At the outset, I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would like to welcome Ms. Mogherini and thank her for her detailed and comprehensive briefing on the aspects of cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations.
We agree with her that our cooperation togethe…
At the outset, I express our sincere condolences to the Government of Ethiopia and to all the Governments and the families of the victims of the tragic accident involving Ethiopian Airlines.
We thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nati…
We welcome you, Madam President, as you preside over this meeting which clearly has particular significance. I believe the message is clear to all States of the
world. I also would like to join others who preceded me in congratulating women all over the world on International Women’s Day. I would l…
We would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We wish you and your friendly country every success in managing the work of the Council during this month. We also thank Equatorial Guinea for its presidency of the Council in February.
W…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, Ms. Christine Sсhranеr Burgener, for her briefing to the Security Council. We appreciate her tireless efforts and those of her team with regard to the crisis in Myanmar, especially the Rohingya refugee crisi…
First of all, I wish to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her briefing.
At the outset, I would like to emphasize our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations when dealing with issues on the Coun…
I would first like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her valuable briefing on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and her visit to the Sudan. I also thank Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco and Mr. Mourad Wahba for their presence at this meeting. Today I…
At the outset, I join previous speakers in thanking the briefers for their important presentations during this meeting. I would like to address three fundamental topics today.
I turn first to the political developments and the reconciliation agreement. The most important development since the Secur…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing. The State of Kuwait renews its full support for his role in bringing about the resumption of the stalled peace process and improving the daily lives of Palestinia…
Allow me at the outset to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for their informative briefings. I will focus my statement on two main issues, namely, the status of implementing the Stockhol…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for reading out presidential statement S/PRST/2019/1, whose adoption by the Security Council we welcome. We would like to thank all Council members for their support for the statement.
The adoption of the presidential statement today on the issues of detain…
At the outset, I would like to express my appreciation for the efforts of the United Nations to help the Government and the people of brotherly Iraq at this important juncture. We also appreciate the work and coordination with the Iraqi Government pursuant to resolution 2421 (2018) through the Unite…
At the outset, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their briefings. I would also like to welcome my former colleagues, Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan and Ambassador Martin Sajdik, and to thank them for their insightful brief…
I thank you, Mr. President, for holding this important meeting. We also thank the briefers Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Office
of Counter-Terrorism, and Ms. Michèle Coninsx, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, for their brie…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) for his detailed briefing to the
Council on the report of the Secretary General on the Mission’s activities in Kosovo (S…
At the outset, I wish to welcome you, Mr. President, to New York and to thank you for having convened this meeting. I wish also to thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Mrs. Florentina Adenike Ukonga, Executive Secretary of the Gulf o…
Mr. President, at the outset I would like to welcome your Excellency and to congratulate your friendly country on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We thank you for convening this important meeting to discuss an important and vital topic in all its dimensions. I would a…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his valuable briefing. I would also like to pay tribute to all humanitarian and medical personnel for their efforts in the field to alleviate the human suffe…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the participation of the Ministers present at today’s meeting. We listened carefully to the briefing by Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and
Peacebuilding Affairs, and we appreciate her valuable information regarding the recent devel…
We are pleased that you are presiding over today’s meeting, Sir. We thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his briefing. I also join previous speakers in welcoming Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo …
