I would like to begin by thanking you, Minister McCully, for agreeing to preside over this meeting of the Security Council. I believe that reflects not just just the importance that New Zealand attaches to this debate, but also the shared feeling among the members of the Council in our support of Af…
I thank you, Sir, for all your efforts and for presiding over this meeting, which has a very special meaning for Spain.
In January, Colombia asked the Security Council to support the peace process, which had not yet been concluded, while the ceasefire had not yet been achieved. Contrary to the natu…
Why have we not been able to collectively ensure a future of peace for Africa? Well, the truth is that there is no simple reply. That is why I am particularly grateful to the Japanese presidency of the Security Council for having organized this debate. I also thank our invitees for their briefings, …
I am largely in agreement with the statements of the Ambassadors of Egypt and New Zealand.
I thank Mr. O’Brien. After listening to his briefing on behalf of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, we note once again that the hell that is the war in Syria has no limit…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Feltman and Ambassador Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union, for their briefings.
According to the note by the President of the Security Council, the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) shall brief the member…
We are grateful for the presence in the Security Council once again of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. I would like to reiterate the firm commitment of my country to the Court and to international criminal
justice, as well as its acknowledgement of the work of the Prosecutor and…
I am pleased once again to welcome the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to this sixth round of talks between the European Union and the United Nations. I cannot but note the excellent degree of cooperation based, as the United Kingdom Ambassador so ap…
I thank the French presidency for organizing this open debate on the theme “Women and peace and security: Responding to human trafficking in situations of conflict-related sexual violence”. Sir, you can rest assured that the French presidency will have the full cooperation of the Spanish delegation.…
At the outset, I thank our four briefers today for their statements, which I believe provide a very clear view of the complexity of the Sahel. I would also like to thank those who will speak following the members of the Council.
The Sahel has on many occasions been defined, and the phrase is very f…
I very much thank all of today’s briefers.
Much more than a decade ago, the African Union began making significant efforts to confront all of the challenges on the African continent, and those efforts have meant that the African Union has become a very crucial partner of the Security Council. It is…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Kosovo, Ambassador Tanin, for his
briefing, and welcome the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and Ms. Vlora Çitaku back to the Council.
My delegation has taken careful note of th…
I would like to thank the United Kingdom for having requested this urgent meeting of the Security Council.
Just yesterday, here in the Chamber, the President of Médecins Sans Frontières, who was seated exactly where the Syrian delegation is seated, stated that more than 300 attacks had occurred in …
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your briefing as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001). I also thank the Ambassador of New Zealand for his briefing as Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1…
I thank the Secretary-General for being with us today. I say this very sincerely because I think that, among the people in the Chamber, he is one of the ones who has travelled the most and who has witnessed the abuses that have been committed against hospitals and doctors in different parts of the w…
Spain voted in favour of today’s resolution 2285 (2016). We heartily commend the efforts of the United States as facilitator and other members of the Security Council for their work. We are well aware of the difficulties those negotiations presented. Spain would have preferred that this year we coul…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this debate. I also thank, the briefers, my good friends Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik. I have had the pleasure of working with both of them here at the United Nations, where they both did excellent work. I also wish to thank the Deputy Minister for Fo…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Mr. Zerihoun for his briefing this morning.
A single statistic suffices to explain the timeliness of this debate: more than 20 per cent of maritime crime takes place in the Gulf of Guinea — in all its guises, from piracy and armed robbery to all forms of illegal …
I would like to begin by conveying the condolences of Spain to the Permanent Missions of Japan and Ecuador in the light of the very high number of victims resulting from the earthquakes that struck both countries over the weekend. We would also like to begin this statement by condemning all acts of …
I thank you, Madam Minister, for organizing this debate and, above all, for presiding over our discussion.
Fifteen years ago or more, when the agenda item on women and peace and security reached the Security Council, the main purpose was to improve prevention mechanisms in the Security Council and …
I want to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2016/225) and Special Representative Sandra Honoré for her briefing.
Regarding the political process in Haiti, Spain echoes the Secretary-General’s call to all Haitian stakeholders, especially the President and the National Assembly, to work t…
