I thank you, Madam Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, for organizing and presiding over this important debate on children and armed conflict. I also thank Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Deput…
I wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Darfur, for his briefing and for the Panel’s highly commendable work. I also thank Mr. Gambari, Joint Special Representative for Darfur and head of the African Union-United Nations Hyb…
Uganda voted in favour of resolution 1929 (2010) because we fully support the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The resolution has a mechanism for review, including the suspension and removal of the measures imposed, provided that Iran complies with its obligations and the NP…
We welcome and thank the Foreign Minister of Turkey for his informative statement. We also welcome the presence of the Deputy Secretary-General and thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing.
It was with shock that we received the reports of the Israeli attack on the human…
I wish to welcome you, Your Excellency, Prime Minister Hariri, and to thank you for organizing and presiding over this important debate on intercultural dialogue for peace and security. We thank the Secretary-General for his statement. We also welcome the participation of The Honourable Alistair Bur…
We thank Mr. Inzko, High Representative and European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing. We welcome the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Mr. Silajdžić, and thank him for his statement.
We commend the Presidency of Bosnia and…
I welcome His Excellency President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti and thank him for his comprehensive and insightful statement on several issues pertaining to the Horn of Africa. His address has come at an opportune time, when the Council is seized with peace and security issues in the region, incl…
I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Lamberto Zannier, for his report. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, to this debate and …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ould Abdallah, for his briefing. I also welcome the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Somalia, Mr. Abdurahman Ibrahim, and thank him for updating the Council on the current developments in So…
We thank you, Madam President, for organizing this open debate, which gives an opportunity to States Members of the United Nations to participate in the deliberations on the work of the three counter-terrorism-related Committees.
I would like to thank the Chairman of the Committee established pursu…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Lebanon, for having assumed the presidency. We also commend Ambassador Takasu and the Japanese delegation for their excellent work last month.
I would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important briefi…
I would like to take this opportunity to explain Uganda’s vote before the voting on this important draft resolution on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) (S/2010/216).
Western Sahara has been a full-fledged member of the African Union since 1982. It is the onl…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Mr. Edmond Mulet, for his elaborate briefing and outstanding leadership. I also thank Jean- Max Bellerive,…
I would like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Wallström, to the Council and congratulate her on her appointment. My delegation would like to thank her for her briefing, and I wish to reiterate Uganda’s support for her mandate, as outl…
Uganda voted in favour of resolution 1918 (2010), on piracy in Somalia and welcomes its adoption by the Council. Piracy is an international problem that poses challenges to all countries. Therefore, combating piracy requires collective efforts and the contribution of all countries.
Uganda would lik…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate to assess the
implementation of the measures set out in the annex to the note by the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507) and recent Security Council practice.
At the outset, Uganda commends the Council’s Informal Working Group on Do…
Let me begin by thanking you, Foreign Minister Okada, and the delegation of Japan for organizing this high-level debate on the important issue of post-conflict peacebuilding. I also thank the Secretary-General, the honourable ministers of Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste and the Managing Di…
Uganda joins the other members of the Security Council in expressing condolences and sympathies to the Government and people of China following the deaths, injuries and destruction after the earthquake that occurred there today.
I thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary- General for Political Affair…
I would like to start by welcoming the participation of Deputy Secretary- General Asha-Rose Migiro, and to thank her for her statement. I also thank Mr. Antonio Maria Costa and Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma for their statements.
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons has had a devastating impac…
I would like to start by thanking Mr. Le Roy for his comprehensive briefing and Ambassador Tanin for his remarks.
The report of the Secretary-General (S/2010/127) highlights some important areas of progress in international and Afghan efforts over the past three
months, but it also recognizes that…
