首先，请允许我真诚感谢安理会所有成员对余留机制的持续支持，并特别感谢离任成员，即科特迪瓦、赤道几内亚、科威特、波兰当然还有秘鲁——秘鲁干练地主持了安理会国际法庭问题非正式工作组的工作——过去两年来的贡献。我借此机会祝贺安理会新成员，并期待在2020年与它们合作。我也感谢法律事务厅的大力协助。此外，我谨赞赏并真诚感谢余留机制杰出的东道国坦桑尼亚联合共和国和荷兰王国。
At the outset, allow me to sincerely thank all the members of the Council for their continued support to the Mechanism and acknowledge in particular the contributions that have been made over the past two years by the outgoing members, namely, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Poland and, of course, Peru, which has so capably chaired the Council’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals. I take this opportunity to congratulate the incoming members of the Council, whom I look forward to working with in 2020. I also thank the Office of Legal Affairs for its wonderful assistance. Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge and sincerely thank the Mechanism’s outstanding host States, the United Republic of Tanzania and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.