We are grateful to Mark Lowcock and Martin Griffiths for their detailed briefings on the military, political and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen.
As we heard today, the situation in the country, especially on the humanitarian front, remains dire. In spite of the fact that the cessat…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Mr. Emilio Archila, Presidential Counsellor for Stabilization and Consolidation. We also thank Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu for presenting the Secretary- …
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing, and we also thank Ambassador Mulamula, Ms. Maite and Ms. Vilakazi for their interesting briefings. We fully support the subject that our South African friends have plac…
At the outset, I would like to welcome our colleagues and friends from South Africa as they assume the presidency of the Security Council and to wish them every success in their work during the month of October.
We support the choice of topic for today’s meeting. When we speak of the need to ensure…
Do you know what just came to mind, Mr. President? I recall that when I have heard briefings delivered by Mr. Mark Lowcock on the situation in Yemen or in Libya, the tone and submission of information on those issues was very different from what we hear when Mr. Lowcock delivers briefings on Syria. …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Middle East is at the heart of international politics and the region is plagued by a multitude of crises — old and new alike. In recent days, tensions have risen in the P…
We are delighted to see you, Mr. Minister, preside over the Security Council. We are also pleased to see Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Counsellor Archila and the entire Colombian delegation among us today. We thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Repre…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2482 (2019), prepared by Peruvian delegation, on the links between international terrorism and organized crime. We thank the authors of the document and you personally, Mr. President, for your consistent efforts to improve the Security Council’s t…
We thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock and the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, for their comprehensive overview of the military, political and humanitarian situations in the Republic of Yemen.
We support the mediation efforts of …
I should indeed like to comment on the remarks made by certain colleagues in their statements.
I will begin with my friend, Ambassador Heusgen. I do not know who told him what I said, but the way he interpreted my statement makes it clear that it was restated in an inaccurate manner. I can repeat m…
We thank the Peruvian presidency for convening today’s meeting.
I would like to begin by saying that we absolutely agree with the fact that protecting and promoting the language of a titular nation is the responsibility of all States, including Ukraine. We do not object to the Ukrainian language, w…
First of all, I would like to thank the delegation of Kuwait for its excellent leadership of the Council for the month of June. I would also like to congratulate Peru on its assumption of the presidency for this month and wish it every success.
I also welcome the new Permanent Representative of Fra…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/492) on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015) and Mr. João Vale de Almeida for his briefing. We note the work of the Permanent Representative of Belgium as Security Council Facilitator fo…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock and Mr. David Lillie for their briefings. We also thank Major General Bakin, the Head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre, for his briefing on the latest situation in Syria. I would like to note that the information provided by the Russian specialist is…
We are grateful to you, Madam President, for submitting the oral technical decision 73/554 to roll over the consideration of the reform of the Security Council to the seventy-fourth session of the General Assembly. We support its adoption.
The issue of Security Council reform is one of the most imp…
At the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, where the Charter of the United Nations was drafted, and whose seventy-fifth anniversary we will mark next year, one of the key areas of disagreement was the question of the scope of the use of the right of veto and whe…
So I now see that I have only just understood the real point of the question and the answer. It turns out that hospitals whose coordinates are known must not be bombed, but carpet bombing that wipes hospitals off the face of the earth is all right. That is how I understood my British colleague’s sta…
We listened carefully to the briefings by Under-Secretaries-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mark Lowcock. However, we would like to thank
you, Mr. President, and the humanitarian troika for convening today’s Council meeting on the situation in north-western Syria. To be frank, we were also planning to…
We would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, as well as the Force Commanders of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur and the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for their briefings on the situations in their missions. I too want to join my colleagues in ex…
We thank today’s briefers, whose work we also support, for their comprehensive overview of the situation in Yemen. The briefings we have just heard reaffirm the need for united international efforts to advance the political settlement, end the conflict and alleviate the humanitarian situation in the…
