I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to share the report of the Secretary- General on the situation in the Central African Republic (S/2015/918) and the update on the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republ…
I thank you, Madame, for this new opportunity to present to the Security Council an update on the peace process in South Sudan and to address the recommendations of the Secretary-General on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
This morning, I informed th…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for this fresh opportunity for dialogue with our police commanders and the Security Council in the framework of following up on last year’s resolution 2158 (2014). I am pleased to see here three high-level officials of our police components, and I fully agree that…
I thank you, Madam President, for giving me the opportunity to brief the Council on Mali at a time that I think it is fair to call a key moment in the political process. I would like to complement the Secretary-General’s latest report (S/2015/219) by focusing on three points: the dialogue process, t…
I thank you, Sir, for this new opportunity to inform the Security Council on the situation in Darfur. As you have indicated, two recent reports of the Secretary-General will be the focus of our meeting today: the regular report on the activities of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation i…
I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to introduce the latest report of the Secretary-General on South Sudan, issued on 17 February (S/2015/118). As always, I shall take this opportunity to inform the Council on operational developments since then.
As Council members know, the security situation i…
I thank Council members for giving me this opportunity to brief them on the strategic review of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), a task that the Council entrusted me with pursuant to resolution 2147 (2014) and that has taken qui…
Now that the Malian parties will be meeting again, most likely at the very beginning of February, in order to sign off on the draft peace proposal that was circulated to them in November, I think we can say that the Malian peace process is at a critical stage. This a time, it must be said again, whe…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to bring the
Security Council up to date on recent developments in the Central African Republic following the issuance on 1 December of the report of the Secretary-General.
Although the situation in the Central African Republic remains volat…
Following the release on 26 November of the Secretary-General’s periodic report (S/2014/852) on the activities of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), I should like to update the Council on the latest developments in the peace process in Darfur and the current securi…
Thank you, Madam President, for giving us this opportunity to discuss what could be a consequence of this major epidemiological crisis, namely, the undermining of all the achievements that have been the product of lengthy work by the United Nations and our three peacekeeping missions in West Africa.…
I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to brief the
Security Council from Bamako, where I arrived the day before yesterday for the sad occasion of a funeral service in memory of nine Blue Helmets from the Niger who were murdered in a cowardly way in an ambush. This was of course an oppo…
Once again this year, perhaps more than ever, the trend continues and the evidence is clear: children are among the first victims of armed conflict. Take for example the spiral of violence since December that has affected the Central African Republic and South Sudan, with a devastating impact on the…
I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to address the Security Council following the publication of the report of the Secretary- General on the situation in Mali (S/2014/403). That publication occurred while Mali suffered violent clashes in the north that rocked not only the country but also the alr…
I thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on the situation in Darfur. Following the publication on 15 April of the periodic report of the Secretary-General (S/2014/279) on the activities of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), I would like to…
I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to brief the Security Council once again on the situation in South Sudan and to present the most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2014/158).
Little more than three years since the holding of the referendum that led to the independence of S…
I would first of all like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to introduce the report of the Secretary- General (S/2014/142), which recommends the establishment of a United Nations multidimensional peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic. In accordance with the …
In two months, we will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, an event that was horrible beyond words, devastating a nation, a region and the world’s collective conscience. But that tragedy also contributed to shaping the United Nations and the international community.
Today’s deba…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the opportunity to brief the Council on the situation in Darfur. The Council has before it the report of the Secretary-General of 15 January (S/2014/26), and I would like to give the Council some additional information on the most recent developments with re…
Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to present the most recent report of the Secretary-General on the
African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) (S/2013/607). I will be brief.
In general, the report before the Council outlines the limited progress that ha…
