First of all, I would like to thank the Russian presidency for having convened today’s open debate and for the concept paper (S/2016/871, annex); Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the briefing on his annual report on women and peace and security (S/2016/822); the Executive Director of UN-Women, Phum…
I would first like to thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing on the Secretary-General’s third report (S/2016/830) on the evolution of the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or Da’esh, to international peace and security, and on the range of activities to combat it undertaken by th…
At the outset, I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/824) and an update on the most recent developments in the Central African Republic. I also thank Mr. Laassel for his briefing of the repo…
Uruguay is aware of the alarming migration and refugee situation at the global level. According to data of the International Organization for Migration, between 1 January and 28 September approximately 302,486 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea and 3,502 men, women and children died or disa…
I should like to begin by thanking Under-Secretaries- General Hervé Ladsous and Atul Khare for their respective briefings this afternoon.
I would like to highlight the holding, on 23 September, of a high-level meeting on the implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, which…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his detailed briefing. My delegation has requested the floor because we believe that such briefings are not solely for the Security Council but for all of the Members of the Organization. In that regard, as an elected member of the Council, we beli…
Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2310 (2016) because of the intrinsic importance of the subject and because we believe in the need to work towards the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). The CTBT, whose entry into force we encourage today, is a keystone of nucl…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this informative meeting on the terrorist threat to civil aviation.
As was clearly expressed in the concept note (S/2016/791, annex), the Security Council has focused its attention on other emerging aspects of international terroris…
I too wish to convey my thanks to the Secretary-General for his briefing. We are grateful to the presidency of New Zealand and to you, Foreign Minister Murray McCulley, for convening today’s meeting and for your presence at the Security Council today.
Uruguay is concerned at the lack of progress in…
I wish to thank the presidency of New Zealand for having convened this debate under its programme of work and also to thank Minister McCully for presiding over our meeting today. I should like also to thank Ambassadors Yamamoto and Saikal, respectively, for their briefings.
First, I should like to …
First, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and your entire delegation for the excellent work carried out during the month of August. In addition, I also take this opportunity to wish New Zealand a successful presidency during the month of September and to assure it of our readiness to collaborate…
I am pleased to address the members of the Security Council in my capacity as representative of the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2048 (2012), concerning Guinea-Bissau. I would like to sum up the main aspects of the debate on the Secretary-General’s repor…
I thank His Excellency Mr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, for presiding over today’s meeting of the Security Council. I also thank the Secretary-General and all the speakers for their valuable briefings.
At the outset, I wish to thank the Malaysian presidency for its initiat…
I should like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to wish you a very productive month. I also thank you for having convened this very important open debate to mark the 20-year anniversary of the Graça Machel report (see A/51/306). I sh…
At the outset, I wish to thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for convening this meeting on an issue of great importance, namely, the situation in the Lake Chad Basin. I also wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman and Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for their detailed an…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his briefing.
At our most recent open debate (see S/PV.7740), my delegation spoke about working methods. We said that it was positive if Security Council members were to begin to express themselves in this open forum, rather than doing so only in …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman,
Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs; Ambassador Román Oyarzun Marchesi, in his capacity as facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015); and Mr. João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to …
At the outset, let me thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for the work he has carried out during the nearly five years of his mandate with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), as well as the commitment with which he has carried out…
I thank you, Sir, for convening and including this meeting in the June programme of work. I especially welcome the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and the introduction of her detailed twenty-third report on the activities of her Office with respect…
At the outset, permit me, Sir, to congratulate you on having convened this wrap-up session in line with the note by the President of the Security Council (S/2010/507) and for having distributed a concept note with proposals addressed to the members of the Security Council to guide their statements. …
