One year ago today, we gathered in this Hall, in the most democratic forum in the world, where the size and status of States is irrelevant — to adopt resolution 76/262, which strengthens the growing relationship between the General Assembly and the Security Council, in order to ensure that our Organ…
Costa Rica thanks Ms. Catherine Marchi- Uhel for presenting the ninth report of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since M…
Costa Rica is proud of the historic adoption of resolution 77/276. It is a milestone for multilateralism in the fight against climate change and a giant step forward for international law, climate justice and human rights.
Today we are concluding a process that was inspired by the youth of the worl…
Today I have the honour to address the General Assembly, on behalf of France and Costa Rica, to introduce draft resolution A/77/L.40, entitled “2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine re…
It was an honour for Costa Rica to participate in yesterday’s commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (see A/77/PV.48) through the statements made by the representatives of Guatemala, on behalf of the countries of Latin America and th…
I take the floor to explain my country’s vote in favour of resolution 77/76. Costa Rica thanks Japan for its efforts in leading the negotiations on the draft, and we recognize that the resolution contains many of the elements that were negotiated at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty…
Costa Rica congratulates the Permanent Representatives of the Slovak Republic, Ambassador Michal Mlynár, and of the State of Kuwait, Ambassador Tareq Albanai, on their appointment as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. They have the full support of Costa Rica …
I am honoured to take the floor on behalf of the 27 members of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group. The group is comprised of Austria, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Gabon, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Maldives, New Zealand, N…
Costa Rica thanks the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Piotr Hofmański, for presenting his report (see A/77/PV.22). The report (see
A/77/305) gives an account of the growing activity and progress of the Court, but its challenges are also evident.
Costa Rica joins in the c…
Costa Rica thanks the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan E. Donoghue, for presenting
the annual report of the Court (A/77/4). We also wish to express our condolences on the passing of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade. He will be remembered not only as an outstanding j…
Costa Rica congratulates the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session on his election. We are confident that his extensive political experience will be crucial to the success of the work ahead.
A maelstrom of challenges is shaking the foundations of our Organization. The pan…
Preventing violent conflict and building and sustaining peace are fundamental aspects of the work of the United Nations. They are derived from the Charter of the United Nations and highlighted in the report of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (A/76/668 and A/76/688/Corr.1)…
On behalf of the Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia, Switzerland and my own country, Costa Rica, it is my honour to introduce draft resolution A/76/L.75, entitled “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment”.
At the outset, we want to thank the more than 100 Member States from all reg…
Costa Rica regrets and condemns the veto of the draft resolution contained in document S/2022/538, which would have extended the entry of humanitarian aid through the only remaining open cross-border crossing in Syria for one more year. That aid would have taken the form of life-saving medicines, va…
Costa Rica thanks Albania for organizing today’s open debate.
There is an undeniable connection between the working methods of Security Council and conflict prevention. If the Security Council acts solely in crisis mode, responding and reacting to events instead of preventing them, it will never be…
I have the honour of delivering this long statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect, which comprises 55 Member States and the European Union and is co-chaired this year by Botswana, Costa Rica and Croatia.
We would like to thank the President of the General Assemb…
I have the honour to take the floor on behalf of the Group of Friends of Spanish at the United Nations.
We are grateful for the arduous work carried out by the facilitators, Colombia and Andorra, which allowed us to reach agreement on this important draft resolution (A/76/L.57) in spite of the diff…
Costa Rica congratulates the newly elected members of the Security Council and invites them to participate in next year’s debate when we will discuss the Council’s annual report for 2022. We are gathered here today in an act of accountability. The Council has presented its report (A/76/2), and the G…
On 26 April, we met in this very Hall to adopt the historic resolution 76/262 (see A/76/PV.69), which seeks to strengthen the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly, as well as the Council’s accountability with regard to the use of the veto. We never expected that, just 4…
We would like to thank the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein for its leadership on this initiative, of which we are co-sponsors and a member of the core group. We joined the effort because the veto has failed as a tool of international law. The veto is not a right. It is a privilege that is too pow…
