The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your delegation’s initiative to convene this open debate to address this issue to which my country attaches particular importance, namely, the threats posed by terrorism to international peace and security. We also valu…
I should like to welcome the presence of the Angolan Minister for Family and the Promotion of Women, Ms. Maria Filomena Delgado, and to thank the presidency for its initiative of convening this important debate and for preparing the concept paper (S/2016/219, annex). We would like also to express ou…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela appreciates the Republic of Angola’s initiative in convening this timely and important debate on the prevention and resolution of conflicts in the Great Lakes region. We welcome the Minister for External Affairs of Angola, Mr. Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti. We als…
We would like to thank you for convening this debate on the political situation in Haiti. We also appreciate the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/225), which was introduced by his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Ms.Sandra Honoré…
At the outset, we wish to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and the Ambassador of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal, for their respective briefing and statement.
The Government of President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai has been implementing a series…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela voted in favour of resolution 2272 (2016), for we are convinced that acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by any foreign force or military, police or civilian personnel participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations or special political missio…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting and are grateful for the stance taken by the Secretary-General in his report on special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (A/70/729), issued in February, given its overriding importance for the issues of credibility and mora…
I should like at the outset to take this opportunity to wish you every success, Sir, in your functions as President of the Security Council during the month of March and reiterate to you our full support for all of your initiatives and endeavours.
Resolution 2270 (2016), which the Security Council …
I must begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, for your excellent work in presiding over the Security Council as well as that of your entire team. We are grateful, Sir, for the way in which you led the Council this month, which began so explosively and has been so full of major issues that will …
We thank you, Sir, for personally presiding over this very important debate of the Security Council. We acknowledge your presence, Mr. President, and we thank the Secretary General for his briefing.
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Isla…
At the outset, I wish
to extend a special greeting to Foreign Minister Maria Ángela Holguín Cuéllar on this very important day for her country and the future of the people of Colombia and all its children.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela co-sponsored and voted in favour of resolution 2261 (20…
We are honoured to see a brother Latin American country presiding over the Security Council. We take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the way in which your country has been conducting the affairs of the Council during the month of January and for having convened today’s import…
We are grateful for the briefing on the work of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and for the work carried out by Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, together with Mr. Stephen O’Brien, in leading that office.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects the siege tactics carried out by…
My delegation would like to speak in explanation of vote before the vote on draft resolution A/70/L.22, submitted under agenda item 79, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”.
We would first like to thank the facilitator of the draft resolution, Ambassador Eden Charles of Trinidad and Tobago, as …
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2259 (2015). We believe that it is an important initiative
that expresses the entire Security Council’s political commitment to supporting the implementation of the Libyan Political Agreement signed on 17 December in…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela would like to commend today’s adoption of resolution 70/225, entitled “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural reso…
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela welcomes the adoption of resolution 70/185, entitled “Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries”, which was submitted by the Group of 77 and China as part of the work of the Second Committee.
Our coun…
We commend Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for presenting his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), which he has chaired with great effectiveness and dedication.
The current briefing is particularly important because it deals with the issue of a com…
We would like to thank Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen; Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.
We must acknowledge the fact that the …
We wish to thank Mr. Nicholas Hayson, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and the Ambassador of Afghanistan, Ambassador Saikal, for their statements.
We would also like to convey our condolences to the families of the victims in the wake of the terrorist attack per…
