I wish to join in extending a special welcome to you, Mr. President, and Minister Bhattacharya to the Security Council. I also wish to thank the briefers for their timely interventions and commend you, Sir, for Mexico’s efforts to further the discussion on this important issue.
Twenty years after t…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines thanks Special Representative Tanin for his detailed briefing. We commend him and the entire United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) team for the support provided to the people of Kosovo in stabilizing the situation in the region, mitigating t…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines commends the Republic of Kenya for convening today’s discussion, and we thank our esteemed briefers — Secretary- General Guterres, President Kagame, President Mbeki and Ms. Koofi — for their salient contributions.
At this moment in history, when many intractable co…
We welcome Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed’s timely visit to Somalia and the meetings held with the President, the Prime Minister, women civil society members, the electoral management bodies, goodwill ambassadors and the elders, and the importance of that in underscoring the full and meaningful p…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines thanks Special Envoy Ján Kubiš and Ms. Asma Khalifa for their thoughtful briefings. We also express appreciation to Ambassador Tirumurti, Chair of the Security Council Committee, established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, for his forty-first pe…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines commends the Republic of Ireland for convening today’s discussion, and we thank our esteemed Elders for sharing such keen insights, which are crucial to the maintenance of international peace and security. Their continued dedication to all humankind reinforces the wo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to take the floor once more on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse pro-reform group of developing countries in favour of justice, sovereignty and equity in the reform of the Security Council — both in process and outcome.
We are pleased that delegations w…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor
and for convening today’s meeting. I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the L.69 group, a diverse, pro-reform group of developing countries in favour of justice, sovereignty and equity in reform of the Security Council, both in the proces…
I am honoured to deliver this statement on behalf of the L.69 group, which is a diverse, pro-reform group of developing countries that are in favour of justice, sovereignty and equity in the reform of the Security Council, both in process and in outcome.
At the outset, allow me to welcome the timel…
I thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Nakamitsu, for her briefing.
I would like to begin by reiterating Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ position that the use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anyone and under any circumstances constitutes an abominable violation of internat…
We also wish to recognize and welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Niger and to express our gratitude to Special Representative of the Secretary General, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, and His Excellency Ambassador Costa Filho for their briefings.
While gradually improving, the situation in …
We wish to join other members in thanking Belgium for organizing this briefing. We also recognize and welcome the Foreign Ministers and Deputy Foreign Ministers present, and thank High Commissioner Bachelet, Father De Roux and Executive Director Sooka for their insightful and thoughtful briefings.
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We join other members in thanking the King and Queen of the Belgians for participating in this meeting. We welcome the Foreign Ministers of Belgium and Indonesia and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia. We also thank Secretary-General Guterres, Commissioner Chergui and Ms. Becker for their briefi…
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We are especially grateful as well to civil society representative, Ms. Mona Freij, for her presence and briefing. We honour her work and the powerful words she shared, and we applaud her…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines thanks His Excellency Prime Minister Edi Rama for his briefing. We congratulate him on assuming the chairmanship of the dynamic and proactive Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and we wish him a very successful tenure.
The work of the OSCE i…
First, allow me to extend my warmest congratulations to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. Our thanks also go to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, for his insightful briefing. We express our su…
