I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening and presiding over today’s meeting. I am also grateful to Mr. Mladenov for his briefing and frank assessments.
My delegation associates itself with the statements to be delivered by the representatives of Venezuela and Uzbekistan on behalf of the Moveme…
About two weeks ago, in the midst of a difficult setting, the Security Council managed to find convergence and unanimity to endorse the evacuation operation out of eastern Aleppo (resolution 2328 (2016)). As a result of the Council’s action, the swift deployment of United Nations personnel to overse…
I join other Security Council members in thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this discussion on Afghanistan. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto, Ambassador Van Bohemen and Mr. Yury Fedotov for their briefings. I also welcome and thank the Permanent Represent…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, which told us that the annihilation of eastern Aleppo is not merely a threat but a reality, carried out with complete disregard for innocent life.
Only last week the Council was informed that aerial attacks would be halted unilaterally …
I thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her briefing. We have taken note of the twenty-fourth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court submitted pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 1593 (2005) and the judicial activities of the Office of the Prosecutor since its previous report.
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My delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for convening this timely and important meeting. I also wish to thank all the briefers for their respective presentations, which provided important views and perspectives on the issue at hand.
Before moving on to the subject of our discussion today, I take t…
I wish to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, for their briefings today.
At the outset, I wish to reiterate my delegation’s principled position that issues of concern should be addressed through constructive…
I wish to the thank the briefers, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Sidikou and Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun, for their update on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continued monitoring and reporting by the United Nations on developments on the ground are cr…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura, Mr. O’Brien of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Mr. Cappelaere of UNICEF for their respective briefings.
Today’s briefings once again highlighted the horrifying situation in eastern Aleppo, as the war in the Syria continues to become even…
My delegation welcomes the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and Ambassador Vlora Çitaku of Kosovo back to New York and thanks them for their statements. I am also grateful to Special Representative Mr. Zahir Tanin for his briefing.
Years of pers…
Allow me to first thank the President for convening such an important meeting. It is an important follow-up to the implementation of resolution 2185 (2014), which Malaysia fully supports.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for his overview and add my voice in welcoming the Police Commissioners…
I thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for presenting her twelfth report to the Security Council as requested under resolution 1970 (2011).
The current political and security situation in Libya continues to present tremendous challenges and hampers ongoing…
My delegation is very grateful to Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien and Mr. Muhannad Hadi of the World Food Programme for their briefings.
Malaysia is gravely concerned about the very bleak pictu…
I wish first to thank the presidency for convening this timely meeting, which comes roughly one year after the completion of the review of resolution 1325 (2000). I also wish to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon; the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; and Ms. Rita…
I wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Honoré for her comprehensive briefing. I join Council members in expressing my deepest condolences and in conveying my heartfelt sympathy on behalf of the Government and people of Malaysia to the Government and people of Haiti in the tr…
Eighteen months ago, with the closure of the United Nations Office in Burundi previously authorized by resolution 2137 (2014), there was immense hope that Burundi had turned the final page on a tragic chapter in its history. At that point, Burundi seemed poised to move out of the post-conflict phas…
I join earlier speakers in welcoming our discussion today on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin, which we, too, feel is timely, and we thank the United Kingdom for having requested it. This discussion, in my view, could also set the stage for the wider conversation on peacebuilding in Africa that …
Malaysia welcomes the convening of this open debate. We commend Japan’s commitment in seeking continuous improvement in this important area of the work of the Security Council.
Malaysia joins other Council members in welcoming the just-adopted presidential note S/2016/619, which focuses on the issu…
I wish to begin by commending you and your team, Mr. President, for the excellent organization and conduct of the Council’s work this month. Based on that alone, I must say that the Egyptian presidency has been a resounding success. I wish also to thank you for having organized this formal note 507 …
I wish to join earlier speakers in thanking all the briefers for their respective briefings, to which we have listened with much interest. We particularly appreciate the perspective of Ms. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in describing the harrowing difficulties endured by the people of the Sahel.
As noted b…
