I thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). I would also like to thank Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs, and civil-society representati…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s open debate on an issue that is enormously important and relevant. We also thank the briefers for their introductory remarks.
With 360 million people around the world in need of humanitarian assistance — an increase of 30 per cent compared to last…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, Mr. Volker Perthes; the Director of Opera tions and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu; and the civil society representative, Ms. Mayada Adil, for their inform ative briefi…
I welcome the briefing by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu.
I reiterate once again Ecuador’s position of rejection of armed violence, militarization and weapons build-up.
I regret once again that the protracted invasion against Ukraine continues to exacerbate g…
My delegation would like to join in the condolences that the members of the Assembly have expressed to the people of the Republic of Morocco as a result of the earthquake they suffered in recent days.
I thank the President for convening this meeting on the implementation of resolution 76/262. That …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, and Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing.
In just three weeks, it will be a year since draft resolution S/2022/720, condemning the Russian Federation’s attempted annexation of Ukrainian regions, was vetoed. For my del…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Lacroix for his briefing today, and the Secretary-General for his report on peacekeeping operations, and by paying tribute to all the men and women who are serving or have served in them for more than 75 years, in difficult conditions, while putting their own we…
I thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, the High Representative of the Office for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing. We regret that once again the Security Council has made no progress on the issue of chemical weapons in
the Syrian Arab Republic. As we have said before, any incident involving the use of …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the 10 elected members of the Security Council (E10).
We commend Albania for organizing today’s debate and Ambassador Ferit Hoxha for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Qu…
I thank Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and Ms. Beatrice Abouya, Acting Regional Director of Search for Common Ground, for their briefings.
As we have heard this m…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director Gherman and Ms. Khalaf for their information and introductory briefings.
The Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/568) confirms the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, known as Da’esh, to international peace and secur…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting on Ukraine. I also thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing and the civil-society representatives for their testimonies.
Today not only marks a year and a half since the invasion of Ukraine began but a year and a half …
I am grateful for the information provided by Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Lubna Alkanawati of Women
Now for Development. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representatives of Syria, Türkiye and Iran.
My delegation acknowledges the work of Mr. Pedersen and echoes his recommendations to…
I thank Special Representative Bathily for his briefing and Ms. Al Jerbi for her remarks. We welcome the Permanent Representative of Libya, Ambassador Elsonni, to today’s meeting and will listen closely to his statement.
Ecuador has followed with concern the news about the armed clashes that occurr…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for the briefing he delivered this morning on the situation in the region and reiterate our support for his important work.
For the fifteenth time this year, the Council has heard a troubling report. Violence, provocation and destruction persist. Earlier …
What kind of resistance to a military invasion is possible without weapons and military means? That has not generally been the case in the wars of this century or the previous one. When has war not been a voracious driver of increased arms production and supply or of an arms race? The former Union o…
I am grateful for the briefings by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ms. Elizabeth Salmón. I am also grateful for the testimony by Mr. Ilhyeok Kim. I recogn…
I thank the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for her briefing. I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia and the representatives of Azerbaijan, Türkiye and the European Union.
Ecuador ta…
I am grateful for the information provided by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg. My thanks also go to the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Edem Wosornu, and Ms. Amat Al-Salam Abdullah Abd…
We thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, and Ms. Edem Wosornu, of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings.
Ecuador condemns the armed violence of the past 116 days and the adverse effects it has had for the civilian population. We cann…
