I thank Ecuador for organizing this open debate and I thank the Secretary- General, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ms. Melani Cammett and Ms. Victoria Nyanjura for their insightful briefings.
States are primarily responsible for the fight against transnation…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Director Rajasingham for their briefings and welcome the representative of Ukraine to this meeting.
Brazil remains deeply concerned about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, in particular the continued loss of civilian lives, the suffering of re…
I thank the Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), Mr. Christian Ritscher, for his briefing, and I welcome the Iraqi delegation to this meeting.
The eleventh report on …
I congratulate Ecuador and its excellent team on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month, and China on its always-competent presidency, in November. I welcome the Personal Envoy and the delegation of the Sudan to this meeting.
Brazil entered these negotiations hoping for the renewal o…
I thank the Chinese presidency for elevating this meeting on the situation in the Middle East to a high-level event.
The matter is of the utmost importance and urgency to Brazil, as evidenced by the current official visit of President Lula da Silva to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where he is exchanging …
I will speak first on behalf of Switzerland and Brazil, co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file.
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Najat Rochdi and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Wosornu, for their briefings. I also w…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at this meeting. I thank the United States of America and other fellow Security Council members for requesting th…
Brazil thanks the Chinese presidency for convening this meeting, and the United Arab Emirates and Malta for their timely request. We also thank United Nations Executive Directors Bahous, Russell and Kanem for their detailed updates on the dire reality faced by hundreds of thousands of civilians in G…
I thank our briefers, Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Mr. Hollingworth, for their thorough updates, and I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine in today’s meeting.
We regret that, once again, the Council is meeting to discuss the war in Ukraine without any progr…
Brazil is thankful to the Chinese presidency for organizing this very timely open debate. I also thank the Secretary-General and Professor Sachs for their insightful remarks.
I gladly salute and commend the contribution of the President of the New Development Bank and former President of Brazil, Ms…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Ilze Brands Kehris for her briefing and Mr. Vakhtang Kipshidze for his remarks.
I also welcome the representative of Ukraine to today’s meeting.
Brazil attaches great importance to the freedom of religion or belief, without discrimination. It is a fundamental h…
Brazil fully aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on behalf of the L.69 group and the representative of Germany on behalf of the Group of Four (see A/78/PV.34).
I commend the firm commitment of the President of the General Assembly to…
I join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for her comprehensive briefing, and I welcome the Sudanese delegation to this meeting.
We welcome the agreement reached between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces as a result of the Jeddah talks last week. We commend th…
The adoption of a Security Council resolution on the horrific humanitarian and hostage crisis unfolding in Gaza and Israel (resolution 2712 (2023)) is certainly to be welcomed. It was long overdue. A response by this body commensurate with the gravity of the situation was urgent since day one — that…
Brazil thanks Ambassadors Frazier, Nusseibeh and Montalvo Sosa for their briefings today and for their able leadership, respectively, of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida …
I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix and Police Adviser Shahkar for their briefings, and Commissioners Fossen and Bizimungu for their remarks and for their valuable work. I also want to express my appreciation to Ms. Landgren for her insights.
The police component of United Nations missions has…
I thank the United Arab Emirates and China for calling for this open briefing on the health emergency in Gaza. I also thank Mr. Tedros Ghebreyesus and Mr. Marwan Jilani for their briefings and commend them and their teams for their tireless work on the war-torn ground of Gaza.
Brazil remains deeply…
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for his briefing on the Court’s twenty-sixth report on the situation in Libya. I also welcome the Permanent Representative of Libya to today’s meeting.
Complementarity is one of the cornerstones of the Rome Statute system. It is the primary…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing.
We deeply regret the civilian casualties in Donetsk. We would like to offer our condolences to the families of the victims and to express our solidarity to those injured in the incident. This episode, as with many previous episodes, demon…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix and Special Envoy Tetteh for their comprehensive briefings. I also welcome the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan to this meeting.
The fighting in the Sudan continues to affect the lives of Abyei’s population. The pressing security concerns created…
