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UAE Statement at the UN Security Council Meeting on “Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136)”

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General for their remarks. This is the fourth meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine in less than a month. In light of the recent and alarming tensions, my country’s position has been to call for de-escalation

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, Including the Palestinian Question

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, I would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive briefing. What we heard today about the fragile humanitarian, security, and political situation in the occupied Palestinian territory underscores the necessity of actively relaunching a credible peace process that

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council on the Situation Between Iraq and Kuwait

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, Mr. President, I thank Ambassador Michael Gaffey, Chairman of the United Nations Compensation Commission, for his valuable briefing. I also welcome the participation of His Excellency Dr. Fouad Baki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, and Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, Permanent Representative of Kuwait, in this

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council Meeting on the Central African Republic

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Madam President, Madam President, At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of MINUSCA, His Excellency Mr. Bertino Matias Matondo, AU Special Representative and Head of the AU Office in C.A.R., and Mr. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the ICGLR,

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council on “Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136)”

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Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her updates and briefing this evening. I would like to refer to the statement that the UAE delivered in this Chamber on 17 February on the same subject. I would like to emphasize once again

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council on Haiti

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, Mr. President, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Helen Lime for her valuable briefing. The past months have been trying times for Haiti. Recently hit by natural disasters, violence continues to rise across the country and political differences remains, in turn exacerbating the

Statement of the UAE at the UN Security Council Meeting on the Letter dated 13 April 2014 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/264)

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding, Mr. Mikko Kinnunen, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, and Mr. Yaşar Halit Çevik, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Chief Monitor, for their comprehensive

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council Meeting on Cooperation between the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

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Mr. President, I would like to thank the Russian Federation for organizing this meeting. I also thank UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Stanislav Zas, for their insightful presentations. The UAE attaches great importance to prioritizing regional views in conflict resolution as well as in peacebuilding and