It is an honour to have this opportunity to introduce draft resolution A/69/L.75, on the establishment of an International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
As you know and have said, Mr. President, Argentina is a country where fundamental freedoms and human rights are part of…
First of all, I want to thank you, Mr. President, and through you, the President of the General Assembly, for convening this solemn meeting to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, upon the suggestion of the Russian Federation and with the unanimous support of th…
Madam President, we would like to thank you for the initiative of convening this debate and for the concept note (S/2015/243, annex) that you circulated to inspire
our commitment and our thinking on this issue. I should like also to thank Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secre…
First, we thank France for having convened this substantive debate and for having circulated the concept note (S/2015/176, annex) to serve as a guide for our discussions. Allow me also to greet the members of the Security Council. We are also grateful for the briefings by the Secretary-General and t…
I should like to begin by greeting everyone here and thanking France for the initiative of convening this debate and for the concept note (S/2015/168, annex) that was circulated to guide our discussions. I wish also to convey my congratulations to the delegation of Malaysia and Ambassador Hussein Ha…
I congratulate France on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. We appreciate your delegation’s intelligence and temperance — qualities that are crucial for guiding the work of the Security Council.
I would also like to express my warm congratulations to all the peoples, includ…
The commemoration in July this year of the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, described by Secretary-General Kofi Annan as “the worst crime committed on European soil since the Second World War”, in which more than 8,000 people were killed and more 25,000 women and girls were forcibly…
Argentina believes that an explanation of its affirmative vote is unnecessary. The history of the Palestinian people, international law and resolutions of the United Nations are the deepest justification of the position taken by my country. We lament that the Security Council has not today adopted a…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Šimonović, for their briefings.
I do not wish to reiterate the contents of the report before the Council (S/2014.276, annex), but I shall explain Ar…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for your initiative to convene this wrap-up session, the tenth this year and the fifteenth public format of its kind. We hope that this practice will continue in the future and become an institutionalized practice of the Security Council, with
a view towar…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on a topic to which Argentina attaches great importance, that is, the partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security. Your presence and participation here to…
I will not speak today of hunger or poverty or the ineffectiveness of the Council’s sanctions, nor of the need to review unilateral sanctions, nor of the obscene proliferation of weapons, nor of the silencing of traditional cultures — we have a hard time understanding how traditional cultures contra…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to welcome and thank Ms. Sellassie, the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Sahel, for her briefing, which we have studied and carefully.
In our view, Mr. Prodi’s outline of the United Nations integr…
I would like to thank the Security Council for this opportunity afforded us to share our points of view and assessments of the work undertaken by the two subsidiary bodies that I have had the honour of presiding over during my country’s mandate as a Council member. I will begin by addressing the wor…
I thank you and your team very much, Mr. President. Like the rest of my colleagues, I wish to acknowledge your work, not only during the month of your presidency, but throughout the two years we have shared on the Council. It is clear that we do not take the same view on all matters, and that is goo…
Let me begin by thanking Ambassador Oh Joon for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I also wish to congratulate him on the dedicated and excellent work that he and his predecessor, Ambassador Kim Sook, whom we fondly recall, have done these past …
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting on the status of the crisis situation in West Africa resulting from Ebola. My thanks go, too, to Mr. Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Mr. David Na…
We would like to begin by thanking the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for presenting his report on the implementation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2014/777, annex). I would also like to welcome the Permanent Representa…
Argentina wishes once again to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for her briefing on her eighth report pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).
Argentina wishes to recall that the referral of cases to the ICC reflects the explicit recognition by the Coun…
At this very moment in the Security Council, where Argentina is serving as a non-permanent member, there is an important debate taking place on the challenges and complexities confronting us in the situation in Iraq. However, my country could not be absent from this meeting of the General Assembly —…
