I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Ambassador Frazier and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings.
Eight years ago, we were pleased to welcome the news of the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme. The conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was rightly seen as an a…
We are grateful that this meeting is dedicated specifically to the annual report of the Security Council for 2022 (A/77/2), thereby enabling us to focus fully on the important and — as the President of the General Assembly said earlier — complementary institutional link between that organ and the G…
Switzerland thanks France for its efforts as penholder of the resolution (resolution 2690 (2023)) on the withdrawal of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) from Mali.
Switzerland acknowledges and respects the decision of the Malian authorities to re…
I thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, for her briefing. We have also taken note of the other briefings. I will focus on three main points today.
First, Switzerland firmly condemns Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. We reject all attempts to justif…
I wish Eid Mubarak to all those who have been celebrating.
I deliver this statement on behalf of Brazil and Switzerland, as co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file.
Let me first thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under- Secretary-General and Eme…
I would like to join others in thanking Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his detailed briefing. I also took careful note of the briefing by Mr. James Zogby.
As we have just heard, June was once again marked by a very high level of violence in the oc…
Switzerland welcomes the fact that the responsibility to protect (R2P) is on the agenda of the General Assembly today. The principle of the responsibility to protect
was adopted in 2005 by all United Nations States Members with the aim of halting and preventing mass atrocities. As a member of the G…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, for her briefing. I also welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in tod…
I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing and for all her efforts.
A few weeks ago, the Secretary-General reminded us that international humanitarian law makes all the difference between life and death, between restraint and anarchy. I regret that, since th…
First of all, I would like to express a heartfelt welcome to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of the Federal Republic of Somalia, whose presence attests to his commitment to working with the Security Council to
ensure that Somalia can live in peace with its neighbours and within its own borders. I t…
Today concludes the eighth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, a process centred on the establishment of a unified global response to prevent and counter terrorism. Allow me at the outset to thank the co-facilitators, Mr. Robert Rae of Canada and Mr. Tarek Ladeb of Tunisi…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Executive Secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Commission for their briefings.
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I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Otunbayeva for her briefing and, above all, for her invaluable work under very difficult circumstances. I also thank Ms. Shabana Basij-Rasikh for her briefing, which cannot leave anyone here indifferent. As she said, she lived as
(spoke in En…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Haysom and the interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. Gituai, for their briefings. We also thank our partner, the Community of Sant’Egidio, and appreciate its efforts towards facilitating an in…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her statement and her valuable daily work on the ground. I also would like to take the opportunity to thank the Executive Director of UN-Women; the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Se…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily and the briefers for their insights. I also welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya in today’s meeting.
Before I elaborate on three points, I just want to mention the tragic incident in the Mediterranean in which a…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, for his briefing. I welcome His Excellency, Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali.
Switzerland condemns all the violence and attacks perpetrated against …
Switzerland thanks the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom for their efforts to achieve a text acceptable to all.
Switzerland recognizes that hate speech, discrimination, intolerance and violent extremism are relevant aspects in the context of conflicts and their prevention. In a spirit of …
The most systemic threat to humankind remains climate change, as the Secretary-General of the United Nations has stated. In a world that is heating up, climate security and sustainable peace are inseparable. That is why Switzerland has made climate security a priority at the Security Council.
I wou…
Switzerland thanks the Secretary-General for his progress report (A/77/877) on the implementation of the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending Inequalities and Getting on Track To End AIDS by 2030.
We are pleased to see the progress achieved. However, those gains are not universal. The ineq…
