The procedural architecture of the Security Council is crucial to its ability to respond to threats to international peace and security, and also to build and renew the confidence that Member States place in this organ .
However, the current deliberative structures have specific shortcomings that n…
Costa Rica thanks the President of the Human Rights Council for presenting its annual report (A/79/53 and A/79/53/Add.1) to the General Assembly.
My country once again reiterates its firm support for the work of this important body, as we have done since we promoted its establishment in 2006, as we…
Costa Rica congratulates Judge Tomoko Akane on her election as President of the Court and would like to thank her for presenting the report of the International Criminal Court to the General Assembly (see A/79/198).
Allow me to make the following five observations.
First, the current conflicts and…
Costa Rica thanks Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, for her annual report (see A/79/249) and for the Mechanism’s progress over the past year.
The Mechanism is essential for accountability. It preserves the legacy of the Internati…
Costa Rica thanks the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, for his detailed report and congratulates him for his leadership in the current complex geopolitical climate. Under his leadership, the IAEA has strengthened its efforts to ensure nuclear …
Costa Rica congratulates the President of the General Assembly on his election to lead the Assembly and reaffirms its commitment to advancing towards a more peaceful, just, sustainable and inclusive world.
We come to this session amid the reactivation of the arms race, growing geopolitical tensions…
The Pact for the Future (resolution 79/1) is not just a vision, but an urgent call for collective action — a call to put dialogue before arms, negotiation before coercion and cooperation before
The Pact reiterates our deep disappointment at the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament, yet it falls…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of New Zealand and my own country, Costa Rica, as the co-facilitators of resolution 78/319, entitled “Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level plenary meeting on addressing the existential threats posed by sea level rise”.
At…
Costa Rica appreciates the convening of this important debate, underscoring the importance of advancing this global principle.
We thank Ms. Mô Beekler for her statement and wish her success as the new Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect.
Costa Rica aligns itse…
Costa Rica acknowledges the United Kingdom for drafting the introduction to this year’s annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/78/2) and thanks the representative of the Republic of Korea for introducing the report in the General Assembly this morning (see A/78/PV.93).
We …
I thank the Republic of Korea for convening this open debate.
Two years ago, Costa Rica fell victim to large-scale ransomware attacks. We are still feeling the impact caused by the disruptions to our health-care system, social security, finance and other critical sectors.
In that regard, Costa Ric…
A new veto has prevented the Security Council from reaffirming the commitments of the States parties to the Outer Space Treaty. The vetoed draft resolution S/2024/302 underlines questions that we as States have highlighted as being important and priority matters upon which the international communit…
Costa Rica recognized the international legal status of the State of Palestine on 5 February 2008. To date, 140 States have done so and others are in the process of doing so. Almost all Members have expressed our aspiration to find a political solution to the crisis in the Middle East through the tw…
Costa Rica wishes to thank Ms. Marchi-Uhel for presenting the tenth report 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 M…
Since the adoption of resolution 76/262, two years ago, there have been 13 vetoes — 10 since we last convened in the Hall for this annual debate — representing a staggering increase from previous years at a point in time in which we desperately need unified solutions. Moreover, we have seen the Cou…
This meeting of the General Assembly was a very worrisome and disheartening decision on account of a State that is not only a permanent member of the Security Council, but also one of the depositaries of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). A State that has a special respons…
As of today, 185 days have passed since the crisis in Gaza began, and in that time we have witnessed five uses of the veto in the Security Council. Following the fifth use of the veto (see S/PV.9584), and thanks to the work of its 10 elected members, the Council adopted resolution 2728 (2024), calli…
Costa Rica welcomes the convening of this open debate and congratulates Japan for its traditional leadership in structuring the working methods of the Council.
Costa Rica aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Norway, on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Trans…
We have now witnessed 150 days of a war that began with the terrorist acts of an armed group. The humanitarian catastrophe affecting the civilian population of Gaza, after almost five months of conflict, is reaching an unsustainable limit, while the Security Council continues to fail to fulfil its p…
This past Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s territory, which is a clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations and an act of aggression and crime under international law. More than 6 million people have fled. More than 20,000 children have been abduct…
