Allow me to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of August, and by thanking Ambassador Joy Ogwu and the Nigerian delegation for their work over the past month. I thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secreta…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements.
The events that have taken place in recent weeks confirm once again that the internatio…
We are thankful to you, Mr. Minister, and to your delegation for taking the initiative of holding a thematic debate on a subject that is of great importance on the international peace and security agenda. We are likewise grateful for the statements by Deputy Secretary-General Migiro and Ms. Cliffe, …
I would like to thank you, Madam President, and the delegation of Nigeria for convening this debate. I would also like to express my gratitude for the briefings by Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, Under-Secretary-General Holmes and High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay, which have once again serv…
We welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey and appreciate the briefing that Mr. Fernandez-Taranco presented to us.
We are dismayed and surprised by the grave events that took place along the coasts of the Mediterranean off the Gaza Strip today. We condemn in the strongest…
We highly appreciate your presence in the Security Council today, Sir, and thank the Government of Lebanon for its initiative of organizing this important meeting of the Council, at which we have the opportunity to reflect on a topic that is and should be of particular importance to the Organization…
At the outset, I too would like to welcome among us Mr. Haris Silajdžić, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank them for their stat…
We welcome the presence of President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti. We welcome his initiative to address the Security Council. We feel that it is extremely valuable for the Security Council to obtain directly from the region’s leaders the information and inputs it needs to shape it…
We welcome Mr. Abdurahman Ibrahim, First Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, and his delegation, as well as Ambassador Lamamra, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union. We listened very carefully to their briefings. We once again appreciate the valuable information provided by Special…
I wish at the outset to welcome Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, and to thank her for the information she has shared with us. I also thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria for his statement here today.
Of late, our debat…
Mexico joined the consensus on resolution 1920 (2010), which we have just adopted, thus expressing our support to the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and the steps taken by the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General to find a final solution to the question of W…
At the outset, I, too, should like to join in condolences to the Government and the people of China for the earthquake that they suffered today.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, and the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Perma…
We are very grateful to you, Sir, and your delegation for having convened this timely open debate on illicit arms trafficking and its impact on peace and security in Central Africa. We welcome this opportunity for the
Security Council to consider the pernicious effects of that criminal activity, wh…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his introduction of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2010/127). I should also like to thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan,
for his statement today. I would also…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for their briefings. We welcome the convening of this informative meeting, which is particularly timely in view of the challenges raised by what are called new threats to i…
We too wish to thank the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor- Leste, Mr. José Luis Guterres, for his presence and for his statement to the Council on the situation in his country. My delegation is also grateful for the briefing by the Special Representative for Timor-Leste, Ms. Ameerah Haq. We want to we…
We are grateful for the presentations of the Secretary-General, Under-Secretaries-General Alain Le Roy and Susana Malcorra, Special Representatives Alan Doss and Ellen Margrethe Løj. We are also grateful to have Executive Representative Michael Von der Schulenburg in the Council today. Mexico welcom…
My delegation wishes in turn to welcome Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, and to thank him for the information he has shared with us on cooperation between the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations and on the priorities he i…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his very comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements.
Our debate falls on International Holocaust Remembra…
Once more, we reiterate our deep condolences to the Government and the people of Haiti and to the United Nations family on the loss of life, the injuries and the damage they have suffered. We convey our condolences to all the Governments that, like ours, suffered loss of human life.
As we have indi…
