We thank Ambassador Ramírez Carreño, Permanent Representative of Venezuela, for his briefing on the activities of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea.
We commend the activities of the Committee. The debate organized recently (see S/PV.7620…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Uruguay on your guidance of the work of the Council this month.
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In our view, more than these formal wrap-up sessions by Security Council members — in which we repeat much of what was said in consultations, briefings, deba…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr Nicholas Haysom, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (S/2015/942). We commend the work acco…
First, we would like to thank the briefers for their comprehensive presentations. Our special gratitude goes to Nadia Taha. We praise Nadia for her courage and strength in sharing with us a painful experience. Nadia’s testimony and plea raise the fundamental issue of the victims of trafficking and e…
We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing and for her twenty-second report on the situation in Darfur, submitted to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005), in which the Council determined that the situation in Darfur constitu…
We thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Šimonović, Mr. Ging and Mr. Apakan for their briefings.
Angola supports the peaceful resolution of conflicts through dialogue, negotiations and strict respect for the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law. On this occasion, …
We welcome and thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel for her briefing on the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel.
We start by regretting that Security Council members were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a draft presidential s…
I would like to begin by paying tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack in Mali today. We strongly condemn such criminal acts.
We commend the United Kingdom presidency for organizing today’s meeting, which affords us an opportunity to assess the proposals for enhancing peace operations at a …
We would like to welcome Mr. Zahir Tanin and congratulate him on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Kosovo. We thank him for his briefing on the Secretary-General’s report (S/2015/833) on the
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and we…
We thank this month’s United Kingdom presidency for convening this meeting with the heads of the police components of peacekeeping missions. We also welcome the Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations and the Police Commissioners present in the Security Council Chamber today and thank t…
We are grateful to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for presenting the forty-eighth report on the implementation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2015/841, annex). The High Representative referred to the remarkable progr…
I would like to begin by wishing you, Mr. President, and the delegation of the United Kingdom success in your presidency of the Security Council. We also congratulate the Spanish delegation for their excellent work during their presidency in October. We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the In…
Let me start by warmly welcoming the Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to this meeting.
The Republic of Angola voted in favour of resolution 70/5, on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America agains…
We thank Jordan for convening this meeting and the Assistant Secretary- General for his briefing on the situation in Israel and Palestine. In the open debate to take place here next week, we will address at length the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Today we want to highlight our extreme alarm at the esc…
We wish you and the Spanish delegation every success, Mr. President, in presiding over the Security Council this month. You can rely on our full cooperation.
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We congratulate the Russian delegation on its successful presidency of the Security Council in the month of September.
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We thank Special Representative Nicholas Haysom for presenting the Secretary-General‘s report (S/2015/684) on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for his briefing, and the Am…
We thank the Permanent Representative of Spain, Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi, for the presentation of the revised 90- day report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We commend and support the work of the Committee and the Panel of Experts on an issue to which the in…
At the outset, we would like to extend a warm welcome to you, Sir, as well as our thanks for presiding over this debate. We also thank Mr. Mladenov for his insightful briefing and extend our support for his work.
We align ourselves with the statement to be delivered by the Permanent Representative …
The Angolan delegation is very honoured to take part in this meeting of the Security Council and to have cast its vote on the historic resolution 2231 (2015), which represents the triumph of multilateralism, negotiation and the peaceful settlement of disputes. The agreement that the Council has just…
At the outset, we would like to congratulate the delegation of Malaysia on its presidency of the Security Council during the month of June, and to thank it for convening this meeting. We must acknowledge the heavy work load in the Council’s agenda, which sometimes puts unbearable pressure on small d…
