I would like to thank the President of the International Residual Mechanism of the Criminal Tribunals, Judge Carmel Agius, and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, for their enlightening and detailed briefings to the Security Council today.
Aware of the ongoing budgetary challenges faced by the Mechanism as…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General, Mr. Mohammed Khaled Khiari, for his detailed briefing to the Security Council. We also thank the delegation of the United States for convening this important and informative meeting.
We note with concern the information provided by Mr. Khiari,…
Allow me to deliver this statement on behalf of the African countries members of the Security Council — South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea.
We, too, would like to congratulate Mr. François Louncény Fall and the entire team of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UN…
At the outset, Madam President, I would like to thank you and your delegation for having organized this important meeting during the United States presidency of the Security Council this month. We wish you, Madam, the greatest of success. We also congratulate the delegation of the United Kingdom for…
Allow me to thank Mr. Karim Khan, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), for his valuable briefing this morning. We also thank Mr. Kachi, the representative of civil soc…
My delegation joins others in thanking Mr. Mark Lowcock for his detailed and useful update. We reiterate our full support for him and his work.
As Mr. Lowcock described, the overall picture of the humanitarian and security situation in Syria remains troubling, given that the civilian population in …
Let me begin by thanking Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his informative briefing on the progress made in recent months in Kosovo. I would also like to extend my thanks to Mr. Ivica …
I would first like to thank Mrs. Naledi Pandor, Minister for International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, and Ms. Michelle Müntefering, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, for honouring us with their presence at this importa…
My delegation wishes to thank Mr. Jean- Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, and Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, for their informative briefings.
Equatorial Guinea would like to express its gratitude to the United N…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary- General, and Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their insightful briefings.
Having carefully followed the briefing by the Secretary-Gener…
As always, we would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his presentation of the special report (S/2019/816) of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the current situation in Darfur and the future of the African Union-United …
Allow me at the outset to express my gratitude to Mr. David Shearer for his efforts in promoting the peace process as part of his remit as well as for his outstanding briefing, which clearly illustrated the manner in which the situation in South Sudan has evolved.
The Government of the Republic of …
On behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, I would like first of all to express our condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to those injured in the latest attacks in Afghanistan, which we strongly condemn. We once again call on the parties to abide by international…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea thanks you, Madam President, for convening today’s important meeting. We also thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for their useful briefings.
With regard to the humanitarian situation, while the conflict in Syria might make fewer headlines eight …
We appreciate the convening of this important briefing. Similarly, we appreciate the briefings delivered by Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx, which helped us to contextualize the ninth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) to internation…
We extend our customary gratitude to Under- Secretary-General Nakamitsu for the briefing she just delivered.
As a country that loves peace, dialogue and brotherhood among the nations and the peoples that make up this planet, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea cannot but express its concern about the…
We join previous delegations in conveying our appreciation for the convening of this meeting. We also thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Dr. Hala and Ms. Amina Khoulani for sharing their moving and regrettable testimonies and briefings on the issue before us today.
Although the humanitarian situation in S…
We welcome the latest report of the Secretary- General (S/2019/575), which outlines the main recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the progress made by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) in fulfilling its …
First of all, I would like to welcome Judge Carmel Agius and congratulate him on his appointment as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals on 19 January 2019, bearing in mind that this is the first time that he has appeared to brief the Security Council. We also wel…
We join other members in expressing our thanks to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Mr. Lamberto Zannier for the detailed briefings they have just delivered and of which we have taken careful note.
My delegation pays close attention to the situation in Ukraine, especially the complex crisis in the eastern p…