As my country is the Chair of the Group of Arab States for this month, I am speaking on behalf of that Group.
The agenda item under consideration, “The situation in the Middle East”, is directly linked to international peace and security. This item has been on the agendas of the Security Council an…
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to welcome and thank you for your presence with us today in the Security Council. We are grateful to the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire for convening this important meeting. We also thank Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres and Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chai…
I would like to start by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Security Council for this month and wishing you every success. At the same time, we thank the Chinese delegation for its presidency of the Council for last month.
I join previous speakers in expressing my deepest …
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director of Operations and Advocacy Division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for her valuable briefing, which confirms the continuation of the dire humanitarian situation in Syria. I would also like to pay tri…
I would like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Mr. Smaïl Chergui, for their comprehensive briefings.
The State of Kuwait aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuel…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States on agenda item 124 concerning the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council.
At the outset, I would like to assure…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for the painful briefing he delivered, which echoes what many among us have repeated time and again in this very Chamber — that the …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing today and for his ongoing work to advance the political process. I reiterate the appreciation and gratitude of the State of Kuwait for all his endeavours over the past four years to carry out his difficult task.
The Sochi …
At the outset, I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, the Executive Director of UN-Women and the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security for their briefings and for their visit to South Sudan from 7 to 10 October in order to closely assess the situation there.
To…
At the outset, I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen; Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme; and Ms. Rasha Jarhum, …
At the outset, I thank Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Mr. Sidikou, Permanent Secretary of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel); Mr. Buyoya, African Union High Representative for Mali and the Sahel; and Mr. Serrano, Deputy Secretary- General for Common Securi…
First and foremost, I would like to express our sincere condolences to the Government and people of the brotherly nation of Somalia with respect to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Mogadishu last Friday.
The States in the Horn of Africa have seen significant positive political developments i…
At the outset, I would like to thank our former colleague Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his comprehensive briefing on the report of the Secretary-General on UNMIK (S/2018/981). I a…
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), for his valuable briefing.
Despite the many challenges that Iraq is facing in the post-Da’esh period, the Iraqi people have proven t…
We would like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on strengthening multilateralism at a very important time in our world today. We also thank the Chinese delegation
for preparing the concept paper for this meeting (S/2018/982, annex).
We thank Secretary-Genera…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his briefing.
I will focus on two main topics: security and political developments, and economic developments.
First, with respe…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in thanking Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his valuable briefing and recent report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2018/974, annex). I also want to underline our full …
At the outset, we would like to thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing today and for submitting the sixty-first monthly report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the security Council purs…
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month and we wish you every success in carrying out the Council’s work. We also thank our colleague the Permanent Representative of Bolivia and the Bolivian delegation for wisely conducting the work of th…
Kuwait voted in favour of resolution 2440 (2018), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until 30 April 2019. We had hoped for the mandate to be
extended for a full year, in line with the recommendation of the Secretary-General.
We stress…
