At the outset, I express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert for her informative and comprehensive briefing at the beginning of this meeting.
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2470 (2019), on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for I…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, as well as the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Mr. Smaïl Chergui, for their briefings, which come at a time of diff…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting and for the three briefings you delivered at the beginning of our work, which have clarified the great burdens and responsibilities that you shoulder in addition to the responsibilities of the presidency this month. …
I will deliver this statement on behalf of the three co-penholders: Belgium, Germany and Kuwait. Let me thank Assistant Secretary- General Ursula Mueller for her valuable briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude and deep respect to all humanita…
We welcome you, Mr. President, in convening and presiding over this meeting. We also welcome the Ministers from Equatorial Guinea and the United Kingdom.
I would like to express our condolences to the families of the victims of the recent heinous terrorist attacks. We affirm our sympathy and solida…
I thank you, Madam, for convening this important formal meeting on the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011. …
We welcome you, Mr. President, in presiding over this meeting, and we thank our briefers Mr. Mamabolo and Ms. Mueller for their updates.
I would like to focus my remarks on three fundamental points: the situation in Darfur, the withdrawal of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darf…
I would like at the outset to thank all the briefers. In my statement I will focus on two main topics: the status of implementing the Stockholm Agreement and the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
With regard to the status of implementing the Stockholm Agreement, notwithstanding the first phase of re…
We welcome the presence of His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia at this meeting.
We are here today almost three years after the signing of the Colombian Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, which ended a bloody conflict of more than…
I thank the Secretary-General, Major General Kristin Lund and Ms. Lorna Merekaje for their informative briefings.
The State of Kuwait aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.
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At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for participating in today’s meeting, as well as Mr. Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States of America. I also thank all briefers for their updates.
We are confronted with a worrisome humanitarian crisis whose implications may …
I would like to welcome Mr. Filippo Grandi and thank him very much for the comprehensive and detailed briefing that he just delivered. I would also like to commend the important role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). I appreciate the relations between Kuwait…
At the outset, we sincerely thank the briefers and welcome
the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti in this meeting.
In April 2004, that is 15 years ago and during the German presidency of the Security Council, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti was established…
We welcome the fact that you, Sir, are presiding over this meeting and thank you for organizing it. The convening of this meeting at this level undoubtedly reflects the Security Council’s interest in the issue before us and we, as the Security Council, must find solutions to it and support the peopl…
We welcome you, Mr. President, as you preside over this important meeting. We also welcome the adoption today of resolution 2462 (2019) . We commend your delegation’s efforts in facilitating its adoption, which will foster international cooperation in preventing and combating the financing of terror…
At the outset, I express my thanks and gratitude to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and to Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
We align ourselv…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her briefing and for reaffirming the international community and United Nations positions, which are in line with the Charter of the United Nations and international law. T…
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing in this periodic monthly meeting
regarding the ninth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016) (S/2019/251). The State of Kuwa…
At the outset, we very much thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), for her valuable briefing, as well as for the briefing of Ms. Anny Tenga Modi, E…
We want to thank you, Madam President, for calling for a minute of silence in honour of the victims of the terrible terrorist attack in New Zealand, and we want to express our condolences to the Government and the people of New Zealand and to the families of the victims.
Kuwait today voted in favou…