I would like to join those who have spoken before me in thanking you, Mr. President, as well as Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan and Mr. Stephen O’Brien for their briefings to the Security Council on the worsening of the situation in the Donbas region.
Egypt expresses its serious concern ab…
I would like to begin by thanking the three briefers on the security and humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin region. I thank Ms. Askira in particular for giving us a local view on the situation. Those briefings have given us some idea of the humanitarian tragedy that the region is facing. …
I join my colleagues in thanking the briefers for the useful information we heard under this agenda item at the beginning of the meeting, the scope and diversity of which were surprising.
Many aspects have been highlighted here with regard to the current situation in Afghanistan. Egypt commends the…
We have held repeated meetings in the Security Council and the General Assembly regarding the Syrian crisis during the past few months to no avail, but rather generating draft resolutions and statements and engaging in endless arguments while the Syrian people continue to suffer at the hands of such…
At the outset, Egypt commends the adoption by consensus of the annual draft resolution entitled “The situation in Afghanistan” (A/71/L.13), which is very important. As always, we affirm the importance of the central role played by the General Assembly and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afg…
Egypt welcomes the adoption of resolution 2319 (2016) by the Council, which extends the mandate of the Joint Investigate Mechanism by an additional year. We pay tribute to the professionalism shown by those responsible for the Mechanism.
On many occasions we have reiterated the importance of mainta…
At the outset, I would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Hercegovina, for his thorough briefing before the Council on the latest developments in the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Egypt expresses its…
We thank and welcome the three briefers to our meeting this morning. We also thank the Russian presidency for its
initiative to convene this meeting in order to strengthen the objectives of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and coordination between the United Nations and regional or…
At the outset, I align myself with the statements delivered by the representative of Thailand on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, by the representative of Kuwait on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooper…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN-Women, for her impassioned briefing. I would also like to pay tribute to the commendable efforts of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to promote the women and peace and security agenda.
I would also like to thank…
At the outset, allow me to echo previous speakers by expressing my sincere condolences to the people and the Government of Haiti following Hurricane Matthew. I can assure Haiti of Egypt’s support. I would like to thank Ms. Sandra Honoré for her comprehensive briefing and express our support for the …
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Sir, and the New Zealand presidency of the Council for the commendable way in which the proceedings have been conducted during September. I should also like to extend my appreciation to Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Org…
On behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, we wish to
congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency and for a job well done during a very busy month with many achievements. We also look forward to the New Zealand presidency and to cooperating and supporting it in ensuring…
We welcome your presence here today, Sir, to preside over this open debate. We welcome all the efforts of the Malaysian presidency to organize this meeting and thank you for the concept debate for this discussion (S/2016/712, annex).
This meeting is taking place at a time of very difficult internat…
Egypt abstained in the voting on resolution 2304 (2016), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), in view of our reservations concerning the growing tendency of the Council to overstep the established principles governing United Nations peacekeeping operations. A …
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Council during the month of August. I wish you and your delegation every success.
I would also like to start by welcoming the efforts of the delegation of Malaysia to address the question of children in armed conflict in the…
I would like to begin by expressing the gratitude of the delegation of Egypt to the presidency for organizing this important debate on peacebuilding in Africa, which is indeed a very relevant topic and one that goes to the heart of the mandate of the Security Council and peacekeeping. We also welcom…
Today’s briefings, in addition to that held in May under the Egyptian presidency (see S/PV.7699), based on the Spanish initiative regarding the challenges facing the Sahel region and Africa, have demonstrated the multifaceted and multidimensional nature of the crisis in the Lake Chad Basin and the S…
Egypt welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2299 (2016) on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, given the pivotal role played by the Mission in supporting the stabilization of Iraq and helping the Government to create a better future for the Iraqi p…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, as well as Ambassador Apakan and Ambassador Sejdik for their comprehensive briefings to the Security Council on the developments in Ukraine and on the implementation of the Minsk agreemen…
