My delegation welcomes Ambassador Muburi-Muita to the Security Council. We thank him for his briefing on the work of the United Nations Office to the African Union. As this is the first time that he briefs the Council in his capacity as Head of the United Nations Office to the
African Union (UNOAU)…
We wish to thank His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Chair of the African Union (AU) High-level Implementation Panel for Sudan, for his comprehensive briefing to the Council. We would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haile Menkerios for his briefing. We welcome the pres…
Allow me to thank Judge Khalida Rachid Khan, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and Judge Patrick Robinson, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), for their reports (see S/2011/316 and S/2011/317) and for their leadership of those t…
As Ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant indicated, I co-led the Security
Council mission to Kenya. I wish to focus my briefing on the meetings held with the Government of Kenya and with the African Union (AU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African Union Mission in Somalia (A…
We would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting and to thank you and your delegation for organizing it. We thank the Secretary-General for his intervention, and we join other in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Raymond Tshibanda, Minister for International and Regional …
Allow me to add some comments in my national capacity on the work of the three Committees.
With regard to the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), South Africa remains firmly convinced that weapons of mass destruction do not guarantee security, but rather detract from it. As lo…
Since January I have had the honour of assuming the chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540. I thank
Ambassador Heller of Mexico for his leadership of the Committee in 2010.
In addition to the information just presented in the joint report, I am very pleased to summarize the…
South Africa would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zannier for his briefing to the Security Council today. We wish to convey our support to the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) for the work it has done in Kosovo over the years. We also we…
South Africa welcomes the report by the Senior Advisory Group (see S/2011/85) on the review of international civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict. We welcome the briefings by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Chair of the Senior Advisory Group for the review of international civilian capacity, and by U…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to you and your delegation for organizing this open debate, Mr. President. We also wish to thank Ms. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peaceke…
South Africa welcomes the High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina to the Security Council and thanks him for his briefing, which we have taken note of with concern.
The Dayton Peace Accords are a peace experiment aimed at achieving, as President Clinton said at the time, “unity in diversity”. In…
I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting and for providing us with an opportunity to interact with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Libya. I also wish to thank the Prosecutor, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, for his briefing to the Security Council. We are …
We, too, join in thanking Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing on the unfolding situation in Syria, about which South Africa is very concerned. We regret the loss of life in Syria and call on all parties to the conflict to show restraint. We welcome the lifting of the state of emergency, …
On this day, 27 April, 17 years ago, South Africans loudly proclaimed from their rooftops, in the words of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.: “Free at last! Free at last!” This was in celebration of the fulfilment of our right to self-determination and freedom. Nelson Mandela stated that our freedom wou…
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to Under-Secretary- General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing to the Council. My delegation would also like to associate itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement.
As we gather here …
South Africa welcomes you, Madame, to the Security Council today. We would like especially to thank your country for its initiative in organizing this very important debate on the situation in Haiti. We salute your leadership in focusing the attention of the international community back on Haiti and…
South Africa remains deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in Côte d’Ivoire, a sisterly country that has always been a beacon of stability and prosperity in West Africa and Africa as a whole. South Africa believes that the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African State…
It is my pleasure to address the Assembly today as part of its discussion of the reports of the Secretary-General entitled “Review of the ten-year capacity-building programme for the African Union” (A/65/716) and “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations” (A/65/382…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting on the report (S/2011/41) of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Wittig, for his leadership of the Commission during the past year. We als…
South Africa thanks the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) for his 90-day report on the activities of the Committee. We pledge our support for the Committee’s work.
South Africa shares the concerns regarding the threats posed by the use or threat of use of weapons…
