I would like to thank High Representative Nakamitsu and Ambassador Zlauvinen for their informative briefings. We would also like to welcome to the Chamber the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, His Excellency Mr. Heiko Maas.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remains committed to the Tr…
Permit me, on behalf of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, to express our sincerest condolences to the Government and the people of Haiti on the deaths of babies and children in last week’s fire at the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding in Port-au- Prince. Our prayers and thoughts are wit…
I thank Geir Pedersen and Mark Lowcock for their very comprehensive briefings. We join others in expressing our sympathy to the families, relatives and friends of the two Oxfam humanitarian workers who lost their lives earlier today.
Only two weeks ago, we sat in this Council to voice our shared co…
We begin by joining the members of the Council in welcoming all our briefers today and extend our gratitude to them for their informative briefings. We note the presence of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines continues to stand steadfast in its advoc…
I thank our briefers for their valuable updates this morning. I also take this opportunity to reaffirm Saint Vincent and the Grenadines support for Mr. Martin Griffiths and his team in their dedicated efforts towards a solution to the challenging situation in Yemen, as well as for their continued co…
I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee established pursuant to
resolution 2140 (2014), pursuant to paragraph 19 (e) thereof. The last such briefing took place on 15 May 2019 (see S/PV.8525); this briefing will therefore cover the period from 16 May 2019 to …
We also wish to recognize and welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Niger and to express our gratitude to Special Representative of the Secretary General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, and His Excellency Ambassador Costa Filho for their briefings.
While gradually improving, the situation in …
We wish to join other members in thanking Belgium for organizing this briefing. We also recognize and welcome the Foreign Ministers and Deputy Foreign Ministers present, and thank High Commissioner Bachelet, Father De Roux and Executive Director Sooka for their insightful and thoughtful briefings.
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We join other members in thanking the King and Queen of the Belgians for participating in this meeting. We welcome the Foreign Ministers of Belgium and Indonesia and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia. We also thank Secretary-General Guterres, Commissioner Chergui and Ms. Becker for their briefi…
Let me begin by joining others in thanking the Secretary- General, Mr. António Guterres, for his introductory remarks, as well as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. I also welcome President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine; Amba…
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We are especially grateful as well to civil society representative, Ms. Mona Freij, for her presence and briefing. We honour her work and the powerful words she shared, and we applaud her…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for their briefings and their tireless efforts to restore peace in Syria.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remains deeply troubled by the reports of violence and escalating tensions in north-west Syria. …
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines thanks His Excellency Prime Minister Edi Rama for his briefing. We congratulate him on assuming the chairmanship of the dynamic and proactive Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and we wish him a very successful tenure.
The work of the OSCE i…
I thank both of our briefers.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a front-row seat to the damage that the illicit trade in small arms
and light weapons can cause. Although the Caribbean does not produce arms itself, the illicit traffic in small arms profoundly affects our region. Resolution 2220 …
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines welcomes the adoption of resolution 2507 (2020). Sanctions are indeed an imperfect tool, but among the basket of corrective options currently available, such measures are likely to yield some intended results, with minimal collateral effects. To be clear, our desire …
We thank the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam for convening this very useful and timely discussion. We extend our gratitude to the Secretaries-General for their insightful remarks on a topic that is dear to the hearts of many across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Regional and subregional organiza…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines thanks Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), for his very sobering briefing on the recent developments in Libya. We applaud his unrelenting efforts to bring about a peace…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his vivid briefing.
It has been recognized repeatedly in different ways this morning that, for almost a decade, the people of Syria have had to endure the perils of war and the resulting effect of living through one of the worst humanitarian crises the w…
I would like to thank Deputy Special Envoy Matar for her briefing this afternoon.
It has been said many times before in this Chamber that there is no military solution to the conflict in Syria. The only solution is through a Syrian-owned, Syrian- led, credible, balanced and inclusive political proc…
I thank our briefers, Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary-General Mueller.
I first would like to join my colleagues in acknowledging the important commemoration of the Holocaust this year. Never again must such atrocities be endured by humankind.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadine…
