My delegation appreciates the briefing by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed as well as the briefing by the Permanent Observer of the African Union. We also look forward to the input by the representative of Nigeria.
We welcome both the conduct of thematic regional visits and the initiative of…
Ukraine welcomes today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2371 (2017) and commends the efforts of the delegations involved in drafting and bringing the text to a vote, under the strong leadership of the United States.
North Korea’s advancing nuclear- and ballistic- missile programmes are close to t…
I would like to thank the Egyptian presidency for organizing today’s meeting and Assistant Secretary- General Zerihoun for his thorough briefing.
For more than 50 years now, the prohibitions and restrictions imposed by the Security Council have been recognized as the most powerful non-military resp…
We too would like thank today’s briefers for their extremely important contribution to this meeting and to assure them of Ukraine’s full support. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia.
We woul…
We too are grateful to Mr. O’Brien for his sobering and chilling account of the humanitarian situation in Syria. This month, unfortunately, seems to be no different from previous ones, since the humanitarian track continues to be dominated by devastating negative trends, as we just heard. While ther…
I thank High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Inzko for his important briefing and assure him of Ukraine’s full support for his activities. In the current circumstances of political instability and internal tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, his role and leadership have become even more im…
I join others in thanking Mr. Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) for his briefing.
I also express my gratitude to Her Excellency Ms. Nela Kuburović, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, an…
Ukraine appreciates Uruguay’s initiative in holding this very important open debate. We also appreciate the fact that you, Sir, are presiding over the debate, and we welcome you back to the United Nations. We would also like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed for her introduction. We a…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her important update on her Office’s activity. We appreciate the way she is carrying out her mandate and fully support her in it.
I would like to start with the situation in Libya, which, as we j…
I want to welcome Special Representative Shearer to the Security Council today and to assure him of Ukraine’s full support to his and his team. I also thank Ambassador Ciss for his briefing. We appreciate Senegal’s leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206 (2015) concerning…
Once again, the Russian delegation referred to Crimea as if it were its own, in outright contravention of General Assembly resolution 68/262, thereby directly insulting at least 100 States Members of the United Nations that voted in its favour, as well as resolution 71/205, which was loud and clear …
I want to start by congratulating Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix on assuming the office of Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.
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I thank him for his very clear detailed briefing.
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I also want to join in your words of condolence, Madam, to the French de…
Ukraine supported and co-sponsored resolution 2348 (2017) because, in our view, it will pave the way for further stabilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today, the Security Council adopted a document that is intended for the first time to privatize tasks of MONUSCO primarily for the p…
I would first like to thank Under-Secretary-General O’Brien for his faithful and striking account of the scale of the humanitarian crisis in the three countries he just visited. For the sake of brevity and the President’s call for concision, I will focus on the situation in Yemen, while also touchin…
Ukraine welcomes the Security Council’s unanimous adoption today of resolution 2337 (2017). My delegation would also like to congratulate Mr. Adama Barrow, who was inaugurated today as the new President of the Islamic Republic of The Gambia. We hope he will soon be able to return to his country in o…
Ukraine aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union. Meanwhile, I would like to make a few points in my national capacity.
Three months ago, the Council discussed the situation in Afghanistan (see S/PV.7771) and adopted presidential statement S/PRST/2016/1…
I would like to express Ukraine’s sincere appreciation to the Spanish President personally for convening such an important meeting, as well as for initiating resolution 2322 (2016), which Ukraine sponsored.
I would also like to join other delegations in expressing our solidarity and condolences to …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Senegalese delegation convening this morning’s debate.
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It is also my pleasure and honour to welcome today’s briefers and thank them for their comprehensive presentations.
Ukraine aligns itself with the statement to be delivered later on …
I join other delegations in thanking today’s briefers for their useful updates. I would also like in particular to pay sincere tribute to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Løj for her dedicated service at the helm of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), which I was privi…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting, and to commend once again the outstanding contribution of Senegal to United Nations peacekeeping endeavours. I wish also to express my gratitude to Under-Secretary- General Ladsous for his valuable briefing. We look forward to rec…
