Once again, we meet to consider the recent evolution of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. It will be recalled that the Commission was established in September 2007, as an innovative effort whereby the State of Guatemala and the United Nations joined forces to fight impunity…
We welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also take note of the presentation of his report (S/2013/263, annex), which we listened to with concern owing to the lack of progress reported in the period under consideration. We wouldl like to make five comments wit…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this morning’s important meeting. We welcome the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and thank her for her statement and her briefing.
Within the complex transition process which Libya is now undergoing, we welco…
Allow me at the outset to welcome Minister Leonid Kozhara, whom we thank for his presentation. I congratulate him on his assumption of the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and I wish him every success during his term.
Guatemala is convinced that region…
At the outset, allow me to thank the delegation of Rwanda for having organized this informative meeting. We would also like to express our appreciation to Ambassadors Abulkalam Abdul Momen and Ranko Vilović for their briefings on the recent evolution of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We also ap…
At the outset, we wish to thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Although the intervals between meetings where we take up this issue are short, the situation in the Middle East is dynamic enough to provide new developments…
We thank the Rwandan presidency for convening this important open debate. It is particularly relevant that our debate is being chaired by Minister Louise Mushikiwabo, to whom we convey our thanks. We also thank the Secretary-General for the presentation of his report (S/2013/149). We are very aware …
We are grateful to the Government of Rwanda for having organized this briefi ng and for the concept note (S/2013/204, annex) that it prepared on a topic of such relevance for the Security Council. Madam Minister, we welcome your presence among us. We also wish to thank the Secretary-General for the s…
Allow us first of all to congratulate Ambassador Peter Woolcott of Australia on his work and on all his efforts throughout the two weeks of negotiations at the Final United Nations Conference on Arms Trade Treaty. We also congratulate his team, the facilitators and the Secretariat. We thank him for …
Guatemala voted in favor of resolution 2098 (2013), just adopted. We did so in part owing to our unwavering commitment to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), in which Guatemala has participated since March 2005. We were moved to do…
I thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (S/2013/72). We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for presenting the report and Mr. Ivica Dačić and Mr. Hashim Thaçi for their statements.
The S…
I wish to thank the Russian Federation for convening this debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the presentation of his report (S/2013/133) and for joining us today. I also thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his important statement, and I welcome the presence here today of M…
My delegation wishes to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his informative briefing. We should like to congratulate him and his team on having assumed the chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
During the reporting period, the Committee continu…
Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 2093 (2013) given the importance of supporting the efforts of the Government of Somalia, the United Nations and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Thanks to such collective efforts, Somalia now has new prospects. Similarly, we support the extension…
Guatemala voted in favour of resolution 2092 (2013)
owing to the importance we attach to the work of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS), the situation in that country and the need for the political situation to move in the right direction, namely, a retur…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. We would also like to thank the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Catherine Ashton, for her informative briefing on the activities of the European Union in the various areas th…
We welcome the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Mr. Kim Sung-hwan. We thank him for having convened this open debate at such an opportune time and for presiding over it . We regret that our own Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Fernando C…
First of all, we want to thank Mr. Robert Serry for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We also thank Mr. Riad Malki and the representative of Israel for their briefings.
Some question the frequency with which we address this issue in the Security C…
We would like to welcome Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Foreign Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Guatemala thanks Pakistan for his excellent preparation for today’s open debate and for the concept note prepared for the occasion (S/2013/4, annex). The concept note seeks to open the discussion …
I wish to thank the delegation of Pakistan for having convened this open debate. Our thanks also go to Pakistan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, for presiding over it. We are also grateful for the concept note that has been distributed in the annex to document S/2013/3. We appr…
