I would like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, for their insightful briefings.
South Africa co-spons…
South Africa welcomes the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), with the support of the United Nations Kosovo team and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General,
Mr. Zahir Tanin, as well as the Secretary-General, whose efforts are playing a significa…
South Africa thanks the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 2420 (2018), on the arms embargo on Libya (S/2019/380). We thank the United Kingdom as penholder for facilitating this process.
My delegation remains deeply concerned that the current military operations in…
Before I deliver our joint statement for the 10 elected members (E-10) of the Security Council on the working methods of the Council, allow me to reflect for a moment on the momentous events that took place 75 years ago today. I would like to commemorate and pay homage to the thousands of servicemen…
I wish an Eid Mubarak to you, Mr. President, and to the entire Kuwaiti team. We assure you, Sir, of our support during your tenure at the helm of the Security Council, following the very impressive Indonesian presidency in May.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head o…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Angola, Botswana, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles,
the United Republic of…
I want to apologize because I forgot to congratulate you, Mr. President, on what a marvellous job you have done, including filling my wardrobe with extra batik shirts. Sir, you and your team, as my colleagues from the United Kingdom and Equatorial Guinea were saying, have done an excellent job. I kn…
We thank the United Kingdom, in its capacity as the penholder, for its transparency, tireless efforts and commitment to facilitating resolution 2472 (2019), which we just adopted.
The renewal of the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is a significant undertaking by the Securit…
South Africa abstained in today’s voting on resolution 2471 (2019) in the firm view that the sanctions imposed on South Sudan at this time are not helpful to the current complex political process. The region, through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), continues to assert that san…
I would like to thank Ms. Ursula Mueller for her briefing to the Security Council this morning, and join others in welcoming Deputy Foreign Minister Vershinin of the Russian Federation to the Council Chamber.
South Africa remains deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Syria. We appeal…
On behalf of the African members of the Security Council — Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa — I would like to thank the Indonesian presidency for organizing today’s important open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. I would also like to thank you, Madam Presiden…
I would like to welcome you to the Council, Madam President. We are delighted that you are presiding over our deliberations today. I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, particularly the question of Palestine, and Mr. Pierre Krähenbühl fo…
South Africa wishes to thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Raisedon Zenenga, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia Francisco Madeira and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their briefings, as well as the Secretary-G…
South Africa thanks Special Representative Ghassan Salamé, Ambassador Smaïl Chergui, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, and Ambassador Juergen Schulz for their briefings.
My delegation commends Secretary-General António Guterres and Mr. Salamé for their tireless efforts in bring…
We thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, for her briefing. South Africa supports the mandate renewal of UNAMI in its current format, as it promotes the strengthening of the Government of Iraq and its subs…
We supported the request for this meeting on the basis of consistency, having acceded to requests from other delegations for briefings on matters that they regard as urgent and important. We also support the meeting based on the fact that Ukraine is on the agenda of the Security Council and on rule …
It is with deep regret that we must once again begin our remarks by expressing South Africa’s condolences on this occasion to the people of Burkina Faso, who recently suffered an attack at a place of worship. This attack comes only weeks after the devastating attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka cla…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria. We also thank Under- Secretaries-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mark Lowcock for their briefings.
South Africa condemns the escalation of violence, particularly in north-west Syria, and the un…
I wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Burkina Faso, for taking time to brief the Security Council on behalf of the presidency of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel). I also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Bintou …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on Yemen. We thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and the Ambassador of Peru, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution (2014), for…
