We would like to thank Malaysia for having convened this debate and for leading the Informal Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. We welcome the recommendations of the Secretary-General and appreciate the work of Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Mr. Anthony Lake and their teams in preventing and eradic…
We thank Japan for convening this debate and for its excellent leadership of the Council’s work and of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Matters.
Chile supports the statement made by the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Move…
We appreciate the briefing of Special Representative of the Secretary General for Haiti Sandra Honoré.
Chile associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Peru, Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti.
As other delegations have note…
In the framework of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (resolution 60/288), Chile once again welcomes and commends the timely initiative of the Secretary-General in the preparation and design of the Plan of Actio…
We thank the Uruguayan presidency for having convened today’s debate and for having prepared the concept note (S/2016/22, annex ). We also thank the Deputy Secretary General, the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor of Oxfam for th…
Chile would like to thank you, Madam, for convening this open meeting to examine the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004), and we would like to commend the work of the Ambassador of Spain in the Security Council’s non-proliferation committees.
Resolution 1540 (2004) was a milestone whose drafti…
We welcome the initiative of the United States to convene this public meeting. We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Sheik Ahmed; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Af…
The draft resolution (S/2015/1005) presented today for adoption in the area of international justice encompasses two central aspects of the work of the ad hoc tribunals and the Residual Mechanism. The first pertains to the extension of the mandates of judges and the Prosecutor of the International T…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his briefing. We would also like to express our gratitude to the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal…
We welcome the presence of United States Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as of the Ministers and Deputy Ministers who have joined us today.
We hope that resolution 2254 (2015) contributes to the ceasefire and the start of a process of formal negotiations to achieve a lasting political settle…
I am thankful for this opportunity to address the Council in my capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2013) concerning South Sudan, and the Informal Working Group on Internati…
We would like to thank the United States for convening this meeting. We are also grateful for the briefings by Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson; Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Mr. Nick Grono, Director of the
Freedom Fund, as well as fo…
Once again, we welcome the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for introducing her twenty-second report on Darfur, Sudan, pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
As acknowledged by the Prosecutor in her powerful report, it is unacceptable th…
Chile aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of South Africa, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and of Ecuador, on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
I would like to thank the President for convening our commemoration of the twentieth a…
We thank the United States presidency for having convened this meeting. We also thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and their teams for their briefings today.
It is difficult for us to remain indifferent in the face of human rights situations that demand coordinated and specific…
We are grateful for the comprehensive briefings on the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in connection with the completion strategies for the Tribunals, in compliance…
We appreciate the briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, as well as her efforts to step up the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel.
The Sahel continues to face vulnerabilities in the area of comprehensive security. The growing activity of terrori…
We welcome the forceful message sent by the Security Council via its unanimous adoption of resolution 2249 (2015). All acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable. Those who provide material, intellectual or financial support for terrorism must be prosecuted and brought to justice. In addition …
We thank the presidency for convening this briefing, as well as for its concept note (S/2015/846, annex). I also thank the Secretary General for his briefing.
While we take note of the reports (S/2015/682) of the Secretary-General and of the High-level Independent Panel (see S/2015/446), we underst…
We welcome Mr. Zahir Tanin, the new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. We would like to thank him for his briefing on the situation in Kosovo. Our country wishes him every success in his efforts to promote peace and stability in Kosovo and the region. We would a…
