We welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda. We thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing on the current judicial activities of the Court and on the
situation in Darfur, as contained in her twenty-first report submitted to the Security Council pursuant to resol…
We welcome Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, and thank him for presenting the Commission’s report (S/2015/174). We praise the work that Brazil has been doing for some time as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration and all of the efforts that have …
Angola would like to start by condemning in the strongest terms today’s heinous terrorist attack on the Parliament of Afghanistan, which reflects the terrorists’ hatred of the country’s institutions. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Head of the United N…
Angola thanks the Malaysian presidency of the Security Council for convening this open debate on an issue of critical importance, namely, the fate of children caught in the middle of armed conflicts and the suffering that they endure. The international community pledged to find solutions to this pro…
At the outset, on behalf of the Angolan delegation, I would like to commend the Malaysian presidency for the initiative of convening
this meeting with the Chairs of the three Security Council subsidiary organs responsible for countering terrorism, whom we welcome.
The holding of this meeting less …
We thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman and the Deputy Chief Monitor of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Mr. Alexander Hug, for their briefings on recent developments in the situation in Ukraine.
We are deeply disturbed by the ev…
At the outset, Mr. President, let me express our congratulations to your delegation, Malaysia, on presiding over the Security Council for the month of June. I also commend the work performed by the Lithuanian presidency during the previous month of May.
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of th…
We would like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Kosovo, for his briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s debate of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Hashim Thaçi, Deputy Prime Mini…
We welcome and thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, for introducing the report on the implementation of the peace agreement (S/2015/300, annex), and for the work being accomplished by his Office in ensuring steady progress in the consolidation of …
We thank Jordan for convening this meeting. We are grateful to Ms. Valerie Amos,
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Mr. António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Ms. Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the World Food Programm…
We would like to extend a warm welcome to you, Sir, and express our gratitude to you for presiding over this very important debate. We thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing, and we shall concentrate our attention on the Palestinian question.
There is an international consensus that a…
The delegation of Angola aligns itself with the statements to be delivered by the Permanent Observer of the African Union and by the Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
We commend the presidency of Jordan for convening this open debat…
My delegation voted in favour and fully supports resolution 2216 (2015), whose necessity was dictated by the Houthis’ unilateral actions that jeopardized what seemed to be a promising transitional political process in Yemen. It is our hope that the resolution contributes to a meaningful peace proces…
We thank Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi for presenting the quarterly report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We congratulate the Spanish delegation and the Panel of Experts on the work done thus far.
We are pleased that no incidents have been reported over the pas…
We welcome and thank Special Representative, Nicholas Haysom, for introducing the Secretary-General’s report on Afghanistan (S/2015/151*) and for the work that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is doing in carrying out its important mandate, which was entrusted to it by th…
We thank Under-Secretary- General Jeffrey Feltman, Director John Ging of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Šimonović for their briefings illustrating the political and diplomatic developments aimed at putting an end to the conflict
in Ukrai…
We welcome His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, to this meeting of the Security Council and thank him for his briefing outlining the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) priorities under his chai…
We thank the delegations of Jordan and the United Kingdom for taking the initiative to draft and present the timely resolution 2201 (2015) on the situation in Yemen, which Angola was very honoured to sponsor. It is our hope that its unanimous adoption will make a tangible contribution to the mediati…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2015/74). We welcome His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign…
I should like to thank and congratulate the Chilean presidency on convening this open debate on the important issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, with particular emphasis on protection challenges and needs faced by women and girls in armed conflict and post-conflict settings.
I …
