I have the honour of delivering this long statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect, which comprises 55 Member States and the European Union and is co-chaired this year by Botswana, Costa Rica and Croatia.
We would like to thank the President of the General Assemb…
Costa Rica takes note of the report of the Human Rights Council (A/74/53 and A/74/53/Add.1) as well as the briefing by the Council’s President, Mr. Coly Seck. We congratulate him on the successful conduct of his work. In addition, without taking any position on specific situations, we support an inc…
We are celebrating the fact that 20 years ago the international community took the major step of granting due recognition to all who devote their lives and efforts to fighting for human rights. Human rights defenders play a key role in strengthening democracy, peace, social inclusion and sustainable…
We appreciate the report on the work of the Human Rights Council during its thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions and its twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth special sessions (A/73/53 and A/73/53/Add.1), and we thank the Council’s President, Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, for his presentation.
Costa Ric…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important meeting; the Secretary- General for his support for this cause, as demonstrated by his presence and the statement he delivered at this commemoration today, as well as his work in this area, reflected in his report Securing O…
Costa Rica thanks the presidency of the Council for having convened this meeting on the situation in Nicaragua. We believe it to be appropriate, timely and necessary. The report entitled “Violations of human rights and abuses in the context of the protests in Nicaragua”, issued by the Office of the …
