Since the start of this year there has been sharper focus by the Security Council on issues relating to Afghanistan. The Council members’ visit to Afghanistan, the ministerial debate on Afghanistan and regional connectivity (see S/PV.8162) and the enhanced focus by the Chairman of the Committee esta…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s open debate on an issue that is of interest and importance to the entire membership of the United Nations. I also thank Mr. Ian Martin for his briefing.
As the organ of the United Nations tasked with the maintenance of international peace and security on beh…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate on Afghanistan and for choosing the subject “Building regional partnership in Afghanistan and Central Asia as a model to link security and development”. We also thank the Secretary-General for sharing his views on a subject that is so closely…
Sitting here listening to the speakers makes me realize the validity of a dictum that I heard many years ago. It is that each generation tends to confront the challenges of the next
generation, using the tools of the preceding generation, without even knowing it. Today’s debate appears to be one su…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for your sterling opening remarks articulating your commitment to putting in place a meaningful and credible reform process. They have set the stage for our consideration of agenda item 122, on the question of equitable representation on and incr…
The report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/72/1) is in many ways an inflection point. It depicts the international landscape and the United Nations itself in a manner that looks much different compared to just a year ago.
The euphoria surrounding the finalization of the …
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate on the situation in Afghanistan and for providing us with an opportunity on an issue that forms a very important part of the peace and security debate in the Security Council. We thank Ambassador Yamamoto for his reflections on the current situation.
We …
Like the rest of my colleagues, I too would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, and wishing you success as you take on the task of presiding over our deliberations.
I am taking the floor today to explain our vote on the General Committee’s recommendation that the Assembly include on its a…
Mr. President, as you said when we began consideration of this item, events unfolding around us every day have highlighted the fact that terrorism continues to be the world’s most pervasive and serious challenge to international security. Even as we struggle with the traditional methods employed by …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate on the situation in Afghanistan. We also appreciate the briefing by Special Representative Yamamoto and the statement by Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, which have added to our understanding o…
I am taking the floor to congratulate you, Sir, and your Office on bringing this process to a swift and expeditious conclusion, resulting in today’s adoption of resolution 71/291. I also take this opportunity to compliment the Secretary-General on his earnest efforts on the issue.
This is the first…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate on the situation in Afghanistan. We also appreciate the insightful and frank briefings by Special Representative Yamamoto and Ms. Sima Samar, which have added to our understanding of the current circumstances.
The unimpeded and…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate on an issue of increasing significance in an interconnected world. We also appreciate the informative and thoughtful briefings.
Increasingly, the ideas, industries, markets, resources, services and products we share are in…
I begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and the other new members who joined the Security Council earlier this month. I also thank the Secretary-General for passionately outlining his vision and ideas for furthering conflict prevention and sustaining peace in his maiden address to the Council.…
We live in times when the shadow of barbarism is never far from us. That manifests itself sometimes in acts like the one perpetrated today in the dastardly attack on the Russian Federation’s Ambassador to Turkey. It is much more manifest at times in what activities are undertaken by designated terro…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. We thank your delegation for preparing the useful concept note (S/2016/969, annex), and the briefers who have provided very interesting perspectives on the subject.
While the topic of today’s discussion is water, peace and security, the importa…
It is often said that the United Nations is about acting together to defend the dignity intrinsic to all human beings by fostering sustainable peace, and that the objective at the United Nations is to work together in solidarity to assist other members of the human family in need. If that is indeed …
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate on peacekeeping operations facing asymmetrical threats. I am grateful for the very interesting briefings provided earlier today.
Threats and challenges to the United Nations peacekeeping enterprise are not new. The Congo in the 1960s, Bosn…
I wish to begin by thanking the President of the General Assembly for reiterating today his commitment to the critical issue of Security Council reform (see A/71/PV.42). We also welcome his efforts to reach out to Member States so early during the seventy-first session. I would also like to congratu…
Today we are about to select the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. The final report (A/71/1) of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the work of the Organization is therefore an appropriate inflection point for examining the main challenges that face us and the means and mechanisms to mend …
