I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening the present open debate on women and peace and security. I thank the Deputy Secretary-General, the Executive Director of UN-Women, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations and the President and Founder of Femmes Afrique Solidarit…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this important open debate on the working methods of the Security Council. We commend the Permanent Representative of Portugal, Ambassador José Filipe Moraes Cabral, for his dedicated efforts as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Ot…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this open debate and for submitting a concept note on the topic (S/2012/814, annex). We are also grateful to the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, for his briefing.
Maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea have risen si…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassadors Hardeep Singh Puri, Baso Sangqu and Peter Wittig for their briefings. We wish to express our sincere appreciation for their excellent leadership of the Security Council Committees with counter-terrorism mandates. With their wisdom, professionalism and de…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for presenting the forty-second report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (see S/2012/813). I would also like to express our full support for Mr. Inzko and his…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the presence at this meeting of the Foreign Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Luís Guterres, and to thank him for his statement. We are also grateful to the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Finn Reske-Nielsen, for his briefing and for…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Guatemalan presidency and you personally, Mr. Minister, for convening this important open debate on peace and justice and for submitting a concept note on the topic (S/2012/731, annex). We also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the Internation…
At the outset. I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Augustine Mahiga for his briefing. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for convening a successful mini-summit on Somalia in New York on 26 September. Azerbaijan joins the participants of the summit in congratu…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Sir, for organizing this debate on a very important topic. We are also grateful to the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, for his comprehensive and informative briefing.
We would like once again to express our profound concern about the lack of prog…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Guatemalan presidency of the Council for convening this meeting to hear a briefing on the current status of the work of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the completion of its mandate. We are grateful to the President of the Special Court, The Honourable…
Allow me, at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate you and the delegation of Guatemala on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I would like to assure you of our full cooperation and support. It is also my pleasure to congratulate Germany on its successful pr…
The remarks just made by the delegation of Armenia, full of distortions and misinterpretations, demonstrate how far that Member State is from engaging in a constructive search for peace in the region. In fact, the delegation of Armenia has introduced nothing new and has once again abused its right t…
I would like to speak in exercise of the right of reply to the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia today at the 19th meeting, in the Assembly’s general debate.
It is clear that the statement of the Foreign Minister of Armenia represents yet another example of utter falseho…
I should like to briefly share with the Council the reasoning behind our vote on resolution 2058 (2012).
Azerbaijan believes that achieving a mutually acceptable and comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem within the established United Nations parameters is possible and within reach. Therefo…
At the outset, I should like to thank the Colombian presidency of the Security Council and you personally, Madam Minister, for convening and presiding over this long-awaited debate on the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on its fifth session (S/2012/70). Today’s open debate
provides an …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings today. I also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/462) on the situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. I would also like to thank our colleague Ambassa…
Allow me to begin by expressing our gratitude to the Chinese presidency for convening this open debate on the crucial issue of protecting civilians in armed conflict. I would also like to extend my special thanks to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/376) and briefing, as well as to the ot…
I would like to begin by thanking the President for giving us the opportunity today to hear thought-provoking presentations from the Force Commanders, whom we warmly welcome. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for his participation and briefing.
Peacekeeping operations are a unique mechan…
I would first like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his work as Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for his comprehensive briefing on the Committee’s activities.
We note the work done so far by the Panel of Experts created pursuant to paragraph 29 of re…
At the outset, I wish to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their comprehensive briefings. We welcome the efforts of both Tribunals to ensure due and full impl…
