Allow me to begin by thanking all the briefers who spoke this morning. I would like to pay particular tribute to Ms. Audrey Azoulay, who has been appointed the new Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
According to the agenda, this will be the las…
Uruguay has always expressed its desire for most of the meetings of the Council to be held in an open format, whenever possible. That is why we are especially grateful to the presidency for making today’s meeting public and open to the full membership. This is a topic of utmost importance for all of…
I, too, would like to thank the Italian presidency for convening today’s briefing. My thanks also go to our briefers, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, and the Police Commissioners of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for your initiative and your presence here today to preside over our meeting.
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I would also like to thank Secretary-General Guterres; Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, in his capacity as Chair of the Group of …
I would like to thank France for organizing today’s debate on an issue on which, as has already been said, much remains to be done. We also grateful for the participation of and statements by Chef de Cabinet Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti; Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN-Women; Ms. …
Uruguay thanks the International Court of Justice and its President, Judge Ronny Abraham, for his presentation (see A/72/PV.34).
The International Court of Justice, as one of the principal organs of the United Nations, is the body charged with imparting justice in this area, not only between those …
We are in a typical pattern whereby we are usually just about the only ones to take the floor during open meetings. I would like to congratulate you, Sir, for holding today’s open briefing. We had spent far too long in a closed format in the little room next to the Chamber, where not very much happe…
It is said that humans are the only animals that trip over the same stone twice. In 2016, we had a situation in which the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was about to expire. There were doubts about its continuation. There was a brief rollover of its mandate and finally, in Novemb…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, and I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Miroslav Jenča, for his detailed briefing.
When we are at the end of the list of speakers, I …
At the outset, I thank the Under-Secretary-General for
Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, for his briefing, which gives us a comprehensive overview of the most recent events in South Sudan.
I would like to underscore a few points that I believe are important.
First, we continue to …
I would first like to thank the Secretary-General for his presence and his briefing, especially for the clarity of his message and proposal.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-eastern Nigeria is certainly alarming. The crises in those regions are concentrated in fra…
I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his report of 5 October on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) (S/2017/840) and the Special Representative, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her briefing.
Uruguay associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representativ…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, one year after the Security Council adopted resolution 2309 (2016). I also welcome the presence and participation of the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Ms. Fang Liu, and thank our colleague Ambassador…
We express our gratitude to Special Envoy De Mistura and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Lowcock for their comprehensive briefings. It is a pleasure to see Mr. De Mistura here again. We welcome Mr. Lowcock on the Security Council for the first time. …
We commend the presence in this Chamber of a number of Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Ministers. We also extend our greetings to Ms. Nadia Murad, to whom we pay heartfelt tribute for her dignity and courage. We thank the United Kingdom and Iraq for their leadership in negotiating resolutio…
The adoption of a resolution by the Security Council is in no way extraordinary. What is extraordinary today is the peace process that the Colombian people are pursuing. This is a real example to the world of commitment to peace undertaken by leaders who once were in conflict with one another, and w…
Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2375 (2017) and welcomes its unanimous adoption. In the 21 months that we have been a member of the Security Council, this is the fifth resolution we have adopted to impose sanctions on North Korea. This is also the fifth time that my delegation has stressed tha…
The seriousness of the item under consideration notwithstanding, I would like to express my delegation’s congratulations to you, Mr. President, upon your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council,
as well as to thank Egypt for carrying out its duties as President of the Council during th…
My delegation voted in favour of resolution 2373 (2017), which we just adopted. As a troop-contributing country to peacekeeping operations, Uruguay has always endeavoured to ensure that missions are able to discharge their mandates, achieve their objectives and carry out the duties entrusted to them…
During the past 20 months as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, I believe that I have already said on other occasions that it is always difficult to listen to the words of Mr. Stephen O’Brien because he confronts us with the uncomfortable reality of the horrors of war with absolute and …
