I would like to begin by sincerely congratulating you, Mr. President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I look forward to working with you and your team to ensure peace and security throughout
the world. Through you, Mr. President, we sincerely congratulate our…
At the outset, I would like to commend Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and thank him for his very important briefing. I also commend his presence at the Brazzaville meeting to ensure further concerted efforts to help the brotherly Libyan people to soon restore st…
It is my pleasure and honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the African members of the Security Council, namely, the Niger, South Africa and Tunisia.
We would like to thank the President for organizing this briefing on cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations in mai…
I salute Ms. Khawla Matar, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and thank her for her valuable briefing.
The launch of the Constitutional Committee during the third quarter of last year under the auspices of the United Nations represented an important step in the course of the p…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for his briefing and for his efforts at the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Bringing an end to the violence and terrorism in north-…
We would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her valuable briefing. We would also like to thank Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, for her important information.
The Palestinian question, wh…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for their valuable briefings.
We share the…
At the outset, allow me, Mr. President, to express our condolences to the Government and the people of the sisterly Sultanate of Oman following the death of the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who made important contributions to humanitarian issues and international peace and security.
I also wish to …
I would like to express my delegation’s satisfaction at the adoption by the Council today of resolution 2504 (2020), on the extension of cross-border humanitarian assistance in Syria. I wish to commend the efforts of the humanitarian co-penholders during their discussions, drafting and consultations…
My country’s delegation welcomes you, Mr. President, and the other ministers present here. We appreciate the presidency of the Security Council selecting today’s theme, which is extremely important as it is intimately related to the main mission of the Council, namely, achieving and preserving peace…
At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month, which is your first month as a member of the Council. I would like also to congratulate your delegation and to express our readiness to work with you and the other m…
Thirty years ago, the international community pledged to protect and promote the rights and fundamental freedoms of all children by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We applaud the achievements made thus far. It is commendable that nearly all Governments have agreed on the full and…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of African States on this very important topic, which continues to engage our attention each session. Over the years, the increasing rejection by the members of the international community of the unilateral economic, commercial and financial embargo …
