Let me too thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s very important meeting on the International Court of Justice.
The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and the most important guardian of international law, as it is the only Court with a lega…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the following 71 States parties to the Rome Statute: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denm…
I very much thank Under- Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Parfait Onanga-Anyanga for their briefings. I, too, would like to extend a warm welcome to Richard Mills here back in New York.
We see light and we see shadow for Abyei. Let me start with the light. With regard to the …
We align ourselves with the statement delivered earlier by the observer of the European Union.
First, we would like to thank Judge Carmel Agius for his briefing today and the eighth annual report of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see A/75/276).
Since its establishment…
I should like first to thank all the briefers.
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has Germany’s full support and, as my Indonesian colleague said in his intervention, it is more important than ever, and we look forward to t…
It is very good to see Martin Griffiths and Mark Lowcock on the screen. I just want to say that we still have one coronavirus-free seat here and that it would be great if perhaps next time one of them could be here in our midst.
I wish to echo what Martin said at the beginning when he described how…
I thank the Secretary- General for his report (S/2020/951), and the Special Envoy for his briefing. Let me make three brief points.
First, on regional cooperation, we commend the encouraging signals that we have seen recently, particularly in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.…
Let me first say that the Security Council has come home. I thank you, Mr. President, for all your efforts. I think it is good that we are back in the Chamber and that we are able to see and talk to each other. I thank you very much for your initiative.
With regard to Mali, let me first thank the E…
You responded to me, Sir, in your capacity as President of the Security Council, so I am now responding to you, in your capacity as President. I want to stress that the result is the same — you prevented the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from speaking here in the Council.
In your national capacity, Mr. President, in the introduction to your long citation, you said that those who questioned the presence of Mr. Bustani here were bringing shame and disgrace to the Council. So let me ask you: who was it who brought shame and disgrace to the Council? Was it the 12 countri…
I fully support what my British and French colleagues have just said. Since your proposal, Mr. President, was to say that there must be a majority voting against, may I remind you of the year 2018. At the time, the Netherlands presidency wanted to invite Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations…
Let me express our condolences on the passing of His Highness the Amir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, a tireless mediator in the Middle East. Let me also express our thanks to Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing and his important work. I would lik…
It is my honour to introduce a pre-recorded statement by His Excellency Mr. Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. Foreign Minister Maas is in a coronavirus-disease-induced quarantine and has recorded the statement himself.
Today we are discussing the situation in the Sudan, and for the first time we are discussing the work of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). I wish to underline that the notion of assistance stands for the spirit of a new chapter in the relationship be…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and its member States.
The General Assembly already voted last Friday for the rollover of agenda item 136, on the responsibility to protect. That decision was confirmed by the General Committee on Wednesday. Questioning a General Assembly d…
We heard earlier that this was the thirty-third briefing on Yemen and the humanitarian situation, and I think that we have never had a more sombre briefing than we had today. I have hardly ever heard Martin Griffiths, who is the eternal optimist, as down and frustrated as he was today. Mark Lowcock …
At the outset, we would like to welcome the start of the Afghanistan peace negotiations in Doha last Saturday. It is a major achievement, which we have all been awaiting for many years. We would like to thank and congratulate all
sides involved, especially our Qatari friends for their facilitation …
I should now deliver our explanation of vote on paragraph seven of resolution 74/306. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States. We deeply regret the decision to call a vote on operative paragraph 7. Voting on the resolution before us sent a terribly wrong…
On behalf of the European Union (EU) and its member States, I would like to call for a vote on draft amendment A.74/L.93. I am also taking the floor to deliver the following explanation of vote.
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and its member States. We will abstain in the…
