We wish to thank Special Representative Haysom for his briefing. He reminds us of the complex set of challenges facing Afghanistan. We thank him also for his patient commitment to achieving peace in Afghanistan and wish him well in his next, no-less-difficult, assignment. We look forward to continui…
I thank High Representative Mogherini for her briefing. Today’s meeting provides another useful opportunity for the Council to engage another significant regional partner, following our meetings last month with the African Union (see S/PV.7694) and the League of Arab States.
New Zealand is a strong…
We too wish to thank the United Kingdom for convening today’s meeting. We think it is very timely to have an open discussion in the Chamber about the situation in Syria, and in particular the situation in Aleppo.
New Zealand has been deeply concerned about the violence in Aleppo and elsewhere in Sy…
Since my previous briefing to the Security Council in December (see S/PV.7587), the Security Council has adopted resolution 2253 (2015), which refocused the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Ms Joanne Liu, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), for their briefings. I also want to pay tribute to the workers of the ICRC and MSF and o…
It was with great disappointment that New Zealand abstained today. This was the first time during our current term on the Security Council that we have not supported the adoption of a Council resolution.
It should not have been like this. It should have been possible to maintain the tradition of co…
I should like to begin by thanking Ukraine for calling for this debate and to welcome the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs to our meeting. I also want to thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun and Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik for their briefings.
In February 2015, the Council endorsed the p…
New Zealand commends China for convening this debate. We acknowledge Senegal and Angola for ensuring this important issue receives the Council’s sustained attention. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his briefing.
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is a serious drag on the economic d…
I want to thank China for initiating this open debate, which provides an important opportunity to consider one of the most serious and complex challenges facing the international community. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Global terrorism is not a new phenomenon. But the threat…
I thank the delegation of Angola for organizing this open debate on one of the regions of Africa that has taken up a very large part of the Security Council’s time over the past two decades. I also want to thank the briefers, especially Special Envoy Djinnit, Mr. Chergui, and Mr. Pillai of the World…
We too thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing, and we commend him for his determination and optimism in carrying forward a very difficult process. We also commend the United States of America and Russia for steering through the cessation of hostilities, which should have taken effect a few mi…
I, too, want to congratulate Venezuela for a very productive and busy month. I will come back to that in a minute.
I want to talk a little about working methods and a little bit about some of the key issues that we have dealt with this month.
On working methods specifically, I want to thank Venezu…
We thank the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for convening this meeting and thank the briefers — Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal.
In the past two decades, our understanding of what makes for effective peacebuilding has grown markedly. It is now accepted that effective political transitions …
I welcome you, Foreign Minister Rodríguez Gómez, as our President,
and I also welcome the presence of Ministers from Angola and Spain. We thank Venezuela for organizing today’s open debate. We also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing, which we thoroughly endorse.
The international commun…
New Zealand welcomes the opportunity today to discuss an important and often overlooked aspect of the Council’s work. I thank the Permanent Representative of Sweden and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Chile for their very useful briefings.
There are 25 subsidiary organs of the Security Counc…
I, too, want to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on the very efficient and effective manner in which you and your team have managed our work during the past month, which has been a very busy one. I also want to commend the new members. I was very impressed at the way that all of them imme…
I thank Foreign Minister Nin Novoa for his presence here and commend Uruguay for convening today’s ministerial-level meeting. I thank also the Secretary-General for his briefing, which made for sobering listening.
New Zealand has been an elected member of the Council for just over a year. During th…
I wish warmly to thank Foreign Minister Nin Novoa, and I welcome Foreign Minister Holguín Cuéllar to the Council today.
New Zealand was very pleased to co-sponsor resolution 2261 (2016) and welcomes its unanimous adoption. The Council’s flexible and quick response to the request for a political mis…
I welcome the President of the Security Council back to New York. We congratulate Uruguay on organizing today’s debate. I also want to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Christine Beerli of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ms. Eveline Rooijmans of Oxfam for their briefings.
As …
I, too, thank Assistant Secretary-General Kang for her briefing.
New Zealand is pleased that, since the Council met on Monday, a second series of aid convoys were able to enter Madaya, Fu’ah and Kafraya yesterday and that a third series of convoys is planned in the next few days. However, as others…
