Allow me to join previous speakers in welcoming to the Chamber Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to thank him for his report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2018/974, annex).
Our delegation has taken note of the report …
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is generally opposed to sanctions when they do not have a clearl and well-defined goal to improve or help to resolve the prevailing situation in the affected country or region. In the case at hand, bearing in mind not only the atrocious effects of the criminality in…
We are grateful for the convening of this meeting and express our thanks to Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu and her team for her informative briefing. We reaffirm the support of the Government of Equatorial Guinea for the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), whose personnel o…
Let me join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on the assumption of the presidency of the Council by the People’s Republic of China. We wish you every success and pledge you our full support. My delegation would like to once again thank and commend Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the Int…
We align ourselves with the statements made yesterday by the representatives of Morocco, Egypt and Venezuela, on behalf of the Group of African States, the Group of 77 and China and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, respectively (see A/73/PV.29).
At the outset, I wish Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parri…
At the outset, allow me to express my gratitude to the United States for its efforts to ensure the adoption of resolution 2440 (2018), as well as to the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Mr. Horst Köhler, and all of the personnel of the United Nations Mission for the Refere…
Let me begin by thanking Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ms. Ursulla Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive and detailed briefings on the political situation in Ukraine, as well as the humanitarian situation.…
First of all, I would like to welcome and thank the President of the International Criminal Court, Mr. Chile Eboe-Osuji, for his extensive, valuable, detailed and enlightening report on the judicial activities of the Court (see A/73/334), as well as for highlighting the many ways in which the United…
Our delegation is grateful for the convening of this meeting and to Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his enlightening briefing.
After eight years of strife and a death toll of several hundred thousands, no one can deny that the Syrian people are exhausted by war, violence, permanent — and s…
I would first like to thank the delegations of France, the United Kingdom and the United States for requesting the convening of this meeting and Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his informative briefing and hard work in facilitating the political process in Syria. The promptness with which this …
At our last meeting on this subject, on 28 August (see S/PV.8333), together with other members of the Council, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea again reaffirmed its profound concern for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who, for fear of violence and atrocities, have been forced to flee their ho…
At the outset, I would like to express my delegation’s thanks to Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA); Mr. Bédializoun Moussa Nébié, Speci…
As this is the first time that I am taking the floor since the Plurinational State of Bolivia assumed the presidency of the Council, allow me to sincerely congratulate you, Madam, on the dynamic activity and important programme of work of the Council throughout the month of October, particularly its…
This afternoon’s debate on the situation in South Sudan is most timely, especially after the recent developments that have taken place in the political context of this brother country. I therefore thank you, Mr. President, for including this issue on the agenda for this meeting.
As usual, the repor…
We express our heartfelt condolences to Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia for the loss of life of Russian servicemen yesterday. We also extend those condolences to his Government and the families of the victims.
We must be aware that the situation in Idlib, and in Syria in general, requires strong diplom…
Our delegation wishes to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for the comprehensive and detailed report (S/2018/824) on developments in the situation in Afghanistan and for the valuable information provided in his briefing here today. We also thank Mr. Rami…
At the outset, as the Ambassador of Kuwait did, allow me to express our most heartfelt condolences for the victims of Hurricane Florence and other natural disasters in other parts of the world.
We also wish to welcome the representatives of Japan and Korea to this morning’s debate. We thank you, Ma…
I begin my statement by expressing our
solidarity and that of our Government to the Government and the people of the United States of America and the families of those who heroically died as a result of the barbaric terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and other sites in the country, which we are c…
As I take the floor on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea at this important debate, I would first like to congratulate the United States Mission and Ambassador Nikki Haley for including the important issue of corruption on the agenda of the Security Council for the first time. Today’s debat…
My delegation welcomes the convening of today’s meeting and thanks Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura and Director John Ging for their enlightening and objective briefings. We reiterate Equatorial Guinea’s support for their noble efforts in an extremely difficult environment.
I will focus m…
