I wish to thank the Polish presidency of the Security Council for organizing this briefing, as well as the briefers, namely, Secretary- General António Guterres; Mr. Yves Daccord, Director- General of the International Committee of the Red Cross; and Ms. Hanaa Edwar, as civil-society representative.…
Italy aligns itself with the statement delivered by the observer of the European Union (see A/72/PV.83).
The high-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace offers a unique opportunity to further develop the sustaining peace agenda and to strengthen the United Nations peacebuilding archite…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate the Netherlands on its successful presidency of the Security Council this month.
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect, which consists of 50 member States and the European Union and …
At the outset, allow me to thank the Kuwaiti presidency for organizing today’s open debate on working methods, which offers us a public occasion to elaborate on the revised note by the President S/2017/507, push for its implementation and pay tribute to the remarkable progress made by the Informal W…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and the Japanese presidency for organizing this important, lively and timely meeting.
Italy aligns itself with the statement to be delivered later by the observer of the European Union.
Today’s open debate lets us reflect …
In my national capacity, I would once again like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman and Ambassador Adamson for their briefings on the activities of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). I thank all members for the kind words addressed to me and my team after t…
I thank you in particular, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. My thanks also go to Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, and Ambassador Joanne Adamson for their briefings.
Today, I will touch on three aspects of my report covering the period from 16 June to 15 December 2017: first, …
Italy voted in favour of draft resolution S/2017/1060, as it reaffirms the well- established principles and messages that are already enshrined in several resolutions on the issue of Jerusalem. The text is consistent with Italy’s position on the matter. As we said at the emergency Security Council m…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Japanese presidency for convening this important debate, as well as the Secretary-General for his briefing. We also appreciate the visit to Pyongyang last week by Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman, and we support the United Nations efforts to establish a ch…
First of all, I too would like to thank Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for the twenty-sixth report on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Darfur, as well as for her briefing today. Above all, I would like to acknowledge her tireless and admirable efforts to maintain a focus on the …
At the outset, I wish to thank the Japanese presidency of the Security Council for organizing this meeting. The intimate link between violations of human rights and the repercussions for the maintenance of international peace and security cannot be denied. This is particularly evident in the case of…
I join my colleagues in expressing the sincere condolences of the Italian Government to the victims’ families and the concerned Government over the loss of 14 Tanzanian Blue Helmets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Italy welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2391 (2017). At the outs…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing. I also welcome the continued personal engagement of the Secretary- General on this issue.
Following the recent declaration on Jerusalem by the President of the United States, Italy joined seven other members of the Security Council …
I welcome this opportunity as an outgoing Security Council member to give a briefing on the work I have done in leading a subsidiary body of the Council and on the lessons learned. I will try to draw some conclusions from my activity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 …
Before beginning, allow me to thank the French presidency and the French delegation for the excellent manner in which they have guided the work of the Security Council during the month of October.
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First of all, I wish to thank the French presidency for convening today’s open deb…
I would like to begin by thanking the French presidency for its briefing, which furthers a conversation that the Security Council has been holding on the Sahel in recent months, as well for the initiative of visiting the Sahel region. I would
also like to thank the four briefers for their respectiv…
I associate myself with the sincere condolences conveyed by the President in the light of the loss of life of three Chadian soldiers deployed to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) who died, which is a reminder of the difficulties faced by peacekeep…
As the global non-proliferation architecture continues to face extremely serious challenges, the Security Council has the responsibility to uphold the integrity and credibility of these crucial long-standing norms for our collective security, preserving pathways for accountability in the case of vio…
I would like to thank the Ethiopian presidency of the Security Council for convening this important meeting with the view to bringing greater coherence and focus to the issue. I wish to take this opportunity to commend Ambassador Aboulatta, Chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, to welcome Under-…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his engagement in facing the alarming situation in Rakhine state.
In the past months, the number of refugees fleeing from the region has increased appallingly, which has created a dangerous humanitarian crisis with destabilizing i…
