Uruguay believes that, as an elected member of the Security Council, it is part of its duty to share with the overall membership its views on the various items considered by the Council.
I thank Mr. Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his comprehensive briefing …
Allow me to thank you, Sir for organizing this open debate and the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. We reiterate once again Uruguay’s total support for his efforts.
In 1947, the General Assembly, including Uruguay, adopted resolution 18…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. We also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his efforts, which we support.
The Secretary-General summarized the past decade for us, during which unfortunately little has improved in the…
Draft resolution A/71/L.42, entitled “The new United Nations approach to cholera in Haiti”, is submitted by Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti. The Group comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Peru, the United States of America, Venezuela and my coun…
I am particularly pleased to hear so many members of the Council speak in the Spanish language, including in the statement by our Ukrainian colleague.
At the outset, I congratulate on Spain on its leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and on holding today’s deba…
I wish to thank you, Mr. Minister, in your capacity as President of the Security Council, first of all for your initiative in bringing this issue before the Council, and I wish to thank the briefers for their valuable presentations.
Uruguay reiterates once again its firm condemnation of terrorism. …
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, for their briefings.
Uruguay does not recognize limitations as to where human rights should be discussed. The protection of human rights is one of the pillars of t…
I should like to reiterate Uruguay’s steadfast commitment to the work of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and to upholding the principle of independence of justice. My…
I will be very brief. My delegation voted in favour of a draft resolution (S/2016/1026) that we thought was highly inadequate. Uruguay understands that the solution to the crisis in Syria requires an immediate and unconditional ceasefire throughout the country. The draft resolution was very far from…
I, too, should like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Mr. Stephen O’Brien and Mr. Cappelaere for their tireless work.
Let me be slightly cynical today and say that we have come to this meeting and have heard more of the same, just worse. We are continuing our discussions as bombs continue to rain do…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov and Mr. O’Brien for their testimony, which is considerably more than briefings, being testament to something that we cannot even describe as déjà vu, since déjà vu implies a static situation. The current situation is not static; it is simply deteriorating.
We lis…
I thank you, Mr. President, for being here today among us and for your thoughts on the topic that we are addressing
here today. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General, as well as Ms. Beerli, Mr. Türk and Mr. Waslekar, for their in-depth and provocative briefings.
Uruguay is taking part in this…
From month to month, Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien brings to our attention the daily horror in Syria, the daily horror that the civilian population faces — the
children, the elderly, the sick. We thank Stephen for his briefing, a monthly briefing which is always painful to hear. I would a…
I would like to thank and commend Senegal for having taken the initiative to facilitate this briefing on the cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), focused on the area of countering extremist ideologies. We are also very grateful to you, Mr. Preside…
I confess that I am very pleased to see that a number of delegations will be accompanying me in making official statements before the Council. Without prejudice to the statements that they might want to make in the informal
consultations. I understand that making statements in public contributes to…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing. I also thank the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, and Ms. Vlora Çitak…
We again welcome the presence of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, and express our appreciation for her briefing on the twelfth annual report on the situation in Libya in accordance with resolution 1970 (2011).
We reiterate the full support of Uruguay for the w…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Kubis, for his briefing. Uruguay acknowledges his challenging work and that of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, which, working in close coordination with the Iraqi Government, is carrying out the important task of ad…
First of all, I would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his briefing this morning.
I would like to begin by highlighting Uruguay’s adherence to the principle of the territorial integrity of States, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nation…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I also
thank the briefers for their presentations: Mr. Eliasson, Ms. Jean, Mr. Laborde. Mr. Fedotov and Mr. Boutellis.
There can be no doubt that in recent times peacekeeping operations find themselves deployed in increasingly complex theatres…
