At the outset, I would like to join previous speakers in welcoming this important high-level meeting and, at the same time, to congratulate the Secretary-General on the quality of his report on building and sustaining peace (A/72/707) and its pertinent recommendations. Chad welcomes the robust parti…
On behalf of Chad, I would like to join all other delegations in expressing my condolences to the families of the victims and to the American people following the terrorist act committed yesterday in New York City. Chad forcefully condemns that cowardly and ignoble act, and we express our solidarity…
First and foremost, I would like, on behalf of the Government of Chad, to convey my gratitude to the various speakers for their expressions of sympathy and solidarity following the deaths of the three soldiers of the Chadian contingent of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization …
Allow me to extend my warm congratulations to Mr. Miroslav Lajčák on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-second session and to assure him of our cooperation as he carries out his important mission. I would also like to express our appreciation to Mr. Peter Thomson, who l…
On behalf of the Group of African States, I would like to extend our deepest condolences to the Government and people of Nicaragua and to the family of the late Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session, who died on 8 June.
Today we pay tribute to a man…
As the representative of the country that holds the chairmanship of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), I am pleased to introduce, on behalf of the Group of African States, draft resolution A/70/L.62, entitled “Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in…
I wish to thank you, Sir, for having organized this important open debate on the protection of civilians in peacekeeping operations and for inviting me to participate in this discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General; His Excellency Mr. Faustin Archange Touadera, President of the Central Africa…
I thank Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen; Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings.
Chad is following with great co…
I, too, would like to thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for his comprehensive briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I commend him on his commitment and leadership.
The renewed increase of the phenomenon of terrorism throughout t…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan
and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his briefing. I also thank Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal, the new Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republi…
I thank the United States presidency for convening this ministerial
meeting on Syria. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his statement.
The situation in Syria remains a major source of grave concern. The war in that country has gone on for far too long, and the Syrian people continue t…
I too would like to thank the United States presidency for organizing this special Council meeting of finance ministers devoted to the fight against terrorist financing. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and
Mr. Je-Yoon Shin, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), for t…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting to enable me, as Chairman of the Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations, to share with Council members some of our thoughts on the activities of that Group.
During its chairmanship of the Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations in 2015, Chad has organ…
I thank the United States presidency for organizing today’s meeting on a subject as important as it is topical — trafficking in situations of conflict.
I also thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Mr. Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; and Mr. N…
I would like to thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), for his quarterly briefing on the Committee’s activities from 15 September to 14 December.
With respect to the Iranian nuclear issue, we welcome the entry into …
I wish at the outset to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court (ICC), for presenting her report and to commend her leadership.
Unfortunately, the security situation in Darfur, despite a relative period of calm, remains characterized by intercommunal violence, crim…
I would like to thank the briefers — Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Mr. John Ging and Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan — for their presentations, and to welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and Ukraine to the Security Council.
Chad is concerned about the continuing …
I would like to thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for their briefings.
It should be recalled that, in the same time period last year, the Security Council took up the question u…
First of all, I would like to thank the Presidents of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and the Prosecutors for the presentation of their respective …
I should like to thank the United Kingdom presidency for having convened this meeting under the agenda item on the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel. I also thank Ms. Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel, for her briefing.
Unfortunately, the Sahel re…
