Let me begin by thanking the Kingdom of Morocco for its condolences on yesterday’s tragic air crash in Pakistan.
Pakistan welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2043 (2012), which builds on resolution 2042 (2012) and earlier agreements of the Council. Today we have taken another significant …
We thank the United States of America for convening this meeting and we take note of the briefing by the Secretary-General.
Pakistan is fully committed to nuclear security. We are active participants in global nuclear security efforts and in the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency …
Today is indeed an important day for the peaceful resolution of the situation in Syria. It is also proof that the Security Council can indeed come together to fulfil its role in the global scheme of things. We are deeply appreciative of the spirit of accommodation exhibited by all Security Council m…
We thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his briefing to the Council this morning. Allow me to take this first opportunity as a new Council member to offer our perspective on the various Security Council resolutions relating to Iran and on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 17…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate. We commend you for your able stewardship of the Council. We are grateful to Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement. We also thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Ján Kubiš for his presentation to the Security Council…
We warmly felicitate the delegation of the United Kingdom on its assumption of the Security Council’s presidency for this month. We welcome you, Sir, as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom. We also thank Togo for its sterling stewar…
We thank the delegation of Togo for organizing this meeting on an issue of key importance to the States of West and Central Africa. Our thanks also go to Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the situation of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. We are also grateful to Mr. Abdel Fatau Musah and Mrs. Florenti…
Spawned by misanthropism, sexual or gender-based violence in any form and in any society is reprehensible. Such crimes assume a more sinister dimension when employed as tactics of war and tools of humiliation during armed conflicts. All parties to a conflict have the moral and legal responsibility t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for holding this debate on Timor-Leste. We join other Council members in welcoming His Excellency Mr. José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste, to the Security Council. I would also like to offer heartfelt condolences upon the demise of his brother-in-law. We also thank…
The Pakistani delegation thanks the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Executive Director of the United Nations
Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for their briefings.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is a serious problem that threatens maritime traffic in the Horn of Africa, endange…
I would like to join the other speakers in thanking Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland and Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), for his comprehensive briefing on the programme of work of t…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Edmond Mulet for his briefing on Kosovo for the period from October 2011 to January 2012. We would also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia, and Mr. Enver Hoxhaj for their statements. We also note the participation of the Spec…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing on the report of the assessment mission to the Sahel (S/2012/42). The report provides a basis for discussing the challenges facing the region in the aftermath of the Libyan crisis.
Pakistan is extremely concerned at the repo…
Pakistan welcomes this debate and is grateful to the South African presidency for its initiative. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict
societies (S/2011/634*), and for his statement this morning.
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We thank you, Madam, for convening this meeting. We welcome the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Kenya and the Minister of Defence of Uganda, and thank them for their statements. We also welcome the Foreign Minister of Uganda, and thank the Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs and the Af…
We congratulate you, Mr. President and your team for ably guiding the work of the Security Council for the month of December, and we thank you for convening today’s debate. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for his briefing.
Pakistan greatly values the role of the United Na…
We align ourselves with the statement made by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The twentieth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 46/182 provides us with a vantage point for evaluating both the performance of the humanitarian framework established by that…
We wish to felicitate His Excellency Mr. Ombeni Sefue, Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania, and His Excellency Mr. Alexander Lomaia, Permanent Representative of Georgia, on their appointment as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembl…
The Pakistan delegation felicitates you, Mr. President, for your excellent stewardship of the Security Council. We also congratulate Ambassador Joy Ogwu and the Permanent Mission of Nigeria for their successful presidency of the Council during October 2011.
We are grateful to the Chairs of the Comm…
We thank you, Mr. President, for the initiative to hold separate debates on the report of the Security Council and on the reform of the Council. It will facilitate fuller consideration of each item.
We thank the presidency of Portugal for presenting the Council’s report (A/66/2) to the General Asse…
