Today, the world of migration and protection-of-refugees issues is changing rapidly, as those issues are becoming increasingly acute. Despite the efforts undertaken by the international community and States themselves, the gravity of migration issues is not diminishing, which burdens us with the tas…
We would like to thank the delegation of Malaysia for its initiative to organize today’s meeting, a well as for its able and dynamic leadership of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. We are grateful to the Secretary- General and to today’s briefers for their substantiv…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude to the delegation of Bangladesh for its efforts in preparing draft resolution A/70/L.59.
The development of cooperation among the United Nations, national parliaments and one of the oldest organizations of its kind, the Inter-Parliamentary Union…
In recent weeks, we have repeatedly voiced at the Security Council and at the General Assembly our assessment of the activities of International Criminal Court (ICC). They largely have to do with the Darfur investigation.
We have taken note of the twenty-third report of the Prosecutor of the Intern…
We have studied the report of the President Carmel Agius of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (S/2016/454, annex), and the report of President Theodor Meron of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals with regard to the state of affairs of the bo…
Our delegation is convinced that the initiative being considered today is counterproductive and politically motivated and that it will not facilitate solving the problems that are addressed in it. Its main goal is not to improve the situation of those who have been forcibly displaced. The experience…
Today’s meeting provides a good opportunity for us to discuss the state of efforts to combat sexual violence in armed conflict on the basis of the most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/361) on thetopic. An important role in that undertaking is played by the Special Representative of th…
I will be brief. I wish to respond to the statement made by the Ukrainian delegation, which again included a host of anti-Russian insinuations that have nothing to do with the actual situation. We repudiate them as unjustified and irrelevant to the subject of today’s meeting. However, since the Ukra…
During the prolonged negotiation process, our delegation repeatedly urged that we work together on
a pragmatic approach to the draft resolution before us today (A/70/L.47) and to our efforts to finalize it. It is regrettable that not everyone supported our constructive attitude. The amendments prop…
We thank the Chairmen of the Committees with counter-terrorism mandates for their detailed briefings. The effectiveness of the work of those bodies will to a large extent determine progress in strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations and the Security Council in the field of …
Since this is the first official meeting of the Security Council in May, we would like to start by thanking the delegation of China for its skilful and effective leadership as President during the month of April. We would also like to congratulate our Egyptian colleagues on the start of their presid…
We thank the delegations of China, Angola and Senegal for their initiative to convene today’s meeting of the Security Council on the issue of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his contribution to today’s debate.
In the cur…
Our delegation would like to start by expressing its gratitude to the Angolan presidency for its initiative in convening today’s meeting on the topic of the role of women in preventing and settling conflicts in Africa. We would also like to convey our gratitude to all the invited briefers for their …
We support the emphasis that the United Nations places on issues related to combating racism and racial discrimination. Unfortunately, even today we have not yet vanquished ethnic and religious intolerance, xenophobia and inter-ethnic tensions, and their hostages are national minorities, whose repre…
I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the President of the General Assembly for organizing this meeting and for the opportunity to exchange views on the Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism presented by the Secretary-General (A/70/674), which we have studied carefully. We will c…
We, too, are grateful to the Uruguayan presidency for its initiative to return to the issue of the protection of civilians in times of armed conflict. We thank the Deputy Secretary-General and the other speakers for their assessments and useful information.
The issue of protection of civilians is o…
As in previous years, my delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2256 (2015), for we were unable to find the situation with regard to the implementation of resolution 1966 (2010) and the conclusion of the activities of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia as satisfactory. Th…
At the outset, we thank the briefers for their informative statements and assessments of the threat of human trafficking in situations of conflict. It is important for us to focus our attention at this meeting on the crimes of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) and other terrorist groups, and…
We have taken note of the twenty-second report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the Court’s investigation of the situation in Darfur, and we thank Ms. Bensouda for her participation in today’s meeting and her presentation of the report. Unfortunately, the fact that it was dis…
We would first like to thank the President for organizing today’s meeting.
Our delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Family.
In 2015 we are marking a milestone event, the twentieth anniversary of the World …
