I would like to express my delegation’s pleasure in the adoption of the programme budget for the biennium 2016-2017. I would like to reiterate the principles we have always advocated, which are that adequate resources should be allocated to fulfilling the mandates generated by the collective members…
I thank the President for organizing today’s debate General Assembly debate on the situation in Afghanistan. I would like to commend the delegation of Germany for coordinating the intergovernmental negotiations that have led to the finalization of the annual General Assembly draft resolution (A/70/L…
I thank the President for convening this important meeting on the question of Palestine, in which my delegation has participated since the first special session in April and May 1947.
We are marking the International day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. On this important occasion, our Pri…
Let me, at the outset, thank the President for organizing this meeting to consider
the annual report of the Security Council (A/70/2), covering the period from 1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015. I would like to express my appreciation for the efforts made by Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen, Permanent Rep…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements made earlier by the Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia on behalf of the L.69 group and the Permanent Representative of Germany on behalf of the Group of Four.
At the outset, allow me to compliment you, Mr. President, on convening this important d…
We thank the Secretary- General for his annual report on the work of the Organization (A/70/1). We are fortunate that today’s meeting is taking place shortly after the high-level general debate, during which our leaders addressed the General Assembly. We therefore have not only the report’s perspect…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate on this important and pertinent issue and for the informative concept note (S/2015/749, annex). In order to give other colleagues a chance to speak today, I will make only a few points and request that my ful…
I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this plenary meeting on the report of the Secretary-General entitled “The future of United Nations peace operations: implementation of recommendations of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations” (A/70/357). It is signi…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. We thank today’s briefers for their comprehensive briefings on this important topic. We very much appreciate your circulating a very useful concept note (S/2015/678) in that context.
The situation in the Middle East region continues to remain…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2015/684), Special Representative of the Secretary- General Nicholas Haysom his briefing and Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his statement.
India is proud to call itself Afghanistan’s first strategic partner. We stand read…
I align my statement with those delivered on behalf of the L.69 group and the Group of Four earlier today.
Allow me, Mr. President, to begin by complimenting you personally on behalf of my country and a large number of like-minded developing countries which have looked up to you with hope, admirati…
I wish to express my appreciation and felicitations to the delegation of
Armenia for taking this important initiative. I also thank the President of the General Assembly, the Secretariat and all delegations for their widespread support for the consensus that led to the adoption of resolution 69/323…
I would like to begin by commending my colleagues from the African Union for this extremely timely initiative and for moving resolution 69/316 for the consideration of the General Assembly. As a sponsor of this resolution, my delegation fully supports the need to commemorate the seventieth anniversa…
I thank the President for convening this meeting.
We align ourselves with the statements delivered earlier today by the Ambassador of South Africa on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and by the Ambassador of Indonesia on behalf of the group of like-minded countries, which includes India.
The dr…
I will shorten my statement in the interest of time and circulate the full text for reference.
India shares traditional and strong bonds of friendship and kinship with small island developing States (SIDS). With a coastline extending more than 7,500 kilometres and with several groups of islands loc…
I thank you, Foreign Minister McCully, President of the Council, for convening of this quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. I also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his comprehensive briefing.
This quarterly debate is important in that it give…
At the outset, I would like to express our strong condemnation of this morning’s terrorist attack on the Afghan Parliament and express our solidarity with the people and Government of Afghanistan at this hour. Madam President, we thank
your delegation for organizing this debate on the United Nation…
We would like to thank our briefers in this debate and to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. On this day I would also like to convey our greetings to you at the start of the month of Ramadan.
As is evident from the Se…
Let me join other delegations in conveying our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Nepal, who have endured large-scale devastation in the aftermath of a massive earthquake on 25 April and several aftershocks. While we share the grief of the people of Nepal, we are gratified to se…
We thank the Lithuanian delegation for organizing this debate. We compliment you, Madam, on the very useful concept note (S/2015/306, annex) circulated earlier, and we also thank the briefers from this morning. We note that the Security Council had occasion to discuss this issue in depth in 2013 whe…
