Mr. President, I thank you for convening this meeting. Let me also thank Assistant Secretaries-General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Ivan Šimonović for their respective briefings on the political and human rights situations in Ukraine. We commend the Secretary-General for his good offices and for his unwa…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s briefing on the implementation of the United Nations integrated strategy for the Sahel. I congratulate Ms. Hiroute Guebre Sellassie on her recent appointment as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel and thank her for her briefing. I t…
Mr. President, allow me to start by congratulating you on your 40 years of dedication to diplomacy — an exceptional milestone that many of us will never reach and that speaks volumes of your great contributions to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia and international affairs. I wish you …
In accordance with paragraph 24 (e) of resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011, I have the honour to report to the Security Council on the work of the Committee established by that resolution. The report covers the period from 10 March to 9 June 2014, during which time the members of the Committe…
I thank the briefers for the presentation of their assessments and progress reports on the work of their respective Tribunals and the Residual Mechanism (S/2014/343, S/2014/350 and S/2014/351).
Members of the Council are all aware that this year, from 7 April to 4 July, Rwanda is commemorating the …
Rwanda takes the floor to explain its vote on draft resolution S/2014/348, which requests the referral of the situation of the Syrian Arab Republic to the International Criminal Court (ICC). I thank Mr. Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, for his statement and acknowledge the presence among us o…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting. I also thank Mr. Abou Moussa, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, for his briefing.
The situation in the Central African region has deteriorated in the past month, mainly due…
On 16 April 2014, the Security Council adopted resolution 2150 (2014) on the occasion of the twentieth commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The resolution also commemorates Hutus and others who were killed because they opposed the genocide. Obviously, Captain Mbaye Diagne could…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this important high- level open debate on non-proliferation as we mark the tenth anniversary of resolution 1540 (2004). We consider your presence here today, Sir, as a major commitment to the overall implementation of the resolution, which c…
I also thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his briefing.
The situation in Ukraine has further deteriorated in the past few hours. Ukrainian forces have launched operations against the separatist militants in the eastern part of the city of Sloviansk. The re…
Mr. President, I thank you for convening this briefing on the human rights situation in South Sudan. I thank Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Mr. Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, for their respective briefings…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important thematic debate on security sector reform, which is critical to ensuring sustainable peace and stability in post-conflict countries. I also thank His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his statement. Your presence here today, Mr. President, is a…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important open debate. I would also like to convey my sincere gratitude to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to his Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, for their respective statements. Under their leadershi…
Madam President, I thank you for organizing this important briefing as one of the events for the twentieth commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Our briefers today have undoubtedly an extensive array of experience on the topic of the prevention of and fight against genocide. I …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this emergency meeting on the situation in Ukraine. I also thank Assistant Secretary- General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing on the worrying situation in eastern Ukraine.
We are very alarmed by reports of increased tensions in eastern Ukraine in…
I take the floor to explain Rwanda’s vote on resolution 2147 (2014), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), including the Force Intervention Brigade, for an additional year.
First of all, I would like to t…
Thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting on the situation in Ukraine. It shows the seriousness of the situation and the commitment of the Security Council in the quest for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. I also thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-Ge…
Let me thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important meeting on post-conflict peacebuilding. I am convinced that discussions of this nature can significantly contribute to the improvement and streamlining of practices in peacebuilding and post-conflict construction and initiatives. I wou…
Rwanda wishes to explain its vote on the text of the draft resolution (S/2014/189) before us. It is unfortunate that we have come to this today, as the situation could have been avoided. Voting for the text before us was a hard decision we had to make, and that is so because we are not convinced tha…
It is increasingly alarming that the crisis and the turn of events in Ukraine poses a threat to the security of the entire region and continues to affect the daily lives of innocent people. While there are a number of diplomatic engagements under way in approaching the crisis, we believe it is impor…
