I thank the delegation of Jordan for convening this truly important debate. Indeed, I think I can say at this stage that it is a quite extraordinary event, for all sorts of reasons. You, Sir, have emphasized the importance of the occasion by bringing your Crown Prince to the table: your country’s fu…
I thank you, Mr. President, for coming to New York to preside over today’s debate. We are also grateful for Jordan’s role in the region. As for your country’s generosity in hosting
Syrian refugees, we feel that Jordan has been a positive force on the Middle East peace process.
Today I will focus m…
I thank to Ms. Bangura and Ms. Allamin for their briefings and, above all, for the dedication and the energy that they bring to a cause to which we should all be committed.
May I also say to my colleague, the Ambassador of Spain, that if Spain intends to take an ambitious approach with regard to th…
New Zealand is pleased that the Council has now been able to agree a response to the conflict in Yemen. It has been a challenging and difficult process to get us to this point, in which you, Madam President, have led us with great patience — infinite patience, I might say.
It is important that the …
I thank France for holding this very important debate, which, as the High Commissioner reminded us, is about tolerance versus maniacal ideology — a stark choice indeed.
I also thank the two briefers, His Beatitude Patriarch Sako and Mrs. Dakhil, for what they told us through their briefings. While …
New Zealand welcomes the adoption of resolution 2211 (2015) and thanks France for its constructive and inclusive leadership, which secured agreement on the text.
New Zealand strongly supports the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate and for giving us three action points: action at the diplomatic level, action in operational terms, and stepping up judicial cooperation, all of which are very much at the core of the issues we have to discuss, and which I will address in the cou…
I would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and for his ongoing work in Afghanistan. I would also like to thank Ambassador Tanin for so eloquently reminding us where Afghanistan has come from over the past 13 years. We salute that prog…
I thank Mr. Feltman, Mr. Ging and Mr. Šimonović for their excellent briefings, which only serve to emphasize that, if the
Security Council is to perform its role of scrutinizing the situation in Ukraine, it must continue to receive regular and reliable information, such as that which we have just h…
I would particularly like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Kang and High Commissioner Guterres for their very helpful briefings to the Council.
Last Sunday, 22 February, marked the first anniversary of resolution 2139 (2014), whereby the Council took action to reduce the suffering of the Syrian…
New Zealand associates itself with the statement just made by the representative of Malaysia, and we compliment his country on that particular initiative.
It is no secret that over the past four days the Security Council has struggled to negotiate a mutually acceptable text for resolution 2202 (201…
New Zealand welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2201 (2015). We applaud the role played by Jordan and the United Kingdom in the Council, and the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in facilitating that outcome.
For New Zealand the two main purposes of the resolution are, first, …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate, which is all the more timely given the approaching fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000). I also thank the three briefers who have informed us so eloquently this morning: the Assistant Secretary- General, the …
As a newly elected member of the Security Council completing our first month of service, New Zealand thanks Chile for its very able stewardship during January, not least in the thematic debates your promoted, Sir, and the important visit to Haiti, which you proposed and which give us a great deal of…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate, and all the more so because of the failure of the Security Council over the weekend to agree to a simple and clear press statement that would have condemned the events in Mariupol. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing, whic…
The recent escalation of violence in Ukraine is a very serious threat to what were at best, even before that escalation, fragile steps towards a peace. The Under-Secretary-General’s report that there is a mounting alarm at the situation, particularly the humanitarian situation, is one with which we …
Madam President, I welcome you to New York — perhaps more correctly, I welcome you back to New York. It is a pleasure to have you presiding over the Council. I wish to also thank the Secretary-General and Ambassador Patriota for their respective briefings, and Ms. Gbowee for her unique perspectives.…
I repeat again, Sir, the personal greeting I extended to you yesterday.
While, as the Assistant Secretary-General’s briefing has sadly made very clear, there are a number of regional issues that deserve consideration by the Security Council. I want to take this, our first, opportunity to outline ou…
I welcome you, Mr. President, back to New York and thank you for convening this important discussion today. I also thank Ambassador Patriota, not only for his briefing today, but also for his chairmanship of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We value that very much.
Finally, I thank the Deputy Se…
New Zealand welcomes the firm resolve expressed by Pakistan in response to the atrocity in Peshawar, and I reiterate the comments of sympathy and support that I expressed to the Council three days ago in an earlier debate.
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. It is an important re…
