We thank Ms. Deborah Lyons, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her thoughts and views. We believe that UNAMA plays an important role in coordinating international efforts in Afghanistan. We listened carefully …
We are pleased that, despite all the difficulties and contradictions, the Security Council today managed to find an important point of contact on such a complex issue as a cross-border mechanism for the supply of humanitarian aid in Syria. We are grateful to our American colleagues, who worked in th…
We welcome the participation of Mr. Sameh Hassan Shokry Selim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt; Mrs. Mariam Alsadig Al Sedeeg Al Mahadi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan; and Mr. Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia, in today’s meeting.
We th…
At the outset, we congratulate France on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July and thank Estonia for its able leadership of the Council in June.
We listened closely to the briefings on the situation in Tigray, delivered by Under-Secretary General
DiCarlo an…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations Olof Skoog, and the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Representative of Ireland Geraldine Byrne Nason, for their briefings.
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I agree with you, Mr. President. I also have no desire to continue this discussion. I just want to point out the fact that we are in an open meeting and that the parties concerned will be able to watch it. I therefore do not believe that it is up to me to determine the extent of the Minister’s autho…
I would like to ask how I am supposed to interpret what Minister Turković just said. Therefore, in order to speak on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
just as within the Steering Board, consensus is not necessary and a majority is sufficient? Is my understanding correct?
I will gladly answer Minister Turković’s question. I can assure her that I am fully authorized to speak on behalf of the Russian Government. I have been authorized by the President of the country, Mr. Vladimir Putin. I have submitted my credentials to the Secretary- General. She can be absolutely ce…
We would like to put a question to Minister Turković. I hope she will not take the question personally, but it is a matter on which we require some clarification.
The question is as follows: Does the statement that she made today reflect the position of all of constituent entities of Bosnia and Her…
We thank Mr. Hervé Lecoq for today’s briefing. We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms. Bisera Turković.
We have gathered here at our initiative in order to discuss the letter circulated in the Security Council stating that on 2…
We are grateful to Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Ms. Abeer Hussain for their briefings.
In spite of the overall stabilization of the military and political situation, the situation remains tense in Syria. Indeed, 60 per cent of the population is facing…
I will perhaps forfeit the second question, but I will give a small clarification of the first one. The question was also how CARE’s assistance technically moves into Idlib and who its partners are on the ground there in Idlib where it delivers its assistance.
While we are waiting, I will perhaps repeat the questions that Mr. Rajasingham missed. The second and third questions were: In his opinion, what is needed to unblock cross-line deliveries to Idlib, and how should that process be done so that such aid is delivered cross-line? Where are the problems? …
I would like to make it clear that I will be unable to facilitate the President’s request. In any event, it is more a recommendation than a request, according to note S/2017/507 by the President of the Security Council, to speak for no longer than five minutes when taking the floor in the Security C…
We regret the fact that you, Mr. President, are forced to conduct another meeting on an issue that should have been resolved a week ago. It is a miracle that the efforts of the Permanent Representative of Qatar, Ms. Al-Thani, helped us thwart the plans of some groups in the General Assembly to make …
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for the text of the draft oral decision on the rollover of the issue of Security Council reform to the seventy- sixth session of the General Assembly. We also thank you for your leadership in the process. We believe that the accusations about you that …
Indeed, Mr. President, I would like to speak on a point of order, in order to state for the record that when you invited the representative of Brazil to speak on a point of order, I
did not interrupt my colleague Ambassador Costa Filho during his statement, out of respect. However, I want to say fo…
I will switch to English for clarity and straightforwardness. It is good that we engaged in a dialogue with the Director- General. It looks as if the Director-General came to this
meeting prepared to speak, or rather he was prepared to speak.
Today we heard from some of our colleagues that we shou…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of extending the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). Our view is that it is absolutely necessary to help Khartoum as they build their State and implement peacebuilding initiatives. What is also importan…
This is the first time since last October that the Security Council has met in order to discuss resolution 2118 (2013) in person (see S/PV.8764), and we are grateful to the Estonian presidency for that. This is yet one more step towards the return of the Security Council to its traditional methods o…
