I should like first of all to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening this debate. I am also grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Yury Fedotov, Mr. Kevin Hyland and Ms. Ilwad Elman, for their comp…
At the outset, allow me to thank Ms. Samar, Mr. Yamamoto and our colleague Ambassador Saikal for their respective statements.
I must first of all refer to the brutal terrorist attack committed on Wednesday in Kabul against a medical facility and reiterate on this occasion our condolences to the peo…
This is not the first time that I do not know whether to thank Mr. O’Brien for his briefings, which generally strike at the very core of our being. Of course, we thank him for moving us so profoundly, for doing this in-depth work and for sharing it with us so frequently.
I would have wished to spea…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I thank Ambassadors Rycroft, Seck and Delattre, as well as Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, for their briefings. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the Deputy Secretary-Ge…
Allow me, first of all, to express my gratitude for the briefings by the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jamal Benomar; the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa, in his capacity as East African Community Facilitator of the inter-Burundian dial…
As a signatory to the code of conduct regarding Security Council action against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, Uruguay is committed to preventing and putting an end to such horrendous crimes. In that regard, we can only lament the use of the veto in the case of this draft resoluti…
Mr. President, I too would like to begin by expressing our heartfelt congratulations to you and your team on your leadership of the work of the Security Council this
month, which theoretically — well, not theoretically, as February is in fact the shortest calendar month of the year — could mean les…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, President of the Republic of Serbia, for his presence and participation here today. At the same time, I would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this informative meeting. I also thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration, Mr. Sebastian Kurz, for his detailed brie…
Protocol, custom and good manners dictate that one must thank Stephen O’Brien for his report (S/2017/144), despite the fact that every one of his paragraphs feels more like a direct blow to the heart than information for our intellects. Mr. O’Brien places us squarely in front of the frightening real…
We thank the delegation of Ukraine for convening this
meeting and you, Mr. Minister, for your personal participation in leading this debate.
I also thank Secretary-General Guterres for his detailed briefing, as well as Ms. Schmidt and Mr. Zannier for their statements.
Uruguay is a country that is…
In a press communiqué issued yesterday, the Government of Uruguay expressed its deepest sorrow over the passing of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, noting that he was a highly seasoned diplomat who represented his country responsibl…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing, and I reiterate once again the total support of Uruguay for his management.
Uruguay, as a firm promoter of peace, reaffirms, as it has since 1947, its unwavering support for the right of Isra…
I would first like to express our thanks for the briefings by Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Ambassador Omar Hilale, Chair of the Central African Republic configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission; and you, Mr. President, as Chair of the Committee establi…
With your permission, Mr. President, before discussing the item on the agenda for our meeting, I should like to mention an interesting fact. Given that the main task of the Council is the maintenance of international peace and security, I recall that 50 years ago today, on 14 February 1967, in Mexic…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for presiding over our work today. I would like to commend your country for having organized this open debate and for conducted with great balance and transparency the negotiations on the important resolution 2341 (2017), which we adopted today and which, together with res…
First and foremost, I would like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Marcel Amon-Tanoh, and to thank him for attending today’s meeting. Similarly, allow me to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Iv…
I thank Mr. Kobler for both his briefing and his steadfast work.
More than a year after the signing of the Libyan Political Agreement, regrettably no significant progress has been made in the political transition process that has given concrete legitimacy to the establishment of the Presidency Coun…
I would like to express my gratitude for the briefing by Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman on the fourth report (S/2017/97) of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations effo…
Uruguay is grateful for the detailed briefings by Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman and Under- Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien, as well as by Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan.
Uruguay continues to follow with great concern the recent developments in Avdiivka and the recent violations of the cease…
