I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this monthly wrap- up meeting in a public format, thus enhancing the transparency of the Council’s work. I would also like to congratulate you, Sir, and your team for your dynamic and effective presidency of the Security Council during the month of August, whi…
I too would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing.
We are very concerned by the serious deterioration in the situation in the areas controlled by the separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions resulting from increased fighting in those regiоns. We are also very …
I too would like to thank Presidents Meron and Joensen and Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow for their briefings and reports on the activities of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). I also thank them for the informatio…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the Regional United Nations Office for Central Africa, Mr. Abou Moussa, for his briefing. Since this is his last statement before the Council in that capacity, I would like to take this opportunity to commend his work to promote…
I welcome your initiative, Madam President, to convene under the presidency of Nigeria this open debate on sexual violence in conflict. The Secretary-General’s presentation and his regular participation in open debates on this topic show the commitment to the fight against sexual violence at the hig…
I too would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing on the developments in the situation in Ukraine. I also welcome the Permanent Representative of Ukraine, His Excellency Mr. Yuriy Sergeyev, to the Council.
Luxembourg is deeply conce…
I, too, welcome Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Farid Zarif and thank him for his briefing. I welcome as well His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, Prime Minister of Serbia, and His Excellency Mr. Hashim Thaçi, Prime …
I would first like to thank the Permanent Representative of Australia, Ambassador Gary Quinlan, for his presentation of the quarterly report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), and to congratulate him on the way he has run that important Committee with t…
I would like to thank Ms. Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her sixth report pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) and for her briefing today. Let me reiterate our full support and appreciation for her work. I would also like to welcome the Permanent Representative of …
I would like to join others in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and His Excellency Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for presenting…
I would like to thank Argentina for organizing, under its presidency of the Council, this debate on Haiti, which is elevated by your presence, Mr. President. I would also like to congratulate the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission…
Let me thank Argentina for organizing this open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Three months before the presentation of the next report of the Secretary-General on that subject, and six months after the adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2013/2 in the framework of Feb…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this interactive meeting with the Force Commanders of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Mission in Liberia and the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire, Lieutenant General Dos Santos…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her detailed briefing and report on the situation in Darfur, as well as for the investigation and proceedings conducted by the Court. Since the Security Council decided, with its adoption of resol…
Like previous speakers, I wish to thank the three Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) — Ambassadors Gary Quinlan, Mohammed Loulichki and Kim Sook, respectively — for their detailed briefings and for the efficiency an…
We thank the Indian presidency of the Council for organizing today’s open debate on the working methods of the Security Council. We welcome that this debate has become an annual tradition. I would like to take this opportunity to commend the remarkable work done by Portugal as Chair of the Council’s…
Allow me first of all to thank, on behalf of Luxembourg, the delegation of Jamaica for its initiative to place the follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade on the agenda of the Assembly, and the delegation of Guyana for the dra…
It is a great honour for me today to present on behalf of the
Minister for Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs of Luxembourg, Ms. Marie-Josée Jacobs, the main conclusions that, under her chairmanship, Panel 2 arrived at on the subject of prevention, under the theme “Prevention — What can be done t…
I want to thank the President of the General Assembly through you, Sir, for having organized this meeting to
follow up on the High-level Meeting on Revitalizing the Work of the Conference on Disarmament held last September.
Luxembourg aligns itself fully with the statement made two days ago on beh…
