriented approach. We thank the Bolivian presidency for providing another important opportunity for us to discuss the root causes that lead to or may lead to conflict. For the Council to be effective in i…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui and Special Envoy Djinnit for their briefings. I extend my gratitude to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the co-leads France, Equatorial Guinea and Bolivia, the United Nations Organization Stabilizati…
