In taking the floor on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea at this meeting on the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), allow me to address through you, Mr. President, our most sincere congratulations to Peru on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Coun…
We deplore the fact that almost at the end of your presidency, Sir, and following the receptions held on Wednesday and Thursday, we must now call upon you to exercise the role of president in the light of today’s incident. Given the urgency of the situation, we thank Kuwait for its initiative and th…
I would like to begin by personally
welcoming you to New York, Prime Minister Rutte, and congratulating you on the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ excellent presidency of the Security Council for the month of March, which is ending with this timely initiative of convening a high-level open debate on Un…
We welcome Mr. Stef Blok, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, to New York. We take this opportunity to congratulate him for the commendable presidency of the Netherlands during the month of March.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is grateful for the holding of this informative meeting…
At the outset, I would like to commend the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General for having convened this meeting to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
I align myself with the statement delivered by Amb…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Ms. Karen Pierce as the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations. We wish her great success in her post and would like to
affirm that she can count on the same full support and cooperation that we extended to her predecessor. We…
I sincerely thank you, Sir, for including today’s very important issue in your programme of work, enabling us to discuss the situation in the Lake Chad basin region for the first time this year and give greater visibility to a serious crisis that has received very little media attention.
We also th…
First of all, our delegation commends the presidency of the Netherlands for placing this important topic on this morning’s agenda. Moreover, we thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, for providing the Securit…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock; Abbé Donatien Nshole, Secretary-General of the Conférence Episcopale Nationale du Congo; and Ms. Jeanine Bandu Bahati, Coordinator of the Encadrement des Femmes Indigenes et des Ménages Vulnérables, whose briefings illu…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea has learned of the attack involving the use a chemical nerve agent in Salisbury, United Kingdom, and we hope that events such as those will be duly investigated, that the results of those investigations will be made public, and that those responsible will face justi…
I would like to begin my statement by paying well-deserved tribute to and thanking Mr. Jeremiah Kingsley Mamabolo, Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), for his excellent briefing on the bimonthly report the Secretary-General…
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to Secretary-General António Guterres for his informative briefing. I also thank him for his leadership and all his support, in particular his tremendous efforts, as well as those of his Special Envoy, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and of the entire Unit…
At the outset, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea would like to welcome to the Security Council the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, Mr. Angelino Alfano. We also thank him f…
As this is the first time you are presiding over a meeting in the Chamber, Mr. President, allow me to sincerely congratulate you. Equatorial Guinea remains firmly committed to cooperating with you as you conduct your challenging work.
I welcome Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs a…
As usual, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock and Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman just gave us detailed briefings on the humanitarian and political situation in Syria. Those were the first briefings to be delivered to the Security Council foll…
After several weeks of discussions and negotiations, the members of the Council have decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) for another year, thereby expressing the commitment of the United Nations to continuing to participate …
We would like to begin this statement by thanking the Secretary-General for his report, which we were briefed on this morning by Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who for almost three years has spared no effort in working to find a solution to the serious and devastating crisis in Yemen. We th…
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea expresses its gratitude to the presidency of the Security Council for convening this meeting and for the briefings we just heard by Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita and the Special Envoy for the Sudan of the Intergovernmental Auth…
First of all, on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, let me express my gratitude to the President of the Security Council for organizing this meeting on Burundi and for the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/89) on the situation in the country, presented by His Excellency Mr. Kafando, …
Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 2401 (2018), I take the floor on behalf of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, whose Government closely followed the whole process leading up to its successful conclusion with the unanimous adoption of this humanitarian resolution.
At the outset, I pay …
