Chile joined the international community’s recognition of the contact group’s diplomatic efforts, which have led to the agreement on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. We are confident that it will contribute to ending the violence and the humanitarian crisis in the country by providing assistance thro…
The delegation of Chile is grateful for the initiative of the United Kingdom and Jordan in preparing and introducing the timely resolution 2201 (2015). We appreciate the effort made in the Security Council to agree on a text that reflects a firm common position in the face of the urgent issue of Yem…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his briefing on the current situation in Kosovo. We also thank Mr. Ivica Dačić, Deputy Prime Minister and Ministe…
Chile’s position vis-à-vis the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, has been expressed by my country in this and other international forums, and is widely known. We support negotiations between the parties and a solution that would allow both States to live in peace and …
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Zerihoun, and the Assistant Secretary- General for Human Rights, Mr. Šimonović, for their briefings. We also thank the Chadian presidency for facilitating the inclusion of the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea o…
We thank and commend you, Mr. President, and your team for guiding the work of the Security Council in December. We welcome the convening of this open wrap-up meeting, which we believe to be a vital tool of the Council that must be maintained in future.
I shall begin by referring to the sanctions c…
We welcome the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Nicholas Haysom. We congratulate him on his responsibilities and thank him for his briefing. We also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Off…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for introducing the quarterly report of the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We greatly value and acknowledge the role of Australia as Chair of the Committee for the past two years. We also want to thank the Panel…
We welcome the convening of this debate and the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, as well as her presentation of the twentieth briefing on the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We note with concern that the humanitarian and sec…
My delegation wishes to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and the Residual Mechanism, for their comprehensive briefings to the Council on the implementation of the completion strategy of the two ad hoc Tribunals…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for his briefing. We also welcome Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and Mr. Hashim Thaçi.
We are concerned by the scant progress in the negotiations between Pristina and Belgrade. Although the dialogue facilitated by the Eur…
At the outset, we congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your leadership and presidency in the month of November. We welcome the convening of this public wrap-up session, which is a working practice that we would like to see continue.
Let me begin by mentioning some of the highlights of …
We are grateful for Australia’s initiative in bringing the subject of sanctions to the Security Council’s attention. We also thank Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, and Jürgen Stock, Secretary General of INTERPOL, for their briefings.
We believe that the universal natu…
Chile thanks the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Ambassador Oh Joon, for his briefing to the Council today. We appreciate the leadership shown by the Republic of Korea in chairing the 1540 Committee over the past two years. We also commend the work carried out …
I welcome Australia’s initiative in convening this debate to allow us to reflect on the role of international
cooperation in combating terrorism and violent extremism. This year, we have been called upon to analyse and adopt concrete measures with regard to such phenomena, in particular within the …
Today we are urgently meeting at the request of the Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to address the dangerous escalation of tensions in East Jerusalem. We regret that the Security Council has to deal once again with the…
I am pleased to address the members of the Council in my capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004), concerning Côte d’Ivoire.
At the outset, I have the honour to summarize the main findings contained in the midterm report of the Group of Expe…
Fourteen years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), Chile thanks the presidency of Argentina for having convened this debate on this topic, in particular, the situation of internally displaced women and girls. We thank the Secretary-General, the Executive Director of UN-Women, the Assistant…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for his briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine and Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs. We appreciate the efforts that they, together with th…
We thank you, Madam, for convening this open debate under the Argentine presidency on the working methods of the Security Council. We commend this initiative and the exemplary manner in which this issue has been addressed under the direction of the Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural…
