I thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his useful briefing, as well as his active and personal involvement together with his African Union (AU) Commission counterpart Ismail Chergui in the review process of the African
Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We t…
I want to thank Ambassador Kairat Umarov, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea, for his briefing and for his dedicated efforts in guiding the work of the Committee. We appreciate the outcome of his vis…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2431 (2018), renewing the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which has been playing an indispensable role in support of peace and reconciliation in Somalia. We thank the United Kingdom for its efforts as penholder
in facilitatin…
I want to more formally welcome my brother the Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire.
We are at a very critical juncture in the peace process in South Sudan. The High-Level Revitalization Forum has made notable progress and for the first time in a long while there is some hope for a possible br…
We once again thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed for her briefing. I would like to express our appreciation to her and to the President of the Council and the Chairperson the African Union for the very important mission they conducted very recently to two African countries that are among …
We are grateful to Sweden for convening this open debate and for its leadership of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. We are very glad to see you, Mr. Prime Minister, as you preside over this debate, which demonstrates the significance you attach to this important topic. We are gratef…
We welcome the Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2423 (2018), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) for another 12 months. We thank France, as the penholder, for facilitating the negotiations on the text, and we apprec…
We wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her useful briefing. I express our appreciation to her for her commitment to carrying out her heavy responsibilities since she took over her Office.
The past couple of weeks have witnessed intensive engagement on South Sudan within the f…
I wish to thank both Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura and Director Ging for their comprehensive briefings.
We all agree that only a comprehensive intra-Syrian dialogue facilitated by the United Nations, pursuant to resolution 2254 (2015), can end the Syrian crisis. In that regard, we reiterate our …
I should like to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Ambassador Karel van Oosterom and Ambassador Vale de Almeida for their briefings on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). I wish also to acknowledge the presence here with us of our colleague the Permanent Represent…
We thank the Russian presidency for organizing this important debate to allow us to discuss the situation in the Middle East and North Africa in a comprehensive manner. We are pleased to see you, Mr. Deputy Minister, presiding over this debate. We appreciate the concept paper (S/2018/524, annex) mad…
I wish to start by expressing our appreciation to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the African Union (AU) to the Central African Republic Moussa Nébié and Brigadier General Herminio Teodoro Maio for their respective briefings.
Two yea…
I would like to add a few words to what I said earlier.
First, let us not kid ourselves. There are many double standards with regard to ensuring international justice and fighting impunity. We strongly believe that the original referral was absolutely wrong. We in the region knew that was the case.…
We thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her briefing, although we take strong exception to the way she has been rather flippant in setting the tone for others to follow, in that regard, when she addresses one of the most respected African leaders in our region, whose role in bringing about peace and …
I am very pleased to be able to greet and welcome His Excellency Mr. Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali. I would also like to thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his comprehensive briefing on the activities of the United Nations Multidimensional Inte…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Fall, for his briefing on the activities of his Office and his assessment of key trends with regard to developments in the political and security situation of the Central African region. We recognize the important work carried out by …
In my statement today, I would like to address both failed draft resolutions (S/2018/516 and S/2018/520), as each has failed in a different ways. I would like to thank and express our appreciation to Ambassador Joanna Wronecka and her colleagues in the Polish mission for the excellent leadership the…
The situation in South Sudan worries all of us, in particular those of us in the region. We fully understand the gravity of the situation, and we share the pain and suffering of the South Sudanese people. However, we also know that the seemingly unsurmountable multifaceted problems facing the countr…
I would like to thank Mr. Nikolay Mladenov for his briefing.
We have been following reports of escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and of events taking place in Gaza, about which we are very concerned. It has been just two weeks since the emergency Security Council meeting (se…
We are very pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over this important meeting. We also wish to welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and of Ukraine. We thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary-General Mueller and Chief Monitor Apakan for their respectiv…
