Argentina wishes to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for introducing her seventh report to the Council as required by resolution 1970 (2011). We also welcome the presence among us of the Permanent Representative of Libya.
The referral of situations to th…
I would like to thank you Mr. President — Minister Yun Byung-se, member of the Cabinet of the first woman President of the Republic of Korea, President Park Geun-Hye — for your initiative in convening this meeting on an issue of such great importance for the international community, especially on …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I also thank Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Mr. Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, for their briefings on their mission, which was …
I join other speakers in expressing my confidence, on behalf of the delegation of Argentina, in Korea’s leadership during the month of its presidency. I also express my recognition and gratitude to the Nigerian presidency of last month.I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, …
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this debate. Our respect and appreciation go to Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Serry for his briefing. I recognize and extend my respect to the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine …
I would like to thank Mr. Feltman for his update on the difficult situation in Ukraine.
I am wondering, and I would also like to ask the Council, why we are having this meeting. Going over the difficult situation and the worsening of the crisis once again is undoubtedly one reason, although I know …
I thank His Excellency Mr. Aminu Wali, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for organizing this open debate on a topic concerning which Argentina has been very active since the organization in 2009 of the seminar of Latin America and the Caribbean on regional perspectives…
First of all, Madam President, I would like to convey the solidarity of the people and the Government of Argentina to the people and the Government of your country, Nigeria. Humankind has no right to suffer.
Argentina does not sponsor draft resolutions for reasons of technical or timely factors tha…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, for his briefing on the human rights situation in Ukraine.
What else can we say except to reiterate that Argentina is following with great concern the
increasingly tense situation in Ukraine, in particu…
I, too, would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing on the developments in Ukraine and on the involvement of the United Nations. I also welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine at this meeting.
Argentina conti…
First of all, I would like to welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone, Mr. Kamara, and Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL). We are also gr…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, Ambassador Sandra Honoré, for her briefing on the report of the Secretary- General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (S/2014/162). I would also like to recognize her work, her efforts and the resu…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassador Quinlan for presenting the quarterly report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for his dedicated and devoted leadership of the Committee.
We have received the most recent report of the Director General of t…
I am grateful for the statements made by the Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson; by Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission; and by Ms. Helen Clark, Administration of the United Nations Development Programme.
As the Secretary-General pointed out in…
First of all, I wish to thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović for their respective briefings. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Ukraine for his participation in today’s meeting of the Security Council.
Argentina is fol…
Argentina supported resolution 2146 (2014) bearing in mind, in particular, the request from the Government of Libya to receive assistance from the international community at a stage in its history in which the latter finds itself committed to contribute to the country’s stability, institutional rebu…
The delegation of Argentina believes that there is not much sense in making declarations about future events and hypothetical consequences. However, we voted for the draft resolution contained in document S/2014/189 because it reasserts the primacy of the principle of territorial integrity. We did s…
I would like to express the appreciation of my delegation
for the commitment with which Luxembourg has served in its presidency of the Security Council, as can be seen in the fact that you, Mr. President, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, are presiding over today’s meeting. We thank Under-Secretary…
I would also like to thank Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing. Through him, we would like to express our appreciation to the Secretary-General and other United Nations officials for their efforts to promote a negotiated solution in the situation.
Argentina is following with deep concern t…
Thank you, Madam President, for arranging for this opportunity to have an exchange. I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Didier Burkhalter, President of the
Swiss Confederation and Head of the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs. I commend him on his assumption of the chairmanship-in…
