I have the honour to present the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region (S/2019/229), which covers the period from 1 September 2018 to 28 February 2019.
At the outset, I would lik…
I have the honour to introduce the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region (S/2016/840), covering the period from 9 March to 20 September. I am overjoyed to deliver this briefing on…
I thank the Angolan presidency for its initiative to hold this open debate on peace and security in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Along with the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes region is among the areas of the African continent that has been most affected by conflict and instabilit…
I have the honour to introduce the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region (S/2015/735). My colleague, Martin Kobler, has just addressed the Council. On this occasion, as he is abou…
I have the honour to present the sixth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region (S/2015/173). I am pleased to do so under the presidency of France, whose support and contributions to…
I am pleased to address the Security Council for the first time in my capacity as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region. I take this opportunity to thank the Council for its support for my mandate and for the opportunity to present the report of the Secretary-General (S/2…
I have the honour to present the thirteenth report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), covering the period from 1 January to 30 June 2014 (S/2014/442). Commendable efforts continued during that period to promote development and economic gr…
I would like to join the Secretary-General and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in welcoming the initiative of the French presidency to hold this meeting devoted to the fight against drug trafficking in the Sahel and West Africa.
West Africa, which has …
I have the honour to introduce the twelfth report (S/2013/732) of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa, which covers the period 1 July to 31 December 2013. I have the pleasure to inform the Security Council that, during that period, the region continue…
It is my honour to present to the Council the eighth report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA), for the period from 1 July to 31 December 2011.
Since my most recent briefing to the Security Council, in July 2011 (see S/PV.6577), the situa…
It is my honour to present the Secretary-General’s report on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) from 1 January to 30 June.
Since my most recent briefing to the Security Council in December 2010 (see S/PV.6455), the situation in West Africa has seen some positive dev…
Madam President, allow me at the outset to convey to you the gratitude of President Alpha Oumar Konaré for having included the African Union Commission in this Council meeting on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organizations, in particular the African Union, in the maintenan…
At the outset, I have the pleasant duty, on behalf of the Commission of the African Union and its Chairperson, Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré, to extend our warm gratitude to the President of the Security Council for his country’s initiative to bring us together at an open debate of the Council to discuss t…
I would first like to present the apologies of Mr. Amara Essy, the Interim Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, who was not able to attend this meeting in New York due to other pressing engagements on the continent. He has entrusted me with representing him in this meeting and with tr…
