We thank Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ambassador Guillermo Rishchynski, Chair of the Sierra Leone configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their presentations to the Council and for their efforts and concern. We welcome the presen…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for her briefing, and encourage her to continue to contribute to the process of Haiti’s restoration through her leadership of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). We also thank the…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and Permanent Representative of Ukraine Sergeyev for their statements.
The Security Council is meeting at a sensitive moment. The 16 March referendum was held in Crimea and has been judged as unconstitutional and has b…
We are grateful for the briefings by Mr. Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, and Ms. Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. They have given us an assessment of the work, progress …
We welcome the presence of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Ján Kubiš, and thank him for his briefing. We also welcome Ambassador Zahir Tanin and thank him for his statement.
Chile welcomes the holding …
The delegation of Chile voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2014/189) because we believe that it is the appropriate response of the Council to the current crisis in Ukraine. Given that situation, at stake here are fundamental principles of international law, such as abstaining from the threat…
Chile expresses its profound concern about the very serious consequences of the announced referendum in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the holding of which
could lead to an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. It is critical for the Council to contribute to ensuring the maximum stability and th…
We thank Luxembourg, Minister Asselbourn and you, Madam, for convening this open debate and for your country’s leadership of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.
My country welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2143 (2014), proposed by Luxembourg and sponsored by Chile at a cri…
We express our deep concern over the serious escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, which must be urgently reversed. We call for the greatest restraint and moderation.
We would once again reiterate, as we have stressed previously, the obligation to respect the sovereignty, independence and territoria…
I thank the Chairperson-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for his briefing, in which he not only reviewed the activities of the organization that he is chairing but also notes the priorities of his country’s chairmanship. We also thank the Lithuanian preside…
I would like to begin my statement by thanking the delegations of Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan for preparing this resolution (resolution 2139 (2014)) and for the flexibility that they showed in negotiating it.
Through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2139 (2014), the Security Council has ta…
We welcome you, Mr. President, and congratulate you and your delegation on having convened this meeting. We thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his statement, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Catherine Ashton, for her briefing.
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My delegation thanks the Lithuanian presidency for convening today’s open debate on a subject of the greatest importance and priority for my country. Similarly, we are grateful for the briefings we have heard from the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay, Under-Secretaries-General Amos and Lads…
We welcome the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2014/68) and acknowledge the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif. We also welcome the presence of …
I should like to thank the delegation of Jordan for having convened this open debate and for having drafted the concept note (S/2014/30, annex). I should also like to thank the Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, for his briefing.
We will approach this statement not…
I would to congratulate and thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over this open debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Two decades after the signing of the Oslo Accords between the State of Israel and the then Palestine Liberation Organization, the transitional provisions h…
Today, States Members of the United Nations have gathered once again to reiterate that humanitarian issues constitute one of the core areas of the Organization. In that context, Chile has co-sponsored the draft resolutions entitled “Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assista…
Chile thanks Azerbaijani the presidency for convening this open debate on women and peace and security, and for the opportunity to reaffirm the role of women in transitional justice.
While our country has periodically taken part in these debates, our comments today are special significance since th…
We congratulate and express our gratitude to the delegation of Argentina for having organized this debate and providing us with a new opportunity to consider the situation in Haiti, in particular through the most
recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/493) on the United Nations Stabilizatio…
We would like to thank the United States delegation for organizing this debate, which covers an area that brings together the right to freedom of expression, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and international humanit…
