We thank the Special Adviser and Head of the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), Mr. Khan, for his informative briefing on the work of the Team, and commend him and his team on the progress achieved in their chal…
We would like to begin by congratulating Peru on its presidency of the Security Council for this month. We also thank the briefers for their insightful views on the subject. We welcome the opportunity afforded by this open debate to further deliberate on the linkages between terrorism and organized …
My delegation would like to thank the President for convening today’s meeting.
We would also like to welcome Ms. Karen Smith and congratulate her on appointment as Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). We wish her every success in her new role. Furthermore…
I am delivering this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and my own country, South Africa.
We would like to thank Council members for agreeing that now is not the time to continue the drawdown of the African Union-United Nations…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the distinguished manner in which you have presided over the Council for the past month. I would also like to thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his briefing on the status of the political process in the coun…
I would like to begin by thanking the briefers for their detailed and insightful presentations. My delegation joins others in welcoming the seventh report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/492) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), and I want to reaffirm South Africa’s commitment to its fu…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Mr. David Lillie, Executive Director of the Syrian American Medical Society; and Major General Bakin, of the Russian Reconciliation Centre, for their briefings on the si…
We too would like to express our appreciation to the briefers today for their comprehensive briefings. We would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer, and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) for all the hard work that they are doing unde…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting and for the diligence with which you, your Chef de Cabinet, Kwabena Osei-Danquah, and your excellent team have conducted our deliberations on the rollover decision 73/554 that we have just adopted. We also want to …
We thank Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Mr. Koen Vervaeke, Managing Director for Africa of the European External Action Service, and Mr…
It is always emotionally difficult to talk about the Palestinian question, for it makes South Africans relive their difficult past. I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.
We are all aware of the expression that t…
Please allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and Ms. Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, for their briefing…
At the outset allow me to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Sudan.
South Africa continues to support resolution 1593 (2005), which referred the situation in Darfur since 1 July 2002 to the ICC, mand…
Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Lieutenant General Ngondi for their briefings. It is good to see a fellow brother from Africa speaking to us today. I would also like to thank Major General Pearce for her briefing.
Let me also extend condolences to the families of all pe…
I would also like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings on the situation in Syria.
South Africa is deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in parts of Syria. The shelling and airstrikes that have resulted in the death and injury of civilians is unacceptable. We …
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Martin Griffiths; the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock; and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Mr. David Beasley, for their briefings. We wish to express our full support for the Secretary-Gen…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. We also thank the briefers for the comprehensive briefings, which have highlighted a number of key issues that still require our firm commitment. I would like to focus on two key issues, the African Union-United Nation…
We join others in thanking you, Mr. President, for presiding today over the first-ever Security Council meeting on the cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States. We also thank Secretary-General Guterres
and Secretary-General Aboul Gheit of the League of Arab States for …
It is good to see you, Sir, once again presiding over this meeting. We thank the delegation of Kuwait for convening the debate on this very important matter. We also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing. It is such a great pleasure to see former President Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders,…
We wish to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali to the Council today. We are pleased that he could join us in today’s discussion and are looking forward to a briefing later on.
I wish to thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secreta…
