Mr. Minister, we welcome your presiding over this debate and the adoption of the presidential statement (S/PRST/2016/14) that you have just read out on behalf of the Security Council as a demonstration of the Council’s support of and commitment to Afghanistan. We also welcome the new Special Represe…
We join other members of the Security Council in thanking Special Representative Zahir Tanin for presenting the report (S/2016/666) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, Fir…
We thank the delegation of Malaysia for convening today’s open debate and
welcome you, Mr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs of Malaysia, for presiding over this important meeting. We also thank the briefers for their important insights on this critical issue, …
The Security Council has just adopted resolution 2304 (2016) renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Angola voted in favour of the draft resolution, and we would like to outline our point of view on the issue.
As a member of the African Union and Chair of the Int…
We congratulate Malaysia on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August. We express our gratitude for the convening of this open debate and commend the Malaysian delegation for its excellent work and dedication in chairing the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.…
We start by commending the delegation of the United Kingdom for calling for the convening of today’s meeting. We thank the Under- Secretaries-General for Political and Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, respectively, for their insightful briefings on a critical situat…
We thank Under-Secretary- General Stephen O’Brien for his briefing on the disturbing humanitarian situation in Syria.
Most regrettably, the conflict in Syria continues while the parties completely disregard their obligations under international humanitarian law and the relevant Security Council res…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on this exceedingly critical international issue. We thank Under-Secretary- General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the report (S/2016/589) of the Secretary-General. We also thank Ambassador João Pedro Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delega…
We thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his briefing on the quarterly report (S/2016/532) of the Secretary- General on the situation in Afghanistan. We convey our deep appreciation an…
We welcome and thank Judges Carmel Agius and Theodor Meron and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings on the activities of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the Residual Mechanism. We commend Uruguay on its steering of the work of the Informal W…
We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for the eleventh report presented pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).
A degenerated security situation, an economic crisis, a humanitarian disaster, and an institutional and
political stalemate are the main features…
We welcome and thank Mr. Valentin Inzko for having presented the forty- ninth report of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2016/395, annex) and commend his work in assisting in the building of the Bosnia and Herzegovina State.
We take note of the successes achieved and the challe…
We thank Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Stephen O’Brien, for their briefings.
We are extremely concerned about the latest developments in Aleppo and the pattern of systematic destruction of the city, as …
We start by thanking the Egyptian presidency for convening this meeting. The holding of open briefings by the Chairs of the Sanctions Committees increases the transparency of Security Council proceedings, which the United Nations membership has been calling, for especially in matters of great politi…
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, the Chief Monitor of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan, and the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperso…
Angola is very honoured to co-sponsor, with China and Senegal, this open debate on piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea. The insights provided by Assistant Secretary- General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun were most valuable in outlining the subject matter we are considering in this important …
First of all, we would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, a deeply destabilized region where conflicts rage and where finding solutions to the conflicts has been a tragic, failed endeavour. We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of …
We thank Special Representative Zahir Tanin for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/99) on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the…
At the outset, we would like to say that we endorse the statements made by the representatives of Egypt and Senegal, and that we will uphold African solidarity in this matter. Angola will therefore abstain in the voting on the draft resolution on the appointment of the Prosecutor of the Internationa…
I would first like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Venezuela, on the way in which you have conducted the work of the Council in February. It has been a very busy and productive month. You have already discussed the Council’s activities this month in detail, Mr. President, s…
