At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings. I also thank in particular Ms. Wafa’a Alsaidy and Ms. Raja Abdullah Ahmed Almasabi for their work and for sharing their experiences and recommendations with the Security Council.
I would like to make…
I thank you, Mr. President, for gathering us here today. I also thank all those who made this meeting possible. I would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing, and Ms. Carabalí Rodallega for her inspiring account of her efforts to defe…
I should like to thank Martin Griffiths and Ramesh Rajasingham for their briefings.
Belgium shares the serious concerns voiced by all delegations that took the floor before me concerning the recent escalation of violence in Yemen. More than ever before, the political process must resume. Any de-esc…
First of all, I would like to commend the Chinese presidency for convening today’s debate on such a timely and important topic.
I also welcome the adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2020/5.
I thank Ms. DiCarlo, Ms. Mohammed and Mr. Dieye for their enlightening briefings.
As we have heard, …
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency this month. I assure you of our full support. I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq for her briefing and, above all, for her important work and that of her team in this dif…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for their presence here and for their briefings.
Regional cooperation is a cornerstone of Belgium’s foreign policy. Regional organizations…
I will deliver this statement on the humanitarian situation in Syria on behalf of the co-penholders, Germany and Belgium.
I would like first to thank Under-Secretary- General Lowcock for his important briefing today. We also extend our gratitude to all humanitarian and
medical workers throughout S…
At the outset, I thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and the Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for their briefings.
We encourage pursuing de-escalation efforts in order to achieve a cessation of …
I should like first of all to welcome the participation by video-teleconference of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali. Allow me also to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing and, through him, all the staff of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali…
I would like to begin by echoing the words of condolence and solidarity expressed to the delegation of the Niger.
I should then like to welcome the presence today of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia and thank Special Representative Ruiz Massieu for his briefing.
Over three years since …
We would like to thank all the members of the Council that voted in favour of resolution 2504 (2020). As I said earlier, the text is a compromise one that will make it possible to continue humanitarian assistance in the north-west of Syria, where there is no alternative way of receiving such humanit…
I shall make this statement on behalf of Germany and Belgium, the humanitarian co-penholders.
Millions of Syrians continue to be in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. We all know the numbers — 11 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance. These are essential and critical needs: food…
I would like to thank Viet Nam for organizing this debate. I also thank the Secretary-General and Mrs. Mary Robinson for their inspiring presentations.
As many have recalled before me, 75 years ago our Organization rose from the ashes of two world wars. Carried by the shared memory of unspeakable h…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on both joining the Security Council and directly assuming its presidency, and to assure you of our full support. I would also like to thank the United States delegation for its presidency in December.
I would further like to warmly th…
We fully align ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Germany on behalf of the three co-penholders before the vote. Allow me to provide a few additional remarks.
I would like to begin by thanking those members that voted in favour of our draft resolution (S/2019/961). If th…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing. We support his efforts and his commitment to arriving at a political settlement in Syria. I would also like to thank Ms. Rajaa Altalli.
I would like to speak on two points, the first of which is the Constitutional Committ…
I will now speak in my national capacity.
Belgium aligns itself with its European partners in resolutely defending the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It is one of the great successes of nuclear non-proliferation, dialogue and diplomacy. Since its entry into force, it has made it possible to gu…
I speak in my capacity as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). I would like to begin by thanking the Secretariat for its valuable support in the discharge of my duties.
Throughout my mandate, my…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her briefing.
We have seen historic developments in the Sudan in the past few months. It was against that backdrop that in June, at the previous Council briefing (see S/PV.8554) on the situation in Darfur by the Prosecutor of the International Cri…
First of all, I would like to thank Special Representative David Shearer for his briefing. I would also like to thank Ambassador Wronecka for her briefing and guidance on the work of the Sanctions Committee over the past two years. The South Sudan sanctions regime remains a useful tool, and the Secu…
