I would like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, Mr. Guido Westerwelle, for convening this important debate, and to congratulate his delegation on assuming the presidency of the Security Council during the month of July and the chairmanship of the Working Group on Children and Arme…
The Mexican delegation would like to welcome the adoption of the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. We wish to acknowledge the work of all the delegations and the fact that a consensus was reached.
We believe it is very important that the final text includes sections that express the fundamental co…
The Government of Mexico reiterates its energetic condemnation of the violence that has been used in Libya to repress peaceful demonstrations, as well as the extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate attacks on the population, and grave and systematic violations of human rights in that country. Full …
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for presenting the report (S/2010/630) and for his strong commitment to the peace, stability and development of the country. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of …
In keeping with the established practice concerning the end of the term of office of elected members of the Security Council, I should like to share my impressions and assessments on the work I have carried out at the helm of the subsidiary bodies over which I have presided in the course of my count…
I would like first of all to congratulate you, Madame President, your delegation, and Ambassador Susan Rice on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of December. We also wish to express our appreciation to the delegation of the United Kingdom for its excellent work in the pr…
At the outset, I wish to thank you and your delegation, Mr. President, for having organized this timely debate on the Sudan, which is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive topics on the agenda of the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General and former President Thabo Mbeki for the informatio…
In addition to the information presented in the joint
briefing that was presented by our colleague from Austria, I am pleased, in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), to summarize the main developments in the work of the Committee since the last j…
I would like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his briefing. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign affairs of Serbia, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, and that of Mrs. Vlora Çitaku.
Mexico recognizes the important work car…
At the outset, allow me to thank the President of the Assembly for having organized this joint debate, which provides Member States with an opportunity to address both the content of the annual report of the Security Council (A/65/2), of which Mexico has been an elected member since 2009, and the re…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Mr. Nebojša Radmanović, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would also like to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Special Representative of the European Union for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to tha…
Mexico fully aligns itself with the statements made by the delegation of the Netherlands on behalf of several States and by the delegation of Australia on behalf of those countries participating in the initiative on disarmament and non-proliferation.
Mexico also welcomes the action taken by the Sec…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ameerah Haq, for her briefing today and for her commitment to fulfilling her mandate. We would also like to thank Ambassador Borges, Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste, for her contribution.
I believ…
I thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for the briefing he has given us, as well as the representatives of Israel and the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine for their statements.
For decades, the international community has witnessed wars, tension and violence in the Middle East, quite often without ha…
We thank you, Mr. President, and your delegation for having organized this meeting. We welcome the statements by the Secretary-General and Ambassador Wittig, Permanent Representative of Germany, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission.
My delegation acknowledges the value of …
We thank Ambassador Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, for his briefing and for his commitment to peace and stability in Afghanistan. We also thank Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, to whose statement we listened attent…
Let me begin by conveying the warm congratulations of the delegation of Mexico to Mr. Joseph Deiss on his election as President of the General Assembly at this new session. I also wish to express our appreciation to
his predecessor, Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, for his work, and our appreciation and s…
Thank you, Mr. President, for those kind words. And I wish to thank you, Minister Davutoğlu, and your delegation for the initiative of holding this important debate. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for the information he has provided to the Council.
Numerous attacks and recent failed att…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine Mahiga, for the valuable information he has provided, and we welcome him to the Council. We also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, Mr. Moses Wetangula, and the Permanent Representative of…
We thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this meeting. We thank Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, and the commanders of the peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Sudan and of the United Nations Truce Sup…
