I would first like to thank your delegation, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate, which definitely constitutes a valuable contribution to the process of reforming our peacekeeping operations and builds on other discussions that we have had in the past few months, while at the same time…
I should like to welcome Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, in his first appearance before the Security Council. We wish him a successful tenure, which would be reflected
in the future and well-being…
I will now make a statement in my national capacity.
I would first like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Modibo Touré, as well as the Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Mauro Vieira, for their briefings today.
The s…
In my capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2048 (2012), on Guinea-Bissau, I have the honour of briefing the members of the Council on the visit that I conducted to Guinea-Bissau from 13 to 15 June of this year.
The purpose of the visit was to collec…
First of all, allow me to thank Mr. Wane and Mr. Haysom and His Excellency Mr. Mogae for their briefings today.
I will be very concise because, regrettably, the situation in South Sudan has hardly changed since the Security Council addressed the issue one month ago (see S/PV.8008), which is why Uru…
I should also like to thank the Egyptian delegation for convening today’s meeting, as well as the Assistant
Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé- Brook Zerihoun, for his briefing today.
For Uruguay, it is important that the Security Council work to improve the effectiveness of United …
At the outset, let me express my congratulations to Egypt for assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of August. At the same time, we would like to thank the Chinese delegation for its excellent stewardship of the Council during the month of July. We also would like to extend our welcom…
I join with others in commending you, Sir, on convening today’s open debate.
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his detailed briefing and, as we do every month, we reiterate Uruguay’s ful…
I would like to join other speakers in thanking Mr. Wane and Mr. Mogae for their respective briefings.
As was pointed out in this Chamber last month (see S/PV.7982), it has been six years since South Sudan declared its independence, but very few celebrations have been able to take place, given the …
I join previous speakers in congratulating the Chinese presidency for organizing this debate, as well as for the concept note (S/2017/574,annex), which was circulated in a timely manner. I would like to particularly thank the Secretary-General for his statement, his detailed report (S/2017/454) and …
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the briefing he provided us on the work of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of MINUSTAH, Ms. Sandra Honoré Braithwaite,…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed; the Director-General of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Mr. José Graziano da Silva; the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Mr. Tedros…
You will no doubt notice, Mr. President, that I am very pleased today to not be speaking alone in an open meeting of the Security Council, as is usually the case. As a result, as I said, we are quite pleased to be in such good company this morning vis-à-vis our membership.
I would like to thank Mr.…
I would like to welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Ms. María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, and express on behalf of Uruguay our great satisfaction at the adoption by unanimity of resolution 2366 (2017). We also congratulate and thank the United Kingdom for the successful negotiation of t…
We too thank the delegations of the United States, Japan and Korea for having called this meeting; Mr. Jenča for his briefing; and especially you, Mr. President, not only for
your responsiveness in convening this meeting, but also for making this briefing open to the entire membership. This is too …
Since this is the final formal meeting of the Council under your stewardship, Mr. President, I thank you and would like to heartily congratulate you, on behalf of my delegation, on the excellent work you have done this month. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2017/53…
I would first like to thank Mr. O’Brien once again for his comprehensive briefing and for the years he has put in at the helm of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), working with unceasing
courage at his humanitarian task, which we would like to highlight and for which we…
First of all, I would like to thank the briefers — Ms. Nakamitsu and Mr. Ballard — for their valuable presentations. Likewise, I thank you, Sir, as President of the Council, for organizing this open debate and for providing us with a very interesting concept note, as well as the information that you…
There is no doubt that the crisis in Syria is one of the most serious topics under consideration by the Security Council. That is why my delegation, which represents an elected member of the Security Council, understands that it has a duty to share its opinion on such a grave international issue wit…
I thank all of the briefers for their contributions this morning, particularly the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, and I assure him of the full support of Uruguay in carrying out his work.
Uruguay welcomes the presentation of the second report on the im…
