Let me begin by thanking Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their briefings, which we very much appreciated. We are also very grateful to the participant from civil society, Ms. Mona Freij, for her courageous briefing to the Security Council today. Her briefing serves to remind us of the horrors perpe…
South Africa would like to thank Prime Minister Rama for his briefing in his capacity as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We wish to commend the good work that he continues to do in his region to support the maintenance of international peace a…
We would like to thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings on the current situation in Syria.
South Africa notes with concern the reports of the escalation of violence in north-west Syria. All parties to the conflict must make every effort to reduce tensions and refrain from …
Let me start by thanking Under Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her briefing. We would like to emphasize that the issue of small arms and light weapons remains an important one for the African continent, as it exacerbates conflict situations and enables threats to international peace and security. We…
I would like to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé for his briefing on the situation in Libya.
South Africa commends the United Nations Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Mr. Salamé, for their tireless efforts to bring together all the international players to the Libyan conflict at the Berlin…
Let me begin by thanking Deputy Special Envoy Khawla Matar for her briefing on the political situation in Syria.
South Africa is encouraged to hear that Special Envoy Pedersen is continuing his efforts towards finding a political solution to the situation in Syria. His ongoing engagements with all …
I thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
Recent reports of an escalation of violence in the Idlib region of Syria and the resulting civilian casualties are of great concern to South Africa. That increase in violence has also forced the displacement of thousands o…
Allow me to thank the President for organizing the plenary debate on the report of the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, on the work of the Organization (A/74/1).
South Africa aligns itself with the statements made by the representative of Togo on behalf of the Group of African States (see A…
Allow me to begin by thanking Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary- General of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative and factual yet chilling briefings on the situation between Isra…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for the information that they provided to us today.
My delegation wou…
I thank you, Mr. President, for the observance of two minutes of silence that you organized this morning. We would like to convey the condolences of the Government of South Africa to our brothers and sisters of the Niger on the terrible loss that they suffered. We also remember with sadness the larg…
As this is the first open debate for the year 2020, South Africa would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new elected members — Estonia, the Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Viet Nam — to the Security Council. We wish them all the best during their two- year terms. We h…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Viet Nam on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I also wish to welcome all the new members that have just joined the Council. I also wish to thank Special Representative Chambas for his briefing today and would like to take this oppor…
South Africa is extremely disappointed that the mandate of the Syrian cross-border humanitarian assistance mechanism could not be renewed today. During the course of the negotiations, South Africa’s position was and remains that we must ensure the renewal of that lifesaving humanitarian assistance p…
Let me begin by thanking Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing on the political situation in Syria. We welcome his dedicated efforts and those of his Office in carrying out his mandate. We also thank Ms. Rajaa Altalli for her briefing and statement.
At the Council’s previous briefing on the polit…
Allow me to begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo,
Ambassador Pecsteen de Buytswerve and Ambassador Skoog for their insightful briefings.
My delegation joins others in welcoming the eighth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2019/934). I w…
Let me begin by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
South Africa remains gravely concerned about the dire humanitarian situation in Syria. We, as Council members, have had many discussions on the plight of the Syrian people and how b…
The three African members of the Security Council — Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa — welcome the adoption of resolution 2502 (2019), extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for a 12-month peri…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Sudan. South Africa continues to support the full implementation of resolution 1593 (2005), which referred the situation in Darfur to …
Let me also add our voice of thanks to Mr. Mladenov for his briefing and to Ms. Raemer for the perspectives that she shared with us.
South Africa thanks the Secretary-General and welcomes the second written report for 2019 on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016) (S/2019/938).
We hope that …
