First, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and the delegation of Ukraine on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Sweden and his entire team for their outstanding management of the work of the Co…
I should like to begin by thanking Mr. Keating, Mr. Madeira and, in particular, Ms. Dirie for their detailed briefings. I also welcome the presence in the Chamber of Mr. Omer, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
Allow me first to vigorously cond…
Allow me to thank our briefers — Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien, Mr. Amir Abdulla and Mr. Peter Salama — for the valuable information they have given us today.
The situation in Syria continues to be shameful. The country continues to be immersed in a bloody civil war that, after six years,…
We thank Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings.
I would like to highlight the work done by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-Gen…
Uruguay thanks Senegal for its efforts within the Council and in Africa with respect to the situation in The Gambia.
However, as a member of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency group, I note that we should have preferred the negotiating process on resolution 2337 (2017), which we have ju…
I thank Mr. Feltman, Mr. Cardi and Mr. Vale de Almeida for their briefings, and Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi of Spain for the work he led last year. The information they have given us shows that the issue has positive aspects, challenges and also some areas of concern.
Uruguay is firmly committed to…
Uruguay believes that, as an elected member of the Security Council, it is part of its duty to share with the overall membership its views on the various items considered by the Council.
I thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his comprehensive briefing …
Allow me to thank you, Sir for organizing this open debate and the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. We reiterate once again Uruguay’s total support for his efforts.
In 1947, the General Assembly, including Uruguay, adopted resolution 18…
At the outset, Uruguay would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, for his briefing. At the same time, we would like to congratulate him on his
work as head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel.
We furthermore wish to con…
I would like to thank Mr. Zerihoun, Mr. O’Brien, and Ms. Fatima Yerima Askira for their briefings.
The situation in the Lake Chad basin region is very alarming. Lake Chad, or the “vanishing lake”, as it is also known, has already lost 90 per cent of its surface area over the past 40 years. Of the p…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for presenting the report of the Secretary- General (S/2016/1109). Uruguay wishes to stress that the report notes that no significant conflicts were reported in Darfur over the past three mon…
I would like to thank the Swedish presidency for having included this meeting in the programme of work for January an issue of such great importance to Colombia, the American continent and to the international community in general. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secreta…
At the outset, let me thank the President of the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo, Monseigneur Marcel Utembi, for participating in today’s meeting, and Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous for his briefing, which very clearly summarized the report (S/2016/1130) of the Secretary-General on…
My delegation thanks Sweden for convening and presiding over this debate, as well as for the concept note (S/2017/6, annex), which was prepared and circulated in
a timely manner. We also thank the Secretary-General for his outstanding statement. It is very encouraging for us to see that in his New …
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank the Russian Federation and Turkey for this proposal. Although the text is imperfect could have been further improved, we voted in its favour. Today, similar to what occured on 19 December when the Security Council adopted resolution 2328 (2016), membe…
Uruguay voted in favour of draft resolution S/2016/1085. We are aware of the grave humanitarian, human rights and security situation that South Sudan is experiencing as a result of a profound political crisis, and of the fact that those responsible for that crisis are the main political and military…
Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2334 (2016), convinced that after eight years we finally had an historic opportunity to break the Council’s stalemate, which has seriously threatened the two-State solution and the peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. Resolution 2334 (2016),…
Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2333 (2016), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), as we feel it fitting and sensible to proceed to a reduction of the military and police component, striking a balance between the situation on the ground and the request of the …
At the outset, we would like to thank you, Mr. Mariano Rajoy Brey, President of the Government of Spain, for presiding over today’s open debate. I also thank the briefers for their comprehensive statements. We congratulate Spain on having convened this open debate, which is of particular importance …
In the light of your announcement, Mr. President, I would first like to express my solidarity with the delegation of the Russian Federation in the face of the attack suffered by the Russian Ambassador in Ankara, victim of the unreasonable and the intolerant.
I am grateful to the briefers for their …
