At the outset, we would like to thank the penholder, the United Kingdom, for its efforts to converge the views during the negotiations. We would
also like to thank the Member States for their cooperation during the short period of the negotiation process.
The United Arab Emirates welcomes the adop…
The United Arab Emirates regrets the fact that the situation in Ukraine has worsened since our last meeting (see S/PV.8979) and reiterates its call for a cessation of hostilities. We remain steadfast in our belief that dialogue and diplomacy should be the only path to resolving differences. We there…
We all agree that the serious developments in Ukraine undermine regional and international peace and security. Throughout this crisis, my country has consistently called for de-escalation and dialogue. We placed great hope in the various diplomatic initiatives and channels aimed at resolving the cri…
I thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Ms. Joyce Msuya for their important briefings, and we welcome Ms. Msuya to her first Security Council meeting. Today I would first like to address the humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and then turn to the political issue.
Where the former is concerned…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her comprehensive briefing. We express our full support for the efforts of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Today we are participating in a briefing on UNAMI for the first time si…
I would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process, for his comprehensive briefing.
What we heard today about the fragile humanitarian, security and political situation in the occupied Palestinian territory serves to underscore the need to actively relaunch a …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and the Under Secretary-General for their briefings.
This is the fourth Security Council meeting to be held on the situation in Ukraine in less than a month. In light of the recent worrying tensions, my country has taken a position calling …
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Mankeur Ndiaye, Ambassador Bertino Matias Matondo and Mr. João Samuel Caholo for their valuable briefings. I welcome the participation of Her Excellency Ms. Sylvie Baipo Temon, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Central Africans Abroad, in this me…
I would like to thank Ambassador Michael Gaffey, President of the United Nations Compensation Commission, for his valuable briefing. I also welcome the participation in this meeting of Mr. Fuad Mohammad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, and Ambassador Mansour Alotaibi, Permanent Represe…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her updates and briefing this evening.
I would like to refer to the statement that the United Arab Emirates delivered in this Chamber on 17 February on the same subje…
I would like to thank Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, for her valuable briefing, and I welcome the representative of Haiti to this meeting.
The past months have been trying times for Haiti. Recently hit by natural disasters, violence continues to rise a…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding Affairs; Mr. Mikko Kinnunen, Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Cont…
I would like to thank the Russian Federation for organizing this meeting. I also thank Secretary-General António
Guterres and the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Stanislav Zas, for their insightful presentations.
The United Arab Emirates attaches great impo…
I thank both Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Mr. Ferit Hoxha, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014), for their valuable briefings. We also listened to the briefing by Special Envoy Hans Grundberg.
What we have heard today confirms the …
At the outset, I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Swan; the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Mr. Madeira; and the Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations, Mr. Skoog, for their comprehe…
I would like to thank Mr. Voronkov, Under- Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, and Mr. Chen, Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, for their valuable briefings. The United Arab Emirates places great importance on countering terrori…
The United Arab Emirates would like to thank the Russian Federation for organizing today’s debate. A discussion about the potential humanitarian or other unintended consequences of sanctions is long overdue. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosema…
At the outset, I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her informative briefing.
The United Arab Emirates is closely monitoring recent developments. In the context of our discussion today, we would like to focus on the following aspects.
F…
My delegation would like to express its appreciation to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for all its efforts. We commend its role in supporting the peace process in Libya, which is led and owned by our Libyan brothers. The United Arab Emirates also values the efforts made by UNSM…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this important and urgent meeting. We also thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office, for his valuable and comprehensive briefing.
The United Arab Emirates condemns with the strongest terms the ter…
