I am very encouraged, Mr. President, by your suggestion that we should be more active and action oriented. I would just like to add one very brief comment.
I participated in the mission and was very encouraged by the sense of ownership from the regional countries of Cameroon, Chad, the Niger and Ni…
Please allow me to thank His Excellency President Nikolić of Serbia and Her Excellency Ambassador Çitaku of Kosovo for their briefings. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing and continued service.
As indicated in the report (S/2017/95/Rev.1) of the Secr…
I would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Sebastian Kurz, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, for his briefing.
Yesterday’s open debate (see S/PV.7886) was a good opportunity for us to recall the major c…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Aïchatou Mindaoudou, for her update on the situation in Côte d’Ivoire, where peace and democracy have been restored. I would also like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Marcel …
Japan supported the draft resolution (S/2016/1026) proposed by the three co-penholders — Egypt, New Zealand and
Spain — because we believe that it could have served as a tool to meet the pressing humanitarian needs in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria. As Japan has often emphasized, our most important…
I would like to thank Special Representative Sidikou and Assistant Secretary- General Zerihoun for their briefings.
Japan welcomes the timely adoption today of presidential statement S/PRST/2016/18, following the Council’s visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month. With 19 December t…
Sorry, as to the bringing of a bottle of wine, I do not find it anywhere in the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council or in presidential note S/2010/507 a prohibition on bringing a bottle of wine to the Chamber.
I would like to thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing and continued service.
I have always followed Kosovo with great interest since the time I spent from 1999 to 2000 serving as Chief Political Officer in the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Today, I h…
I wish to express my gratitude to Ambassador Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzogovina, for his informative briefing. Japan appreciates the High Representative’s ongoing contribution to peace and stability in the country. We also welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2315…
Mr. President, I thank you for convening this meeting. I would also like to convey my gratitude to the Secretary-General; to Ms. Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières; and Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, for their briefings and, of cour…
I thank you, Madam, for convening this meeting. I would also like to extend my appreciation to Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his detailed briefing. Last week, the week of 19 September, was the high-level week for the General Assembly. It should have be…
Allow me to express my gratitude to you, Sir, for convening today’s important and timely meeting on aviation security. I also thank Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), for her briefing. Above all, I would like to thank the United Kingdom and Mr. B…
Japan is very pleased to have co-sponsored resolution 2307 (2016), unanimously adopted today. It is an enormous step forward for Colombia’s reconciliation and development after half a century of conflict and four years of peace talks.
Japan would like once again to welcome the final peace Agreeme…
I thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, for his comprehensive briefing. I also welcome Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Ser…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien for his briefing and for his commitment to and engagement in saving the lives of the people of Syria. Last December, the Council gathered in this Chamber to unanimously adopt resolution 2254 (2015), and expressed hope about advances in the poli…
I have the great honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Asia-Pacific States at this solemn gathering of the General Assembly.
We are deeply saddened by the demise of the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth
session, His Excellency Mr. John William Ashe. It is well known that Am…
Let me first express my gratitude to you, Mr. President, for convening
this debate. My gratitude also goes to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his last but, as usual, comprehensive briefing today. Japan appreciates Mr. Haysom’s tireless e…
Let me begin by thanking Prosecutor Bensouda for her briefing and for introducing
her twenty-third report on Darfur. We are convinced of the importance of the fight against impunity and the rule of law. That is why Japan has consistently supported the activities of the International Criminal Court …
I would like to begin by welcoming Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and thanking her for her very enriching and comprehensive presentation.
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Japan and the European Union (EU) are strategic partners based on…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on a very successful presidency during the month of May.
First, let me touch upon the Security Council mission to the Horn of Africa. At such an important juncture in Somalia’s Statebuilding, the mission was both timely and beneficial. I t…
