We thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing on the political situation in Burundi. We have always valued the contribution of the Special Envoy. We also commend Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi configura…
I wish to express my appreciation to Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her briefing. We are indeed very pleased to see Mr. Maman Sidikou in his new capacity and we thank him for sharing the perspective of the States members of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel). We are also grateful to …
We thank Special Representative Ghassan Salamé for his comprehensive briefing. We appreciate the very good work that he is doing and the close working relationship he has established with the African Union. We want to see this continue. Looking back, one can see how useful it is to take into account…
My delegation would like to express its deep appreciation to the Polish presidency for organizing this high-level open debate, and we are pleased that the President of Poland presided over the start of the meeting.
We thank the Chef de Cabinet and Judges Owada and Meron for their informative briefi…
I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing. We have been following the escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and the high number of Palestinians killed and injured in the Gaza protests. Let me join others in expressing our deepest sorrow and sympathy for the …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Zahir Tanin, for his comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in Kosovo. I welcome the presence of Serbian First Deputy Prime Min…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and all the Force Commanders for their respective briefings on the main challenges in today’s peacekeeping operations. I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the brave men and women who are serving in different peacekeeping missions ar…
I would like to express our appreciation to Special Coordinator Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, which was, as always, very helpful. We appreciate how difficult it is for Mr. Mladenov to discharge his responsibilities in…
Let me begin by thanking the Peruvian presidency for organizing this important high-level briefing. We are pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over this meeting.
I would like to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (S/2018/43) two years after the tw…
Let me say how heartbroken we are to learn of the passing of our dear friend and brother, Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations. We thank you, Sir, for arranging the minute of silence in his memory and for your remarks on our behalf.
The depart…
We would like to explain why we abstained in the voting on the draft resolution proposed by Russia (S/2018/355). We abstained not because the text does not contain a great deal of truth — indeed it does — or because it does not adhere to principles to which we should all adhere; it does. We abstaine…
I would like to thank the Peruvian presidency for responding quickly to the request for the holding of this meeting, and we would like to express our appreciation to Russia for making the request. It would have been a serious dereliction of duty on the part of the Council if it had failed to meet in…
We thank the Secretary- General for his briefing and deeply appreciate his efforts to weigh in on the grave challenge that we are facing, in order to ensure that what should and must be avoided will not happen because of miscalculation or a lack of thoughtfulness or of appreciation for the tremendou…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassador Llorentty Solíz for his briefing and commending him and Bolivia for their efforts in steering the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). They deserve our praise.
Ethiopia welcomes the progress made in the implementation of …
I wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mahamat Saleh Annadif and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2374 (2017) concerning Mali, Ambassador Olof Skoog, for their comprehensive briefings on the activities of the United Nations Multidimensional Integ…
We voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2018/322) because we saw value in its adoption as it offered, we thought, the possibility for the protection of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact-finding Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic. Frankly, we tried to find weaknesse…
It is indeed regrettable that the Council could not adopt a resolution to establish a new mechanism that would identify those responsible
for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Establishing such a tool would have sent a quick and unified message regarding the resolve of the Council not to tolera…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2410 (2018) renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH). It is unfortunate that the resolution could not be adopted by consensus, no doubt for good reason. We had hoped that some of the concerns expressed on the dr…
I wish to thank Special Envoy Said Djinnit for his comprehensive briefing on the general situation in the Great Lakes region over the past six months. I would also like to thank Ambassador Balé, Permanent Representative of the Congo, for his presence in the Chamber today and for his very useful stat…
We would like to thank Special Envoy De Mistura and Mr. Thomas Markram for their briefings.
Reports of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma on Saturday and the videos and pictures that we saw through media outlets are indeed very worrisome. It is also deeply disturbing that such reports of …
