I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports (S/2012/365 and S/2012/421) and for developing the regional strategy on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as requested by the Security Council in its presidential statement of 14 November 2011 (S/PRST/2011/21).
I would also like to thank Mr…
I, too, wish to thank Ambassador Osorio for his 90-day report and for his effective chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
The final report (S/2012/395) that the Panel of Experts has just delivered to the Council presents a comprehensive and d…
I would first of all like to thank Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for his report. Since 2005, he has briefed the Council in a transparent way on the judicial work carried out by his Office and the Court. As he steps down on 18 June, I would like to take…
From 20 to 22 May, Ambassador Menan of Togo and Ambassador Araud led the Security Council mission to Côte d’Ivoire. This eagerly awaited visit was the first since 2008 and came a year after the end of the post-electoral crisis that led to more than 3,000 deaths.
The Security Council met with all Iv…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo for his third report and for his presentation today. I would like to make four comments.
First, France was one of the sponsors of resolution 1970 (2011), which remains an example of the Council’s capacity for unity and swift action and, more generally,…
I thank Ambassadors Wittig, Puri and Sanqu for their briefings and for their work chairing the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001) and 1549 (2004). The Council has recently had the chance to demonstrate its resolve in the fight against terrorism in th…
I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on Azerbaijan’s assumption of the presidency of the Council and to thank you for having convened this debate on counter-terrorism. It is imperative that the Council remain actively seized of the matter.
As the Secretary-General emphasized in his…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 2046 (2012). In the past few weeks, the African Union has done its utmost not only to prevent an escalation of the current conflict between the Sudan and South Sudan, but also to enable the rapid resumption of negotiations between the two States, under the …
I thank you, Madam President, for having organized this debate, which provides the Council with the opportunity to examine how the United Nations system can better help States to secure their borders against illicit trafficking and flows. I associate myself with the statement to be made shortly by t…
I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and commend his personal commitment to disarmament and non-proliferation.
I would also like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. Three years after the Council’s groundbreaking summit on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation o…
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his quarterly briefing and for his effective chairmanship of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
The Security Council has once again taken up a very worrying report from the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Age…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mariano Fernández, for his briefing. I align myself with the statement to be made by the observer of the European Union and the representative of Uruguay on behalf of the Group of Friends.
This biannual de…
I, too, would like to welcome the Prime Minister of Libya and to assure him of our full support in the current crucial phase that his country is going through. I was not planning to take the floor but since the representative of the Russian Federation has done so, I will make a statement.
The Inter…
First, I would like to congratulate the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Council and to ensure it of our full support. I also thank Togo for its presidency in February. I thank the Secretary-General and Special Representative Augustine Mahiga for their presentations and personal comm…
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Wallström; the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Ladsous; and Ms. Megheirbi of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Securi…
I should like at the outset to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, for his briefing, and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Farid Zarif for participating in this debate by videoconference, which is a welcome practice at this time of budg…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this meeting, which makes it possible to strengthen the dialogue and coordination between the African Union and the United Nations on the question of Somalia. In that respect, I should like to thank Commissioner Lamamra for ha…
I would first of all like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his quarterly report and for his efficient and dedicated chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).
The Security Council has been seized of an unprecedented report from the International Ato…
First of all, I would like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunals for their reports.
With respect to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Tribunal’s President and Prosecutor Jallow have both described the considerable efforts that w…
I would like, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate on the Security Council’s working methods. I also wish to thank the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina for his introduction, as well as for his outstanding work as Chair of the Informal Working Group on …
