We thank the United Kingdom for its timely update.
We note the significance of the new information from the British investigation; we underline our confidence in the British findings. We call on Russia to change course, cooperate with the ongoing investigation and prosecution and fully disclose any…
I extend congratulations to you, Madam President, and the United States for assuming the presidency of the Security Council. We offer our respect, gratitude and admiration to the United Kingdom for the way it presided over the Council last month.
I would like to thank Mr. Gonzalo Koncke from the Or…
I would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General
Salamé for his sobering, but always clear, assessment of the volatile situation in Libya and, more important, for his successful efforts to halt the most recent escalation of violence.
I will focus my statement on the secur…
In accordance with paragraph 24 (e) of resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011, I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee established by the same resolution. The report covers the period from 17 July to 5 September, during which time the Committee met once i…
Let me begin by joining others in congratulating you, Madam President, in assuming your role for this month. Let me also echo others in praising the United Kingdom presidency for the manner they led the Security Council during the month of August.
We have no objections to the provisional programme …
I would like to begin by acknowledging the presence of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes here today. Sweden has a long- standing relationship with the people of Guinea-Bissau dating back even before its independence. It is in that spirit of close partnership that we are now engaging in support for Guin…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for this important opportunity to discuss how to strengthen the role of mediation. I also want to thank the briefers for their insightful and very useful input to this discussion today.
In January 2017, the Secretary-General presented his vision for a su…
Halabja 1988, Srebrenica 1995, Darfur 2003. The list of examples in modem history where violence has triumphed is long, too long. Regrettably, it seems a new name will now be added to that tragic list: Rakhine 2017. The reports of systematic and widespread human rights violations and abuses against …
Speaking on behalf of the humanitarian penholders, I thank Mr. Ging for
his briefing and I pay tribute to the tireless efforts of humanitarian workers saving lives on the ground in Syria every day. Too many brave humanitarians have been killed on duty.
We meet today as there are alarming signs of …
Allow me to begin by thanking the briefers for their comprehensive update on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We commend their tireless efforts, and we express our full support for their challenging and important tasks ahead of the 23 December presidential, legislative and prov…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President,, for convening today’s important meeting. I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director Coninsx and Ms. Cook for their informative briefings. We are particularly pleased to see Ms. Cook here today, as the insights of …
I would like to join others in welcoming Special Envoy Kafando back to the Chamber today and to thank him for his update this morning. While welcoming the positive developments that the Special Envoy has reported on, we must not underestimate the frailty of the security situation in Burundi and the …
Madam President, as this is our first open meeting under the United Kingdom presidency of the Security Council, allow me to take this opportunity to wish you the very best for the month ahead. We look forward to working with you and your team and assure you of our full cooperation.
I also want to t…
I can only agree with you, Mr. President, on your last statement. But let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zouev for his useful briefing today, as always. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his informative and comprehensive report (S/2018/623), which we welcome.
I would al…
I appreciate the fact that all Council members have spoken. Together with some colleagues, including Kuwait, I had indicated that we would like to discuss the political process and have a conversation with Mr. De Mistura on the way forward. However, I understand and respect the President’s decision …
I too would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Van Oosterom and Ambassador Vale de Almeida for their useful briefings and reports to the Security Council today.
We welcome the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2018/602), which endor…
I will speak on behalf of Kuwait later on in the consultations focusing on the humanitarian situation. However, I wanted to just very briefly address the dramatic escalation that we see, and I wanted to do that publicly and to express our very deep
concern over the military offensive in southwester…
On 12 May, a small group of ordinary Afghan citizens began an extraordinary journey. They left their homes in Helmand province to begin a 600-kilometre march to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. As they marched, their numbers increased and they were greeted by large crowds when they arrived in Kabul on …
Sweden fully aligns itself with the statements delivered by the observer of the European Union and by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect (see A/72/PV.99).
The responsibility to protect is a commitment to protecting populations from atrocit…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s broader debate on a region that unfortunately makes up a very large portion of the agenda of the Security Council and on which members of the Council have been divided far too often.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his thought-…
