I thank the Secretary- General for his remarks and for his report (S/2011/598*). I also warmly welcome to the Council Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, President of the Economic and Social Council, and Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN-Women, and thank them for their briefings. Let me also…
Let me join previous speakers in expressing our sympathy and solidarity to the Turkish people and Government for the tragic loss of lives caused by the earthquake that struck eastern Turkey, and to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the passing of Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
I thank Under-Secr…
You honour us, Mr. President, with your presence in the Council today. I congratulate your delegation for convening this debate and express our appreciation for the useful concept note on security sector reform (SSR) (S/2011/627, annex). I am grateful to Under-Secretary- General Ladsous for his brie…
I wish to congratulate you, Madame President, on assuming the presidency of the Council, and to pledge our full support to you. I would also like to express our appreciation to Ambassador Nawaf Salam of Lebanon and his team for their excellent conduct of our work in September.
Brazil stands in soli…
I am pleased to welcome Mr. Zalmai Rassoul and I would like to thank him for his statement. I thank Special Representative Staffan de Mistura for his briefing and for his extraordinary leadership at the helm of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
I wish to express Brazil’s…
I would like to thank Ambassador Mariano Fernandez Amunategui for his very comprehensive briefing. Brazil commends his much appreciated work to assist Haiti in its efforts towards enhanced stability and concrete progress in key political, economic, social and institutional objectives.
As the Secret…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Ali, Prime Minister of Somalia, and thank him for his presentation. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Augustine Mahiga for briefing us on the latest developments in Somalia, and I…
Let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on Lebanon’s assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of September, and offer you our best wishes. At the same time, I would like to thank Ambassador Puri and his team for their very competent conduct of our work in the month of August.
I als…
I would like to start by paying special tribute to Mr. Alain le Roy. Faced with demanding and difficult tasks, he has done an extraordinary job. Brazil greatly appreciates his work in general, but I would like to make particular reference to his constant and very constructive interaction with troop-…
It is a pleasure to welcome you, Mr. President, and to see you presiding over today’s meeting. I thank Special Coordinator Robert Serry for his briefing, and the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements.
We meet again to discuss the situation i…
I thank the Secretary-General for being with us today and for his
remarks. I would like to welcome Mr. Achim Steiner and to thank him for his very interesting briefing. Brazil associates itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and Ch…
On behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, I have the honour to express our warmest welcome to the Republic of South Sudan as the 193rd Member of the United Nations. We extend our greetings at this historic meeting to His Excellency Mr. Riek Machar Teny-
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I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on convening this important debate. I thank the Secretary-General for his remarks, and I am also grateful to Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy and to Mr. Anthony Lake for their presentations today and for their invaluable work on this important issue.
Shielding childre…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing and his outstanding work in very difficult conditions. I also thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement.
Although the situation in Afghanistan has shown progress, the recent rise in security i…
I am pleased to brief the Security Council in my capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission. I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Aristides Ocante da Silva, Minister of National Defence of Guinea-Bissau, and to His Excellency Mr. Manuel Domingos Aug…
Mr. President, Brazil welcomes your initiative of holding this important debate. We welcome also the presence of the President of Nigeria, the Deputy President of South Africa and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France. I should like to thank the Secretary- General for his statement and to congr…
I wish to thank the French delegation for having organized today’s very timely debate. I wish to also thank the Secretary-General and Minister Raymond Tshibanda for their statements.
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Through Minister Tshibanda, I would like to commend the Government of the Democratic Republic of…
Let me join previous speakers in thanking Under-Secretary-General Susana Malcorra, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana for their valuable presentations. We appreciate the comprehensive review undertaken by the Senior Advisory Group on post- conflict civilian capacities, and …
I welcome His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, and thank him for his statement. I also thank Special Representative Lamberto Zannier for his briefing and Mr. Enver Hoxhaj for his remarks.
Stability in the Balkans remains an important goal. We conti…
We commend the French presidency for holding today’s important debate. We are grateful to Under-Secretaries-General Valerie Amos and Alain Le Roy and Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Šimonović for their presentations. We welcome the opportunity for the Council to exchange views with the wider member…
