I thank Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM), for her valuable …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Salvador, for her briefing. I also thank Executive Director Russell and Executive Director Waly for their updates and welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of
the Dominican Republic, Mr. Álvarez Gil, and the representative of Haiti…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo, Director Wosornu and His Excellency Mr. Ibn Chambas for their briefings. I also welcome the representative of the Sudan.
I would like to mention three points today.
First, we deeply regret that the guns have not been silenced in the Sudan, even though a ye…
I would like to welcome to the Security Council the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta, as the Chairperson-in- Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and thank him for the insightful and comprehensive briefing today.
Japan pays tribute to…
We appreciate Special Envoy Grundberg and Director Wosornu for their informative briefings. Our appreciation also goes to Ms. Shakir for her briefing on the impacts of climate change in Yemen.
Today I wish to address three points.
First, with regard to the ongoing threats to maritime security by t…
I thank Mr. Fung and the other briefer for their presentations.
Yesterday in this Chamber we discussed the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in violation of the Charter of the United Nations (see S/PV.9600). Today Russia has once again criticized the international co…
I thank Mr. Jenča and Ms. Wosornu for their valuable briefings.
For more than two years we have been witnessing too many blatant violations by Russia of the Charter of the United Nations, resulting in the suffering of countless innocent civilians. Waves of attacks in the unprovoked
war of aggressi…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz Massieu and
Ms. Marcela Sánchez Buitrago for their briefings. I also welcome Minister for Foreign Affairs Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia.
In the Council’s open debate on conflict prevention last month (see S/PV.9574), some participants ci…
As today is the first open briefing this month, let me take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all Council members for their kind support during Japan’s presidency. We wish Ambassador Vanessa Frazier and the able team of Malta the best of luck for the month of April. They may rest …
I would like to express my gratitude to Special Representative Rugwabiza for her briefing and to welcome the presence here of the representative of the Central African Republic.
Let me begin by paying tribute to all personnel of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission i…
I would like to express my gratitude to Special Representative of the Secretary- General Keita for her briefing. I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The renewed offensives by the Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23) in North Kivu have been r…
I thank Ms. Catriona Laing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, for their informative briefings. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Permanent Representati…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Voronkov, Executive Director of the Counter- Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate Natalia Gherman and INTERPOL Secretary General Jürgen Stock for their briefings. I also thank the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team for its work on the report.
Desp…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Miroslav Jenča and the other briefer for their briefings.
Today we once again listened to a statement by the representative of Russia attempting to justify the unjustifiable, echoing the same claims it has made for nearly two years. Russia spoke of violations of…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing.
We are aware of the report of an incident that took place in Lysychansk, part of the territory of Ukraine and now temporarily occupied by Russia. Without knowing the facts, it is difficult to make official comments. As a principled position…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her detailed briefing and dedicated work over the past five years.
We are greatly concerned about the steep uptick in attacks conducted …
Let me begin by thanking Prosecutor Khan for presenting the thirty-eighth report on the situation in Darfur and sharing with us what he has directly seen and experienced on the ground, not only in Darfur but also in affected areas, including Chad.
As we face increasing hostilities and humanitarian …
I appreciate Special Representative of the Secretary-General Salvador’s insightful remarks and thank Director-General Waly and Ms. Hassan for their informative briefings. I also welcome Mr. Généus and Mr. Álvarez Gil, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, respectivel…
I thank you, Mr. President, for coordinating to convene this meeting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing.
We are aware of reports that a Russian military aircraft has crashed in Russian territory. The Ukrainian side has understandably stated that it will take time to eval…
I thank Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Adedeji Ebo for his briefing.
Russia has called for this meeting, claiming that Western arms transfers to Ukraine are aggravating the crisis and undermining efforts to achieve a peaceful solution. One loses count of how many times Ru…
