We thank Ms. Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary- General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her very informative and valuable briefing.
On 2 August, a very sad and important event took place — the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which, in no…
I, too, wish to thank the Chef de Cabinet of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, Ms. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, for her briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We listened attentively to the statements delivered by our colleagues. In addition to you, Mr. President, we wish to welco…
I welcome you to New York, Sir. We are pleased to see you once again in the Security Council President’s Chair.
I would also like to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Legal Affairs, Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares; the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Socie…
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary- General for Africa Bintou Keita for her briefing on the current situation in Libya.
The reason for our meeting today is very sad. We listened with deep regret to the information that we received from Libya pertaining to the terrorist attack in Benghazi, which…
Frankly, I did not want to take the floor once again, but after listening to the two statements made by my United Kingdom colleague, I cannot help thinking that she wants to demonstrate that there is unity within the Council on the issues that she just brought up, whereas her communication with the …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on developments in the Syrian Arab Republic. We listened carefully to the briefings made by Dr. Hala, head of Syria Bright Future, and Ms. Amina Khoulani of Families for Freedom.
We were perplexed by the initiative taken by our West…
I would ask you, Madam President, to convey
our gratitude to Minister Czaputowicz for attending our meeting today. I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting on such an important topic.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new Chinese colleague, Ambas…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption of resolution 2483 (2019), on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), in unchanged form. We are convinced that the mission plays a key role in strengthening stability, which is a prerequisite for direct …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, for his briefing. We would like once again to assure him that Russia supports his personal efforts, as well as those of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council. We thank Secretary- General António Guterres and Mr. Carlos Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, in his capacity as Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings. We thank Mr. Bousqu…
We thank the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Ms. Wickramanayake, and the other briefers for their views.
We fully share the opinions that have been presented today about the need to pay due attention to the topic of youth in the United Nations system and to resolve acute problems related to the…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the important subject
of strengthening triangular cooperation among the Security Council, troop- and police-contributing countries and the Secretariat on issues related to peacekeeping activities.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-P…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing on the state of affairs in Darfur and on the main conclusions of the strategic assessment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We also listened carefully to Assistant Secretary-General Andrew G…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council and thank you for organizing today’s meeting. Mediating and preventing the conflicts that threaten international peace and security is indeed one of the most pressing tasks of the United Nations and of global politics as a whole. We are grate…
We welcome Mr. Тiébilé Dramé, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, to today’s meeting, and we thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing.
At the outset, we would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mali regardi…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and share his serious concerns about the situation in Kosovo. We are grateful to Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of th…
I would first like to express our gratitude to Ms. Karin Landgren and Mr. James Cockayne for their detailed briefings. We also want to thank the delegation of Kuwait for organizing today’s meeting. The Security Council has been discussing its working methods in an open format with the participation …
I would first like to thank our Indonesian colleagues for their active and productive work in the month of May, and to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency and to wish you every success and hopefully a more or less calm month of June, politically speaking.
We are gr…
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, I have the honour and pleasure to extend our warmest and most sincere congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Tijjani Muhammad Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. We also congratulate the Go…
