We thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing.
By mere coincidence, as the Assistant Secretary- General said, even as we are discussing South Sudan, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers is also meeting in Abidjan and discussing the same mat…
We thank the Italian presidency for organizing this very timely and important debate on trafficking in persons in conflict situations. We thank the Secretary-General; the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially …
Allow me to say, quite frankly, that we do not feel that what has happened today in this Chamber has been very dignifying for the Council — the organ of the United Nations with great responsibility, the primary responsibility for international peace and security. That is perhaps a signature of the t…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. President, presiding over this meeting of the Council in a demonstration of the importance you attach to the situation in Libya. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the very humane way your country has been handling the migrant issue, for which we are very ap…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2386 (2017), extending the
mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for another six months. We thank the United States, as the penholder, for faciliating the negotiations on the resolution, as well as for the flexibility…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Tanin, for his comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in Kosovo. We also welcome the presence of the Serbian First Deputy P…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2385 (2017), renewing the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea for another year. The United Kingdom should be commended for all these efforts in facilitating the resolution and in trying to accommodate as much as possible the comments and input…
I thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu and the Head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), Mr. Edmond Mulet, for their respective briefings on the reports presented by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapo…
We express appreciation to the Italian presidency for taking the initiative to organize this briefing meeting on the activities of United Nations police forces. We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing. We are also grateful to the three Police Commissioners — from the U…
I start by vehemently condemning the terrrorist attack in New York and expressing solidarity with the United States.
As this is the first meeting of the month, I would like to congratulate Italy on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to pledge the fullest support of my dele…
We thank France and you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate, which is a demonstration of France’s commitment to this noble cause.
We also wish to express our appreciation to Sweden for its efforts as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. I want to take this opportuni…
We appreciate the French presidency for organizing this ministerial-level meeting on the situation in the States of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel). We very much appreciate the presence among us of the French Minister and his presiding over the meeting. We also welcome the participation …
I want to join you, Sir, and the representative of Italy in expressing our solidarity with Chad and in condemning the terrorist attack in northern Mali. What took place highlights the reason why the mission went to the region. It also highlights the need once again for robust international cooperati…
It is regrettable that the Council could not adopt draft resolution S/2017/884, renewing the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was created based on consensus. The reason why we voted in favour of the draft resolution is because there are still credible allegations of the use of che…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
We are meeting today only a few days after the signing of the intra-Palestinian agreement, an encouragi…
We thank Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, for his briefing to the Council.
Undoubtedly, we all agree that the situation in South Sudan continues to be of serious concern. Whatever Under-Secretary-General Lacroix has said in this regard is valid. The con…
We thank you and the French presidency, Sir, as well as the United Kingdom for organizing today’s important meeting on force generation for United Nations peacekeeping operations. It is indeed a very important matter that needs to be considered seriously by the Security Council as part of the effort…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2372 (2017), which renews the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). It is a Mission that has been playing a very vital and, so far, indispensable role in support of peace and reconciliation in Somalia. We thank the United
Kingdom f…
I would like to express appreciation to you, Mr. President, and your team for all the hard work throughout the course of this month in effectively and successfully steering the activities of the Security Council. I speak on behalf of the three African members of the Council, and would like to focus …
I thank the Egyptian presidency for organizing this open debate on the theme “United Nations peacekeeping operations: their potential contribution to the overarching goal of sustaining peace”. That is a very important theme that has not been seriously explored, and we express our appreciation to Egy…
