Let me first congratulate the United States for assuming the presidency of the Security Council for December and pledge my delegation’s support during its presidency. In addition, we would like to thank the United Kingdom for successfully presiding the Security Council in November.
I would also lik…
Allow me to begin by thanking Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, for their briefings. South Africa wishes to express its support for Special Envoy Griffiths and for all his efforts to …
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Martin Griffiths; the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock; and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Mr. David Beasley, for their briefings. We wish to express our full support for the Secretary-Gen…
We thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, for her briefing. South Africa supports the mandate renewal of UNAMI in its current format, as it promotes the strengthening of the Government of Iraq and its subs…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on Yemen. We thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and the Ambassador of Peru, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution (2014), for…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the humanitarian situation in Yemen. We would also like to thank the briefers for their remarks. My delegation would like to address three points today — the implementation
of the Stockholm Agreement, the humanitarian situation and the impact …
We welcome the remarks made by the representative of Jordan at the outset of today’s proceedings, which ably underscore the importance of the General Assembly and its role in the world today. I would also like to convey my delegation’s sincere appreciation to the Director General of the Internationa…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this timely debate on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. We also thank the Secretary-General for his 2018 report (A/72/884), entitled “Responsibility to p…
We would like congratulate Japan on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of December and to thank it for hosting this open debate, which reminds us of the central mandate that we are all tasked with pursuing. We cannot overemphasize the centrality of this subject in the work…
