It is again my pleasure to introduce this year’s draft resolution entitled “The situation in Afghanistan” (A/74/L.13) to the General Assembly. As members of the Assembly know, this text was first adopted in 1980 and has been reintroduced every year since then. The annual resolutions have been mirror…
Let me also start by expressing our sincere condolences with respect to the 13 French soldiers who tragically lost their lives in Mali. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and the people of France.
Turning to today’s theme and this morning’s Security Council briefing, I would like to b…
I would like to thank all of our briefers for their insightful presentations.
Somalia has in the past decade made remarkable progress in establishing more functional national institutions and State-building as well as in enhancing security and stability. But today Somalia is once again at a critica…
First of all, let me extend a particularly warm welcome to His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Burkina Faso and thank him for his briefing, and thank all of the other briefers for their insightful presentations and information.
Germany attaches great importance to peace and stability in the Sahe…
Let me first of all thank Special Coordinator Mladenov and his team for the presentation and their dedicated work. Let me also express my thanks to Ms. Hary for her insightful presentation.
Let me start with the recent developments in Gaza. Germany condemns all attacks on Israel in the strongest po…
First of all, I would like to thank Special Representative Salamé and his team at the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. I also thank Ms. Al Tubuly for her comprehensive and enlightening presentation. I particularly welcome the Foreign Minister of Libya to the Council.
Let me first fully agre…
At the outset, let me thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and, in particular, all our briefers from the field for their insightful briefings. We are very grateful and sincerely thank them for the invaluable contribution they are making to United Nations missions. The many thousands of police peace…
Let me also at the outset thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing.
The ICC is, and remains, a crucial pillar of a strong rules-based international order. We fully support the ICC. its impartial work and the values enshrined in the Rome Statut…
First of all, let me thank our briefers, Martin Griffiths and Mark Lowcock, for their comprehensive briefings.
We very much welcome the encouraging signs of hope for the political process referred to by Martin Griffiths, while we recognize that these signs are still extremely fragile. We welcome th…
Let me first of all thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and extend a special welcome to the Ambassador of the Sudan. Needless to say, we will listen very carefully to how the Government of the Sudan wants to take forward the issue under discussion today.
Like many among us, the German…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his comprehensive briefing. I would also like to extend a particularly warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru.
Today’s withdrawal of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support i…
I would first like to thank the Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and to extend a very warm welcome to
His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García.
Germany is in full agreement with the thrust of the Secretary-General’s r…
I wish to thank all the briefers for their interesting presentations. We welcome the Secretary-General’s strong commitment to conflict prevention and resolution, including mediation. We greatly appreciate the work of the United Nations through its good offices, special political missions and mediati…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2491 (2019), renewing this mandate for a period of 12 months. Considering the situation on the ground, it is crucial to uphold the mandate authorizing Member States and regional organizations to inspect vessels involved in people-smuggling off the coas…
First of all, let me also extend a very warm welcome to Ambassador Kelly Craft, the new Permanent Representative of the United States of America. Let me also thank Ambassador Jonathan Cohen for the excellent cooperation, over the past month in particular.
We welcome today’s unanimous adoption of re…
First of all, Mr. President, let me too extend our best wishes for your presidency and thank Poland for its successful presidency last month.
I would like to thank Special Representative Salamé and Ms. Mohamed for their enlightening briefings. I would like to make four short points.
First, with re…
In accordance with paragraph 24 (e) of resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011, I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee established by the same resolution. The report covers the period from 30 July to 4 September 2019, during which time the Committee held …
First of all, we would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Mr. Geir Pedersen for their comprehensive briefings. Allow me to make four remarks.
First of all, on the situation in northwest Syria, we associate ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Belgium on behalf of the co-p…
We welcome today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2485 (2019), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). We want to explicitly thank France, as penholder, for the professional and constructive conduct of the negotiations. The extension of UNIFIL’s mandate is pro…
First of all, let me thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing. She has Germany’s full support, as does the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Germany also continues to stand by the Iraqi Government and the Iraqi people.
Since 2014, Germany has cont…
