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Video: Security Council Meeting on Syria

04 February 2012

Statement by His Excellency Mr. Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa, during the 6711th meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).


Video: Press Conference by H.E. Baso Sangqu
on South Africa's Presidency of the Security Council

31 January 2012

 

H.E. Ambassador Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of January briefed the press at the end of  the Presidency of South Africa in the Council.


Video: South Africa, H.E. Mr. Baso Sangqu
United Nations Security Council Meeting on Syria

31 January 2012

 

Statement by His Excellency Mr. Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa, during the 6710th meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).  Letter dated 24 January 2012 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2012/71 )

Ambassador Baso Sangqu welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Security Council Debate on Syria at the last day of South Africa's Presidency. 31 January 2012   More

Statement

24 January 2012

Statement by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, Ebrahim Ebrahim at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on "The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question"


Video: United Nations Security Council Meeting:
The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question

24 January 2012

 

Informal comments to the media by H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Ibrahim, Deputy Foreign Minister of South Africa and President of the Security Council for the month of January 2012 on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.


Video:  SC President Baso Sangqu (South Africa) on the Situation in Darfur (Sudan) - Security Council Media Stakeout

23 January 2012

 

Press Statement on the attack on the UN-AU Mission in Darfur read by H.E. Mr. Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa and President of the Security Council for the month of January 2012.


Press Statement on Guinea Bissau read by Mr. Doctor Mashabane,
Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations
and President of the Security Council for the month of January

13 January 2012

 

Press Statement on Guinea Bissau read by Mr. Doctor Mashabane, Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of January.


Deputy Minister Ebrahim to preside over UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East

International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim will on Tuesday, 24 January 2012, preside over a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York on the situation in the Middle East. Deputy Minister Ebrahim will preside over the meeting in South Africa’s capacity as President of the UNSC for the month of January 2012. The meeting is expected to focus on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as well as recent attempts to resuscitate the peace talks. Wider Middle East issues, including the situation in Lebanon and Syria, will also be discussed. The Council will be briefed by the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Oscar Fernandez Taranco.

South African Government welcomes UN Security Council Resolution 2033

The South African Government has welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC’s) unanimous adoption on 12 January 2012 of Resolution 2033, which urges for enhanced cooperation between the UNSC and sub-regional organisations, particularly the African Union (AU), in peace and security matters.  More

President Zuma arrives in New York ahead of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and UN Global Sustainability Programme (GSP) Meetings

President Jacob Zuma has arrived in New York on 10 January 2012 to attend a series of high-level meetings, beginning with South Africa officially assuming the rotating Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and later co-chairing the meeting of the UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. More

Photographs


UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s Message on the Centenary of the African National Congress

African National Congress Observance Celebrates "a Hundred-year Struggle for the Universal Values of Human Dignity and Equality", Says Secretary-General. More


Video: SC President Jacob Zuma (South Africa) on the United Nations-African Union Partnership - Security Council Media Stakeout

12 January 2012

 


Video: SC President Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (South Africa) on Somalia - Security Council Media Stakeout

11 January 2012

 


Message from H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, the President of the General Assembly on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the African National Congress

8 January 2012


Video: H.E. Mr. Baso Sangqu (South Africa), President of the Security Council on the Programme of Work for the month of January 2012 - Press Conference

04 January 2012

 


Video: United Nations Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question

20 December 2011

 

Informal comments to the media by H.E. Mr. Baso Sangqu, Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations; H.E. Mr. Nawaf Salam, Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations; H.E. Mrs. Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.