South Africa commends the delegation of Morocco for organizing this important open debate on post-conflict peacebuilding. We also wish to thank the Secretary-General as well as the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, the Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commissi…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ján Kubiš for introducing the quarterly report (S/2012/907) of the Secretary-General to the Council. We also thank
Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement on the situation in his country.
South Africa welcomes the continued progress registe…
South Africa thanks the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio, of Colombia for his 90-day report. We reiterate our full support for the work of the Committee. We commend Ambassador Osorio and the Colombian delegation for the …
We extend our appreciation to the delegation of Morocco for convening this meeting. We also wish to commend you, Mr. President, for conducting the work of the Security Council’s Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations in an exemplary manner. We thank Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operat…
South Africa wishes to extend our appreciation to the Principals of the Tribunals for their very useful briefings and for the important work that they are doing. We also express our appreciation to Ambassador Rosenthal and his delegation for their able chairing of the Informal Working Group on Inter…
Allow me to congratulate you and your delegation, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of December. Please be assured of our full support. We also commend the Indian delegation for its excellent stewardship of the Council during a very busy Novemb…
It is with great joy that we stand here today to congratulate the people of Palestine for attaining an enhanced observer State status in the United Nations. Although that is not what we would have ideally wanted, because we support full membership in the United Nations for the State of Palestine, it…
South Africa thanks the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today on the report of the activities of the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (S/2012/818). We welcome Serbian Foreign Minister Mr. Ivan Mrkić to the Council and thank him for his state…
We thank you, Mr. President, for your excellent initiative in continuing this important debate and for jointly preparing the concept paper on working methods (see S/2012/853, annex) together with Portugal in its capacity as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Qu…
South Africa welcomes the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, back to the Council and thanks him for his comprehensive briefing.
The report which the High Representative has provided us presents a mixed bag of progress (see S/2012/813). The country has remained stabl…
Allow me to thank Justice Shireen Avis Fisher, President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Ms. Brenda Hollis, Prosecutor of the Special Court for their comprehensive briefings on the current status of the work of the Special Court. We also appreciate the perspectives put forward by the Depu…
Mr. President, South Africa congratulates the delegation of Guatemala on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the very first time. We are particularly pleased to see you, Mr. Caballeros, presiding over today’s meeting.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for …
South Africa thanks the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, for introducing the quarterly report of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan (S/2012/462). We also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mr. Yuri Fedotov, for his b…
We wish to join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Ladsous, as well as the Force Commanders present with us today, for their respective briefings. The themes that were identified for today’s meeting clearly reflect the diverse challenges that confront modern United Nations peacekeeping opera…
South Africa welcomes Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the Security Council once again, and we thank him for his comprehensive briefing.
We congratulate Bosnia and Herzegovina on the upcoming twentieth anniversary of its membership in the United Nations.
We ha…
South Africa expresses its appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing to the Council. We also thank the Permanent Observer of Palestine and the Permanent Representative of Israel for their statements.
My delegation associates itself with the statement to be delivered later…
My delegation joins others in welcoming the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Minister Eamon Gilmore, to the Security Council. We wish to thank him for his briefing on the work of the OSCE. As Minister Gilmore stated, Ireland’s own experience in…
We join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on Lebanon’s assumption of the presidency for September, and express our gratitude to India for its able stewardship of the Council in August. We would also like to thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia for his briefing on the work of the Com…
We also wish to express our delegation’s appreciation to Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for his briefing. At the outset, I would also like to offer our delegation’s deep condolences to the families of the four members of UNODC who lost t…
South Africa thanks the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, for his 90-day report on the activities of the Committee, and we pledge our full support. We also welcome the recent extension of the mandate, through…
