We thank you, Mr. President, as a co-penholder, and Ireland for your efforts to bring draft resolution S/2021/990 to the floor and to the wider United Nations membership for its co-sponsoring of the draft resolution.
Kenya is disappointed at the use of a veto. We believe that the importance of this…
I welcome you to New York, Mr. President. I congratulate you on the Niger’s leadership of the Security Council this month, and I have the honour to transmit to you a message of gratitude from His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta for your delegation’s effective advocacy on behalf of Africa during …
I want to thank Mr. Filippo Grandi for his comprehensive briefing.
Kenya takes note of the growing number of refugees globally as a result of protracted conflicts, economic crises and the effects of climate change. It is worth noting, as other Council members have, that the overwhelming bulk of ref…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Kenya, the Niger and Tunisia — as well as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (A3+1).
The A3+1 thanks you, Mr. President, for your work as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursu…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. I thank Mexico for shepherding us through the previous month with such positive effect. I congratulate Mr. Christian Ritscher on his appointment as Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations
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It is good to see Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland at last in person on this cold morning. I would also like to thank Ms. Comfort Ero for her briefing.
During the October open debate (see S/PV.8883) on this file, Kenya called for the greater recognition of grass-roots organizations that are const…
I thank Mr. Ján Kubiš, Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Libya, for his briefing and his service to the people of Libya. I also thank Ambassador Tirumurti, Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution
1970 (2011), and Ms. Lamees Bensaad, member of the Libyan P…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Ms. Amal Kabashi for their briefings.
We take note of the Secretary-General’s reports on the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) (S/2021/946) and on the Iraqi elections (S/2021/932).
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Kenya is honoured to speak at this high-level meeting on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 64/293).
As a country, we are determined to prevent the trafficking of persons and punish the criminal networks — including those also tra…
I welcome the President to New York. I commend his country’s presidency of the Security Council this month for convening today’s open debate on curbing the diversion of and illicit
trafficking in arms — a challenge that Kenya considers requiring enhanced action by the Security Council. I thank Mr. …
I congratulate Your Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of the United Mexican States, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and for convening this important debate. I also thank His Excellency the Secretary-General and Ms. Lourdes Tibán Guala for their insightful brie…
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his observations and recommendations during this reporting period. We also welcome all constructive grass-roots efforts in advancing the peace process, including the observations and insights shared with the Security Council by Ms. Meredith Rothbart and…
I thank Deputy Secretary- General Mohammed for coming to brief us today and
for undertaking the trip to Somalia. There is nothing like being there and being on the ground to speak with the people and get their perspectives. We were glad to receive her in Kenya in mid-September, and we would again u…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council plus one (A3+1), namely, Kenya, the Niger and Tunisia, as well as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on the latest developments in Ethiopia. We comme…
I thank you the President for organizing today’s meeting and travelling to New York to hold it. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov and Assistant Secretary-General Michèle Coninsx for their briefings on the Secretary- General’s thirteenth strategic report (S/2021/682), as well as …
I thank His Excellency Mr. António Guterres for his insightful briefing on this important subject.
As our contribution to international peace and security, Kenya has participated in United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world for many years. Our peacekeeping story is similar to that of ot…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — namely, Kenya, the Niger and Tunisia — as well as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (A3+1).
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on the latest developments in Afghanistan. The A3+1 rei…
I thank you, Sir, for holding this meeting. I also thank the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for conveying the message of his Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), who is an actively seized mediator on the matter of the Grand Ethi…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Kenya, the Niger and Tunisia — and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (A3+1).
It is with immense sadness that the A3+1 has learned of the recent assassination of His Excellency Mr. Jovenel Moïse,…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to congratulate Estonia on guiding the Council so ably last month.
We make this statement united as the three African members of the Security Council plus one …
