I thank the President for having convened this meeting on the use of the veto in the context of the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Switzerland voted in favour of Security Council draft resolution S/2024/173, submitted by Algeria, and regrets that it was not adopte…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing and welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of South Sudan in today’s meeting.
Since our previous meeting on this topic in December (see S/PV.9507), very limited progress has been made towards credible and peaceful elections. Whi…
Allow me first of all to congratulate Guyana on the excellent work accomplished during the month of February, and to assure you, Mr. President, and your team of our full support for your presidency. I would also like to thank the Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Adedeji…
I thank the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme for their briefings.
Switzerland thanks all the humanitarian actors for their efforts in response to the alarming level of…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
My thoughts once again go out to all the victims of the earthquake a year ago, and I will return to that subject later, in the humanitarian part of my statement.
On the security front, the situation continues…
On 24 February 2022, two years ago, we woke up, in Switzerland and across Europe, to a nightmare. The
distant spectre of war had suddenly materialized before our very eyes. All the precautions taken over 75 years to prevent a repetition of the tragedies of the twentieth century suddenly seemed futi…
Our Organization was founded on the pursuit of peace. Peace is our raison d’être. Today I would like to use the words that the Secretary-General used earlier this month when he addressed the General Assembly (see A/78/PV.54) — “Peace is our raison d’être.” Switzerland wholeheartedly shares that visi…
Like my colleagues, I would like to thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Chris Lockyear for their briefings, which cannot leave us indifferent. We are appalled by the recent attacks in Al-Mawasi where family members of Médecins sans frontières personnel were killed. Those casualties add to t…
In 2016, as we have heard, Colombia put an end to decades of conflict by signing one of the world’s most innovative peace agreements, the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace. The fact that it is now in its eighth year of implementation is the result of the…
I thank Special Representative Rugwabiza for her briefing and welcome the participation of the representative of the Central African Republic in this meeting. I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families and troop-contributing countries that have suffered casualties, especially Cam…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Bintou Keita, for her briefing and for all the work accomplished by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) under difficult circumstances. I welcome the presenc…
Switzerland voted in favour of draft resolution S/2024/173 and regrets that it was not adopted despite the very broad support it enjoys among Council members.
I would like to thank the Algerian delegation for its efforts in building consensus around the text, which calls in particular for an immedi…
I would like to thank Special Representatives Laing and Souef for their briefings and to welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Somalia at this meeting.
The stability and prosperity of the Horn of Africa rely on regional cooperation and the ability to settle disputes by peaceful me…
I thank Special Representative Bathily and Ambassador Yamazaki for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the representative of Libya in today’s meeting.
We support the recent statement of the Secretary- General emphasizing that the Libyan people deserve lasting peace and stability, s…
I would like to express our appreciation for the Secretary- General’s report (S/2024/117) and to thank the three briefers today for their presentations.
The Security Council must remain aware of the threat that Da’esh continues to pose to international peace and security. We are particularly alarme…
I would like to thank our two briefers for their briefings and their tireless efforts, including the recent efforts of the Special Envoy, to promote peace and protect civilians in Yemen. I would also like to welcome the representative of Yemen to this Security Council meeting.
As we have heard, thi…
Since the creation of the United Nations, Member States have made remarkable progress together. For a long time, conflicts and food insecurity were on the decline. Unfortunately, we failed to stay the course.
Over the past decade, acute food insecurity has massively increased. Despite the targets s…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing and take note of Mr. Sweeney’s remarks.
Nine years ago today, the Normandy format negotiations in Minsk resulted in an agreement that raised hopes of breaking the spiral of military escalation and finding a political and peaceful solution t…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) for her briefing. I welcome Their Excellencies President Vučić and Prime Minister Kurti to the Chamber. Their presence here today demonstrates the importance they place on this discu…
Like my colleagues, I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing and, above all, for her five years of intense work, expressed through her commitment to the country in and for which she served. I think “powerful and hopeful words” was a beautiful description. …
