At the outset, I should like to thank the Permanent Mission of Brazil for having convened this open debate and in particular to welcome the presence of the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Ambassador Fernando Simas. Uruguay is very pleased to see a representative of MERCOSUR presiding ov…
I would first like to thank the Permanent Mission of Brazil for convening this open debate and the Secretary- General and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mr. Carlos França, for their presence here this morning. I also thank Lieutenant General Marcos de Sá Affonso Da Costa and Ms. Jenna …
At the outset, I would like to thank the President for convening this fifth formal debate of the General Assembly on the responsibility to protect, which provides Member States with the opportunity to reflect on and assess the efforts made to prevent crimes against humanity and mass atrocities.
Bef…
This is the first time that the General Assembly has convened pursuant to resolution 76/262, entitled “Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council”, which was adopted by consensus on 26 April and co-sponsored by Uruguay.
The resolution — through its m…
Uruguay is following with great concern the increase in tensions on the borders between Ukraine and Russia, where there has been a dizzying escalation after Russia’s recognition of the separatist regions in Ukraine and movement of military units, in violation of the principles of the Charter of the …
Uruguay welcomes the presence of the President of the Human Rights Council, Ms. Nazhat Shameem Khan.
The delegation of Uruguay would like to reiterate its concern at the continuous violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. For Uruguay, respect for human rights and international…
As the representative of the country that holds the current chairmanship of the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic, I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/75/L.113, the text of which is based on resolutions 61/294, 65/121 and 69/322, adopted by consensus by the General As…
The Government of Uruguay is deeply concerned about the violence that has occurred over the past few weeks in East Jerusalem and that has left a number of people dead or injured. We agree with the statements by the representatives of other countries encouraging Israelis and Palestinians to make ever…
I would first like to thank the President for convening this fourth formal debate of the General Assembly on the responsibility to protect (R2P), which presents an opportunity for Member States to reflect on and assess past and future efforts to prevent crimes against humanity and mass atrocities.
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On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of the State of Kuwait.
First, on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I would like to extend sincere condole…
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement by His Excellency the President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, Mr. Luis Lacalle Pou, to the general debate of the General Assembly in the year of its seventy- fifth anniversary.
First, would have preferred resolution 74/306 to have been adopted by consensus. Secondly, I reiterate our delegation’s gratitude to the co-facilitators from Afghanistan and Croatia, which succeeded in crafting a text that garnered consensus most of the time up until this moment, and to which all Me…
Uruguay is one of the countries that has called for the inclusion of the responsibility to protect, the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity on the agenda of the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly. We live in a global context in which the crisis…
On the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Uruguay wishes to reiterate once again its recognition of the invaluable contribution made by the Convention and its respective Optional Protocols.
Uruguay believes that the promotion and protection of human r…
At the outset, I would like to extend to Her Excellency Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, a well- deserved recognition for her excellent leadership of the main organ of the United Nations system. As the first woman from Latin America …
Our thanks go to Poland for having convened this important open debate. I also wish to thank Ms. Virginia Gamba and Ms. Henrietta Fore for their valuable briefings, as well as the civil society representatives for their moving testimony.
Uruguay aligns itself with the statement made by the represen…
Uruguay consistently monitors the various situations that make up the Council’s agenda with regard to the Middle East, all of them complex and multidimensional.
We would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her informative briefing…
Uruguay associates itself with the interregional intervention delivered earlier by Ms. Katherine Zappone, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs of Ireland.
I would also like to thank the President and the promoters of this important event, namely, Canada and Egypt.
Uruguay once again reaffirms i…
Allow me at the outset to express our
gratitude to the presidency of Peru for having organized this debate on triangular cooperation in the context of peacekeeping operations, as well as for having invited Uruguay to participate in it.
We wish you and your delegation every success, Mr. President, …
