Let me also first express our appreciation for Ambassador Pierce’s outstanding contributions to the work of the Security Council. We wish her every success in her new assignment.
On the subject of our meeting this morning, I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Martin Griffiths and Mr. Ramesh Rajasi…
We very much welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2514 (2020). The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) remains indispensable to supporting South Sudan and its people. I pay tribute to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Shearer and the brave peacekeepers who do their u…
First of all, let me thank our three briefers for their insightful remarks and comments.
Germany wholeheartedly supports the efforts by the Somali Government to ensure peace, stability and
development in Somalia. In that context, we underscore that credible, free and fair elections in 2020 and 202…
I too would first like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General La Lime for her comprehensive briefing and Ms. Gilles for her insightful comments.
This is the first time that the Security Council is discussing the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) as a special politi…
Let me first thank Martin Griffiths and Mark Lowcock for their comprehensive and insightful briefings. Let me also thank Ambassador Rhonda King for her work and her report as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014).
I wish to say a few words on the sit…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, for sharing her valuable insights with us in her briefing this morning. We also thank the Permanent Representative of Brazil, His Excellency Mr. Ronaldo Costa Filho, for his briefing …
I thank Their Majesties for the honour of their presence at today’s Council meeting, and I thank Belgium for having arranged this briefing on a very important topic. Minimizing the impact of armed conflict on the lives of children requires our undivided attention. Therefore, let me express our heart…
As the host country of the Berlin Conference on Libya, we are very pleased to see Security Council endorse the conclusions of the Conference today. With the adoption of resolution 2510 (2020), the Council sends an important signal for peace in Libya that reaffirms the concrete commitments of all par…
First of all, let me extend a very special welcome to His Excellency President Abbas. Let me also thank the Secretary-General, Special Coordinator Mladenov and Ambassador Danon for their remarks and statements. I would also like to extend a special welcome to the Secretary-General of the League of A…
First of all, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their comprehensive and insightful briefings. I would like to say a special thanks to Ms. Mona Freij for her powerful and sobering statement. That serves to underline the importance of the Securit…
We welcome today’s adoption of resolution 2507 (2020) to renew the sanctions regime in the Central African Republic and we thank the penholder for its perseverance in trying to consolidate and bridge the views shared by the Council members. We engaged in these negotiations with the aim of sending a …
At the outset, let me thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Ms. Altalli for their briefings.
We are deeply disappointed that the Syrian regime has, at the last meeting of the Constitutional Committee, yet again deployed its strategy of obstruction, delay and tactical games. That is all the more disappoi…
At the outset, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) for their briefings. I would also like to extend a particularly warm welcome to Ambassador Olof Skoog in his new role as Head of the Delegation of the Eu…
First of all, I wish to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her comprehensive report on the situation in the Sudan, particularly with regard to jurisdiction over very serious crimes, atrocities and human rights violations that have been committed in Darfur.
Germany witnesses with much respect the promisi…
At the outset, let me thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing and Ms. Raemer for her remarks.
Three years have passed since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016), but as the Secretary-General notes in his latest report (S/2019/938), the situation on the ground has continuously deterior…
At the outset, let me thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General David Shearer and Ambassador Wronecka for their insightful briefings.
I will first say a few words on the peace process, which clearly remains at an extremely critical juncture, as we have heard once again from Special Repr…
Let me first of all thank both the President and the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their work in general and for their insightful presentations this morning.
The work of the Tribunals is based on the conviction that there can be no peace without justi…
At the outset, let me too thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Mr. Lezhnev for their insightful and comprehensive briefings and recommendations.
I would like to start by commending the important work of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) in the C…
At the outset, I join others in congratulating you, Madam President, on assuming the Council presidency for December, and thanking you for holding today’s meeting in the sunlight.
I should like first to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Robert Mardini…
I would simply like to say that Germany, in its capacity as facilitator, fully aligns itself with the statement just made by the representative of Afghanistan.
