Today the Security Council has again failed the people of Syria. The
war there is now in its fourth year. The country has been broken apart, possibly irretrievably. Almost half its population of more than 20 million people have fled or been displaced. One family flees Syria every 60 seconds. We fac…
I would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, for his comprehensive briefing. We continue to believe that the Office of the High Representative has an important role to play in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Inzko’s briefing today has reminded us of the u…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her informative and valuable briefing to the Council
on the work of the Office of the Prosecutor in relation to the situation in Libya.
Australia remains concerned about the volatile political and security situation…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abou Moussa for his briefing and for his dedication to pursuing the importance mandate of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA). As Mr. Moussa has said, Central Africa faces critical challenges to its peace and security and
requir…
I thank the Republic of Korea and you personally, Mr. President, for holding
this high-level debate, and for the Republic of Korea’s leadership on resolution 1540 (2004) and efforts to promote global non-proliferation. I also thank the Deputy Secretary-General.
As we all know only too starkly, the…
When we met on 29 April on the situation in Ukraine (see S/PV.7165), we urged Russia to abide by the commitments it made in Geneva on 17 April, including to refrain from violence, intimidation and provocative actions. Since then, as Under-Secretary-General Feltman has just told us, the situation has…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important briefing in the open Chamber. I would also like to thank High Commissioner Pillay and Special Adviser Dieng for their forthright and very disturbing briefings. Their visit was an essential one, and the Council itself must ensure that their immed…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman for his briefing and his warning to the Council. Australia strongly supported calls for the holding of tonight’s briefing to give the Council an up-to-date sense of the continuing destabilization and increased tensions in eastern Ukraine, much of which has ev…
I thank Special Coordinator Serry for his briefing.
We have today arrived at the nine-month mark since final status negotiations resumed between Israel and the Palestinians in July last year. It was the most ambitious and substantial chance to secure a permanent peace in years. The extraordinary an…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this debate and for your presence
here today. I also thank the Nigerian presidency of the Security Council for all of its important efforts on the potentially transformational task of security sector reform.
In May 2006, four years after Timor-Leste’…
I thank the Secretary- General for his report (S/2014/181) and personal leadership against sexual violence in conflict, and Special Representative Bangura for her fearlessness. Both have been instrumental in driving the unprecedented global commitment we have to ending conflict-related sexual violen…
Human progress is evolutionary. It is built on failure and the strength of a positive response to it. Failure always contains lessons. The United Nations inaction in the face of the events of 1994 in Rwanda remains one of the Organization’s darkest failures. Despite credible forewarning and the frus…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and for his briefing. It is obviously very
necessary that the Council give such careful focus on the human rights situation in Ukraine. We have heard repeated assertio…
Like all of us, Australia has watched the events in eastern Ukraine with mounting concern. What we have seen unfold is a coordinated operation where well-trained and well- armed paramilitary units have moved quickly to lay siege to, occupy and control key institutions in five or six towns in Donetsk…
I would like to thank Ambassador Drobnjak and Ambassador Patriota for their statements this morning. Australia welcomes this year’s annual General Assembly debate on the reports of the Peacebuilding Commission (A/68/729) and the Peacebuilding Fund (A/68/722). The work of the Commission and the perfo…
I would like to welcome to the Security Council His Excellency Mr. Samura Kamara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone. I would also like to thank Executive Representative Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen for his briefing and his work and for that of…
We thank Special Representative Sandra Honoré for her briefing. We also welcome the Permanent Representative of Haiti
to the Council. We recently had an opportunity to engage directly with personnel of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on the ground in the country and to …
I have the honour to present the report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of that resolution. The present report covers the period from 13 December 2013 to 19 March 2014, during which time the Committee held two informal meetings and…
I thank the Deputy Secretary-General for his briefing and Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for his statement. I also thank Ukraine Ambassador Sergeyev.
As we know, five days ago, the Council sought to adopt a draft resolution on Ukraine reaffirming fundamental principles of international law, …
Thank you, Madam President, for your initiative in convening this briefing, which provides a timely opportunity for us to take stock of the United Nations peacebuilding efforts over the past 12 months. I thank Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission Antonio Patri…
