I would like to thank you for convening this important meeting, Mr. President, and for honouring us with your presence. Allow me also to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and Mr. Fedotov, Mr. Guterres and Ms. Chan for their statements.
According to the Charter, our Organization was found…
I have the pleasure and distinct honour to deliver a statement on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Group on agenda item 126, “Global health and foreign policy”.
At the outset, I would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the Secretary-General for transmitting the report of the World Health Organiza…
We thank Mr. Inzko, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his briefing and for his report (S/2011/682, annex). We welcome the stability in the security situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the regional cooperation with neighbouring States. We hope that the upcoming efforts will …
I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. My delegation has confidence in your leadership abilities
and expertise. I also take this opportunity to thank Her Excellency Ambassador Ogwu and the Nigerian delegation for their wis…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this meeting. Allow me also to thank Ms. Cheng-Hopkins for her informative briefing and Ambassador Lucas for her presentation.
We welcome the positive measures adopted in certain peacebuilding areas, such as the start of the implementation process of the…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Madam President, for having organized this important and timely debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing, and Ms. Bachelet, Ambassador Kapambwe and Ms. Nemat for their presentations.
More than a decade has passed since the a…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Pascoe for his briefing.
Allow me to join my colleagues in extending my condolences to the Government and people of Turkey on the victims of yesterday’s earthquake, and to the Government and people of Saudi Arabia on the passing away of His Royal Highness Cr…
At the outset, we would like to welcome you, Mr. President, and to express our appreciation to your country for organizing this important debate. We would also like to extend our thanks to Under-Secretary-General Mr. Hervé Ladsous for his important introductory remarks.
Lebanon aligns itself with t…
First of all, I would like to congratulate Nigeria, Madame President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of October. I also wish to thank the President and all my colleagues for their kind words about our work during our presidency of the Council last month.
Permit me …
I wish to thank Mr. Farid Zarif for his briefing and to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, and to thank him for his statement. I also thank Mr. Enver Hoxhaj for his statement.
We wish to confirm our support for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in K…
Five years after the adoption of resolution 1701 (2006), the Lebanese Government, as I just said, remains committed to the full implementation of said resolution in its entirety and calls upon the United Nations to put an end to Israeli violations and threats to Lebanon’s sovereignty in order to all…
I would like to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and its leadership and members, women and men, for their dedication and services. Lebanon commends the efforts and sacrifices of the UNIFIL forces operating in
southern L…
At the outset, I would like to join the Secretary-General and my colleagues in condemning today’s terrorist attacks in Abuja in the strongest terms and to express our deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to its victims, their families, the people and Government of Nigeria, and the United Nations …
Pending the long-awaited Quartet parameters for peace negotiations in the Middle East, Arab leaders, including the Palestinians, have welcomed as constructive elements the lines drawn by President Obama last May. While they continue to support holding an international conference on the Middle East i…
I would like to thank Secretary-General Ban for his important introductory remarks, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mr. Steiner, for his stimulating briefing. I also wish to thank you,
Mr. President, for organizing this debate in the Security Council on the i…
At the outset, allow me to welcome His Excellency Mr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan, and to thank him and Ambassador Ali Osman for their statements and Mr. Le Roy for his briefing.
The transition period ended several days ago, thereby completing the impleme…
Allow me at the outset to thank Minister Westerwelle for his presence here to preside over this important meeting. I also wish to thank Secretary-General Ban, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Coomaraswamy, and the Executive Director of UNICEF, …
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his 90-day report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We very much appreciate the work of the Committee and reiterate our readiness to continue to cooperate with it. Allow me to make the following observations.
Res…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Ms. O’Brien, for her valuable briefing.
My delegation would like to emphasize the importance of resolution 1976 (2011), which demonstrates the resolve of the Council to assume a more forward-looking policy aimed at establishing mechanism…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in welcoming President Mbeki and thanking him for his valuable briefing and his mediation efforts in the Sudan. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Menkerios, for his important briefing and wise leaders…
