I would like to thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing. We express our gratitude to the Technical Secretariat, the Declaration Assessment Team and the Fact-finding Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemica…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassador Karen Pierce for the detailed update on the investigation into the attempted murder of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, which involved a nerve agent. We greatly appreciate the transparency of the Un…
I thank you very much, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I offer you our full support during your presidency in September. Allow me, as well, to thank our briefers, Mr. Gonzalo Koncke and Mr. Felix Maradiaga, for their briefings. I also welcome among us His Excellency Mr. Denis Moncada Co…
I would like to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his very informative briefing on recent developments in Libya. I also want to thank Ambassador Olof Skoog, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya, for hi…
I should like to begin by congratulating you, Madam, on your country’s assumption of the presidency for the month of September. I wish you good luck and full success in your endeavours. Allow me also to mention how much we appreciated the efforts and professionalism of the British presidency.
With …
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Aristides Gomes, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, to the Council today, and to thank our briefers, Special Representative Filho, Ambassadors Vieira and Ndong Mba and Ms. Tavares Pinto, for their valuable remarks.
More than three months ago, in mid-May, we …
At the outset, let me thank the Secretary General, as well as The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ms. Mossarat Qadeem, for their valuable briefings. I would also like to express our appreciation to the presidency for choosing the topic of today’s debate…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Mr. Tegegnework Gettu for their detailed briefings and remarks. I also welcome to the Council and thank Ms. Cate Blanchett, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador, for her invaluable remarks.
It has been a year since the mos…
At the outset, allow me to thank our briefer, Mr. John Ging, for his comprehensive analysis.
First, let me very briefly underline once again our strong support for the relaunching of a United Nations- facilitated political process for Syria. We strongly support a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned inclusi…
I would like to begin by extending my thanks to the briefers: the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Leila Zerrougui; Monseigneur Marcel Utembi, President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo; and Ms. Solange Lwashiga Furaha, spokesperson for Rien Sans Les Femmes, for th…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov, Executive Director Michéle Coninsx and Ms. Joana Cook for their informative briefings. Let me also express my gratitude to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team and …
I would like to thank both briefers, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. John Ging, for their comprehensive briefings. I should like in particular to thank Staffan for having shared with us what he calls cautious optimism and by bringing hope to our deliberations. He has our full support.
Allow me to fo…
I would like to thank all of today’s briefers — Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo; Ambassador João Vale de Almeida; and Ambassador Karel van Oosterom, in his capacity as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) — for their respective reports.
We believe …
Let me begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his very informative briefing on recent developments in Mali.
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I take this opportunity to welcome the presence among us of His Excellency Mr. Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Internat…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. François Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), and Mr. Ahmad Allam-Mi, Secretary- General of the Economic Community of Central African States, for th…
Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency this month. I wish you good luck and all the success in your endeavours. I also thank you for your kind words.
Allow me now to refer to the topic of today’s discussion. Let me express our appreciation for Kuwait’s transpa…
At the outset, let me thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for, as always, a very comprehensive and insightful briefing. I would like also to thank the speakers, the Ambassadors of Palestine and of Israel.
I would like to align myself with the stat…
Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres; the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Dan Neculăescu;
and the Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union, Mr. Smail Chergui, for their very informative briefings. I would also like to congratulate the Peruv…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive briefing and to assure him of our full support in finding a political solution to all conflicts, not just the one in Syria.
Since we are discussing the situation in the Middle East and in particular the current situation in Syria, le…
I thank Ambassador Sacha Llorentty Solíz for his briefing. I would also like to express my delegation’s support for his further efforts in steering the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004).
Poland attaches great importance to its commitments on the non-prolifera…
