At the outset, let me thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for his briefing and to commend him and his team for two years of intensive work leading the sanctions Committee on Iran. Under his able leadership, the Committee managed to advance the implementation of resolution 1929 (2010) and contributed to t…
I thank the Kingdom of Morocco for taking the initiative to organize this important debate at a time when the Sahel is facing such formidable challenges, and I thank Minister El Othmani for presiding over it. I also thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Romano Prodi, Mr. António Guterres and the Minister…
I thank the Security Council for the opportunity to share my views and assessments on the work carried out by the three subsidiary bodies that I have had the honour to chair in the course of my country’s membership of the Council, and for bearing with me. Regarding the sanctions regimes in general, …
I thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the Tribunals for their very comprehensive briefings. I would also wish to thank Ambassador Rosenthal and his team for the efficient leadership they have shown at the head of the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals.
The Tribunals face today a …
Mr. President, I wish at the outset to express my congratulations and best wishes for your tenure during this month. You know, Sir, that you can count on our full support. I wish also to say a very warm word of appreciation and thanks to Ambassador Puri and his team for the way they conducted our bu…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this open debate on an issue to which Portugal attaches great importance. I wish also to thank Under-Secretary-General Eliasson; the Executive Director of UN-Women, Michelle Bachelet; Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous; and Ms. Bineta Diop, …
Portugal welcomes the adoption of resolution 67/19, which grants non-member observer State status in the United Nations to Palestine. Portugal has long defended the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination through the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian State. We have d…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his
comprehensive briefing, and the Foreign Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo for their statements.
During the period under review, we have registered positive developments in the Belgrade/Pristina dialogue, facilitated by the European U…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this open debate on the Council’s working methods. It has been a year since the Council, under Portugueuse presidency, held the most recent debate on this issue (see S/PV.6672). That debate demonstrated yet again the great interest that this issue raises among the w…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson for his briefing and for providing us with the main elements for our debate on what is clearly a very serious manifestation of organized crime in the twenty-first century and a challenge to international peace and security. Portugal naturally supports th…
Allow me to thank you, Sir, and Ambassadors Peter Wittig and Baso Sangqu for your very comprehensive briefings. I wish to congratulate all three for your leadership, commitment and the smooth and efficient way in which you led the work of the Committees that you chair. I agree with your analysis, co…
Allow me at the outset to congratulate the members of the Security Council that were elected this morning to the Human Rights Council and to wish them well in that important endeavour.
I will deliver my statement in Portuguese, which, as members know, is a very beautiful language.
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This will be the seventh and in all probability the last periodic report
presented by me to the Council on the activities carried out by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) since I had the honour to assume its presidency in February 2011. The full report, covering the perio…
Let me first congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. We wish you every success, and you know that you can count on our full support. Allow me also to reiterate our thanks and appreciation to Ambassador Rosenthal and his team for their able stewardship of the Counc…
I wish to thank you, Mr. Minister, for presiding over this important debate.
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I wish at the outset to thank the Secretary-General, President Sang-Hyun and Mr. Mochochoko for their statements, which were very useful indeed, as is the excellent concept note (S/2012/731, annex) prep…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his very comprehensive and sobering briefing, as well as the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their statements.
Portugal naturally aligns itself with the contents of the statement to be d…
I would like to welcome you, Mr. President, to the Council and to congratulate Guatemala on presiding over the Council for the month of October. I would also like to wish our colleague, Mr. Rosenthal, and his team every success and to assure them of our support.
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I would like than…
I congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session. His election represents one more important step in an already illustrious career, as well as a historic moment for Serbia, one that recognizes its courageous efforts to overcome a diffic…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this high-level meeting on such an important issue. I also wish to thank you personally for presiding over it. I also thank both Mr. Ban Ki moon and Mr. Nabil Elaraby for their very valuable contributions to today’s discussion.
These are indeed challenging …
I thank Special Representative Ján Kubiš for his briefing. I also welcome His Excellency Mr. Zalmai Rassoul to the Council and thank him for his statement.
Both of those statements presented a clear and comprehensive picture of Afghanistan today, of its achievements and of the challenges that still…
