Uruguay regrets that for the second time in less than a month, the Security Council has been unable to renew the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). In my country’s view, the JIM has been an invaluable instrument for…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for joining us here in the Council today and for presiding over our work. We also wish to thank Mr. Mohamed Siala, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Libya; Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Supp…
I would first like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her presentation of the report of the Secretary- General (S/2017/907), and to take this opportunity to congratulate her on her successful work.
Uruguay emphasizes the report’s message tha…
Uruguay believes that the sanctions regime continues to play a vital role in the promotion of peace and stability in the Horn of Africa.
In Somalia, the regime is curbing the illicit arms flow and cutting the financing of Al-Shabaab. Uruguay has followed the situation in the Horn of Africa closely …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing and his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/911).
I also thank First Deputy Prime Minister and Mini…
We would first like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing today and for his most recent report (see S/2017/922, annex) to the Council. We also thank the Italian presidency of the Security Council for convening today’s debate.
We welcome the Co…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation for the briefings by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic, Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga; the Special Representative of the African Union, Mr. Bedializoun Moussa Nébié; and the Head of International R…
First of all, I congratulate the delegation of France on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I wish you, Sir, and your delegation every success during your term of office, during which you can count on the support of the delegation of Uruguay.
I thank Mr. Filip…
I would like to thank France for having organized this open debate on an issue that is of particular importance and on which the international community must continue its work. I also thank you, Minister Le Drian, for presiding over our work. I would also like to express our appreciation for the par…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his comprehensive briefing.
First of all, allow me to recognize, as we do each month, the permanent, dedicated and brave work of the thousands of humanitarian workers of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and its local pa…
At the outset, I would like to express our gratitute for the briefings by Mr. Alexander Zouev, Assistant Secretary- General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Sudan and South…
I would like to start by welcoming the presence of Mr. Léonard She Okitundu, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We also thank Mr. Maman Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing, and …
First of all, I should like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, and to the representative of the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Ging, for their briefings. We also thank the French presidency for convening this public…
I would like to begin by thanking the delegations of France and the United Kingdom for their joint initiative to convene a briefing on the topic of strategic force generation in peacekeeping operations. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the Permanent Representatives of Ban…
Allow me to begin by expressing Uruguay’s renewed delight regarding the extraordinary progress of the peace process in Colombia. We are strongly welcome the temporary national bilateral ceasefire that was announced on 4 September by the Government of Colombia and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional …
First of all, allow me to congratulate and commend Ethiopia for the effective manner in which it conducted the work of the Security Council the month of September, and to wish you, Sir, and your delegation success in leading the Council this month.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- G…
We highly appreciate the participation of the Secretary- General in this meeting, and thank him for all his work with respect to the situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar and for his message conveyed to the Security Council in his letter of 2 September, which he included in his opening statement of …
I should like to thank you, Sir, for convening this briefing on the implementation of resolution 1373 (2001), which provides us with an international framework for combatting terrorism. I would also like to congratulate Mr. Vladimir Voronkov on his appointment as Under- Secretary-General of the Unit…
I would first like to thank Mr. David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, and Mr. Festus Mogae, Chair of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, for their briefings, which have given us a very complete picture of the latest events in South Sudan.
The ci…
I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his briefing and for all his ongoing work. I especially welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mr. Salahuddin Rabani, for attending this afternoon’s meeting. I also thank the Secretary-…
