We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary- General for Peace Operations, Mr. Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, former President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and member of The Elders, and Ms. Salma Kadry, Climate, Peace and Security Expert at the Consortium of International Agricultural…
I thank President Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings, and I am pleased to welcome to this meeting the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Rwanda and Serbia.
I would like to begin my statement by expressing my country’s support for the role of the Internationa…
I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on this important issue. We are also grateful for the information presented by the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and by the Youth Envoy for the President of the twenty- seventh Conference of the Parties to the Uni…
Before I begin my statement, I want to assure the Security Council that Ecuador joins everyone in condemning the attack on Ugandan peacekeepers. We pay tribute to those who gave their lives in the struggle to ensure international peace and security, and we stand in solidarity with their families.
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I too welcome the urgent convening of this meeting, and I welcome the briefing by Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
We express our strongest condemnation of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region of Ukrai…
I begin by thanking Mr. Abdou Abarry, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and Ms. Marie Tamoifo, civil society representative, for their briefings this morning. I …
I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her informative briefing on the complicated situation currently confronting the world.
Ecuador strongly condemns the attempt by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to launch a military reconnaissance satellite on 31 May. The technologies used for space launch …
I thank the Special Envoy, Geir Pedersen, and the Deputy Director of the Office for the Coordination on Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Ghada Mudawi, for their briefings. I especially thank Ms. Morgane Aveline, the representative of civil society, for the information she provided. I also welcome the prese…
As we approach the end of the month, I take this opportunity, Mr. President, to acknowledge the impeccable work of your country and your delegation in presiding over the Security Council in May. I also appreciate the convening of today’s meeting, as requested by France and Ecuador. And I welcome the…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing and you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting. I also thank Tania Hary, whose statement we listened to carefully.
In this month of May we have witnessed the in…
I thank Mr. Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation and President of the Security Council
for convening this debate. I acknowledge the presence of Heads of State and Government as well as Foreign Ministers and other high-level representatives. I thank Secretary-General António Guterres, …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Volker Perthes, for his briefing and for the work of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) in such a difficult and complex context. We also thank Mr. Bankole Ade…
We thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and his team for presenting the twenty-fifth report on the situation in Libya. We also welcome the presence of the representative of Libya at this meeting.
Let me begin by reaffirming Ecuador’s full support for the International Criminal C…
I join other representatives in thanking the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, and Special Envoy Hanna Serwaa Tetteh for their informative briefings. I also acknowledge the presence of the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan, whom we welcome. I also welcome the report of…
I would like to welcome Mr. Bujar Osmani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia and Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for 2023, whom I thank for his detailed, informative briefing and wish success during his mandate, which is taking pla…
I take this opportunity to welcome and wish Switzerland every success in assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and thank it for convening this debate on long-term trust in sustaining peace. I thank the briefers for their comprehensive presentations and the Peacebuilding Commission for its…
We are grateful for the information provided by Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and by Director of the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Ms. Lisa Doughten.
As predicted, the humanitarian situation in Syria continues to d…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the key issue of the veto on the first anniversary of the adoption of resolution 76/262, known as the veto initiative.
With that initiative, the General Assembly established a standing mandate for a debate to be held each time a veto is c…
I would first like to thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), for her informative briefing, and I wish her every success in her work. I also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations …
First of all, I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his briefing today, and we reiterate our support for his work, which is so valuable and necessary at this time. I also welcome the presence of the Palestinian and Israeli delegations.
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