I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for their briefings.
I will focus today on three issues: the situation in the area of operations of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), the development of the mission an…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Ms. Ursula Mueller and Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik for their valuable briefings on the situation in eastern Ukraine.
We have been following the continued instability in eastern Ukraine, now in its fifth year, with concern. The situation t…
At the outset, I would like to sincerely thank Mr. Tayé-Brook
Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, in his capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), for their valuable briefings on the latest devel…
It is my pleasure at the outset to welcome Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and thank him for his informative briefing on drug trafficking in West Africa and its impact on security and stability in the region. I also thank the presidency …
I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Permanent Representative of Poland and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict for their briefings.
Today, I will address the subject of the debate from three perspectives: …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), Ms. Helen Meagher La Lime, for her valuable briefing regarding developments of the situation in Haiti as well as the role of MINUJUSTH…
At the outset, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and Mr. Serge Brammertz, the Prosecutor of the Mechanism, for their valuable briefings on the progress achieved so far. Since this may be the l…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Aristides Gomes, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau. I congratulate him on taking office and wish him every success in stabilizing his friendly country. I would also like to welcome Mr. José Viegas Filho, Special Representative o…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, and Mr. Mohammed Bila, representative of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, as well as Ms. Chitra Nagarajan, for their significant briefings on the most recent developments in the Lake Chad basin region. I would also lik…
Today we are discussing, as we do every year, the question of Palestine, 70 years after the General Assembly adopted its first resolution on the issue, resolution 181 (II). Kuwait has a principled stance, and the mainstay of our policies is to support the question of Palestine. That has been proved …
