I thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for her briefing and for presenting the seventh report on the activities of her Office and on the implementation of resolution 1970 (2011) on Libya. We agree with her statement that accountability for the most serious …
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this emergency meeting on Ukraine, and Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Under- Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his briefing on the developments in the situation in eastern Ukraine. We believe, however, that the Ukrainian people and the inter…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine. I thank Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for his briefing and for his efforts in reporting and ensuring human rights in Ukraine.
The report of the Office of the Unite…
I would like to thank Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, for his briefing and for the tremendous work he has done in ensuring the successful completion of the mandate of the Unite…
I thank Ms. Sandra Honoré, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), for her briefing on the current developments in the country. I appreciate in particular her intensive engagement with the political decision…
Allow me to start by thanking Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia for his update of the 90-day report and for his able leadership
of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We encourage the Committee this year to continue working with Member States seeking guidance on the imp…
At the outset, I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Didier Burkhalter, President of the Swiss Confederation and Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and thank him for his comprehensive briefing. I also congratulate his country on its assumpti…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important open debate on the rule of law. We believe that this debate is a perfect continuation of the debate organized last month by the Jordanian presidency on war, its lessons and the search for a permanent peace (see S/PV.7105). Indeed, there can b…
Allow me first to commend you, Mr. President, and your delegation for the initiative you have taken in holding today’s debate. I would also like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Catherine Ashton…
I would like to thank your delegation, Madam President, for organizing this important debate. I also thank Under-Secretary- General Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and Director-General Yves Daccord for their respective briefin…
I should like to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive briefing, and we commend the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) under his leadership. I welcome His Excellency Mr. Ivica Dačić, Prime Minister of Se…
I would like to begin, Mr. President, by thanking you again for organizing today’s debate and, most especially, we appreciated your statement this morning.
Rwanda takes the floor again to respond to the statement made by the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I would like to re…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this important debate on peace and security in Africa, and in particular on drug trafficking in the Sahel region and West Africa. As your presidency comes to an end, Rwanda thanks France for the attention it has paid this month, in Paris and New York, to the issue of …
Allow me first of all to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and leadership of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). At the same time, I thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nati…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important debate on peace and security in Africa, which focuses on the Sahel region. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his commitment and his briefing. Also, I welcome Mr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank; Mr. Romano Prodi,…
I would like to thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan of Australia, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), for his quarterly briefing and the work carried out by the Committee under his chairmanship. We also welcome the ongoing support of the Committee’s Panel of Experts and …
I would like to begin by thanking Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Vagn Joensen, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and th…
I would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, for presenting the forty-fourth report on the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2013/646, annex). We commend his continued efforts to ensure the full implementation of the Dayt…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate on the implementation of note S/2010/507, on the working methods of the Security Council, which is, in itself, an exercise of transparency and accountability. I would also like to thank Ambassador María Cristina Perceval of Argentina for her able lead…
Let me start by commending the Australian presidency for having organized this important high-level meeting on Yemen on the margins of the general debate of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. I would like to thank Mr. Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Yemen, …
