At the outset, I thank Minister David Lammy for convening this briefing.
After more than a year of an appalling conflict, it is high time to decisively alter the current course of violence and dehumanization. In Gaza, the survivors, including countless children, are afflicted by hunger, injuries an…
I would like to thank the Chairs of the Committees for their leadership. Their briefings demonstrate the scale of the challenges and the urgent need to strengthen our collective response.
Allow me to make a few comments on the work of the Committees.
Targeted sanctions against Da’esh, Al-Qaida and…
As my colleagues have done, I would like to begin by thanking Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Director Rajasingham for their briefings.
I extend particular thanks to Ms. Ahmadi for her powerful and unwavering voice on behalf of those who are …
I would also like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Human Rights, the Acting Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Director of the Office of Emergencies and
Resilience of the Food and Agriculture Organ…
I would like to thank Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Mr. Conrado for their detailed contributions.
Switzerland welcomes the Security Council’s renewed focus on the important issue of cybersecurity. Threats in cyberspace, particularly those emanating f…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Haysom for his briefing. I especially thank
Ms. Merekaje Lorna for her insightful remarks and clear recommendations on quite rightly including women and civil society in this critical phase for the future of South Sudan. I welcome the presenc…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Pobee, for her presentation, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan in today’s meeting.
As the Secretary-General emphasizes in his report (S/2024/740), Abyei remains a victim of a fragile and tense …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing and welcome the participation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in our deliberations.
Switzerland condemns the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, apparently of a new type, capable of carrying multiple nuclear warh…
Switzerland thanks the President of the Human Rights Council for his report (A/79/53 and A/79/53/Add.1). We welcome today’s exchange of views, because the kind of dialogue that strengthens the link between Geneva and New York is also important for Switzerland, as the host country of the Human Rights…
First of all, allow me to express my appreciation for the warm wishes extended to Switzerland and our team, and to assure you, Madam President, of our full support for you and your team during your country’s presidency of the Security Council.
I welcome the participation of the Chairman of the Pres…
Switzerland would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her report (see A/79/198), which highlights the remarkable work carried out by ICC in all regions of the world, despite the fact that it has never been so heavily in demand or worked under such difficult cond…
We thank the President of the International Court of Justice for presenting the report of the Court (A/79/4).
Through the report, we see the importance and diversity of the subjects dealt with by the Court. That is a testimony both to the confidence placed in it by States and to the competence of i…
Switzerland commends the fact that the General Assembly has once again, eight years after the high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance of 2016, placed the theme of antimicrobial resistance on the agenda of its priorities. The commitments entered into during the high-level meeting held at the e…
Switzerland welcomes the Pact for the Future (resolution 79/1) as an important commitment to multilateralism. We all need effective multilateralism to solve today’s challenges. Switzerland is firmly
committed to the values of multilateralism, and we are determined to pursue a path towards a more su…
We thank the co-penholders, Ecuador and the United States, as well as the other members of the Council, for their efforts to reach the unanimous decision to renew the mandate of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti. That decision once again sends a strong signal of solidarity with the…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing and for the continued efforts of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I welcome the presence of the representatives of the Democratic R…
I thank Mr. Sivanka Dhanapala, Director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New York, and Mr. Pär Liljert, Director of the International Organization for Migration Office to the United Nations in New York, for their contributions and for giving us a holistic…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this high-level briefing. I also welcome the many ministers who are here with us. Their presence attests to the international community’s determination to prevent the risk of an even more serious escalation and to return to the path of peace. I would also…
We thank France for requesting this emergency meeting and the Secretary-General for his briefing describing the events of the past few days.
As the Secretary-General has just said, Monday was the deadliest day since the end of the civil war in Lebanon. More than 560 people, including approximately …
It is crucial that the Council continue to reflect on ways to restore peace and to put an end to the Russian war against Ukraine, and it must do so with Ukraine. I would like to welcome the presence of President Zelenskyy.
I firmly believe in the importance of respecting the Charter of the United N…
