I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for organizing this very important debate and for the concept note (S/2014/572, annex) that you have prepared. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the comments that they have s…
I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your leadership and your work as President of the Security Council during this particularly busy month. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing this morning.
When Guatemala took its seat on the Council in January 2012, the shadows …
We associate ourselves with the statement made by the delegation of Bolivia on behalf of the Group of 77 and China (see A/68/PV.100). In addition, we would like to make the following timely observations.
First, we support the 2011 Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assem…
I would like to begin by congratulating the Russian Federation on organizing this open debate and by
thanking you, Mr. President, for the concept note prepared on this important topic (S/2014/384, annex). We also thank the Secretary-General for his observations. As a former member of the Council an…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, for your leadership and for your work as President of the Council. I would also like to thank Mr. Robert Serry for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Guatemala firmly believes that diplomacy and dial…
I thank the Nigerian presidency for having organized this open debate and its concept note (S/2014/238, annex) and for your personal participation, Mr. Minister. We also thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and for his second report on security sector reform (S/2013/480).
We wish t…
I thank the President for organizing today’s open debate, which gives us the opportunity to address the Security
Council on conflict-related sexual violence — a subject on which my country has been very active due to its deep conviction that we should keep fighting against all forms of violence aga…
We would like to thank the presidency of Luxembourg for convening this open debate on a topic so close to Luxembourg’s work in the Council. The personal presence of Deputy Prime Minister Asselborn only underscores that. In that vein, we also express our special appreciation to Luxembourg for its cha…
We would like to thank the delegation of Lithuania for having organized this open debate to commemorate the 15 years since the Security Council gave fresh impetus to the task of the protection of civilians in
armed conflict. We are also grateful to Ms. Navi Pillay, Ms. Valerie Amos, Mr. Hervé Ladso…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this thematic debate, and congratulate you on having carried out your presidency so successfully with so little lead time to prepare yourself. We also thank you for your eloquent statement this morning, and Mr. Jeffrey Feltman for his very lucid briefing.
W…
We once again welcome Mr. Ján Kubiš, whom we thank for introducing the Secretary-General’s report (S/2013/721). We also welcome the statement made by Ambassador Zahir Tanin. I have five brief comments to make.
First, on the electoral process, we welcome the fact that a foundation has been laid for …
We would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Jim Yong Kim, Special Envoy Romano Prodi and the observers of the African Union and European Union for their briefings and information.
There is no doubt that the most significant event of recent months concerning the Sahel region was …
We welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and we thank her for her eighteenth report to the Council, pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
We take note of the statement made by the Permanent Representative of the Sudan.
The report before us echoes the m…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this opportunity to brief the Security Council with my reflections as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Côte d’Ivoire and as Chair of the Council’s Informal Working Group on Intern…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for their reports (S/2013/678 and S/2013/663, respectively), as well as the President and…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassadors Gary Quinlan, Mohammed Loulichki and Oh Joon for their informative briefings and for the capability and dynamism with which they have been leading the subsidiary bodies of the Security Council under their respective terms. We also appreciate the colla…
Our delegation would like to thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, for his updated presentation of the latest events in the subregion. We also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2013/671).
It is obviou…
We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for presenting the report (S/2013/631). We are also grateful for the presentations by Prime Minister Dačić and Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi.
A notable aspect of the report is the progress made in implementing the firs…
The voting that was just concluded fills us with desolation, and I would like to explain our abstention, which in and of itself is a source of great sadness for us.
There were a number of reasons for it. First, our delegation has dedicated both time and effort in order to promote more constructive …
We thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting, and we welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, to the Council. We thank her for introducing her the sixth report to the Council on the topic under consideration.
Guatemala believes that all the authorities in Lib…
