S/2019/458 SC
74
Session
| Draft symbol | S/2019/458 |
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| Sponsors (4) | |
| P5 Positions |
Russia
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United States
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United Kingdom
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China
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France
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Vote Recorded Vote — S/PV.8543
Speeches following this vote (16)
The President
I thank Ms. Ghelani for her briefing.
I now give the floor to Mr. Maurer.
Mr. Maurer: Some of the most horrific consequences of war are those that we cannot see. When traumas are invisible, they are overlooked, ignored or deprioritized. This is perhaps most starkly evident when it comes to the critical issue of missing persons. Every day, people go missing because of conflict, violence, disaste…
The President
I thank Mr. Maurer for his briefing.
I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait.
It is my pleasure to participate today in this meeting on the important humanitarian issue of missing persons in armed conflict. I welcome the adoption of resolution 2474 (2019), drafted and submitted by the State of Kuwait. The resolution has…
Mr. Allen
I would like to formally welcome you today, Mr. President, to the Council. I congratulate you and your team on presiding over it and thank you for the great work you have already done this month.
Every year, thousands of people go missing amid violence and armed conflict. Every one of those missing persons is an individual — a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a sister, a brother. Their absen…
Mrs. Mele Colifa
At the outset, the delegation of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea would like to thank the delegation of Kuwait for organizing this important briefing on missing persons in armed conflict, as well as for its excellent leadership with respect to resolution 2474 (2019), which the Council has just adopted and which we were proud to sponsor. I would also like to take this opportunity to express our t…
Mr. Heusgen
I thank you very much, Mr. President, for personally attending the meeting today. I think that underlines the importance that Kuwait, based on its history and experience, attaches to this issue. While I am praising you, I would also like to extend my congratulations to your Permanent Representative, Mr. Mansour Alotaibi, who worked very hard to get this done today. It is also his personal success…
Mr. Adom
I thank the Kuwaiti presidency of the Security Council for organizing this briefing on missing persons in armed conflict. I also have the pleasure of welcoming your presence among us, Mr. President, which demonstrates that, as with many countries that have witnessed the horrors of war, the question of missing persons in armed conflict remains at the heart of your country’s priorities. I join my v…
Mr. Ma Zhaoxu
China appreciates Kuwait’s initiative to convene a public meeting on the issue of missing persons in armed conflict and welcomes the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait to New York to preside over the meeting.
I thank Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Director Ghelani for their briefings.
Many decades ago, the Ge…
Mr. Delattre
At the outset, I would like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, and warmly congratulate him on his country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and for taking the initiative to convene today’s
important meeting. Like my German colleague, I congratulate the Permanent Representative of Kuwait and his entire team. It is to that country’s credit, marked as it has…
Mr. Kuzmin
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your Kuwaiti colleagues for the invitation to address the issue of missing persons in armed conflict. We are grateful to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as to the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their contributions to the discussion.
Over…
Mr. Djani
Like other speakers, I would like to welcome Your Excellency as President of the Security Council and to thank Kuwait for convening this very important meeting. I look forward to the discussion. I would also like to thank Mr. Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Ms. Ghelani, Director for Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanit…
Mr. Meza-Cuadra
We welcome the convening of this meeting and your presence, Mr. Minister, here among us at this Security Council briefing. We thank Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director for Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings, which have provided us with a comprehensiv…
Mr. Matjila
I would like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, for their insightful briefings.
South Africa co-sponsored and supported the adoption of resolution 2474 (2019) on missing persons in armed conflict, but…
Mr. Pecsteen de Buytswerve
Allow me at the outset to welcome you, Mr. President, to preside over the Security Council today. I would also like to thank you for convening this meeting on the important issue of missing persons in armed conflict.
I wish to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani and Mr. Peter Maurer for their briefings. As they highlighted earlier, this issue has a legitimate place on the Council’s agenda. Indeed, the impac…
Mr. Cohen
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening and presiding over today’s briefing. We also thank Mr. Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Ms. Ghelani, Director for Operations and Advocacy of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for participating today, and we commend their teams for their critical work in addres…
Mr. Singer Weisinger
We welcome the convening of this important meeting and Kuwait’s commitment, Mr. President, exemplified by your presence here today, to promoting the critical issue of missing persons in armed conflict. I would also like to thank Ms. Ghelani and Mr. Maurer for their briefings. We particularly applaud the Council’s adoption of resolution 2474 (2019), submitted by your country, Mr. President, throug…
Mr. Wronecka
I would like to welcome you to the Chamber today, Mr. President, and to thank you for your very valuable initiative. I also want to thank our briefers.
Poland welcomes the adoption of resolution 2474 (2019), an important and timely resolution on missing persons in armed conflict. We thank Kuwait for all its efforts to see the text adopted today. We are pleased to be among its sponsors, especiall…
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