At the outset, I welcome the fact that today’s briefing on the report on the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) is taking place under your presidency, Mr. President. It is my great fortune to have this opportunity to pay a well-deserved tribute to your country as its mandate o…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the United States presidency for December. I wish you great success. I thank you for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on the situation in Central Africa and the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Cen…
The situation in Central Africa has remained difficult since the publication of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/521) that is before the members of the Security Council, with a number of serious threats to political, security and socioeconomic stability, including in countries affected by…
I have the honour to present the report (S/2017/465) of the Secretary-General on the situation in Central Africa and the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) . The report submitted to the Security Council today lays out the current situation with respect to pea…
Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and to express my great pleasure at being in the Chamber once again, to introduce the latest report (S/2008/733) of the Secretary-General the situation in the Central African Republic. My statement …
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for inviting me to participate in this meeting. I also thank your country for the important role it has played and continues to play in stabilizing and bringing peace to the Great Lakes region. During my four-and-a-half year tenure, which ends in a few days,…
The interest of the Nairobi summit with regard to United Nations and, more specifically, Security Council action is four-fold: historical-political, diplomatic, substantive and forward-looking.
As to the historical-political facet, the summit was the outcome of multisectoral and converging efforts …
On 20 November 2003, the Security Council held a meeting (see S/PV.4865) to consider the report of the Secretary- General on preparations for an international conference on the Great Lakes region (S/2003/1099). There have been many developments since that meeting took place. A fact sheet in that reg…
Today marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which is observed on the 29 November, as designated by the General Assembly. It is customary that on the day of observance, the Assembly takes up the item entitled “Question of Palestine”.
The President of the General Asse…
The report of the Secretary-General before the Council is based on three key ideas: the structure of the process of the organization of the conference, its dynamics and the specific role to be played by the United Nations.
With regard to the structure of the organizational process, the report stres…
Mr. President, may I first of all congratulate your country on the dynamism and the spirit of innovation with which it has contributed to the work of the Security Council in the year and a half that your country has served on the Council. The team of Singapore, under the leadership of Ambassador Mah…
“Occupation corrupts. More accurately, occupation has already corrupted us. Discrimination has become our norm and insensitivity our way of being.”
These bitterly perceptive words, it may be assumed, are hardly my own nor those of a traditional foe of Tel Aviv. It was quite simply — and this makes …
At this late hour, I shall try to confine myself to certain of the comments that have been made. I ask the indulgence of Council members in advance.
With regard to substantive matters, the question was asked whether the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa w…
As Council members may recall, the report of the Inter-Agency Mission to West Africa issued on 2 May 2001 underscored the fragility of the political, security, social and humanitarian situation, as well as the precarious governance and economic development conditions in West Africa, particularly in …
Members of the Council will recall that on 10 April, following the Mission I had the privilege of leading to West Africa, I had a first opportunity to brief the Council on that Mission and to share the details of its terms of reference, its planning, its unfolding, and its major findings.
We have o…
Since the Secretariat’s previous briefing of the Security Council, given last 22 October during informal consultations, the basic situation regarding the peace process in and around Burundi has not changed. The process remains at a very critical stage. It gives rise to little optimism, on the one ha…
