I, too, would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Ms. Vlora Çitaku, Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States of America, for their briefings. I would like to very respe…
I join others in thanking Special Representative Ján Kubiš for his briefing, which comes at a critical time for Iraq. I also welcome his personal commitment to doing the job that he is leaving and that he carried out with exemplary determination in difficult circumstances. I will discuss the latest …
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this annual and always very useful meeting. I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Alexandre Zouev, who is a remarkable polyglot, the Police Commissioners here today and Ms. Reitano for their briefings, which enable us to better unders…
First of all, I would like to thank the United Kingdom for having taken the initiative of convening this meeting in the extremely deteriorated humanitarian context of which we are all aware and which Mr. Lowcock has just described. His warnings and expectations are very clear, and we must all act wi…
At the outset, I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jean Arnault, for his insightful briefing today on the outstanding work of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. I also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who…
I thank the United Kingdom for taking the initiative to convene this crucial meeting, which is being held at a time when the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate under the circumstances that Mr. Lowcock just eloquently described in detail.
I will address three points. First, I will refer…
I join others in thanking our briefers.
The signing of the revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan of 2015 is encouraging, and I welcome it on behalf of France. I also commend the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the countries of the regi…
First of all, allow me to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, and Ambassador Saikal for their enlightening briefings on peace efforts and the electoral process. I would also like to warmly thank Mr. Ramiz Bakhtiar for his briefing, which clearly illustr…
I would like to begin by thanking our briefers for their statements, and in particular by commending Mr. Michael Keating for his leadership, clear mindedness and the perseverance he demonstrated as Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia for nearly three years. I also welcome the pr…
First of all, I thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her enlightening briefing.
The United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) is doing excellent work by providing support to the Haitian authorities in a country where the securit…
I thank the briefers for their comprehensive statements. I also welcome the presence in the Chamber today of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes of Guinea-Bissau, and thank him for making the journey to New York to participate in our work, which is a very positive signal.
I have five brief comments. Fir…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2432 (2018), renewning the targeted sanctions regime for Mali for a further year. The idea of imposing sanctions on those who obstruct the implementation of the peace process in Mali is embedded in the very content of the Agreement on Peace and Re…
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2433 (2018), which is a strong signal of our collective support for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), whose role is crucial to safeguarding peace
in an extremely troubled regional context. As penholder and as is the case every…
Mediation is a clear demonstration of the increased power of diplomacy for peace, as the Secretary-General has said. That is a cornerstone our Organization and a key part of the Security Council’s duty to maintain international peace and security.
The United Nations is the forum for great mediators…
First of all, we would like to thank the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Ging, for his briefing, which once again highlighted the grave humanitarian situation in Syria and the risk of further deterioration if the…
Allow me, first of all, to warmly thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative of convening this meeting almost a year to the day after the beginning of the crisis in Rakhine state. I would also like to commend the personal commitment of the Secretary-General in drawing attention to and…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, for her excellent briefing and more generally for her exemplary commitment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I also thank the President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo, Monseigneur Marcel Utembi,…
I, too, wish to thank Mr. Voronkov for his informative briefing on the seventh report of the Secretary- General on the threat posed by Da’esh (S/2018/770). I thank also Ms. Coninsx and Ms. Cook for their very enlightening briefings. I wish specifically to commend the outstanding work done by the Int…
I thank President Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, for his briefing. I thank him especially for his work on this important dossier while the situation remains volatile in a country that has been deeply and negatively affected by the electoral
tensions of 2015, whi…
I would like to begin by thanking Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, as well as John Ging, Director of the Coordination and Response Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative briefings and their commitment, as…
