Allow me to begin by thanking the Argentine delegation for steering the work of the Council during the month of August and to congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of September. My delegation also thanks you for your informative briefing and your work at the …
At the outset, we would like to thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting, as well as to congratulate the United Kingdom on the successful holding of the London Conference on Somalia on 7 May. We also thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson for his statement. Weare honoured by th…
We would like Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her seventeenth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
As indicated in paragraph 2 of that resolution, the Government of the Sudan and all the parties involved in the situation in Darfur must cooper…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the President of the Republic of Togo for attending the beginning of today’s meeting, as well as his senior Minister. That is a sign of the political support that their Administration attaches to our work. We also commend the outstanding work done by Am…
We thank the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for 2012, for having presented the report of the Peacebuilding Commission on its sixth session (A/67/715). We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Croatia,…
My delegation is grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abou Moussa, for his presentation updating us on the most recent developments and for the recently circulated report of the Secretary-Genera…
Allow me to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank him for his report (see S/2012/813).
We regret that the optimistic landscape of May has been overshadowed by ill-timed actions and rhetoric. We believe that it is vital that the international presen…
At the outset, allow me to welcome to the Council the Minister of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Luís Guterres. His statement today was very encouraging. We also thank Mr. Finn Reske-Nielsen, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of t…
We would like to thank Germany for organizing this open debate. We acknowledge its leadership as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and on resolution 2068 (2012), which we have adopted today. We appreciate the presence of Ms. Leila Zerrougui and her briefing to us, and we take…
I thank Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe for his briefing.
The situation in the Sahel region was of great concern to my delegation even before the impact of the Libyan crisis last year. We therefore welcome the initiative of the Secretary-General to dispatch a mission to th…
We are pleased to participate in this important debate. I would like to thank President Cavaco Silva of Portugal for being here this morning. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Office for the Coordination o…
Allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. We also thank Ms. Hoppe for her briefing on the report of the Secretary-General.
This debate — which is not the first to be held by Security Council on this topic — is of particular importance in light of the upcoming Third Bienn…
Guatemala firmly supports the draft resolution on peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula (A/62/L.4) submitted jointly by the two countries and we are pleased to reiterate our support, as we did for resolution 55/11 of 31 October 2000.
We were pleased to see the outcome of the sum…
Allow me to begin by thanking the Secretary- General for the report that forms the basis of today’s debate, as contained in document A/62/325 and entitled “Sport for development and peace: progress and prospects”.
We also welcome the efforts of Mr. Adolf Ogi, Special Adviser to the Secretary-Genera…
As a multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic country, Guatemala wishes to express its great pleasure at the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Today, a 20-year struggle has come to an end with the adoption of a text acceptable to a majority of Member…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for following the usual practice of holding two thematic debates annually on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Allow me also to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for …
First of all, I wish to endorse the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Cuba, who spoke in this debate on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. We would like to supplement his statement with a few additional thoughts on these two items, which are of great importance, and to reiterate our…
We believe that it is essential to review the progress made in providing assistance to least developed countries (LDCs), so as to be able to address their needs more effectively in the five remaining years of the Brussels Programme of Action.
We are grateful for the report of the Secretary- General…
We are gratified to be able to attend the second open debate convened during your presidency this month, Madam, to follow up on the topic of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and in particular the implementation of resolution 1674 (2006), adopted only two months ago today.
We are grate…
My delegation wishes to explain its vote on the fourth preambular paragraph of draft resolution I. Guatemala voted against the retention of the fourth preambular paragraph because we believe that its content neither contributes nor is relevant to the aim of the resolution just adopted.
Guatemala vo…
