We would like to start by thanking Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Ms. Heidi Grau and Mr. Halit Çevik for their outstanding briefings. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome His Excellency Mr. Sergiy Kyslytsya here today.
The Dominican Republic believes that achieving peace must be a collectiv…
I once again would like to welcome the Foreign Minister of the Niger. In addition, we would like to thank Ms. Sori-Coulibaly and Ambassador Ronaldo Costa Filho for their briefings.
We would like to begin by congratulating the Government of Guinea-Bissau on having successfully carried out its legisl…
We welcome you, Sir, along with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia and the Foreign Ministers of the Niger, Spain and Guatemala. I wish to thank the Kingdom of Belgium for bringing this important topic to the Security Council. We express our appreciation to our briefers, Ms. Bachelet, Father De R…
At the outset, I wish to thank the Secretary-General for presenting the practical guidance for mediators to protect children in situations
of armed conflict, as well as the other speakers for their observations. I also welcome Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians. Their presence confi…
First, we thank the Secretary- General for his presence and his briefing. We also thank Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his detailed report on the current situation in the region. We welcome President Mahmoud Abbas, to whom we extend the appreciation and consideration of the Dominican peop…
First of all, we are grateful for the presence of Mr. Edi Rama, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania and Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), among us today. We are confident that his experience and leadership will con…
We thank Ambassador Pedersen and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings.
We continue to firmly support all genuine efforts to achieve sustainable peace in Syria for all Syrians. Based on that decision and our confidence in international law as the fundamental framework for achieving peace, we welcome this…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Kingdom of Belgium for assuming the presidency for the month of February and, again, we thank Viet Nam for its excellent presidency in January.
We extend our thanks to the presidency for convening this timely briefing on small arms and light weapons. We also…
We thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing.
The Dominican Republic remains concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. At the outset, we reiterate our regret at having been unable to achieve the complete renewal of the cross- border mechanism whereby millions of people receiv…
We would like to thank Ms. Matar for her briefing. As always, we reiterate the Dominican Republic’s support for the collective efforts to strengthen the long-standing political process in the Syrian Arab Republic — one that opens the door to lasting peace.
This year, 2020, is the fifth anniversary …
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Ms. Ursula Mueller for their briefings. Particular thanks go to Ms. Muller for highlighting some positive aspects, however small, and for inviting us to use them to give new impetus to our collective actions.
The Middle East peace process is a phrase used by world …
At the outset, I would like to express our support for the statement of the representative of France. We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing.
First of all, we would like to express our categorical condemnation of the wave of attacks in the last quarter of last year, w…
We would like to start by showing solidarity with the people of the Niger for the death of over 89 soldiers over the weekend and by expressing our continued solidarity with our brotherly country of Haiti on another anniversary of the tragic earthquake of 2010 that cost over 300,000 lives, including …
The Dominican Republic voted in favour of resolution 2504 (2020), submitted by the co-penholders, for the renewal of the cross-border humanitarian assistance mechanism in the Syrian Arab Republic. Despite the fact that we have been able to maintain the mechanism, we cannot fail to highlight a few as…
It is a pleasure to have you here in New York, Mr. President.
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his important contribution and Mrs. Robinson for her inspiring words. Similarly, we welcome the many high- level representatives who have honoured us with their presence at today’s meeting.…
First of all, we thank Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas for his briefing.
The Dominican Republic commends the peaceful electoral processes in some countries of West Africa and the Sahel. At the same time, we acknowledge the considerable efforts made by countries of the region and regional and international …
We are pleased to welcome today’s briefers, Judge Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz, to whom we express our gratitude for their comprehensive reports.
The existence of bodies such as the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals is crucial to achieving societies free of impunity. The wor…
We would like to thank the United States for convening this briefing. We also thank Mr. Khiari for his report this afternoon.
We would first like to stress that the nuclear and ballistic-missile programme of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea poses a serious threat to international peace and…
At the outset, we wish every success to the United States as it discharges its mandate as President of the Security Council for this month. We also congratulate the United Kingdom on the outstanding manner in which it steered the work of the Council during the month of November. We also thank the br…
The Dominican Republic also wishes to express its sincere condolences to France following the loss of 13 of its soldiers in Mali.
We thank Mr. Khan for his detailed report (S/2019/878) and his commendable performance in leading the work of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountabi…
