I thank you, Madam, for convening today’s meeting. I would like to congratulate you and your team on your successful presidency of the Council during the month of September. I also want to join others in thanking the briefers for their thorough and alarming briefings on Afghanistan. I thank the Secr…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, for convening this timely briefing on the humanitarian and economic situation in Afghanistan. I also wish to thank Under-Secretary- General Martin Griffiths, Mr. Markus Potzel, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Lucy Edwards for their pre…
Let me start by congratulating you, Mr. President, on your able leadership of the Security Council for the current month and for convening us today.
I would like to thank Mr. Alakbarov and Mr. Griffiths for their briefings. I also wish to thank Ms. Hakim and Ms. Royan, two brave and powerful Afghan…
I would like to thank all members of the Council for their statements and continued support for the Afghan people. I also wish to congratulate the United Arab Emirates on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and for convening this briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. Let me also than…
Allow me to begin by thanking Norway, as President of the Security Council, for organizing this high-level briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for its continued peace mediation efforts while upholding and protecting human rights principles, including the rights of women and girls, promoting…
Allow me at the outset to join others in congratulating Mexico on its presidency of the Security Council. I would also like to welcome the physical presence of Special Representative Lyons at this meeting, and I commend her efforts and leadership of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanist…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan for presenting (see A/76/PV.24) the Human Rights Council report (A/76/53 and A/76/53/Add.1).
Afghanistan welcomes the adoption, at the forty- eighth session of the Human Rights Council, of the resolution entitled “Situation of huma…
I would like to thank all the previous briefers for their insightful statements, in particular my countrywoman Wazhma Frogh for bringing the voice and cries of Afghan women before the Security Council.
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the start of Ireland’s presidency …
I thank you, Mr. President, or this opportunity to speak at yet another Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan and for India’s leadership of the Council during this critical period. We welcome the convening of this emergency meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Afgha…
I am honoured to make this statement on behalf of my Foreign Minister, His Excellency Mr. Mohammad Haneef Atmar, who very much wanted to be here with everyone but could not travel to New York, owing to such short notice.
Allow me first to congratulate India on assuming the presidency of the Securit…
I would like to align my statement with that made on 30 June by the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) (see A/75/ PV.88).
I would like to begin by recognizing the commendable work of Mr. Mohamed Al Hassan, Permanent Representative of …
Afghanistan aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/75/PV.67). I further have the honour to deliver the following remarks in my national capacity on behalf of Mr. Mohammad Haneef Atmar, Minister for Fore…
Afghanistan expresses its sincere gratitude to the Secretary-General for his reports presented under agenda item 73 (A/75/75, A/75/238, A/75/317 and A/75/84). They depict a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation around the world, driven by conflict and natural disasters and exacerbated by clim…
I take the floor to raise a point of order under rule 88 of the rules of procedure.
My delegation would like to express its deep regret that a vote has been requested for draft resolution A/75/L.45, on the situation in Afghanistan. It is very
unfortunate that, despite the efforts made by the facil…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, from the bottom of my heart for the statement and the summary you delivered earlier, on behalf of what is a priority for Afghanistan and the people of Afghanistan.
I also would like to thank the Permanent Mission of Germany for introducing draft resolution A/75/L.45…
It is an honour for me, in my capacity as Rapporteur of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to present the Committee’s annual report (A/75/35), which covers developments relating to the question of Palestine, as well as the work of the Committee, betwee…
As we meet today, 75 years after the founding of the United Nations, I have the pleasure to represent a new Afghanistan: a democratic republic with constitutional rights for women and minorities, and youth at the forefront of society.
Today I have the distinct honour and high privilege to introduce…
I have the distinct honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement by His Excellency Mr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan extends its appreciation to the Security Council for the adoption today of resolution 2543 (2020), extending the mandate of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another 12 months. The unanimous adoption of the resolution sends a very clear, strong and unequivocal …
I have the honour to speak in my national capacity as well as in my capacity as one of the General Assembly coordinators on initiatives relating to coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
First, I would like to express Afghanistan’s solidarity with States Members of the United Nations that are fighting COV…
