At the outset, we would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; Ambassador Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations; and Ambassador Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Ambassador of Belgium and Facilitator fo…
Equatorial Guinea welcomes the timely convening of this briefing and thanks Ms. Ursula Mueller for her presentation.
After two years of debate on humanitarian issues in Syria, the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea continues to observe with great regret the clear consolidation of two d…
I wish to thank the delegation of the United States for having convened this briefing and for giving me the opportunity to address the Security Council as outgoing Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2048 (2012), concerning Guinea-Bissau. It has been a privileg…
I would like to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto for his detailed briefing. We have listened to his remarks, which we endorse in full. We also thank Ms. Aisha Khurram for her excellent presentation.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea regrets the low turnout in the presidential elections on 28 September …
I would first like to express our delegation’s appreciation and gratitude to Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his informative briefing and for his and his team’s laudable and tireless efforts in the Middle East. We also commend the valuable and constructive contributions of Ms. Tania Hary, Executive Direct…
At the outset, I wish to welcome the Minister of State for the Commonwealth, the United Nations and South Asia, His Excellency Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, and thank the presidency of the United Kingdom for the excellent initiative to convene this important debate. I also wish to thank the Secreta…
I am speaking on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and my own country, Equatorial Guinea.
At the outset, we would like to express our thanks to Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations S…
As this is the first time in November that I am taking the floor at a Council meeting, allow me to begin by congratulating the United Kingdom on its assumption of the presidency of the Council this month. I would also like to commend South Africa, one of the three African members of the Security Cou…
Our delegation welcomes with great pleasure and satisfaction His Excellency Mr. Gustavo Meza- Cuadra, the recently appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, to whom we reiterate our sincere congratulations on having earned this mark of high trust from his Government as a Minister of Peru. This…
At the outset, our delegation would like to thank you, Sir, and your delegation for convening this meeting during the October, a crucial time in
Colombia’s electoral calendar. We also wish to welcome the presence of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, with u…
Our statement aligns fully with those to be delivered by Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, and Her Excellency Ms. Jeanne d’Arc Byaje, Permanent Observer of the Economic Community of Central African States to the United Nations.
Allow me to con…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea would like to thank Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, for his first briefing, in which he extensively explained the situation of the Great Lakes in general and the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation …
The truth is, we are partially satisfied with the adoption of resolution 2491 (2019), above all because we believe that the monitoring of operations in Libya should be similar to those conducted in the Gulf of Aden, given the statistics on the loss of lives and the atrocities committed against migra…
We abstained in the voting on the two draft resolutions S/2019/756 and S/2019/757 to demonstrate our dissension over the lack of understanding and unity within the Security Council on an issue that is so vital and important as the Syrian conflict, in which many human lives — including those of civil…
Equatorial Guinea thanks you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. We also thank Ms. Ursula Mueller for her informative briefing.
The Second World War is said to have ended in 1945, following 2,194 days of conflict. The war in Syria has already surpassed that time frame. More than 3,000 da…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea welcomes the holding of this important briefing on the evolution of events in Yemen and wishes to express its gratitude to the Russian Federation for convening this meeting at a critical moment for that nation on the Arabian peninsula. We are also grateful for the i…
The Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, through its delegation, takes the floor in this high-level 104th plenary meeting of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session to address an issue of vital importance —the celebration and promotion of the International Day against Nuclear T…
Allow me to thank Mr. James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Francisco Caetano José Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Ms…
I should like once again, Sir, to welcome your presence among us and to express our admiration for, and commend your dedicated participation in, the work of your country’s presidency of the Security Council. I should also like, through you, to thank Poland for having included this important debate o…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, for his detailed briefing. We are also grateful to the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ms. Ursula Mueller, for her equally thorou…
