I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom and Special Envoy Ismail Wais for their briefings today. Let me also extend a particular word of thanks to Ms. Grace John for her briefing. We heard her loud and clear, including…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Yamamoto for his briefing and for the important work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Afghanistan.
I would also like to thank Mr. Ramiz Bakhtiar for sharing his valuable insights this afterno…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2018/795) and Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her informative briefing this morning. Let me echo colleagues in their appreciation for the way in which she presented progress made in her charts this morning as well.
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Let me begin by joining others in congratulating you, Madam President, in assuming your role for this month. Let me also echo others in praising the United Kingdom presidency for the manner they led the Security Council during the month of August.
We have no objections to the provisional programme …
I would like to begin by acknowledging the presence of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes here today. Sweden has a long- standing relationship with the people of Guinea-Bissau dating back even before its independence. It is in that spirit of close partnership that we are now engaging in support for Guin…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for this important opportunity to discuss how to strengthen the role of mediation. I also want to thank the briefers for their insightful and very useful input to this discussion today.
In January 2017, the Secretary-General presented his vision for a su…
Halabja 1988, Srebrenica 1995, Darfur 2003. The list of examples in modem history where violence has triumphed is long, too long. Regrettably, it seems a new name will now be added to that tragic list: Rakhine 2017. The reports of systematic and widespread human rights violations and abuses against …
Speaking on behalf of the humanitarian penholders, I thank Mr. Ging for
his briefing and I pay tribute to the tireless efforts of humanitarian workers saving lives on the ground in Syria every day. Too many brave humanitarians have been killed on duty.
We meet today as there are alarming signs of …
Allow me to begin by thanking the briefers for their comprehensive update on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We commend their tireless efforts, and we express our full support for their challenging and important tasks ahead of the 23 December presidential, legislative and prov…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President,, for convening today’s important meeting. I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director Coninsx and Ms. Cook for their informative briefings. We are particularly pleased to see Ms. Cook here today, as the insights of …
I too would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Van Oosterom and Ambassador Vale de Almeida for their useful briefings and reports to the Security Council today.
We welcome the Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2018/602), which endor…
Let me begin by recognizing the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali. We thank him for being with us today.
Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his useful briefing to the Council today.
We welcome the progress that has been made in th…
The parliamentary elections in May were an important democratic step forward for Iraq. The decision to recount all votes means that the process is not yet at an end and that the United Nations has a central role to play in support of that critical exercise. Once formed, a challenging to-do list awai…
I, too, would like to start by thanking Special Representative Fall and the Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Ambassador Allam- Mi, for their very useful briefings to the Council today.
As we have heard this morning, the Central African region continues …
The millions of South Sudanese caught up in this brutal conflict have waited too long for their leaders to bring about an end to the fighting. Despite the efforts of the region to broker an agreement, the parties have not made the compromises necessary to set the country on a path towards peace, rec…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Zahir Tanin for his briefing today. I would also like to thank Deputy Prime Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku for their statements to the Security Council.
As others European Union (EU) members of the Council have already stated, the situa…
I would like to begin by thanking the co-leads for organizing this important and timely mission. Allow me to also thank the Governments of both Bangladesh and Myanmar
for their cooperation, as well as the Secretariat and the United Nations country teams for their support.
The Council’s visit allow…
Sweden voted in favour of resolution 2414 (2018), adopted today, because of our support for the Secretary-General’s ambition to relaunch the United Nations-led political process and our firm belief that that must be our main priority. Indeed, the aim of reaching a just, lasting and mutually acceptab…
I would like to join you, Mr. President, and our colleagues around the table in expressing my shock and deep sadness at the sudden death of Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue. We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to his family and his colleagues at the Permanent Mission of Côte d’Ivoire and the M…
Let me begin by thanking the United Kingdom for taking the initiative to update the Security Council.
I also thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, for her comprehensive briefing.
Sweden has been clear in condemning in the strongest terms the attempted murder o…
