At the outset, allow me to express our gratitude to you, Sir, for convening and presiding over this important meeting. We are also grateful to Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson for his comprehensive briefing and presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/326). I should also like…
I would like to express our gratitude to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abou Moussa, for his
comprehensive briefing. We commend the efforts of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to contribute to peace and security in Central Africa and its increa…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for presenting the forty- third report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2013/263, annex).
We note that the security situation in the country continued to…
At the outset, I would like to express our gratitude to you, Sir, for convening and presiding and over this important meeting to discuss the existing challenges of the fight against terrorism in Africa. During its term in the Council, Togo has been a vocal proponent of the goal of advancing peace an…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassadors Kim Sook, Gary Quinlan and Mohammed Loulichki for their briefings and extensive updates on actions taken over the past six months. We are grateful for their excellent work and leadership of the Security Council Committees with counter-terrorism mandates.…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to discuss the report of the Peacebuilding Commission on its sixth session (S/2013/63). We also express our appreciation to the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Mr. Abulkalam Abdul Momen, for his excellent lea…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this open debate on women and peace and security. I also thank the Secretary-General, his Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the representative of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security for th…
I would like to start by expressing our gratitude to the Rwandan presidency of the Security Council for organizing this important meeting to discuss the ways of addressing the root causes of conflicts in Africa. I would also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Ambassador Tekeda Alemu for…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for presenting the report (S/2013/72) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Serbian Prime Mini…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his recent report (S/2013/139) on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and to the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Fisher, for his briefing. I would also like to commend the United Nations Stabilization M…
I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the Secretary-General for his briefing and recent report (S/2013/133) on the situation in Afghanistan and the current activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I also thank Ambassador Tanin of Afghanistan for his s…
I would like to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his work as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for his presentation of the 90-day report of the Committee.
The Committee received from Member States a number of communications on actions taken …
I would like to thank the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Catherine Ashton, for her statement, insights and analysis on a number of contemporary challenges to global peace and security.
The establishment of international peace and security…
I should like briefly to share with the Council the reasoning behind our abstention in the voting on resolution 2089 (2013).
We would like to express our gratitude to the delegation of the United Kingdom for its leadership and efforts in facilitating the negotiations on the resolution. Azerbaijan f…
I apologize to the Assembly, but it was not I who initiated this polemic. I did not plan to do so, but I have a moral duty to respond when my country is confronted by such a flood of lies and slander about it. In typical fashion, Armenia is doing all it can to turn things on their head and falsify t…
I would like to speak in exercise of my right of reply in order to shed some light on the remarks just made by the representative of Armenia.
I would first like to remind those present that on 10 December, resolution 67/109, which the Assembly has just adopted by consensus, was submitted for inform…
On behalf of its sponsors, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/67/L.27, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development — GUAM”.
GUAM, the Organization for Democracy …
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, for her briefing and for presenting the sixteenth report of the Prosecutor to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005).
Azerbaijan is not party to the Rome Statute of the Internat…
I would like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his work as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for his presentation of the 90-day report of the Committee covering the period from 13 September to 4 December.
During the reporting period, the …
Mr. President, at the outset, allow me to congratulate the delegation of Morocco on its assumption of the presidency of the Council. I take this opportunity to assure you of our full support and to wish you every success in your important work.
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I would also like to express our a…
