I would also like to thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Director and Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, for his briefing.
We take note of the fact that the twenty-fifth round of consultations between the Declarations Assessment Team of the Organization for t…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of
resolution 2719 (2023).
Switzerland thanks the three African members (A3) of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique — for their efforts during the negotiation process on the resolution on funding for African Union-led peace support operations. The …
I speak on behalf of Switzerland and Brazil, co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file. We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and the Director of the Humanitarian
Financing and Resource Mobilization Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lisa Doughten, for their bri…
I would also like to begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva, our colleague from the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Rajasingham, and Ms. Akbar for their briefings.
The New Agenda for Peace highlights education as one of the proven deve…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing, and we welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea in our deliberations.
Once again, the Council is meeting because of a ballistic missile launch by the Democrat…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Major General Patrick Gauchat for their participation in this meeting. We thank them for
their great efforts to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights and to liaise with all regional actors so as…
Switzerland thanks the United States for introducing the important resolution 78/131, aimed at strengthening measures to address the challenges posed by synthetic drugs. I would like to focus my intervention on the following three elements: first, availability; secondly, the importance of resolution…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Ambassador Frazier and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings.
Barely eight years old, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), rightly regarded as a success story in the use of multilateral diplomacy in non-proliferation efforts,…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily and Deputy Permanent Representative Yamanaka for their briefings.
Before elaborating on three points, allow me to refer to the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya last Saturday. Sixty-one migrants drowned. Thousands of
people die a…
I thank the briefers for their presentations.
The modest sum of $130 is enough to buy an AK- 47 assault rifle in Afghanistan, as Lynne O’Donnell reports in Foreign Policy. That amount attests to the current widespread availability of small arms and light weapons that are fuelling the ravages caused…
I would like to thank Mr. Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ambassador Biang, Permanent Representative of Gabon, for their briefings. I welcome the Chargée d’affaires of South Sudan to the meeting. In a year’s time, we hope to see the first elections in South Sudan. We are…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), Mr. Abarry, for his briefing.
As we heard today, the Central African region is currently facing unprecedented risks to peace and security. Those challenges are main…
I would like to thank President Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz for their detailed presentations. We would also like to welcome the participation of representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Rwanda in this meeting.
Thirty years have passed since the Council decided to es…
I too would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita and Ms. Sandrine
Lusamba for their briefings and their efforts. I also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of representatives of States in the region.
During a recent visit to the Democratic Republic of…
I thank Mr. Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, for his briefing, and I have also taken note of Ms. Wright’s remarks.
Today’s meeting is yet another attempt by Russia to deflect from its responsibility for the war against Ukraine and its cons…
We are all well aware that the world is facing growing and, it appears, increasingly insurmountable humanitarian challenges. Whether in protracted crises or conflicts that intensify to the detriment of the civilian population — such as in the Middle East, Ukraine or the Sudan — the need for humanita…
I deliver this statement on behalf of Norway and my own country, Switzerland.
We regret the draft amendments proposed by Russia (A/78/L.18 and A/78/L.19), which consist of removing two paragraphs from this important draft resolution (A/78/L.17); one encouraging States to become parties to the Rome …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate in response to the call of the Secretary-General, whose presence in the Council today Switzerland welcomes.
The fact that Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations has been invoked for the first time under his mandate is a testament to …
We all had the opportunity to express our full positions
this morning (see S/PV.9498), so allow me to just add the following.
Switzerland voted in favour of the draft resolution presented by the United Arab Emirates (S/2023/970) in the knowledge that a humanitarian ceasefire is understood as a tim…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting. I also thank Secretary-General Guterres, Executive Director Waly, Professor Cammett and Ms. Nyanjura for their remarks.
As we heard, organized crime feeds on violence. It is a harmful cycle that often transcends borders. It
undermines the ef…
