First of all, I welcome the decision of the President of the General Assembly to convene today’s meeting on agenda item 122, entitled “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council”. The need to pursue…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the members of the Human Security Network, a cross-regional network composed of Austria, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Ireland, Mali, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, South Africa as an observer, and my own country, Panama. The Human Security Network is a…
I have the honour of speaking today on behalf of the members of the Human Security Network, a cross-regional network made up of Austria, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Mali, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand, South Africa as an observer, and my own country, Panama. The Human Secur…
At the outset, Sir, let me commend your leadership of the Security Council this month. We are grateful for the concept note and thank Ms. Nakamitsu and Mr. Ballard for their briefings at today’s relevant debate, which, once again, draws the attention of the Council to the growing threat of the risk …
Allow me to express our appreciation to the Republic of Uruguay for taking the initiative to propose today’s timely debate.
We would like to emphasize the normative value of the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the first instrument to establish the causal relationshi…
First, we wish to congratulate the newly elected non-permanent members of the Security Council and wish them success.
Today we are witnessing various firsts. This is the first open debate of the Security Council in this first month of 2017, with Sweden, a small State with the
first declared femini…
I would first like to express our solidarity with the victims of yesterday’s attacks in Germany, Turkey and Yemen, and to offer our sympathies and condolences to our colleagues from the Russian Federation.
I would like to welcome Mr. Mariano Rajoy Brey, President of the Government of Spain, to toda…
Allow me first to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, Mr. Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, and to congratulate the Spanish presidency on drawing attention once again to the great importance of and growing concern raised by the risks of the prolife…
First and foremost, allow me to welcome the President’s initiative in calling for the resumption of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform with a view to breathing new life into this very important process and to commend him for convening this debate on issues related to the quest…
Panama would like to begin its statement in this open debate by welcoming the wise initiative of the Malaysian presidency to convene this event to exchange views on something of ever-increasing importance and on the challenges we face as a global community in ensuring the non-proliferation of weapon…
At the outset, allow me to acknowledge the leadership of Japan in proposing this timely debate, 10 years after the approval of the first presidential note (S/2006/507) of the Council on working methods. Japan’s renewed commitment to the issue allows the General Assembly to bring to the Council one a…
First and foremost, I would like to welcome the presence this morning of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Her Excellency Ms. Delcy Rodríguez Gómez, and thank Venezuela for having convened today’s debate on the maintenance of peace and security and the purpose…
At the outset, I would like to begin by welcoming decision 69/560, adopted at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly under the presidency of Mr. Sam Kutesa, to continue with intergovernmental negotiations on reforming the Security Council, a goal shared by more than 90 per cent of Member S…
At the outset, allow me to thank the delegation of Spain, Sir, for convening this open Council debate on the topic “Women and peace and security”.
I would like to reiterate the message of the President of the Republic of Panama, His Excellency Mr. Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, during the general de…
I am honoured and humbled to be in this Hall among my colleagues, friends and fellow human beings for this historic moment when we have adopted by consensus decision 69/560, on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related
matters. On…
First, I want to welcome New Zealand’s presidency of the Security Council. I also welcome Mr. Murray McCully, Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Zealand.
I cannot think of a better setting or physical space than the territories of the SIDS where we can so clearly see the inextricable link between …
I would first like to thank Malaysia for presiding over the Security Council this month and for having convened this open debate on an issue of such great importance to the international community as children and armed conflict.
It is of great concern to see the increase in armed conflicts and huma…
On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC), I have the honour to extend our warmest congratulations to Mr. Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session. Mr. Lykketoft represents a country, Denmark, with a numbe…
We wish to begin by congratulating the non-permanent members of the Security Council and wishing them every success in their deliberations.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Austria as Chair of the Human Security Network.
We also welcome the briefings giv…
