First, I wish to congratulate you, Minister Caballeros, and your country, Guatemala, on having inscribed on the Council’s agenda the important issue of peace and justice, with a particular accent on the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
I also thank the Secretary-General, the Presiden…
Allow me to begin by extending my wholehearted thanks to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his attention to agenda item 13, “2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa”. I would also like to extend my warmest congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić, President o…
I would like first of all to thank the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, for the briefing he has just given on the situation in Somalia.
Somalia turned a new page in its history with the end of the transition, marked by the adoption of the provision…
I would like to start by thanking the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman, for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the representatives of Palestine and of the State of Israel for their statements.
In this debate, I will address the Israeli-Palestini…
At the outset, I wish to thank the President and the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone for their very informative briefings on the achievements of the Court, its ongoing work and progress in the completion strategy of the Court and on the establishment of the Residual Special Court.
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Togo welcomes the adoption of resolution 2069 (2012), through which the Council has decided to extend to 13 October 2013 the mandate of the International Security Assistance Force.
We would like to thank the other Council members, in particular Germany, for the efforts undertaken to that end. At th…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on Guatemala’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month.
My delegation wishes your delegation every success in carrying out its functions.
I would next like to thank Mr. Mariano Fernández Amunátegui, not only fo…
At the outset, I would like to address my warmest congratulations to Mr. Vuk Jeremić on the confidence that the entire United Nations family has invested in him by electing him to the high office of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session.
I would also like to take this oppor…
At the outset, I would like to commend the German presidency of the Security Council for organizing this high-level debate on the Middle East in the context of cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States in maintaining international peace and security. I also thank the Secre…
I should first of all like to thank you, Mr. President, for having placed this very important issue concerning children on the agenda of the Security Council under Germany’s presidency. I also congratulate Ms. Zerrougi on her appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Childre…
At the outset, let me commend the French Government for the initiative to organize this meeting, which is focused on the humanitarian situation in Syria and its serious repercussions for neighbouring countries. I would also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Elliason and United Nations High …
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for the report he just introduced to the Security Council on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2012/603). I also wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, Prime Mi…
I would like to associate myself with previous speakers in thanking Mr. Robert Serrry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the representatives of Palestine and Israel for their statements.
On the occasion of this …
The importance of the debate being held by the Security
Council today stems from the fact that peacebuilding remains at the heart of the work of the United Nations. I would therefore like to thank Colombia, Madam President, for deciding to put the issue at the centre of the Council’s work for this …
Allow me, first of all, to thank Mr. Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), as well as His Excellency Ambassador Francisco Caetano José Madeira, Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union on L…
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous and Mr. Yuri Fedotov for their briefings, which have the Security Council a good overview of the situation. I also wish to thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan for his statement.
On 20 March, the Council held a debate (see S/PV.67…
I too would like to thank and commend the Force Commanders from the various peacekeeping missions who are here, not only for their very useful briefings but also for the work they are doing on the ground, often in difficult circumstances.
The issue of peacekeeping operations is very important both …
I should like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his briefing on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Panel of Experts. I take this opportunity to commend the Panel — whose mandate was extended by resolution 2049 (2012), of 7 June…
The Togolese delegation would like first of all to join other delegations in thanking Judge Meron, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Judge Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), as well as Prosecutors Serge Br…
At the outset, on behalf of the delegation of Togo, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on China’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. I would also like to thank the delegation of Azerbaijan for its excellent work last month.
I should also like t…
