The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela welcomes the adoption of resolution 2334 (2014) in the conviction that it represents a unique opportunity to advance the peace process and restore trust between the parties, while allowing the Security Council to abandon its habitual inaction by engaging it in bu…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important vote on a draft resolution (S/2016/1100) that well may well be historic as a contribution to peace. Our country, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, together with Malaysia, New Zealand and Senegal, decided to co-sponsor and ca…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to speak in explanation of vote after the voting on resolution 71/250, on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Venezuela, as a State party to the Convention on the Prohibition of t…
First of all, I would like to reiterate our expressions of solidarity and condolences to the Government and the people of the Russian Federation folowing the brutal assassination of their Ambassador, Andrey Karlov ,yesterday in Turkey. We call for an end to hate speech against the Russian Federation…
We thank Mr. Yamamoto for his briefing and for his work, and Mr. Fedotov for his briefing. Our thanks also go to Ambassador Van Bohemen of New Zealand for his work at the healm of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011).
As this is our last participation in the…
We associate ourselves with your words of condolences, Mr. President, and we would like to reiterate our deep dismay over the killing of Ambassador Andrey Karlov. We would also like to express all of our solidarity and support to the Russian Federation, its people, its Mission and Government. I woul…
Out the outset, I thank His Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing, reporting the lack of progress and the contradictions of the Organization with regard to the Palestinian question. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the dedication of the Secretary-General to pe…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela voted in favour of resolution 2327 (2016), convinced of the need to conserve the unity of the Security Council with respect to the situation in South Sudan and given the important role of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on the ground, in partic…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, and the Spanish presidency for organizing today’s important open debate. We would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Jan Eliasson; the High…
The conflict affecting Syria goes far beyond its own borders and into the arena of public opinion, which is one of its most active battlegrounds, as we have seen in this Chamber. It has been emphatically stated that the humanitarian crisis in Syria is the greatest disaster of the twenty-first centur…
We are grateful for the briefing by Ms. Fatou Bensouda.
Our country strongly supports the Prosecutor’s efforts to ensure justice and accountability in the fight against impunity, as well as to promote a comprehensive, transparent and effective justice system. More than 10 years have past since the …
In conveying a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Rafael Catalá, Minister of Justice of Spain, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela thanks the President for convening this important briefing to address an issue of major interest to our country, namely, strengthening international judicial cooperatio…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela voted against the convening of today’s meeting to review the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea because we believe that it is an initiative that shows the Security Council’s growing interference in issues outside its specific comp…
We welcome and thank Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals; Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their semiannual briefings. We also thank the Office of Legal …
We take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to the representative of the Norwegian delegation, Mr. Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, for having facilitated the negotiation process on the text of resolution 71/123, entitled “Sustainable
fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Imple…
We abstained in the voting on resolution 71/69, entitled “Implementation of
the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction”, as well as against the third and fourth preambular paragraphs and operative paragraphs 2 a…
I apologize for taking the floor again but I must make a few comments on the illusion under which the delegation of the United States is operating with regard to my country’s vote.
First of all, as the Ambassador of China stated so eloquently, I would like to recall the high level of responsibility…
We thank Mr. Sidikou and Mr. Zerihoun for their briefings. We are convinced that the agreement reached in October between the main political and social stakeholders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, within the framework of a national dialogue on organizing democratic, credible and transparent…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela once again expresses its concern about the horrendous armed conflict that has caused a blood bath in Syria, and in particular about the suffering among civilians. We condemn the indiscriminate attacks, irrespective of who carries them out, against the civilian po…
We would like to thank Messrs. De Mistura, O’Brien and Cappelaere for their briefings.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its concern about the humanitarian situation in Syria, especially in the city of Aleppo. That is why we value the efforts of the humanitarian agencies, which, at gre…
