Session I: Contemporary Issues & Challenges in Modern Peace Operations Excellencies, His Excellency Vice Foreign Minister, Mr. Robert Mardini, the Permanent Observer of the ICRC to the United Nations, Senior Officers, Ladies…
Distinguished Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to address the Fourth Intersessional Meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. I would like to start by congratulating the adoption in March 2019 of the…
[Watch the video on webtv.un.org] Thank you for being here today to mark the launch of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech. This Strategy and Plan of Action are brand new – but they are rooted in our…
I thank Kuwait and His Excellency, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, for this opportunity to brief the Council. I welcome the representatives of The Elders, former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and…
The world does not have many true heroes. But the late Private Chancy Chitete, of Malawi was indeed one of them and we unfortunately lost him last year. Private Chitete was serving with MONUSCO -- the UN Organization…
I am honoured to join you today to remember the brave women and men who have lost their lives while serving in UN Peacekeeping. More than 3,800 military, police and civilian peacekeepers have lost their lives since the United…
Minister Meleșcanu, Ambassadors, distinguished colleagues, I thank Romania for organizing this timely event, taking place in the wake of the biannual UN-EU Steering Committee meeting on Crisis Management and coinciding with…
I welcome this debate on women in peacekeeping as we strive for progress on a key element in the maintenance of international peace and security. With the launch of the Strategy on Gender Parity in 2017, the United Nations…
I thank you all, and particularly the co-hosts of today’s meeting, for your commitment to United Nations peacekeeping. Across the decades, our peacekeeping operations have helped countries from Liberia and Sierra Leone to…
Je vous remercie pour l’opportunité qui m’est donnée de briefer le Conseil. Je souhaite la bienvenue à Son Excellence le Premier Ministre Maïga. Nous avons tous été horrifiés par la récente recrudescence de la violence dans…
Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply honoured to receive this award on behalf of MINUSCA, the Central African Republic, my colleagues and my Country, Brazil. It shows the importance that the…
Mr. Chair, Distinguished delegates, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Special Committee on our priorities for taking forward Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) commitments in 2019. Since the Secretary-General launched…