First of all, allow me to thank the President for convening this truly important debate to receive the report (A/64/341) of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on its third session as we prepare to begin the process of reviewing that body. Secondly, I congratulate our colleague Ambassador Heraldo Muñ…
The delegation of Uruguay wishes at the outset to sincerely congratulate you, Madam President, and your team on having assumed the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. On behalf of the Group of Friends of Haiti, my delegation also wishes to congratulate the delegation of th…
On behalf of the Government of Uruguay, I associate myself with the statements made by the representatives of Mexico and Chile on behalf of the Rio Group and the Union of South American Nations, respectively.
Aware as I am of the recent events in the Republic of Honduras, I would like to express th…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for your invitation and to welcome your very timely initiative to convene a debate on the current situation of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We also thank in particular the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Under-Secretary-G…
Uruguay, as it has already indicated on previous occasions, shares the view that Security Council reform is a matter of urgency. We deem this process necessary, on one hand, in order to comply with the mandate given us by the heads of State and
Government in 2005 and, on the other, because there is…
As we express our gratitude to Ambassador Takasu for his work, we would like at the outset to stress the importance of the documents that have been submitted; the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (A/63/92) and the report on the Peacebuilding Fund (A/63/218).
In the last two years we have witn…
The delegation of Uruguay would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on convening this thematic debate today in the Council. It has made it possible for us to listen to the views of many delegations for whom the working methods of the Council is a matter of great importance. We say this in the f…
Uruguay associates itself with the statement made by the delegation of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. We welcome the initiative to organize this meeting and to invite the Secretary- General to brief the General Assembly on the revised comprehensive framework for action d…
As in previous years, Uruguay voted in favour of the draft resolution presented by the delegation of Cuba (A/65/L.3), adopted as resolution 65/6, since we consider that the embargo against that country is counter to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and that it contrav…
It is an honour for the delegation of Uruguay to speak on behalf of the MERCOSUR States: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; the acceding State the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; and the associated States Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
I would like to welcome among us the prese…
My delegation is honoured to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, the draft resolution contained in document A/63/L.10, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System”.
The Latin American Economic System (LAES) is an intergovernmental regional…
