Albania welcomes the mandate renewal of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which we supported. I would like to thank you, Madam President, and the United Kingdom team, the penholder, for its relentless work and commend it for the outcome.
Albania further welcomes the focus of resolut…
I thank Prosecutor Karim Khan for today’s briefing, for the comprehensive report and for highlighting that his Office prioritizes the referrals from the Security Council.
Albania reiterates its strong commitment to and support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Rome Statute. We woul…
I thank the briefers for their comprehensive presentations. I would also like to welcome our colleagues from the countries of the Great Lakes region who are joining us today. I will focus my statement on three main points.
First, on political cooperation and its positive trends in the region, Alban…
Albania has supported this initiative from the very beginning and is a proud co-sponsor of resolution 76/262, which was adopted today without a vote. The reasons for doing so are very simple and straightforward, and we have said them before.
We find ourselves at the cusp of a major global reorderin…
I should like to begin by thanking Special Envoy Pedersen for his tireless efforts and his briefing today. I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Msuya and Ms. Shawky for their updated information.
There is no other way to put it: Syria, this hot conflict, is a tragedy without an end. Every time …
I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation for the briefing by the Special Coordinator of the Middle East Peace Process and his efforts and calls for calm and restraint. We fully support his work.
To have hope is to want an outcome that makes our lives better in some way, since envisionin…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix and Special Envoy Tetteh for their briefings today, as well as the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan for their presence.
At the outset, I would like to thank Ethiopia for its leadership and engagement as the sole troop-contributor to the United Na…
I will not argue with Minister Selaković, for many reasons, because even when we disagree, we can do that in Belgrade or in Tirana. We do not need to take up the Council’s time. But I am speaking since it is hard to agree with everything that I heard, and since I heard that he ended his second remar…
I thank Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for her briefing and wish her success in her new position. I welcome Ms. Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreig…
Let me thank Director General Vitorino and the Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Ms. Clements, for their updated information on the situation in Ukraine.
There is unfortunately no good news from Ukraine, only more of a never-ending tragedy. Every briefer from the United Nations system who addr…
It has been a long time since we had good news from Yemen, to the point that the name of the country itself had become synonymous with despair. We welcome the first serious truce between the parties in years and all the positive measures associated with and resulting from it. We welcome the cessatio…
Mr. President, thank you for organizing today’s open debate on this crucial issue. The number of speakers by itself speaks of the paramount importance that the States Members of the United Nations accord to this issue.
We were moved by Ms. Murad’s powerful message. We thank her, as well as Ms. Kark…
Allow me to begin by thanking Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia, for his briefing today as well as for his tireless efforts and those of his team and the United Nations country team on the ground.
I would like to welcome President Iván Duque Márqu…
I listened carefully to our Russian colleague. I would just like to highlight three short points.
First, we do not come here to create propaganda. We all know where the propaganda comes from nowadays, and it is certainly not from this Chamber.
Secondly, what we say in this Chamber is fact- checked…
We thank the United Kingdom for bringing to the Council the issue of equitable access to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines in conflict settings and humanitarian crises. I congratulate the briefers on their insightful interventions and useful recommendations.
The pandemic is far from over, des…
We thank Lord Ahmad for presiding over this meeting, which testifies to its importance and timeliness.
The Russian aggression has not stopped. It continues to cause undue pain and suffering to 44 million people who did not ask for it. The relentless brutality and destructive force of the actions of…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for briefing the Council and commend the excellent work of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). I also extend my thanks to Ms. Samaké for bringing an important civil socie…
Let me thank Ambassador Nusseibeh for having steered our work during the month of March and to wish the United Kingdom and you, Madam President, full success in our common work during this month.
Albania welcomes President Zelenskyy to today’s meeting. His remarks are painful, and his account on
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In the past eleven years, the Al-Assad regime has disfigured Syria. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed, forcibly disappeared or detained. The regime has wiped out the spontaneous, civic and hopeful spirit of the revolution that started 11 years ago. Today Syria is hell on Earth. We, t…
Albania would like to thank the United Kingdom, as penholder, for its hard work in drafting the comprehensive resolution 2628 (2022) and for leading the challenging negotiations. We welcome the unanimous adoption of the resolution, which authorizes the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (AT…
