I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jean Arnault, for his briefing today and for the very valuable work he is doing. We continue to strongly support the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia.
I also want to welcome Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr.…
Allow me to join others in welcoming you, Sir, to the presidency and assuring you of my delegation’s full support and cooperation throughout the month of October. I would also like to congratulate the delegation of the United States for its excellent stewardship of the Council during the month of Se…
Just a bit more than a week ago, we honoured the late former Secretary-General Kofi Annan in this Hall. It was a sad but dignified occasion. It was an inspiration as we began our journey at the current session of the General Assembly. We were reminded of the unique value of the United Nations and th…
I am sure members vividly remembered when world leaders gathered here in New York one year ago for the General Assembly. The tensions on the Korean peninsula were alarmingly high and dangerous. Since then, positive historic progress has been made and we have new momentum, but substantial challenges …
Listening to the representatives of all countries around this table, I have heard support for the idea that multilateral and diplomatic efforts are urgently needed to address the challenges of today. International peace and security, and preventing conflict and terrorism, are rightly high on our age…
I thank Mr. Mark Lowcock for his sobering update today. He and all humanitarians working tirelessly to alleviate suffering and save lives have our full and wholehearted support. He should be congratulated on an ambitious and effective relief effort under what we understand to be overwhelming circums…
I would like to first extend our thanks to our briefers for their updates this morning on the situation.
We welcome the fact that the security situation in Abyei has remained relatively calm, while we are aware that the situation still remains unpredictable and tense. The situation could quickly de…
I would like to thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his clear briefing today. I also thank him for his reminder about the urgency and volatility of the situation on the ground and about the fact that, 25 years after the historic Oslo Accords, we need to have a serious and frank discussion about t…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom and Special Envoy Ismail Wais for their briefings today. Let me also extend a particular word of thanks to Ms. Grace John for her briefing. We heard her loud and clear, including…
I also want to express my condolences to Russia for the recent loss of life, which
adds to the list of immeasurable losses of life in Syria and highlights the need for an urgent political solution.
I speak on behalf of Sweden and Kuwait.
I would first like to thank Under-Secretary-General Mark Lo…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Yamamoto for his briefing and for the important work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Afghanistan.
I would also like to thank Mr. Ramiz Bakhtiar for sharing his valuable insights this afterno…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing this morning, and I would like to say that I am very happy to see our colleagues from the Republic of Korea and Japan around the table.
The situation on the Korean peninsula has momentous implications for international peace and sec…
I thank Special Representative Keating, Special Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson for Somalia Madeira and Executive-Director Mlambo-Ngcuka for their briefings this morning. Their remarks and the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/800) underline the significant political…
We very much welcome this annual debate on peacekeeping and the implementation of resolution 2378 (2017), which takes place within the context of our collective efforts to strengthen peacekeeping and move from words to action in making peace operations fit for the twenty-first century. I want to tha…
I want to convey my country’s profound condolences, sympathy and friendship to the people of the United States on this very significant day, and underline the importance of standing shoulder to shoulder in the quest for peace.
First, I would like to thank the Russian representative for his briefing…
I can be quite brief. I will not repeat our longstanding and well known positions on the broader humanitarian and political situation. However, I wanted to take the floor to express our appreciation to Martin Griffiths for his briefing and, more important, for the very determined and energetic effor…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing earlier this morning and to Mr. John Prendergast for his account of how corruption affects societies and drives conflict and for his concrete recommendations to the Security Council.
The Security Council’s mandate to maintain international p…
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Kuwait also spoke on behalf of Sweden this morning, so I can be very brief and reiterate some of the key points that he and others made.
I think that the way in which Idlib is different from Aleppo, eastern Ghouta and Dara’a has been
clearly stated. The people there …
I want first to thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs for her briefing.
During the conflict in Syria, we have witnessed numerous systematic and flagrant violations of international law, including violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, by all parties to th…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2018/795) and Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her informative briefing this morning. Let me echo colleagues in their appreciation for the way in which she presented progress made in her charts this morning as well.
Swed…
