As this will be the last time that my delegation takes the floor during the Russian presidency of the Security Council, let me thank you, Sir, and your entire team for guiding our work in a month that has been particularly challenging. Allow me in particular to highlight your careful and balanced wo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and the Secretary-General for his briefing. We fully share his concern about the situation of the International Criminal Court. I would like to thank our briefers, Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzha, Mr. Rashid Alimov and Mr. Sergey Ivanov, for their statemen…
At the outset, I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
Frankly, this is the type of statement that I would prefer not to have to make — in the first place because the embargo is still in place, but also because for more than 30 years I have …
First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2016/873) and Under-Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his briefing, even if it leaves us more anguished than before.
Our delegation once again takes the floor in the understanding that it is our responsibility, as elect…
I would like to thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for their briefings. I take this opportunity to reiterate Uruguay’s full support for Mr. Mladenov in his work.
Uruguay has …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/753).
We align ourselves with the statement to be made by the representative of Peru on behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti.
My country conveys it…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Maman Sidikou, for having introduced the report of the Secretary-General on the
situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2016/833).
I should like also to thank Mr. Sidikou’s entire team, as well as…
In this very Chamber, we have already said that we are pained by the situations in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan and in all other parts of the world where the civilian population is subject to the brutalities of war. We have also said in this very Chamber that, as we give speeches, we are pained by the …
I have requested the floor in the understanding that these informational briefings for the members of the Security Council could also benefit from members expressing their opinions, without prejudice to the consultations that will follow, where we can address issues that require greater confidential…
Today brought us the terrible news of the death of Shimon Peres, to whom we pay deep and sincere tribute. A couple of hours later, we learned of renewed bombings of hospital installations in Aleppo. It would seem that this is a without end tragedy. The five pages of resolution 2286 (2016) apparently…
My delegation has asked for the floor in the belief that today’s meeting is informative not just for the Security Council but for the membership in general. As an elected, non-permanent member of the Council, we feel that it is up to us to share the information with the membership that elected us — …
As we talk here, bombs continue to fall in Aleppo. Children continue to die. Women continue to die. The elderly continue to die. Civilian protection, which we always claim to be a State’s primary responsibility, does not seem that be much in practice today when we consider the intensification of eve…
My delegation thanks the delegation of the United Kingdom for its work in leading the negotiations on the drafting of
resolution 2307 (2016), which we adopted today in the belief that it will help to consolidate and strengthen peace at this hopeful stage for Colombia. Uruguay commends the Governmen…
I would first like to thank the President for convening today’s meeting on such an important topic.
I would like to begin by reaffirming that Uruguay, as a troop-contributing country with a long history of involvement in various peacekeeping operations, considers combating cases of sexual exploitat…
Uruguay voted in favour of resolution 2304 (2016), aware of the grave humanitarian, human rights and security situation resulting from the profound political crisis in South Sudan, for which the country’s main political and military leaders are responsible. Violations of human rights in South Sudan …
Uruguay participated actively in the drafting of resolution 2303 (2015) and commends the dedication and patient work of the penholder in the drafting of the text, which we have just adopted. In drafting the text, we were fundamentally motivated by the urgent need to address the grave humanitarian si…
My delegation should like once again to call the Security Council’s attention to the procedures and time frames in which draft resolutions are circulated to the Council for its consideration. Resolution 2302 (2016), of which my delegation voted in favour, was circulated by the penholder for the firs…
I wish to thank the delegation of Japan for having convened this open debate and also for the concept note (S/2016/586, annex). I wish also to thank the Secretary-General, Ambassador Amina Mohamed and Ambassador Smail Chergui for their respective statements today.
Uruguay deems it important to main…
I would like to begin by saying that I think Mr. Van Bohemen has just stated the points that we wanted to make much more eloquently than I can, and I fully support his statement. However, in order to enjoy my 15 minutes of fame, I shall deliver my statement anyway.
My delegation associates itself f…
On behalf of my delegation, allow me, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the precedency of the Security Council for the month of July and to thank France for having guided our work during the month of June. We also thank you for having convened this open debate on the situation in the Mi…
