Ensuring the peaceful, safe and sustainable use of outer space contributes to our security and prosperity and is in the common interest of all States. It is the responsibility of the Security Council, as well as the bodies dedicated to the specific purpose, to preserve space for future generations.
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I join my colleagues in expressing our deep condolences on the death of President Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir- Abdollahian and the accompanying delegation.
I thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, for her briefing. I have also taken note of Ms. Margaret Kimber…
I too extend my warm thanks to Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Director Edem Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings, in which they repeatedly highlighted the urgency of the situation.
Switzerland reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire a…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing. We also thank her for her work over the past few years and wish her every success for the future. We welcome the presence among us of the representatives of Iraq and Kuwait.
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I would like to thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Christian Schmidt, for his briefing and report. We support his efforts to implement the civilian aspects of the Dayton Accords. We regret that recent months have not seen more tangible progress in the implementation of the…
I would like to thank Ms. Doughten, Director at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Caitlin Howarth, Director for the Conflict Observatory team of the Yale Humanitarian Research Laboratory, for their briefings. We are pleased that the voices of science are being heard by…
Switzerland would like to thank the Prosecutor for his briefing and for the presentation of his twenty-seventh report on the situation in Libya, pursuant to the mandate included in resolution 1970 (2011).
The report is of particular importance, as it addresses not only the progress made in recent m…
Like my colleagues, I would like to start by thanking Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths for their intervention and above all their commitment to the civilian population in Yemen.
As has been mentioned, it was a context about which we…
Like my colleagues, as this is the first public meeting this month, I would like to assure you, Mr. President,
of our full support during your presidency, and I would also like to congratulate Malta on its successful presidency last month. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix …
Ensuring the peaceful, safe and sustainable use of outer space contributes to our security and prosperity. It is in the interest of all States. Any threat in that area can have major consequences for international peace and security. Preserving space to take advantage of the opportunities it offers …
Switzerland would like to provide a brief rationale for the submission of the draft amendment to the twenty- ninth preambular paragraph (A/78/L.65) of draft resolution A/78/L.62.
Switzerland engaged actively and constructively throughout the negotiations and joined the consensus on large parts of t…
Nearly seven months after Hamas’s acts of terror in Israel, tensions are at their highest in the Middle East. Switzerland condemned both the Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus on 1 April and the coordinated Iranian attacks on Israel on 13 and 14 April.
In view of the tragic consequ…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Jenča, and the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also listened attentively to the remarks delivered by Ms. Cvijanović. We also wish to welcome the participation of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and S…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Miroslav Jenča, and the Chief of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for their briefings. I take note of Mr. Larry Johnson’s statement.
We have spoken about this subject several times in the past. Allow me, however, to repeat the main poi…
I would like to start by thanking Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, the Director of Coordination of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, and Ms. Hayford from Malteser International for their briefings. They all have highlighted the enormous and long-lasting suf…
Switzerland thanks the Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible
for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 for submitting its latest report (se…
Ensuring the peaceful, safe and sustainable use of outer space contributes to our security and prosperity. It is in the common interest of all States. Any threat in this sensitive field could have major consequences for international peace and security. Preserving space so as to enable future genera…
I would like to start by thanking the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Ms. Pétronille Vaweka for their briefings and their efforts. I would also like to thank the Peacebuilding Commission for its written o…
I would like to begin by thanking the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, for her briefing and commitment. Four months have passed since the adoption of resolution 2720 (2023), during which she has made every effort to coordinate the delivery of aid to the c…
We thank President Francis for convening this annual debate on the use of the veto. That right, strongly contested today in our debate, was already far from unanimous among the founding Members when our Organization was created. Yet it was presented as essential” in 1945 in order to create an intern…
