At the outset, allow me to thank Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Stephen O’Brien, for their briefings.
Uruguay expresses its deep concern about the current situation affecting South Sudan. The worsening violence, in particular since J…
Uruguay has just voted in favour of resolution 2327 (2016) on the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Republic of South Sudan, as we believe it urgent to continue renewing the commitment of the Security Council to peace, security and stability in South Sudan, given the delicate situation it is …
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. We also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his efforts, which we support.
The Secretary-General summarized the past decade for us, during which unfortunately little has improved in the…
Draft resolution A/71/L.42, entitled “The new United Nations approach to cholera in Haiti”, is submitted by Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti. The Group comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Peru, the United States of America, Venezuela and my coun…
I am particularly pleased to hear so many members of the Council speak in the Spanish language, including in the statement by our Ukrainian colleague.
At the outset, I congratulate on Spain on its leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and on holding today’s deba…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Unfortunately, despite the intensified rate of meetings in the Security Council, and more recently in the General Assembly, on the situation in Syria, we continue to see — week after week, day after day and even hour by hour — a macabre, seemingly en…
I wish to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her comprehensive presentation of the twenty-fourth report on the activities of her Office on the situation in Darfur,
in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1593 (2005). We believe that such …
I wish to thank you, Mr. Minister, in your capacity as President of the Security Council, first of all for your initiative in bringing this issue before the Council, and I wish to thank the briefers for their valuable presentations.
Uruguay reiterates once again its firm condemnation of terrorism. …
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, for their briefings.
Uruguay does not recognize limitations as to where human rights should be discussed. The protection of human rights is one of the pillars of t…
I should like to reiterate Uruguay’s steadfast commitment to the work of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and to upholding the principle of independence of justice. My…
We thank Special Representative Martin Kobler and Ambassador Ramlan Bin Ibrahim for their briefings. I also take this opportunity to thank Ambassador Ibrahim for his distinguished service at the helm of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).
Five years after the Libyan civil …
I will be very brief. My delegation voted in favour of a draft resolution (S/2016/1026) that we thought was highly inadequate. Uruguay understands that the solution to the crisis in Syria requires an immediate and unconditional ceasefire throughout the country. The draft resolution was very far from…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Maman Sambo Sidikou, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, for their comprehensive briefings.
I would like to once more reiterate Uruguay’s commitment to stabil…
Uruguay would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for his briefing, and the Department for Peacekeeping Operations for the strategic assessment carried out in the Republic of Liberia. We are also grateful to the Vice-Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and to Victoria Wollie.
Uruguay is…
I, too, should like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Mr. Stephen O’Brien and Mr. Cappelaere for their tireless work.
Let me be slightly cynical today and say that we have come to this meeting and have heard more of the same, just worse. We are continuing our discussions as bombs continue to rain do…
We welcome the presence of the Secretary-General and appreciate his strong statement.
Uruguay voted in favour of and co-sponsored resolution 2321 (2016). We welcome its unanimous adoption, as we believe that it will be a very useful tool of deterrence in the current situation in the Democratic Peop…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov and Mr. O’Brien for their testimony, which is considerably more than briefings, being testament to something that we cannot even describe as déjà vu, since déjà vu implies a static situation. The current situation is not static; it is simply deteriorating.
We lis…
I thank you, Mr. President, for being here today among us and for your thoughts on the topic that we are addressing
here today. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General, as well as Ms. Beerli, Mr. Türk and Mr. Waslekar, for their in-depth and provocative briefings.
Uruguay is taking part in this…
From month to month, Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien brings to our attention the daily horror in Syria, the daily horror that the civilian population faces — the
children, the elderly, the sick. We thank Stephen for his briefing, a monthly briefing which is always painful to hear. I would a…
We appreciate your presence at this open debate, Sir, and congratulate the presidency of Senegal for having organized it. We thank Mr. Wane, Mr. António, Mr. Menkerios and Mr. Kaberuka for their respective briefings.
Uruguay believes that cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subr…
