South Africa thanks the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for introducing the quarterly report of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan (S/2012/462). We also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Yuri Fedotov, for his b…
My delegation wishes to express our appreciation to the delegation of China for facilitating a discussion on the crucial topic of the protection of civilians.
It is important for the Council to periodically evaluate its response to the protection of civilians, because the protection of civilians fr…
We wish to join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Ladsous, as well as the Force Commanders present with us today, for their respective briefings. The themes that were identified for today’s meeting clearly reflect the diverse challenges that confront modern United Nations peacekeeping opera…
We wish to thank Ambassador Osorio for his briefing to the Council. We also wish to congratulate the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1929 (2010) on the recent extension of its mandate, as well as to thank it for the report submitted to the Committee in May (S/2012/395).
We welco…
We align ourselves with the statements delivered on behalf of the African Group and the Southern African Development Community.
My delegation wishes to thank the Secretary-General for his informative report entitled “United to end AIDS: achieving the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration” (A/66…
Allow me to congratulate Mr. Hassan Boubacar Jallow, President Theodor Meron and Mr. John Hocking on their respective appointments as Prosecutor, President and Registrar of the Residual Mechanism. I also wish to thank Judge Vagn Joensen and Mr. Jallow, President and Prosecutor, respectively, of the …
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June, and would equally like to express our sincere gratitude to the delegation of Azerbaijan for the manner in which it steered the work of the Council in May.
Let m…
I am pleased to give this account of the Security Council visit to Sierra Leone on 23 May, on behalf of Ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, and of myself.
The aim of the Council’s visit to Sierra Leone was to encourage continued efforts to consolidate pe…
At the outset, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo for his progress report. In the same vein, we support the work of the Office of the Prosecutor and have a deep appreciation for the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to deliver justice to the vict…
I thank you very much, Mr. President, for giving us the opportunity to participate in this important debate. We wish to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/283), as well as his Special Representative, Ambassador Augustine Mahiga, for his detailed briefing on the recent developments in…
South Africa welcomes Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the Security Council once again, and we thank him for his comprehensive briefing.
We congratulate Bosnia and Herzegovina on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of its membership in the United Nations.
We ha…
South Africa would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today on the report (S/2012/275) on the activities of the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome Minister for Foreign Affairs Jeremić back to the C…
I am very pleased, as Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), to give an overview of the main developments in the work of the Committee since the most recent joint briefing, on 14 November 2011 (see S/PV.6658), in addition to the information just de…
Your personal presence here today, President Aliyev, is an expression of the importance your nation attaches to the global fight against the scourge of terrorism. My delegation welcomes you to the Council today and thanks you for presiding over this meeting. We also wish to acknowledge the presence …
South Africa is gravely concerned about the escalating conflict between the Sudan and South Sudan. This escalation has seriously damaged relations between the two countries and brought them to the brink of war. It is clear that there can be no military option for resolving the outstanding issues and…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate on issues related to illicit cross-border trafficking and the movement of goods, funds and individuals. We also thank the Secretary-General for his statement earlier today. We align ourselves with the letter dated 24 Ap…
The adoption of resolution 2044 (2012) comes at a time of uncertainty and turmoil in the Sahel, North and West Africa and the Middle East, when the peoples of those regions are
demanding the full enjoyment of their human, socio- economic and political rights. It also comes at a time when the States…
South Africa expresses its appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing to the Council. We also thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine and the Permanent Representative of Israel for their statements.
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be delivered later…
Following the adoption of resolution 2042 (2012), a week ago, South Africa welcomes the acceptance by the Syrian Government of the advance team of the observer mission and its rapid deployment on the ground. We are pleased to note from the letter of the Secretary-General (S/2012/238) that, despite s…
At the outset, Madam President, allow me to thank your delegation for having convened this timely debate on the issues of
nuclear proliferation, nuclear disarmament and nuclear security. My delegation also wishes to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing to the Council earlier today.
We alig…
