My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your comprehensive briefing and for the excellent work that you have been doing as Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We also wish to thank you for your…
I should like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ambassador Zahir Tanin, his comprehension briefing on the latest development in Kosovo. Obviously, Ambassador Tanin, and old colleague, faces a …
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his briefing on activities that have been undertaken over the past two months since the adoption of resolution 2359 (2017) to operationalize the joint force of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel). As usual, it was a very comprehensiv…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2371 (2017), condemning in the strongest terms the continuing ballistic-missile tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in violation of various Security Council resolutions. The step taken today, imposing additional sanctions measu…
We express appreciation to the Egyptian presidency for organizing today’s briefing on enhancing the effectiveness of sanctions, building on the Arria-formula meeting held last month.
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, for his very useful briefing.
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I would like to join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency for the month of August, and I assure you of our fullest cooperation and support in the effective discharge of your responsibilities. I also wish to express appreciation to you for organizing this …
I would like to thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing on the latest situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We thank him as well for always being as objective as possible. We understand how difficult the job is. I believe this must be said, altho…
Ethiopia welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2368 (2017), on the review of the sanctions regime on Al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) under resolution 2253 (2015). I would like to express my appreciation to the penholder for successfully steering the review proces…
We thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Wane, for his briefing, which is, as usual, very useful, balanced and insightful. We are also very grateful to President Mogae, the very wise man of our region, in whom we take great pride, for his remarks and for his dedicate…
I would like to begin by expressing sincere appreciation to you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate to facilitate discussion on enhancing Africa’s capacity in the area of peace and security. This is indeed, as Commissioner Chergui has said, a demonstration of China’s continued
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We would like to thank Special Representative Sandra Honoré Braithwaite for her briefing and for her admirable contribution to the work of the United Nations and to stress how much we appreciate her efforts. The mission was well executed.
We welcome the report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/604),…
We express our appreciation to Special Representative Mr. Yamamoto for his comprehensive briefing on the most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/508) on the overall situation
in Afghanistan and the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
I would like…
I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Mr. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit and Mr. Michael Doran for sharing their insights and perspectives. They all spoke with passion — and rightly so — and their briefings were very useful. I am very appreciative.
We understand that there is one his…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this briefing on behalf of the Secretary-General regarding options for authorizing and supporting the African Union (AU) Commission’s peace support operations. We also thank the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for his report on res…
I wish to express my appreciation for the Bolivian Presidency for organizing today’s debate on mitigating the threats posed by landmines and other explosive hazards.
As it has been more than a decade since the Security Council pronounced itself on the issue, we welcome the discussion, as well as th…
I would like to express appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing, which was based on the fifth report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations ef…
We thank Prosecutor Fatour Bensouda for her briefing. We have great respect for her and the responsibility that she has. There should be no doubt about that, despite the differences that we have had — and still have.
We strongly condemn the recent attack carried out by an unidentified group against…
We wish to express solidarity with the United Kingdom and Afghanistan. Of course, the United Kingdom knows that we stand shoulder to shoulder with it during these difficult times.
It is indeed a great opportunity for me to be able to extend a warm welcome to you, Sir, and to thank you for presiding…
I would like to start by welcoming the unanimous adoption of resolution 2356 (2017), which once again sends a strong and unified message of the Security Council in response to the repeated ballistic missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The situation in the Korean peninsula ha…
Let me start by expressing my appreciation to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Aïchatou Mindaoudou, for her briefing and for the successful work that she and her team have carried out in order to ensure the successful completion of the mandate of the United Nations Operation …
