I thank Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Executive Director Gherman for their briefings. I would also like to thank Ms. Farida Khalaf for sharing with us her bitter yet touching experience.
Albania condemns all forms and shapes of terrorism. And we express our condolences to the families of vi…
Let me thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo for her in-depth briefing. We are also grateful to Ms. Rashevska for her valuable information on developments in Ukraine and look forward to the text of Mr. Kuleba’s remarks.
Today we join Ukrainians everywhere in celebrating their independence day, and…
I would like to start by thanking Special Envoy Pedersen for his insights and his tireless efforts to advance all aspects of resolution 2254 (2015), including his step-for-step approach in advancing the political processes, and I assure him of our full support. I also would like to thank Ms. Lubna A…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bathily for his detailed presentation and Ms. Al Jerbi for her insightful remarks.
I would like to begin by welcoming the unification of the Central Bank of Libya and praising the stewardship of all those involved. We take note of and welcome…
I thank you, Madam President, and thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for the update.
It is very disheartening to start, as has occurred many other times, by acknowledging that the situation for civilians in the West Bank and Israel in the past three weeks has not improved. The situation on the gr…
Let me start by thanking High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Here we are at another meeting on Ukraine, on a topic that we have discussed many times before. The Security Council was unable to adopt a programme of work for this month because of the meeting planned on Ukraine. At least fo…
Let me start by thanking the United States presidency of the Security Council, and you, personally, Madam President, for organizing today’s important meeting.
I thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, for his insightful briefing. We fully concur with his assess…
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg, Director Wosornu and Ms. Al-Hajj for their briefings.
We welcome the Special Envoy’s sustained engagement and mediation efforts with the parties and the actors in the region. We also commend the efforts of Oman and Saudi Arabia in that regard. In our view, the parti…
Allow me to thank Ms. Wosornu for her briefing.
Since the last Security Council meeting on this issue in December of last year (see S/PV.9228), there have been new developments, some of them positive and very encouraging. We welcome and applaud the intensification of the Armenia-Azerbaijan normaliz…
Let me start by thanking the United Kingdom for requesting this meeting and its continued dedication as the penholder on the Sudan file. Our appreciation also goes to the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan, Special Representative Perthes and his staff, as well as to…
Allow me to thank Mr. Ebo for his briefing. I would also like to thank Mr. Katoub for his chilling account of his first-hand experience of the Al-Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against civilians.
The periodic reports of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) clearly…
Let me begin by thanking the United States presidency for convening today’s timely debate and by welcoming you to the Council, Mr. President. We are grateful to the United States for its coherence and continued action in keeping the focus on this issue, which is of paramount importance to all of us,…
Let me thank the Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Gregorian, for his briefing.
Let me also say, from the very start, that our position remains crystal clear: we denounce any and all acts of terror — anywhere, at any time and by anyone. Our actions and policies in that respect speak far lo…
I join my colleagues in expressing my condolences to Ghana on the loss of its
peacekeeper earlier today. I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix and the Force Commanders of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic o…
Let me start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for the information he provided.
The recent developments in the West Bank continue to be troubling and disturbing. We are almost at a loss for the words to deplore the pervasive cycle of violence and its consequences, but we will never los…
We are used to the practice of what has proved to be “meetings of opportunity” that Russia has been calling regularly on Ukraine. Most of the time they fail to bring forward an issue worth the discussion and the attention of the Council, since the intention is to divert the attention away from the r…
In a war that has lost its way, as part of a policy that has no meaning and as a terrible result of an erratic judgement since the start, Russia is targeting everything: innocent people, including children; residential areas; civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage. All these amount to war cri…
Albania joins others in congratulating Mr. Simão for assuming the role of Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel. I assure him of my delegation’s full support and call on all stakeholders to engage constructively with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in tackling the …
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Director Rajasingham for their briefings.
As we have just heard, the humanitarian demands of Syria remain the largest worldwide. We anticipate a dramatic increase in needs, exacerbating an already immense humanitarian crisis resulting from more than 12 years of co…
Let me thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
Before the special military aggression, Ukraine, one of the bread baskets of the world, accounted for 12 per cent of the world’s corn exports and approximately 10 per cent of its wheat exports. …
