I would like to thank and commend Senegal for having taken the initiative to facilitate this briefing on the cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), focused on the area of countering extremist ideologies. We are also very grateful to you, Mr. Preside…
I confess that I am very pleased to see that a number of delegations will be accompanying me in making official statements before the Council. Without prejudice to the statements that they might want to make in the informal
consultations. I understand that making statements in public contributes to…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing. I also thank the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and Ms. Vlora Çitak…
I would like to begin by commending you, Mr. President, for convening this briefing, as well as the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, and the Police Commissioners of United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan, the African Union-United Nations Hybrid …
We again welcome the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and express our appreciation for her briefing on the twelfth annual report on the situation in Libya in accordance with resolution 1970 (2011).
We reiterate the full support of Uruguay for the w…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Kubis, for his briefing. Uruguay acknowledges his challenging work and that of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, which, working in close coordination with the Iraqi Government, is carrying out the important task of ad…
First of all, I would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing this morning.
I would like to begin by highlighting Uruguay’s adherence to the principle of the territorial integrity of States, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nation…
Uruguay expresses its gratitude for the convening of this meeting of the Assembly to address the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council. We congratulate the Permanent Representative of Romania, Ambassador Ion Jinga,
and Ambassador Mohamed Khal…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I also
thank the briefers for their presentations: Mr. Eliasson, Ms. Jean, Mr. Laborde. Mr. Fedotov and Mr. Boutellis.
There can be no doubt that in recent times peacekeeping operations find themselves deployed in increasingly complex theatres…
Mr. President, I wish once again to convey to you and your team my delegation’s wish that you will enjoy a very successful presidency of the Security Council during the month of November.
I should like first to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Mr. Said Dj…
As this will be the last time that my delegation takes the floor during the Russian presidency of the Security Council, let me thank you, Sir, and your entire team for guiding our work in a month that has been particularly challenging. Allow me in particular to highlight your careful and balanced wo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and the Secretary-General for his briefing. We fully share his concern about the situation of the International Criminal Court. I would like to thank our briefers, Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzha, Mr. Rashid Alimov and Mr. Sergey Ivanov, for their statemen…
At the outset, I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Frankly, this is the type of statement that I would prefer not to have to make — in the first place because the embargo is still in place, but also because for more than 30 years I have …
First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2016/873) and Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his briefing, even if it leaves us more anguished than before.
Our delegation once again takes the floor in the understanding that it is our responsibility, as elect…
First of all, I would like to thank the Russian presidency for having convened today’s open debate and for the concept paper (S/2016/871, annex); Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the briefing on his annual report on women and peace and security (S/2016/822); the Executive Director of UN-Women, Phum…
I would like to thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for their briefings. I take this opportunity to reiterate Uruguay’s full support for Mr. Mladenov in his work.
Uruguay has …
I would first like to thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing on the Secretary-General’s third report (S/2016/830) on the evolution of the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or Da’esh, to international peace and security, and on the range of activities to combat it undertaken by th…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/753).
We align ourselves with the statement to be made by the representative of Peru on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti.
My country conveys it…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Maman Sidikou, for having introduced the report of the Secretary-General on the
situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2016/833).
I should like also to thank Mr. Sidikou’s entire team, as well as…
At the outset, I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/824) and an update on the most recent developments in the Central African Republic. I also thank Mr. Laassel for his briefing of the repo…
