Needless to say, South Africa shares the sentiments expressed by the representatives of Côte d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea on the situation in Libya. In addition, I would like to welcome and thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his enlightening briefing…
At the outset, let me start by thanking and congratulating the delegations of Peru and the United Kingdom, as President of the Council and penholder on Colombia, respectively, for leading a very successful mission to the country last week. The visit by the Council was aimed at improving its understa…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace, with its focus on strengthening partnerships for successful nationally owned transitions.
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres, the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commiss…
I am delivering this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and my own country, South Africa.
We would like to thank Council members for agreeing that now is not the time to continue the drawdown of the African Union-United Nations…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the distinguished manner in which you have presided over the Council for the past month. I would also like to thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his briefing on the status of the political process in the coun…
I would like to begin by thanking the briefers for their detailed and insightful presentations. My delegation joins others in welcoming the seventh report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/492) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), and I want to reaffirm South Africa’s commitment to its fu…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Mr. David Lillie, Executive Director of the Syrian American Medical Society; and Major General Bakin, of the Russian Reconciliation Centre, for their briefings on the si…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting and for the diligence with which you, your Chef de Cabinet, Kwabena Osei-Danquah, and your excellent team have conducted our deliberations on the rollover decision 73/554 that we have just adopted. We also want to …
It is always emotionally difficult to talk about the Palestinian question, for it makes South Africans relive their difficult past. I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine.
We are all aware of the expression that t…
We join others in thanking you, Mr. President, for presiding today over the first-ever Security Council meeting on the cooperation between the Security Council and the League of Arab States. We also thank Secretary-General Guterres
and Secretary-General Aboul Gheit of the League of Arab States for …
It is good to see you, Sir, once again presiding over this meeting. We thank the delegation of Kuwait for convening the debate on this very important matter. We also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing. It is such a great pleasure to see former President Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders,…
We wish to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali to the Council today. We are pleased that he could join us in today’s discussion and are looking forward to a briefing later on.
I wish to thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secreta…
I would like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, for their insightful briefings.
South Africa co-spons…
South Africa welcomes the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), with the support of the United Nations Kosovo team and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General,
Mr. Zahir Tanin, as well as the Secretary-General, whose efforts are playing a significa…
South Africa thanks the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 2420 (2018), on the arms embargo on Libya (S/2019/380). We thank the United Kingdom as penholder for facilitating this process.
My delegation remains deeply concerned that the current military operations in…
Before I deliver our joint statement for the 10 elected members (E-10) of the Security Council on the working methods of the Council, allow me to reflect for a moment on the momentous events that took place 75 years ago today. I would like to commemorate and pay homage to the thousands of servicemen…
I wish an Eid Mubarak to you, Mr. President, and to the entire Kuwaiti team. We assure you, Sir, of our support during your tenure at the helm of the Security Council, following the very impressive Indonesian presidency in May.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head o…
I want to apologize because I forgot to congratulate you, Mr. President, on what a marvellous job you have done, including filling my wardrobe with extra batik shirts. Sir, you and your team, as my colleagues from the United Kingdom and Equatorial Guinea were saying, have done an excellent job. I kn…
We thank the United Kingdom, in its capacity as the penholder, for its transparency, tireless efforts and commitment to facilitating resolution 2472 (2019), which we just adopted.
The renewal of the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is a significant undertaking by the Securit…
South Africa abstained in today’s voting on resolution 2471 (2019) in the firm view that the sanctions imposed on South Sudan at this time are not helpful to the current complex political process. The region, through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), continues to assert that san…
