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Michal Mlynár

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2020-05-15

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2021-10-15

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1. “Almost 14 years have passed since the adoption of the first note 507 by the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507), on 19 July 2006, after intensive work by the Security Council’s Informal Working Group on Documentation and other Procedural Questions, currently chaired by Ambassador Inga Rhonda King of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. My delegation had the opportunity to chair the Informal Working Group in 2007, right after the able leadership of the Working Group by Japan. Our chairmanship aimed at ensuring a wider implementation of the first note 507. We are happy to see that, since then, two revised versions of the note, in 2010 and 2017, respectively, were subsequently elaborated under separate Japanese chairpersonships.”

   2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source

2. “In this regard, I wish to thank the successive presidencies of the Council — China, the Dominican Republic and Estonia — for taking all the necessary steps to enable the Council to continue conducting its important work in maintaining international peace and security. Once the current restrictions will have been lifted and the United Nations membership is able to return to holding regular, in-person meetings, we will have to thoroughly reflect on the approaches we will have devised in the face of the pandemic and their effects on the functioning of multilateral institutions or, more generally, on the very conduct of diplomatic relations itself. However, it would be premature to have that reflection now. Accordingly, I wish to address some general issues pertaining to the working methods of the Council.”

   2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source

3. “I wish to congratulate Estonia on its election as a non-permanent member of the Security Council and on assuming the presidency of the Council this month. In addition, we thank it for organizing today’s debate on the issue of working methods of the Security Council. Working methods, not only of the Council but also of other organs of the United Nations, have always been an issue of interest for a large number of delegations, as they are intrinsically linked to the functioning of our Organization as the cornerstone of global multilateralism. The issue of working methods has once again come to the fore as we collectively try to overcome the various challenges the coronavirus disease pandemic presents to the international community.”

   2020-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/418 (2020) · source