I would like to express the thanks and appreciation of the Government of the Sudan to Council members for being so understanding and willing to adopt by consensus resolution 2429 (2018) on the extension of the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We have b…
On behalf of the Group of Arab States, I wish to congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s presidency of the Security Council this month. I also wish to note the initiative led by your country to deepen the concept and meaning of pluralism and to defend peace in its various aspects around…
I would like at the outset to thank the Permanent Mission of Sweden for convening today’s important meeting on the theme “Protecting children today prevents conflicts tomorrow”. I also thank Ms. Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Ms. …
The delegation of my country, the Sudan, aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and by the representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Co…
The membership of the United Nations has remained a symbol of State independence and sovereignty. The United Nations has also become the principal international forum for collective work aimed at realizing the three objectives of State-building, nation-building and economic development. The United N…
Once again, we would like to commend you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Security Council for this month, and to congratulate your country on its outstanding organization of this year’s FIFA World Cup.
As you mentioned in your statement, Mr. President, the Sudan, like other States that ar…
We are always interested to inform the Security Council of the Sudan’s position on the various questions raised in the Council that are related to its interests. Hence, I would like to seize this opportunity to deliver this statement.
At the outset, I would like to thank the Council for the spirit …
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s accession to the presidency of the Security Council during the month of May. I would also like to commend your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Peru, for his effective management of the Council’s business during the mon…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. I would also like to express our thanks to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Kuwait, for his able leadership of the Council in February.
I hope that in the …
At the outset, I am happy to express to you my great pleasure,
and that of my country, at seeing your sisterly country, Mr. President, presiding over the Security Council for the month of February. I would also like to express to your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan, as well…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month.
I also welcome the new non-permanent members of the Council and wish them every success in their efforts. I assure them of our cooperation in the Security Council…
We abstained in the voting on resolution 72/191, entitled “Situation of human rights in Syria”, for the same reasons we gave during the seventy-first session. Moreover, it is our view that the reference to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the resolution is a step backwards, and we therefore…
I apologize for taking the floor for the third or fourth time this morning. I would like to emphasize that our delegation did its best to agree on language that would accommodate all interests, although such language would not be optimal for us. We did our best, approached the sponsors to that end, …
Going back to the recent history of this draft resolution, we have been through negotiations with sponsors and interested States regarding the inclusion of language that would be acceptable to all of us or at least that could be generally accepted. We failed, however. The repeated proposals we made …
That is correct. According to the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, it is amendment by deletion and therefore a vote on the deletion of this particular paragraph.
As in the case of other paragraphs mentioning the International Criminal Court (ICC), my delegation has serious reservations about the inclusion of any reference to the jurisdiction of the ICC and about using draft resolution XIX to include language calling for, propagating or exerting unacceptable …
We do not want to go through the same process that we went through in the Third Committee, where, during the informal consultations, we proposed language that could accommodate all positions. Failing that, we revert to the position of voting separately on the draft paragraphs that I mentioned, namel…
First of all, I would like to once again reiterate our full support and commitment to fighting torture. However, as in the Third Committee, the inclusion of language in the seventh preambular paragraph and in operative paragraph 4 of draft resolution II now forces us to request a recorded vote on th…
We would like to congratulate Japan on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We also commend Italy on presiding over the Council last month.
I would like to comment on a point raised by a number of representatives with regard to the collection of weapons. As the S…
At the outset, we would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the peoples and Governments of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, following the deaths of peacekeepers from those and other sisterly countries.
We would like to welcome and commend those involved in the humanitarian…
