I wish to thank you very much, Mr. Minister, for presiding over this meeting of the Security Council this morning. I thank also Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her very concise and comprehensive briefing.
I should like to begin by reiterating Uruguay’s previously expressed position that the issue of Venez…
I want to bring up a basic, fundamental and essential concept in all our lives — freedom. Freedom, in the broadest possible sense, means the ability of human beings to choose — to choose their destiny as individuals, to choose the type of society in which they wish to live, to choose who governs the…
I would like to thank the presidency of the United States for organizing this debate on a topic of particular importance to the Organization and to which my country has been firmly committed for more than 60 years. I also thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his detailed briefing and his proposals on a…
I thank the Swedish delegation for having convened today’s meeting, and Ms. Gamba, Henrietta Fore and Yenny Londoño for their briefings today.
My country welcomes the adoption of resolution 2427 (2018), which we co-sponsored.
The numbers speak for themselves: in just a year, the number of cases of…
I would like to begin this short statement by thanking the Permanent Representative of Egypt for having shared with us all that today was his birthday.
Uruguay is pleased to see the consensus achieved with regard to the need to reinforce the United Nations development system and thereby to pursue b…
First of all, I would like to thank the Polish presidency for holding this open debate. We thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland for his presence here today. I am also grateful for the Secretary- General’s statement and his report concerning the protection of civilians and…
Uruguay aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Switzerland on behalf of the Human Rights/Conflict Prevention Caucus (see A/72/PV.84). I wish to make this statement in my national capacity as the Permanent Representative of Uruguay.
Uruguay agrees with the views expressed on …
On behalf of Ambassador Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy, and on my own behalf, I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for the co-chairmanship entrusted to us and all delegations for their constructive engagement and commitment to the negotiations on resolution 72/274, entitle…
I am honoured to take the floor again in the Chamber and in particular under your presidency, Ambassador Van Oosterom.
I thank the Kingdom of the Netherlands for convening today’s debate. I also thank Secretary- General António Guterres, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat and Ms. Fatimata Touré for their brie…
It is an honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).
At the outset, I would like to express my deep appreciation to the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, for having convened this commemorative plenary meeting. I would like to thank S…
The phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters is a threat that looms over the international community as a whole. The commitment and cooperation of all States are needed in the fight against terrorism, given its global nature. Resolution 2396 (2017), which we have just adopted, has 51 operative parag…
We thank the presidency of Japan for convening this briefing, and especially thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her detailed and clear briefing this afternoon.
The year 2017 has seen a great deal of debate concerning the future of United Nations pea…
As we do every month, we once again thank the
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his very complete and detailed briefing. Above all, we thank him for his work and that of his team, which indicates a seriousness and a commitment to the task entrusted to…
We have requested the floor before the vote in order to make two comments — one procedural and one substantive.
With regard to the procedural issue, the draft resolution was shared officially on Saturday. Yesterday, the President was asked to put it in blue and to schedule the vote for today, with…
At the outset, I would like to thank Minister Kono for presiding over our work today and Secretary-General Guterres for his briefing. We share the concern of the Security Council’s Japanese presidency and believe this debate is very timely. It is particularly important at a time when the situation o…
I thank Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing. I must confess that I do
not know if I should thank him for his report, because it was brutal. He exposed a landscape of cruelty and violence and sometimes ignorance is bliss when faced with a reality like the o…
At the outset, I should like to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, Mr. Miroslav Jenča, and the United Nations High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, for their briefings today.
For Uruguay, there is a clear, intimate link between t…
As on previous occasions, Uruguay voted in favour of the holding of this meeting. Uruguay does not recognize limitations when it comes to dealing with the issue of human rights, either for reasons of the forum where it is discussed or of deference to domestic jurisdiction. Full and unconditional res…
I will address the Security Council in my capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2048 (2012) concerning Guinea-Bissau and Chair of the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals. I will share some exclusively personal opinions with members regarding my responsib…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his very accurate briefing.
The political, historical and religious relevance of Jerusalem for Israel and Palestine, as well as Christian, Jewish and Muslim believers all over the world, is the reason that…
