I congratulate you, Mr. President, on organizing this meeting, and I commend all the speakers on their presentations.
Gaza, Haiti, Myanmar, the Sudan, Ukraine and many other places — I mentioned each of those conflicts during the open debate held one year ago (see S/PV.9675). In each conflict, the …
I welcome my colleagues who just spoke — Mr. Jean-Victor Harvel Jean Baptiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Haiti; Mr. Roberto Álvarez Gil, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic; and Mr. Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia, who spoke before me. I am sure that my colleagues…
Let me start by taking a moment to thank you, Madam President, for your leadership, service and friendship. I may not have another opportunity to say those words in the Council, so I wanted to say them here to you personally. I also want to thank our briefers — Executive Director Russell, Mr. Raymo…
It is clear that the Haitian people are suffering enormously. With the United Nations country team, I recently visited a school in Tabarre, a district of Port-au-Prince held hostage by gangs. Children, women and men are taking refuge there after fleeing extreme violence, in search of protection and …
Canada appreciates the opportunity to take part in this important annual discussion, as we continue to be a strong supporter of the Court, a key institution in combating impunity for the most serious international crimes and in enabling justice for victims of these crimes.
The Court is busy, as we …
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and my own country, Canada (CANZ).
The CANZ countries have always been strong supporters of the International Court of Justice and its independent role in settling legal disputes submitted to it by States and providing advisory op…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and my own country, Canada (CANZ).
The CANZ countries reaffirm our strong support for the important work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, which safeguards and continues the legacy of the ad hoc tribu…
Canada thanks the delegation of Ghana, as the current Chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors, for its efforts in coordinating the preparation of draft resolution A/79/L.7 in Vienna and for working to achieve its consensus adoption here in New York. Canada is please…
Canada would like to thank the co-facilitators, Barbados and Malta, for their excellent leadership in the negotiations of this political declaration (see resolution 79/2) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
We welcome that the political declaration outlines the importance, first, of using a One Heal…
Before beginning, my delegation wanted to note today’s sombre one-year anniversary since the heinous terror attacks of 7 October 2023, which have ushered in a scale of violence the Middle East has not seen for decades. As we mark this terrible anniversary, our thoughts are with the victims of that d…
It is an honour for me to speak to the General Assembly on behalf of Canada and on behalf of Canadians. I would like to underscore that I am joining the Assembly on the traditional territory of the Lenape people. That recognition is important because today in Canada we mark the National Day for Trut…
As we meet here in New York in the General Assembly for this Summit of the Future, we are at a global inflection point. Faced with escalating instability undermining the very foundations of the international order, beset by the increasingly dire costs of climate change, contending with rising inequa…
Allow me to begin by expressing Canada and Peru’s thanks to Member States and the representatives of Indigenous Peoples for their collective contributions during the negotiation of resolution 78/328. The co-facilitators and advisers, Ambassador Víctor García Toma, former Permanent Representative of …
I am honoured to be taking part in this meeting alongside Prime Minister Conille, Minister Dupuy, Minister Álvarez Gil, Ms. Salvador and my colleagues from Saint Kitts and Nevis and Kenya.
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I am very pleased to be able to speak on behalf of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti of t…
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Civil society is our eyes and ears on the ground and provides critical information and perspectives on a number of issues. Its representatives should therefore be at the table during United Nations meetin…
At the outset, Canada would like to thank Uzbekistan and the countries of Central Asia for their efforts on this important issue.
Canada would like to highlight its concerns, at the same time, regarding the context in which the resolution was developed. Developing stand-alone regional resolutions i…
We convene today because the Russian Federation yet again cynically abused its veto power at the Security Council (see S/PV. 9616). This time — and we all recall that we were here just a week ago — Russia prevented the adoption of draft resolution S/2024/302, capably facilitated by the United States…
On behalf of Canada, let me start by thanking Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel for her leadership and tireless commitment to accountability for the people of Syria. We appreciate our collaboration throughout her tenure as head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Inves…
When Canada served as Chair of the Angola Sanctions Committee in 1999, which emanated from the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 864 (1993) concerning Angola, one of my predecessors Ambassador Robert Fowler worked with his counterparts on the Security Council to establish…
I deliver this statement on behalf of Australia, New Zealand and my own country, Canada (CANZ).
The CANZ countries are grateful to you for convening this meeting, Mr. President. The veto initiative is an important mechanism for promoting the Security Council’s transparency and accountability.
We c…
