We, too, welcome Ambassador Dabbashi back to the Council.
South Africa reaffirms the African Union’s efforts to bring a peaceful end to the Libyan crisis. These efforts have always been informed by and directed towards promoting the genuine and legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people. The Afric…
At the outset, we wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Fernandez Amunategui on his appointment as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, and to thank him for his statement. We assure him of our support for the United Nations efforts in Haiti.
South Africa wo…
My delegation thanks the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Augustine Mahiga, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/549) and for his update on the political developments, as well as the security and the humanitarian situations, in Somalia. We also welcome the …
We join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on Lebanon’s assumption of the presidency for September, and express our gratitude to India for its able stewardship of the Council in August. We would also like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia for his briefing on the work of the Com…
South Africa would like to take this opportunity to welcome the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, to the Council. He can be assured of our support. We also wish to pay tribute to former Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zannier for his contributio…
South Africa joins the Secretary-General in condemning in the strongest possible terms the bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja. We express our deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of this heinous crime, to their families, to the people and Government of our sister country Nigeria…
The presence of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in Darfur is crucial, given that its mandate includes, among other things, contributing to the facilitation of the Darfur peace process and the protection of civilians. In that regard, South Africa has contributed t…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in Libya.
It has been over four months since the adoption of resolution 1973 (2011) and the start of the military campaign in Libya. We should remind ourselves that the intention of resolution 1973 (2011) …
I thank the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Alain Le Roy, the head of the Office of Military Affairs, Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, and the Force Commanders for their informative statements this morning.
We welcome the Force Commanders who have joined us today in the Co…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting on youth. My Government attaches great importance to that important segment of our society.
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Argentina on…
We welcome you, Mr. President, to the Council and it is a pleasure to see you presiding over this important meeting. My delegation expresses its appreciation to Special Coordinator Mr. Robert Serry for his briefing to the Council. South Africa associates itself with the statement to be delivered lat…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his statement this morning. Equally, we wish to express our sincere gratitude to Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, for his extensive briefing. We welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Marcus Stephe…
I wish to express South Africa’s gratitude to the Permanent Representative of Rwanda, His Excellency Mr. Eugène-Richard Gasana, Chair of the Group of African States for the month of July, for affording my delegation the singular honour of introducing this historic draft resolution on behalf of Afric…
We welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at this historic meeting, and we thank him for his statement. We also thank Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing. We welcome the statements by His E…
We would like to take this opportunity, Mr. President, to thank you for presiding over today’s meeting and your delegation for having organized this important debate. We thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Ar…
Allow me to add the voice of my delegation to those of others who have congratulated you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July, and to thank Ambassador Nelson Messone for his excellent stewardship of the Security Council during the month of June.
W…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Pascoe for providing the
Security Council with a comprehensive briefing on the situation in Libya.
This meeting is taking place exactly 100 days after the start of the NATO aerial bombardment in Libya. Despite that military action, there has not been a solu…
We also wish to express our delegation’s appreciation to Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for his briefing. At the outset, I would also like to offer our delegation’s deep condolences to the families of the four members of UNODC who lost t…
South Africa thanks the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, for his 90-day report on the activities of the Committee, and we pledge our full support. We also welcome the recent extension of the mandate, through…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Patricia O’Brien for her comprehensive briefing on the modalities for the establishment of specialized Somali anti-piracy courts.
South Africa remains concerned about the continuing incidence of piracy off the coast of Somalia. To that end, we encourag…
