I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Ms. Guebre Sellassie, for her statement and I would like to reiterate my country’s full support to the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel. I will focus my statement on three points.
First, the full implementatio…
I too would like to start by thanking the Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and the three Police Commissioners of police components for their briefings. I would also like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening a meeting in the same format one year after the meeting on the topic of the protection o…
I want to begin by thanking the High Representative for Bosnia
and Herzegovina for his very comprehensive briefing of the situation. I reiterate our full support for him and commend his work on the subject.
I also associate myself with the statement to be made shortly on behalf of the European Uni…
I too wish to begin by thanking you, Sir, for presiding over this meeting. Indeed, it signals the United Kingdom’s commitment to an issue that is so important to us all.
I thank the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, the Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General, the Permanent Obse…
First, I would like to welcome the appointment of Ambassador Sylvie Lucas as facilitator of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. We know that we can count on her dynamism and experience to make real progress towards far-reaching reform of the Council. France will fully supp…
I thank you, Madam, for having organized this meeting on
security sector reform (SSR). I also thank Mr. Titov, Ms. Bangura and Ms. Nakamitsu for their briefings.
I shall limit myself to making three observations. First, as many speakers before me have said, SSR is more of a political exercise than…
I thank you, Madam President, for having organized today’s useful debate on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations. I also want to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. The complexity of current crises requires increasingly concerted action by the United Natio…
I too would like to thank you, Madam President, for having organized this Security Council debate almost a year after the first meeting of the Council (see S/PV.7268) devoted to the Ebola epidemic, held in September 2014. I would also like to thank all the speakers for their briefings.
At the outse…
I would like to thank the United States delegation for introducing today’s resolution 2235 (2015), establishing a Mechanism to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The adoption of the resolution is important for several reasons. First, it enables the Security Council to find some unity…
I thank you, Mr, President, for organizing this important meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassadors De Aguiar Patriota and Skoog for their illuminating briefings.
Since it was establishd 10 years ago, the peacebuilding architecture has made undeniable progress — on the one hand in the sense o…
I, too, would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haysom, for his presentation. I also thank the Ambassador of Afghanistan, Mr. Tanin, for his statement, and I associate myself in advance with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the Europea…
At the outset, I also would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. lnzko, for his briefing.
France fully associates itself with the statement to be made shortly on behalf of the European Union. I will focus my remarks on three points.
First, concerning the political …
I thank the Permanent Mission of the United States for having prepared the draft of resolution 2218 (2015), concerning Western Sahara. France voted in favour of the resolution, which it also sponsored, as it appropriately addresses the whole host of aspects pertaining to the question of Western Saha…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this
debate on the eve of a number of deadlines for crucial upcoming efforts such as the strategic reviews of peace operations, the women and peace and security agenda and the United Nations peacebuilding architecture. I would also like…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the entire Chilean team for the work you carried out in January. You have begun this year very well, with a heavy programme combining a useful field mission in Haiti and a dense and productive agenda in New York. Moreover, we were honoured…
I would start by thanking Mr. Feltman for his briefing. We have heeded his warning regarding the deterioration of the security situation in Donbas over the past few days. Fighting has resumed with an intensity that we had not seen in Ukraine for several months, especially around what remains of the …
I would like to thank Chile for initiating today’s debate and putting the issue of inclusive development, and the links between development and peace and security, on the Security Council’s agenda. It is a crucial issue for all of us, and one that has not been discussed in the
Council since 2011 (s…
I would like at the outset to thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson for his briefing, as well as Ambassador Patriota, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). I would also like to thank the Chilean presidency of the Security Council for taking the initiative to convene this important and w…
I too would like to begin by thanking Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Yuri Fedotov, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for their presentations. I also thank the Ambassador Tanin of Afghanistan for the statemen…
I would like to begin by thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and the Secretary General of INTERPOL for their very specific and useful briefings. I also want to thank you, Mr. President, and Australia
for your commitment to this issue and for organizing today’s debate. It allows …
