We welcome the presence of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon.
Firmly committed to nuclear disarmament and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela voted in favour of resolution 2321 (2016) in response to the nuclear test undertaken on 9 September by …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. Following Uruguay’s example, I wish to briefly express some views before the discussion on this item in closed
consultations. I thank Mr. Mladenov and Mr. O’Brien for their briefings.
We stress once again — as we do every mon…
We would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, and the delegation of Senegal for convening this open debate on an issue that is so important for the future of humankind. We would also like to commend Mr. Danilo Türk, Ms. Christine Beerli…
We would like to thank Mr. O’Brien and Ms. Hoff for their briefings.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its concern about the humanitarian situation in Syria. We pay tribute to the efforts of humanitarian agencies that carry out extraordinary and noble work to assist millions of Syrians…
I would like to thank the Senegalese delegation for having convened today’s debate. I also wish to thank Messrs. Wane, António, Menkerios and Kaberuka for their briefings.
Bearing in mind that the Security Council continues to focus most of its attention on responding to issues that threaten peace …
We would like to thank your delegation, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, and Mr. Hameed Opeloyeru, Mr. Miroslav Jenča and Mr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, for their valuable briefings.
For Venezuela, it is of extreme importance to recognize the role played by regional and subregional orga…
We would like to thank Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS); Mr. Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide; and Ambassador Seck, in his capacit…
In advocating for a peaceful solution to the question of Kosovo, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reiterates that resolution 1244 (1999) remains the applicable international legal basis for the achievement of a holistic solution to the dispute, within the framework of political negotiation. In t…
We thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, and the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, for his statement. We also welcome the presence of Ms. Vlora Çitaku.
In advocating for a peaceful solution to…
We thank you, Sir, for convening this debate. We thank the briefers, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, and the Police Commissioners of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, the United Nations …
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela abstained in the voting on resolution 2317 (2016), for we believe that the part referring to Eritrea, as presented to us, is unfair. As Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, we have been working …
We thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou
Bensouda, for her briefing, and once again express full support for her work.
As a State party to this legal instrument, our country fully supports strengthening the Court’s institutional structure and enhancing the effec…
First and foremost, we would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his
briefing and to reiterate our full support for his work on the matter.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela once again reaffirms its full support and respect for the sovereign…
As President of
the Non-Aligned Movement, I have the honour to speak today on its behalf. We would like to thank the delegation of Senegal, especially Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Senegal, for organizing today’s important debate. We are also grateful to Deputy Secretary-Gener…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to express its gratitude for the briefings delivered by Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator Stephen O’Brien and Regional Director for the …
My delegation thanks the President of the International Criminal Court, Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, for introducing the annual report of the Court (A/71/342) to the General Assembly, in accordance with article 6 of the Relationship Agreement between the United Nations and the International Crimina…
We would like to thank the Russian Federation for convening today’s debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security. We also welcome the briefings from Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzha, Mr. Rashid Alimo…
Venezuela associates itself with the statement made by the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/71/PV.34).
My delegation thanks the Honourable Judge Ronny Abraham, President of the International Court of Justice, for presenting the…
In the end, there has been a genuine debate among the members of the Security Council, which we commend. In other cases, it has proven impossible to discuss issues as complicated as those we are witnessing in the humanitarian field. Now, not only are we calling into question the United Nations syste…
