I would like to congratulate your country, Mr. President, on presiding over the Council this month. I would also like to congratulate your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Poland, for her wise and effective conduct of the Council’s work over the past month.
I thank the Under-Secretary-G…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, and your friendly country on your presidency of the Council this month.
We also thank you for convening this important debate, as well as for the concept note on this topic (S/2019/169, annex) and your valuable briefing this morning. And I want to c…
I thank your friendly country, Mr. President, for convening this important debate. I also thank the briefers for their valuable briefings this morning.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by Ambassador Fatima Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union.
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At the outset, I would like to congratulate your country, Mr. President, on beginning its non-permanent membership of the Security Council for the period 2019-2020 and on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to welcome the States that have recen…
I would first like to thank the Secretary-General for his report before us (A/73/391). I also thank the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh for facilitating the negotiations on draft resolution A/73/L.43, to be adopted today.
We also want to express our thanks and appreciation to UNESCO for its leading…
At the outset, allow me to express my condolences to the delegation and the people of the United States on the passing away of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
I would also like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your sisterly country on presiding over the Security Council during D…
My country’s delegation would like to clarify its position with respect to draft resolution A/73/L.27. I speak in explanation of vote before the voting.
Current practice of the International Criminal Court (ICC) shows that the Court has become a tool of international conflicts and a mechanism for p…
On behalf of my country, I would like to request a recorded vote on operative paragraph 4 of the draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe” (A/73/L.27). Our steadfast position on the International Criminal Court, to which there is a specific referenc…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate on this important issue, and we appreciate your wise leadership of the Council for the month of November. We would also like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Mr. Smaїl Chergui, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the A…
We would first like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council. We also thank the President of the Assembly at its se…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his important reports before us (A/73/269, A/73/270 and A/73/273), as well as the substantial recommendations therein.
My delegation associates itself with the statements made by the representative of the Kingdom of Morocco on behalf of…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important meeting. I thank the Secretary-General, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ms. Mossarat Qadeem, Co-founder of PAIMAN Alumni Trust, for their valuable briefings. I also thank the de…
I will begin by congratulating you personally, Mr. Minister, as well as the delegation of your brotherly country, the Republic of Poland, for holding this meeting on such an important topic during Poland’s presidency of the Security Council this month. We wish also to thank the Secretary-General, Mr…
At the outset, my country’s delegation would like to express its thanks and appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for convening this high-level meeting on the vital issue of peacebuilding and sustaining peace. We would also like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his rep…
The delegation of my country would like to thank the presidency of Peru for dedicating this open debate to this important subject. We would also like to thank Ms. Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, and Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in C…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate the Dutch presidency on its able leadership of the Security Council during the month of March and for its choice of this very important topic for our debate.
I would also like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his valuable briefing this morning. …
I would like to begin by thanking the delegation of Italy for convening this important open debate and for its efforts resulting in our adoption of resolution 2388 (2017) this morning. In that regard, I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, as well as Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of …
It is my pleasure at the outset to stress that we align ourselves with the statement made by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Group of African States.
It is also my pleasure to address the Assembly during Africa Week, which supports an integrated, prosperous, people-centred and peaceful…
At the outset of our statement, my delegation should like to express its appreciation to the presidency of Uruguay for organizing this open debate on sexual violence in conflict used as a tool of war and terror. I should also like to take this opportunity to express our thanks to the Deputy Secretar…
I take this opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month. I wish you every success. I am sure that we will cooperate fully with you in this endeavour.
I would like to thank the Council for the spirit of cooperation and consensus that allowed it toda…
