We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Yamamoto, and to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Fedotov, for their briefings. We are also grateful to Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen of New Zealand, Chair of the Security C…
Angola voted in favour of resolution 2327 (2016), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), keeping the Security Council’s commitment to the country and its people. In fact, the situation in South Sudan has been, over the years, a matter of great concern for the Sec…
We commend the Spanish presidency for convening today’s important meeting on international judicial cooperation in the fight against terrorism. We would like to welcome Mr. Rafael Саtalá, Minister of Justice of Spain, to the Security Council and thank him for presiding over our debate. We also thank…
We are grateful to the honourable judges, Mr. Carmel Agius and Mr. Theodor Meron, and to Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for participating in today’s meeting. We are equally grateful to Uruguay for its important work in chairing the Working Group on the International Tribunals. The insightful briefings p…
We express appreciation for the efforts of China and the United States in drafting resolution 2321 (2016), which we have just adopted.
Angola joined the consensus of the Security Council by voting in favour of resolution 2321 (2016). The text of the resolution is self-explanatory, and the statement…
We thank Mr. De Mistura, Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Cappelaere for their briefings and commend their tireless efforts to assist Syria and Syrians in securing a better present and brighter future.
We acknowledge our regret to be involved in this acrimonious debate over the unbearable fate of the Syrian peo…
We would like to start by thanking the Senegalese delegation for convening this meeting. We are equally grateful to the briefers for their insightful presentations.
Considering the importance that we place on strengthening United Nations cooperation with regional, subregional and intergovernmental …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Zahir Tanin, for his briefing and insightful analysis of the situation prevailing in Kosovo. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr.…
We thank Senegal for organizing this annual briefing and this very useful interaction between Security Council members and the heads of police components of selected United Nations peacekeeping missions. We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for p…
Today, the Security Council has adopted resolution 2317 (2016), renewing the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea. Angola supports the Monitoring Group and welcomes its tireless efforts to engage with all the parties and contribute to the improvement of the security situation in th…
We welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thank him for the fiftieth report (S/2016/911, annex) of the High Representative to the Security Council. We commend his work in support of the implementation of the Genera…
At the outset, I join previous speakers in congratulating you, Sir, and the Russian delegation on your successful steering of the work of the Security Council during the month of October. We are grateful to Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien and the Regio…
The Angolan delegation commends the Russian presidency of the Security Council for convening this debate on cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations. We thank the Secretary- General for his insightful opening remarks and welcome and thank Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzh…
The Angolan delegation aligns itself with the statements of the representatives of the Niger, Thailand and Venezuela on behalf, respectively, of the Group of African States, the Group of 77 and China and the Non-Aligned Movement (see A/71/ PV.32).
Allow me to begin by extending a warm welcome to M…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his opening remarks and to UN- Women Executive Director Ms. Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka for presenting the report of the Secretary- General (S/2016/822), and we welcome Ms. Rita Lopidia of South Sudan, who spoke on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Pe…
We align ourselves with the part of the statement made earlier by the representative of Venezuela that was on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
We are grateful to the briefers in this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, on which we wil…
We are grateful to Ms. Honoré for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and the activities of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). We welcome the Permanent Representative of Haiti to this meeting and through him, the Republic of Angola conveys its heartfelt condolences to t…
We thank Special Envoy De Mistura for his briefing and for his stated determination not to give up on his mission, in which he has our full support.
We deeply regret that this meeting is being held due to such a negative turn of events in Syria, with the collapse of the ceasefire agreement, renewed…
We thank the New Zealand delegation for convening this meeting on the terrorist threat to civil aviation. We are grateful to Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), for her comprehensive briefing on the crucial issue of civil aviation in contemporary …
