I thank Mr. Pedersen, Mr. Griffiths and Ms. Albarouki for their briefings. We welcome the representatives of Syria, Iran and Turkey to this meeting.
My delegation is concerned about the continuing violence that has escalated in recent weeks. We deplore the bomb attacks in Damascus on 20 October, as…
I would like to thank Mr. Wennesland, Mr. Levy and Ms. Ashrawi for their briefings.
A month ago, the announcement of a rehabilitation plan for the Gaza Strip, the meeting in Ramallah between the Palestinian President and the Israeli Defence Minister and the visit to Egypt by the Israeli Prime Minis…
I thank his Excellency Mr. Nikola Selaković for his statement and Mr. Zahir Tanin and Ms. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu for their briefings.
My delegation welcomes the positive political dynamic prompted by the legislative elections of 14 February as well as the general policy statement of the new Kosovo Gov…
I thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham and Ms. Shuja Al-Deen for their briefings.
The ongoing hostilities in Yemen — namely, the intensification of the fighting in Ma’rib and Shabwah, the attack against a convoy of Government officials in Aden and the drone attacks that targeted the Jaz…
I would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, Mr. António
Guterres and Mr. Mbeki for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Fawzia Koofi for her contribution.
We know, Mr. President, how important the theme of this open debate is to you, given the recent history of your country, which went thro…
I thank Ms. Amina Mohammed and Ms. Shukria Dini, for their briefings, which have given us an insight into the involvement of women in the political process in Somalia.
We offer our condolences to the families of the victims, the people and the Government of Somalia following the latest deadly attac…
I thank Mr. Pedersen and Ms. Rouba Mhaissen for their briefings. I welcome the representatives of Syria, Iran and Turkey to this meeting.
After so much loss of life and the immense destruction caused by a decade of conflict, it is regrettable that the Syrian political actors are unable to lay the g…
I thank Mr. Griffiths and Ms. Qaddour for their presentations. I also welcome the participation of the representatives of Syria, Turkey and Iran in this meeting.
The various briefings to the Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria show that it is far from improving. In addition to food insec…
I thank Mr. Grundberg for his briefing and wish him every success in his new role. I also thank Ms. Ghada Eltahir Mudawi and Ms. Entesar Al-Qadhi for their briefings.
My delegation is following with great concern the continuing hostilities in the conflict in Yemen, in particular the violent clashes…
I thank Mr. Ján Kubiš and Ambassador Tirumurti for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Asma Khalifa for her briefing.
The Niger commends the tireless efforts of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in assisting the Libyan authorities to implement the road map adopted by the Libyan Politic…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the A3+1, namely, Kenya, Tunisia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Niger.
We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Lyons for her briefing on the most recent developments in Afghanistan. The A3+1 reiterates i…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General, Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ms. Safaa Elagib Adam for their briefings.
As the Security Council well knows, the most difficult thing is not to come between warring parties and silence the weapons in a conflict, but to leave the host country in a peacef…
I would like to commend Mrs. Mary Robinson, Chair of The Elders,
and Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, conflict mediator, for their briefings. I thank other members of The Elders for attending today’s meeting.
The Security Council, whose primary responsibility is the maintenance of international peace and secu…
I, too, would like to congratulate India on its presidency last month and to wish Ireland every success in its presidency this month. I also thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The Niger takes note of the report of the Director- General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons…
I would like to thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing.
My delegation remains concerned about recent developments in the region, which do not give cause for optimism with regard to our hopes following the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire in May. The incidents observed this month, like those of the prev…
I thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert for her briefing. I also welcome the representative of Iraq to today’s meeting.
Iraq has suffered enormously from wars, and its people are longing for a stable and prosperous life. We commend the Iraqi Government for its determination and efforts to address th…
I thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Griffiths for their briefings. I also thank Mr. Khaled Erksoussi for his briefing. I welcome the representatives of Syria, Iran and Turkey to today’s meeting.
A resolution to the Syrian crisis will not emerge by the force of weapons alone — that can never be stated enou…
I thank Mr. Khiari, Mr. Griffiths and Ms. Fore for their briefings.
The Niger deplores the fact that after so many years of a multifaceted crisis and intensive diplomatic efforts, the parties to the conflict in Yemen are unable to agree on the minimum necessary for a return to peace in the country.…
I thank the President for organizing today’s debate. I thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Ms. Michèle Coninsx and Mr. Davood Moradian for their substantive and clear briefings.
Six months ago, when we were debating the twelfth report of the Secretary-General assessing the international terrorist threat (…
In recent years, United Nations peace operations have been taking place in difficult and dangerous terrain, in settings marked by frequent deadly terrorist attacks against peacekeepers, civilian populations and the armed forces of host countries. In this particular context, the use of technology in …
