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72/199 GA

72
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Draft symbol A/72/L.33
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UN Document 72/199 ↗

Vote ConsensusA/72/PV.74 Dec. 20, 2017

Speeches following this vote (13) may include explanations of vote
The President
Before giving the floor for explanations of position on the resolution just adopted, I would like to remind delegations that explanations of vote are limited to 10 minutes and should be made by delegations from their seats.
Ms. Sison (United States of America)
The United States wishes to thank you, Mr. President, and the facilitators for leading a transparent and swift consultation process on reforming the United Nations peace and security architecture. The United States supports the Secretary- General’s initiative to reform the United Nations peace and security architecture and his efforts to make the United Nations more field-focused. With more focu…
Mr. Gómez Camacho (Mexico)
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, and the two facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of Rwanda and Slovakia, for their remarkable work on resolution 72/199. Mexico joined the consensus adoption of resolution 72/199 because it supports the efforts and vision of the Secretary-General. His proposal is geared towards making the United Nations stronger and better able to resp…
Mrs. Martinic (Argentina)
We thank you, Mr. President, and the facilitators of resolution 72/199, Rwanda and Slovakia, for their efforts to achieve a consensus-based resolution on an issue of vital importance to the future of the Organization. Argentina again welcomes the initiative of the Secretary-General to take forward the process of the structural reform of the United Nations, in particular with regard to the peace…
Mr. Zhang Dianbin (China)
As the most universal, representative and authoritative intergovernmental international organization, the United Nations is a very effective platform that we can use to collectively address diverse threats and challenges. In the light of such new challenges and threats, the United Nations should attempt to improve itself through reform so that it can better shoulder the responsibilities entruste…
Mr. Iliichev (Russian Federation)
The Russian delegation joined the consensus adoption of resolution 72/199, entitled “Restructuring of the United Nations peace and security pillar”. We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing in the General Assembly, the most representative organ of the United Nations, an intergovernmental discussion about the preliminary ideas of Secretary-General António Guterres with regard to…
Mr. Awad (Egypt)
We would like to thank the representatives of Rwanda and Slovakia for their efforts, and you, Mr. President, for sponsoring the negotiations that have resulted in the adoption by consensus of the procedural resolution 72/199, on the restructuring of the United Nations peace and security pillar. The delegation of Egypt would like to seize this opportunity to stress the following points. First, an…
Mr. Fox-Drummond Gough (Brazil)
At the outset, Brazil would like to welcome the vision of the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, of a more effective United Nations. The Organization needs to be nimbler in order to better implement all mandates in each and every pillar of its initiatives: peace and security, development and human rights. My delegation would like to commend the Secretary-General for his commitment to open, …
Mr. Jürgenson (Estonia)
I speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. The candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Albania; the country of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina; the European Free Trade Association country Liechtenstein, member of the European Economic Area; as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldo…
The President
We have heard the last speaker in explanation of position. The Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of agenda items 123 and 124. Reports of the Second Committee
The President
The General Assembly will consider the reports of the Second Committee on agenda items 16 to 26, 63, 121 and 137. I request the Rapporteur of the Second Committee, Mrs. Theresah Chipulu Luswili Chanda of Zambia, to introduce the reports of the Second Committee in one intervention. Mrs. Chanda (Zambia), Rapporteur of the Second Committee: It is an honour for me to introduce to the General Assemb…
The Acting President
I thank the Rapporteur of the Second Committee for having introduced the report of the Second Committee. I should also like to congratulate the Chair, Bureau and all members of the Committee for having improved greatly on the previous year by concluding their work in such record time. The positions of delegations regarding the recommendations of the Second Committee have been made clear in the C…
The Acting President
Statements will therefore be limited to explanations of vote. May I remind members that under paragraph 7 of decision 34/401, the General Assembly agreed that “When the same draft resolution is considered in a Main Committee and in plenary meeting, a delegation should, as far as possible, explain its vote only once, that is, either in the Committee or in plenary meeting, unless that delegation’…
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