At the outset, I thanks Ms. Sandra Honoré for her comprehensive briefing and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) staff, the troop- and police-contribution countries, and the United Nations country team and their partners. I thank them all for their efforts to support Haiti a…
I would like first to extend my thanks to the Permanent Representative of Spain for his valuable briefing and for his leadership in the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). I would also like to thank the Panel of Experts for their efforts and the pre…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this important meeting. I also thank Dr. David Nabarro, Dr. Margaret Chan, Mr. Téte António, Mr. Per Thöresson and Dr. Mosoka Fallah for their comprehensive briefings. At almost the same time last year, we met (see S/PV.7268) t…
Two years ago, the international consensus enabled us to respond quickly and effectively to the reports of the use of chemical weapons in the conflict in Syria, whose shocking images have remained with us, images of Syrian civilian victims of chemical weapon attacks in the Guta area of Damascus. Int…
I should like at the outset to welcome you here to the Security Council, Mr. President, and to thank you and your delegation for having given us this opportunity to discuss this very important topic, namely, peace and security challenges facing small island developing States (SIDS). I should like al…
At the outset, allow me to welcome the Ministers who have come to this meeting from Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. We certainly appreciate all the efforts being made by those countries in the independent investigation on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17.
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At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for presiding over this important meeting, and to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing today and his efforts in general.
The prospects in our region are dire. We are faced with challenges that are complicated, interlinked and unprecedented in their vari…
Jordan welcomes the agreement reached on the Iranian nuclear issue, as well as the political and diplomatic efforts made by China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union to achieve it.
Jordan has always called for a peaceful diplomatic …
I have the honour to brief the members of the Council in my capacity as the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In my statement, I intend to provide an overview of my visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwa…
I would like to begin by thanking the Deputy Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for their comprehensive briefings.
Jordan regrets the fact that the draft resolution (S/2015/508) was not adopted today. As we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the greate…
At the outset, I would like to thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court for her briefing this afternoon. I would also like to thank the Prosecutor for presenting her twenty-first report to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We take note of the briefi…
I would like to thank Mr. Olof Skoog, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, its former Chair, for their briefings on peacebuilding in post-conflict situations.
Recent changes and emerging challenges, along with their impact in many areas of the world, have …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing and his report (S/2015/289), of which we take note. I would also like to thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights and commend the work of his Office. I thank Mr. Diakité for his briefing.
The growing illic…
I would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing today and for introducing the ninth report submitted to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).
Jordan stresses its continued support for the International Criminal Cour…
I thank the delegation of France for having organized this debate.
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Allow me to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon; the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Mr. Louis Raphaël I Sako; and member of the I…
We thank the members of the Security Council who voted in favour of resolution 2214 (2015), presented by Jordan in conjunction with Egypt and Libya and in application of the Ministerial decision of the League of Arab States.
The threat represented by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and …
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this important meeting. Our thanks also go to the Secretary- General and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Zerrougui, as well as to Ms. Yoka Brandt, Ms. Julie Bodin and Mr. Junior Nzita.
I would like to emphas…
First, may I join colleagues in thanking Ms. Sandra Honoré for her briefing. We are very pleased to see her here again.
The Security Council meets every six months to assess the situation in Haiti, a country that has seen instability and uncertainty with regard to its future. We must therefore cond…
I should like at the outset to thank you for having facilitated the taking up of this item at an open meeting in order to shed light on the various dimensions of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today. It is important that the international community be …
At the outset, I should like to welcome you, Sir, and to thank China for convening this important meeting on maintaining international peace and security and the commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations . I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on th…
