We are very pleased to see you, Mr. President, assuming responsibility for the
presidency. I wish to thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing, which, as always, we found to be balanced, and therefore useful. We are in need of that kind of approach. Frankly speaking, we need that v…
We once again express appreciation to the Kazakh presidency for having convened this important debate on building regional partnership in Afghanistan and Central Asia as a model to link security and development.
Coming as it does on the heels of the recent Security Council mission to Afghanistan, t…
We express our appreciation to the Kazakh presidency for organzing this high-level briefing on a very important issue, which has been at the top of the Security Council agenda for the past year. We were very pleased to see the President of Kazakhstan presiding over this meeting as the leader of a co…
We are very pleased to see Special Representative of the Secretary-General Chambas and we want to thank him for his comprehensive briefing on the situation on the situation in West Africa, the Sahel region and the Lake Chad basin, as well as the activities of the United Nations Office for West Afric…
Let me join others in expressing our thanks to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Arnault for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (S/2017/1117).
I am pleased to welcome the Vice-President of a country that is, despi…
I would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing, which, as usual, has been very useful. We also thank the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Secretary-General for their assessment report (S/2018/12) on phase one of the reconfiguration of the Afric…
At the outset, I wish to say how pleased I am to see you, Sir, assume the responsibility of the Security Council presidency. I know we can count on your wisdom.
I should also like to welcome the new members of the Council and to assure them of our readiness to work with them closely, as we did with…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2397 (2017) in response to the ballistic missile launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 28 November, in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions.
As has been repeatedly stated here in the Council, only a peaceful and diplomat…
I would like to thank the Japanese presidency for organizing this important open debate on addressing complex contemporary challenges to international peace and security. We should also commend you, Mr. President, for the very useful concept note you have made available to help us frame the debate (…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2393 (2017), renewing resolution 2165
(2014) for one year. We express appreciation to all three penholders — Egypt, Japan and Sweden — for their role in facilitating the negotiations on the resolution. The extensive consultation they held with all members and t…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing on the Secretary-General’s report (S/2017/1030). We also commend Ambassador Cardi, as the Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), for his briefing on the Facilitator’s report (S/2017/1058), and express our appreciation …
Ethiopia is a friend to both Israelis and Palestinians — we are not bashful about that, and we display it quite openly. Our position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been consistent, and, we believe principled. As much as we support the right of Israel to exist in peace and security, w…
We thank the Japanese presidency for having organized this timely and important high-level meeting on the issue of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, over which we are pleased to see you presiding, Mr. Minister. Our own Minister would have been here today had it not been for the Intergovernm…
We thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Patten for their briefings on the most recent developments in Myanmar as a follow- up to presidential statement S/PRST/2017/22, adopted last month.
The situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and the movement…
We thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for her briefing and for the efforts she has made under difficult circumstances. Notwithstanding the following remarks, we maintain very high respect for her.
Ethiopia’s position on the issue of the Sudan in the International Criminal Court (ICC) reflects that of …
The human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is indeed a source of serious concern. And we understand the relevant mechanisms established within the Human Rights Council, including the Special Rapporteur about human rights in the Democratic Republic People’s Republic of Ko…
We express our solidarity with the people and the Government of Tanzania and condemn in the strongest terms the attack that caused the deaths of so many Tanzanian peacekeepers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the wounding of even mo…
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this very important and urgent meeting and to express appreciation to those Council members who took the initiative for the meeting. We thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing.
We appreciate the statement that the Secretary- Gener…
We thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman for his briefing on the ballistic- missile test carried out yesterday by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in violation of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
For the past three months, we have been hopeful that the tension on the Kore…
We are grateful to the Italian presidency for convening this briefing upon the request of the French delegation, and we wish to thank them both. We also wish to thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi, and the Director General of the International Organization for…
