Senegal thanks you, Sir, for convening this meeting. My delegation would like to thank Mr. Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Muhannad Hadi for their briefings and poignant descriptions that they have provided us with regard to the situation in Yemen. Their combined work on the ground allows us …
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for the clarity of his briefing. Above all, I welcome his commitment and that of his team to the cause of the Syrian people, who are being sorely tried indeed. We believe that the time has come to renew our tribute to humanitarian p…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her detailed statement, as well as for her outstanding work at the head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
On behalf of the Senagalese people and its Government, I should also lik…
Mr. President, I should like to start by commending your initiative of holding this meeting, which provides us with an opportunity to once again exchange views on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. I wish to convey my gratitude to Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon fo…
Senegal welcomes the holding of this debate and we are pleased to see Minister McCully participate in it personally.
This debate, taking place in the context of the consideration of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2016/768) on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international pe…
The delegation of Senegal would like to thank the Japanese presidency of the Council for having organized this open debate, which gives us the opportunity to examine the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, following the publication of the Quartet report. I would also li…
I would like to start by expressing the condolences of the Republic of Senegal to Turkey following the terrorist attack that struck that brotherly country yesterday.
Senegal would also like to commend the efforts of the penholder of resolution 2295 (2016). We welcome and thank Foreign Minister Abdo…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity you have provided us by convening this meeting to once again examine the situation in Afghanistan. At the outset, allow me to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom for the report (S/2016/532) he has just introduced to us and to commend hi…
I should first like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this briefing today and to welcome the Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for her report and her briefing on the status of the investigations and procedures led by her Office in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005)…
My delegation welcomes today’s briefing on the International Criminal Tribunals, organized by the French presidency of the Security Council.
I would like to thank Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); Judge Theodor Meron, President of the Inte…
My delegation thanks the French presidency for organizing today’s debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security, with special attention on the European Union, after last month’s similar exchange, which focu…
At the outset, the Senegalese delegation would like to thank the French presidency for the timely choice of the topic of today’s debate, namely, responding to the threats of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in situations of armed conflict. Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, for th…
My country welcomes your initiative, Mr. President, to organize this debate on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the outstanding quality of his report (S/2016/395, annex). My delegation would also l…
I too thank Mr. Feltman and Mr. O’Brien for their briefings, amd the delegations of France and the United Kingdom for requesting this urgent meeting of the Council, following the unprecedented escalation of violence taking place in Aleppo. A city that has for millennia been the cradle of rich cultur…
At the outset, Mr. President, I welcome your outstanding initiative in organizing this joint briefing on the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated g…
At this first public meeting of the Security Council for the month of May, Senegal would like to congratulate the brotherly country of Egypt on its assumption of the Council presidency for this month. I also commend China for its
outstanding conduct of our work in the month of April. This meeting i…
My delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s briefing. I would also like to welcome the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to the Council.
The outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine two years ago testifies to the seriousness of the issue of conflict prevention, the Securit…
At the outset, I would like to thank Angola and Australia for their leadership during the second stage of the review of the peacebuilding architecture, during which they facilitated the intergovernmental consultations that led to today’s adoption of resolution 70/262 by the General Assembly and reso…
I should like to welcome the initiative of the Chinese presidency to convene, together with the Senegalese and Angolan delegations, this debate to discuss a topic of great importance and scope in a global context characterized by key threats to our collective security. Quite clearly, the issue of pr…
The delegation of Senegal would like to thank the Chinese presidency for organizing today’s briefing and to welcome the presence in the Chamber of Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia. I would also like to thank our briefers this morning, Mr. Michael Keating, Speci…
