I thank Mr. Mladenov for his customary concise and incisive briefing, which elucidated for us the current situation in the Middle East in general and in Gaza in particular.
We want to begin by expressing our serious concerns about the conflicts that persist in the Middle East from Syria to Yemen an…
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Néstor Popolizio Bardales to New York. I congratulate you, Sir, on Peru’s presidency of the Security Council and on convening today’s important meeting, which enables us to share our views about the implications of the report of the Secretary-General on
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I would like to begin this statement by remembering my brother and friend, Mr. Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue. I had the good fortune of sitting next to Bernard during these three and a half months of our presence in the Security Council, during which time we served each other glasses of water and cough dr…
Allow me, at the outset, to express my thanks to Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zouev and Deputy Permanent Representative Schoulgin Nyoni for their detailed briefings on the situation in the Republic of Liberia.
We in Equatorial Guinea have always closely followed the developments in the Rep…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea thanks you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting at the request of the United Kingdom. We also thank the United Kingdom for sharing the findings of the investigation conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
We thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for he…
We would first like to congratulate Mr. Martin Griffiths on his recent appointment as Special Envoy of
the Secretary-General for Yemen and to thank him for his excellent, clear and informative briefing. Although his briefing was only preliminary, as he indicated, we found it very detailed and compr…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea would like to thank the Russian Federation for convening this meeting and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for his illustrative and detailed description of the humanitarian situation in the city…
On behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, I would like to begin my statement by aligning myself with the statement to be made by Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations.
I thank the Peruvian presidency and Ambassador Gustavo Meza-Cuadra for con…
Our abstention reflects the frustration of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea with regard to the failure to adopt a resolution to establish an attribution and accountability mechanism to identify those responsible for the use of chemical weapons. We reiterate our call for a consensus-based resolution…
I thank Secretary-General Guterres for his statement, which clearly illustrates the perspective of the United Nations on this issue. What took place last night was clearly not a surprise to any member of the Security Council. It remained to establish only the day and the time. In fact, as we said in…
First of all, on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, I thank Secretary-General António Guterres for having illustrated for us the chaotic and dangerous situation currently prevailing in the Middle East by providing a detailed overview of every one of the conflicts in that vulnerable region,…
The delegation of Equatorial Guinea is highly gratified by the holding of this meeting today. As such, it conveys its congratulations to the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Mr. Sacha Sergio Llorentty Solíz, Permanent Representative of the Pluri…
We begin our statement by condemning in the strongest terms the recent attacks perpetrated, first, on 5 April against a camp of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Aguelhok, in north-east Mali, which claimed the life of two Chadian Blue Helmets, …
I once again express the frustration of our delegation over this afternoon’s negative outcome. We abstained in the voting on the third draft resolution (S/2018/322), first of all because it was submitted only very late today and, secondly, because it is lacking compared to the two previous draft res…
I am taking the floor following the voting on the two draft resolutions (S/2018/175 and S/2018/321) above all to express our frustration over the fact that the Security Council was not able to adopt either the first or the second draft, which sought to give the Council an independent and professiona…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea expresses its satisfaction with the renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) in order to ensure the strengthening of its State institutions over the next 12 months of the mandate. It will provide support to Haiti…
I would like to begin by thanking the Peruvian delegation for having convened this meeting, and the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Djinnit, for his informative briefing. We also thank the Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Congo, Mr. Balé, for the illuminating information…
I thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. Thomas Markram and their respective teams for their exhaustive briefings.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea expresses its gratitude to the French Republic and to the other members of the Council that called for the convening of this afternoon’s meeting. We als…
On 14 March, when we met in this Chamber at the request of our colleagues from the United Kingdom on the same issue of the chemical attack in Salisbury, United Kingdom (S/PV.8203), the first thing we did was to condemn the perpetration of that attack and to stand in solidarity with the victims and t…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea appreciates the convening of this meeting. We would like to reiterate our gratitude and appreciation to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, represented here today by Mr. Thomas Markram, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Unsurp…
