First of all, let me express our most heartfelt congratulations to you personally, Madam President, and your friendly country, France, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March and your able leadership of the Council’s work over the past weeks. I also thank y…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also congratulate your friendly country on its accession to membership of the Council, as well as Germany, Indonesia, Belgium and South Africa on theirs. We wish them ever…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of four States: the Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab
Emirates, the Republic of Yemen and my own country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
I would like to state that we are in complete agreement with my colleague the representative of Kuwait, who spoke on behalf …
At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude for the efforts of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to uphold the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people in order to enable them to exercise their rights, which are guaranteed by the r…
When truth appears, liars flee. I did not want to take more of the Council’s precious time to respond to the nonsense of my colleague the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic, first, because I personally sympathize with him and secondly, because I sympathize with our brother people of Syria, w…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your wise leadership of the Security Council for this month, and to wish you continued success. I also thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his valuable briefing and for all his tire…
Mr. President, allow me at the outset to commend the active Swedish presidency of the Security Council for this month and to express my country’s appreciation for your efforts to ensure a positive outcome in the work of the Council.
The world recently celebrated the life of a man who was able to sp…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your friendly country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July. I would also like to thank His Excellency Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for his personal participation in part of the Council’s work today…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and on your capable steering of the work of the Council. I thank you, Sir, for convening this open debate to discuss the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We appreciate the importa…
My country is committed to the fundamental principles of international relations, in particular building and maintaining peace. In that regard, my country underscores that the basic foundation for building and maintaining peace is established by achieving justice. Without justice there can be no pea…
At the outset, I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President, on presiding over the Security Council this month, and to assure you that we are proud of the distinguished role that the sisterly State of Kuwait is playing in this forum. We thank you also for convening this open debate on the working metho…
Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. It is a historic presidency by all measures, as proved by the personal presence of the President of Kazakhstan and his participation in the work of the Council. I would als…
I would first like to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this open debate on children and armed conflict. I also commend you for your deft stewardship of the Security Council this month.
We commend the role of the United Nations in sparing children from suffering the horrors of armed c…
At the outset, my delegation would like to thank the President, his team and all those in charge of drawing up the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. We welcome the adoption of the Plan and all the tireless efforts deployed to that end.
We reaffirm the commitment…
At the outset, I would like to thank the President for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his focus on efforts to combat terrorism since he assumed his post, and for assisting Member States in implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia commends the Secretary-General for giving priority to strengthening the United Nations counter-terrorism capability in order to assist Member States in implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in a balanced and comprehensive manner. We thank him a…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Ambassador Nikki Haley on her appointment as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. I have no doubt that our two States will be able to strengthen our bilateral relationship based on our common interests. I would also like to congratulate the …
It is my pleasure to speak on behalf of the Group of Arab States. I would like to congratulate the friendly country of Sweden on its accession to the Security Council and on assuming the presidency for the month of January. I fully trust that Sweden, given its principled positions on international m…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We wish you every success. We thank you in particular for convening this meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestine. I would also l…
I congratulate Malaysia on its accession to
the Council presidency and wish it every success in its endeavours. We also thank the Malaysian presidency for inviting us to participate in this debate and welcome Malaysia’ leadership role in the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.
I also tha…
