We are grateful to Ms. Sellassie for her briefing, which reflects the evolution of the situation in the Sahel region in all its manifold aspects, as well as the main challenges and the steps being taken to implement the United Nations integrated strategy in the Sahel. The events in this turbulent ar…
We are grateful to Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General David Nabarro and Mr. Thomas Mauget for their briefings on the situation concerning the spread of the Ebola virus and on the existing needs of the United Nations Mission for Eb…
We welcome today’s meeting on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Croatia and Namibia on their appointments as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly …
We thank Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed and the commanders of the military components of the United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and the Golan for their substantive briefings, which reflect some of today’s most pressing themes, not only for the missions that they …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Sandra Honoré for introducing the Secretary-General’s report before us (S/2014/617) and for her assessment of the situation in Haiti.
We agree that national dialogue remains of utmost importance to stabilizing the situation in the country. Si…
I believe that Mr. Hoxhaj’s comments are an attempt to lead the discussion away from the topics that we have been discussing today.
With regard to the events in Crimea, I would like to recall that over 80 per cent of voters in Crimea took part in the referendum there, unlike in the elections in Kos…
We welcome the participation in this meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić. We agree with the comments he made and we took note of the statement by Mr. Enver Hoxhaj. We thank Mr. Zarif for his presentation of the report…
The Russian Federation supported resolution
2170 (2014), adopted today, on the basis of its consistent position on the need for an uncompromising fight against terrorism and for united efforts to that end. We have repeatedly called on the Security Council to condemn the terrorists running rampant i…
We welcome the international community’s active efforts to normalize the situation in the Great Lakes region, namely, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That constructive commitment is demonstrated, among other things, by the decisions taken at the July summit of Ministers for Foreign Affairs …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abou Moussa, for his briefing today.
We agree with the worrying assessments voiced here of the negative effects of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic on the situation in Central Africa in general. Among other destabil…
I welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Aminu Bashir Wali of Nigeria as President of the Security Council at this meeting, which reaffirms the importance of security sector reform to African countries.
We are considering security sector reform in the context of post-conflict peacebuilding e…
The Security Council’s guest today, Mr. Samura M.W. Kamara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone, has convincingly shown that today marks a genuine milestone for his country. With the work of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for presenting the latest report (S/2014/162) of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
There have been many signs of stabilization in Haiti lately. Despite th…
We would like to thank Deputy Secretary- General Eliasson, the Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Patriota, and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Ms. Clark, for their informative briefings, in which they highlighted the peacebuilding efforts of the U…
Given the urgent need to scale up the peacekeeping presence in the Central African Republic, we supported the adoption of resolution 2134 (2014), which, inter alia, approves the deployment of a European Union operation in support of the African Union (AU) International Support Mission. We hope that …
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the revitalization of its work. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Slovakia and Thailand on their appointment as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the…
We thank Mr. Abou Moussa for his briefing.
We agree with the concerns expressed today with regard to the negative impacts of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic on the situation in the subregion. While it is true that the crisis in that country stems, inter alia, from illegal flows o…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the cross-regional group, which includes the following States: Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and my own country, the Russian Federation.
We have joined th…
We welcome the presence of Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, in today’s meeting and share the ideas he has expressed. We have carefully listened to Mr. Enver Hoxhaj.
We thank Mr. Zarif for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations I…
We welcome your participation in presiding over the Security Council at today’s meeting, Sir, thereby demonstrating the importance of the situation in Haiti for the Latin American region. I would also like to congratulate Ms. Sandra Honoré on her appointment as Special Representative of the Secretar…
