Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2364 (2017), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). However, Uruguay wishes to express its concern about two aspects that I wish to discuss in detail. One aspect is procedural, the othe…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, and the Permanent Representative of Sweden and Chair of the Liberia configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Olof Skoog, for their comprehensive briefings.
Uruguay congratulates the Government and the peo…
Uruguay wishes to take this opportunity to reiterate its concern about repeated missile launches by North Korea and the increased tensions on the Korean peninsula. Such actions constitute a serious threat to international peace and security and are a clear violation of Security Council resolutions.
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I should like to begin my statement by wishing you, Sir, and your team every success in your duties as your country presides over the Security Council during the month of June. I also sincerely thank Council members for commending us on our recently concluded presidency.
We thank the Special Repres…
As we do every month, we thank Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien not only for his comprehensive briefing but also for his and his team’s work, including that of the thousands of humanitarian workers deployed in Syria, working under extremely difficult conditions. We express our gratitude to al…
At the outset, allow me to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary General for South Sudan, Mr. David Shearer. As this is the first time he is briefing the Council, I wish to convey to him my delegation’s wishes for his success and its full support as he acquits himself of task he has ta…
I should like to thank the Special Representative, Martin Kobler, for his briefing and for his ongoing efforts and those of his team in a particularly difficult context. We would like also to thank Ambassador Olof Skoog for his report on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuan…
Uruguay thanks Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, for his briefing. My Government appreciates the work carried out by the Committee, as well as its assessment of recent developments, based on the reports…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Said Djinnit, for having taken the time to meet with the Security Council this morning. I also thank him for his presentation of the Secretary General’s report (S/2017/208).
Four years af…
First and foremost, allow me to add our voice to the expressions of solidarity and condolences that have been expressed you, Mr. President, and by Council members, to the family members and the countries of origin of United Nations experts, Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, who, together with their C…
Uruguay welcomed the presence of the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, His Excellency Mr. Boris Johnson, in presiding over our work, and we are grateful to him for organizing
today’s briefing on the situation in Somalia. As I said yesterday, my Government once …
I would first like to thank Ambassador Sacha Llorentty Solíz for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), which contributes to ensuring transparency in the Committee’s work. We are also pleased that a Latin American country is currently chairing the C…
I should like first of all to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening this debate. I am also grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Yury Fedotov, Mr. Kevin Hyland and Ms. Ilwad Elman, for their comp…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I thank Ambassadors Rycroft, Seck and Delattre, as well as Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, for their briefings. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the Deputy Secretary-Ge…
Allow me, first of all, to express my gratitude for the briefings by the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jamal Benomar; the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa, in his capacity as East African Community Facilitator of the inter-Burundian dial…
I would first like to express our thanks for the briefings by Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Ambassador Omar Hilale, Chair of the Central African Republic configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission; and you, Mr. President, as Chair of the Committee establi…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for presiding over our work today. I would like to commend your country for having organized this open debate and for conducted with great balance and transparency the negotiations on the important resolution 2341 (2017), which we adopted today and which, together with res…
First and foremost, I would like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Marcel Amon-Tanoh, and to thank him for attending today’s meeting. Similarly, allow me to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Iv…
I would like to express my gratitude for the briefing by Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman on the fourth report (S/2017/97) of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations effo…
Uruguay is grateful for the detailed briefings by Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman and Under- Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien, as well as by Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan.
Uruguay continues to follow with great concern the recent developments in Avdiivka and the recent violations of the cease…
