We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, as well as today’s briefers, Mr. Hassan Janabi, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq, and Ms. Hindou Ibrahim, the representative of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change. We would like to welcome President Waqa of Nauru and to …
First of all, we would like to welcome you, Madam, in presiding over this briefing of the Security Council, and to thank you for organizing it. We listened with interest to the briefers, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Ms. Bineta Diop, African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Secu…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Prime Minister, as you preside over the Security Council today, and would like to thank our Swedish partners for their initiative in organizing today’s meeting. We wish you a successful and productive presidency of the Security Council for July, and we are sure tha…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for the oral technical decision 72/557, on rolling over the item under consideration, on reform of the Security Council, to the seventy-third session of the General Assembly.
The issue of Security Council reform is one of the most important on the Organization…
We thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing on the constitutional referendum held in Burundi and the development of the situation there. We have taken note of the report of Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Buru…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her very informative briefing. We listened to the statement delivered by the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, Мr. Joáo Vale de Almeida, with interest.
The African view of the p…
The Russian delegation would like to welcome today’s discussion and thank our Polish colleagues for this initiative. We are also grateful to today’s briefers, Ms. Viotti and Judges Owada and Meron, for their opinions.
There is no question that the topic of today’s meeting is important and timely. I…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tayé-Brook Zerihoun; Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; and Mr. Mauro Vieira, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configur…
We thank Mr. De Mistura for his briefing. We can see that his personal participation in the meeting on Syria in Astana enabled him to make it a substantive one. We appreciated his call for active diplomacy, which Russia has advocated for from the very beginning. We continue to make significant effor…
I would like to begin by expressing my condolences to the families of the Palestinians who were killed in the Gaza Strip and wishing a speedy recovery to the wounded. We mourn together with the Palestinian people.
We are grateful to Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his substantive briefing…
The Security Council mission to Myanmar and Bangladesh was very timely and useful. Council members were able to personally assess the situation in Rakhine state and its surroundings, as well as the efforts that have been made to stabilize the situation. We would like to thank the authorities of Bang…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his assessment of the current state of United Nations peacekeeping. We also thank the Force Commanders of the military components of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Darfur, Mali and South Sudan for the updated brie…
I am pleased to welcome the eminent participants to this important discussion, preparations for which took a number of years. We thank the Secretary-General for finding the time to participate personally in this discussion. We further thank the Peruvian presidency for the initiative of convening tod…
We would like to thank today’s briefers for their very interesting opinions. We are also grateful to Mr. Simpson for his preparation and presentation of the independent expert group’s study on the role of young people in processes related to ensuring peace and security. Its content and recommendatio…
On behalf of Russia, I would first like to express our condolences to the nearest and dearest of our colleague and friend Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire, on his untimely passing. We will greatly miss his sense of humour, constructive attitude, professionalism …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zouev for presenting the final progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) (S/2018/344). We also thank Ms. Schoulgin Nyoni, who spoke on behalf of the Chair of the Liberian country configuration of the Peace…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting, and to express our gratitude to the briefers for their interesting and useful information. I would particularly like to thank Ms. Razia Sultana for her interesting briefing, and I hope that during Council members’ upcoming vis…
I would first like to welcome Mr. Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, and to thank him for finding the time to join our meeting. I also thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nat…
We thank Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, for his detailed briefing. We have also noted the statement of Mr. Raymond Balé, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Congo and Chair of the Regional Oversight Mechanism.
We concur wit…
I would like to begin my statement in explanation of vote with words of support for Haiti and our hopes that we will see it sustainably stabilized as soon as possible. I am not going to repeat what I said a week ago on the subject (see S/PV.8220), but will recall only that almost all the speakers on…
