I would like to thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths for their briefings.
Yesterday’s air strike on the Anglican hospital in Gaza, which left hundreds of Palestinian civilians dead and many wounded, illustrates the extreme br…
Gabon voted in favour of a draft resolution (S/2023/772) that calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, firmly condemns the violence and hostilities targeted at civilians and acts of terrorism, calls for the unconditional release of hostages and for unfettered access to humanitarian assistance for the civ…
I would like to thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for his briefing. I listened carefully to the briefing by Mr. Nixon.
We are very concerned by the intensification in recent weeks of the bombings and other attacks against civilian infrastructure, popu…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for their respective briefings.
The 52 people killed in the village of Hroza adds to the terrible and unbearable list of suffering of the deadly war in Ukraine. In recent weeks, the bombings a…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his briefing.
The fragility of the security and humanitarian situation on the ground requires greater commitment from the international community with respect to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wh…
We are once again meeting today on the issue of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines off the Baltic Sea on 26 and 27 September 2022. Those were malicious acts against energy infrastructure that sparked Council members’ outrage and condemnation. The extent of the material damage, the…
I offer Mr. Dennis Francis my warm congratulations on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session.
I pay tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, for the work accomplished during his mandate.
I express my country’s confidence in Secretary- General Antó…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing.
Last Tuesday, fighting broke out in the Karabakh region, causing numerous deaths, injuries and displacements of people. Those events took place even as the resumption of humanitarian convoys in recent weeks in the r…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his informative briefing on the terrible state of affairs of the war in Ukraine, 19 months after its outbreak.
From the outset of the hostilities in Ukraine, my country has expressed its opposition to the war and condemned the violation of Ukraine’s t…
I would like to thank Albania for convening this important open debate. The briefings delivered by Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Mr. Jared Cohen and Mr. Michael Miebach were particularly informative on the role of the private sector in responding to the alar…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu for her edifying briefing. I listened carefully to the statement of Mr. Szamuely.
The issue that brings us together today is a recurrent one on the Security Council’s agenda. Arms deliveries continue to increase, and new military allianc…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing.
In the current context of intensifying fighting along various fronts of the war in Ukraine, the decision to organize local and municipal elections in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson territories on 10 September 2023 …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing on peacekeeping around the world.
The effectiveness of peacekeeping operations has been tested for a number of years, while the vital need to adapt them to today’s many security challenges has become clear. It is particularly important in the…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing today’s briefing on the seventeenth report (S/2023/568) of the Secretary- General on the threat posed by Da’esh and its affiliates to international peace and security. I would also like to thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov from the Office of Counter-Terrorism a…
My country and Germany, together with the Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking, wish to reaffirm before the General Assembly our shared commitment to combatting poaching and the illicit trafficking of wildlife in order to put an end to them. I would like to thank all those d…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing and Ms. Rashevska and Mr. Kuleba for their remarks.
After 18 months of deadly war in Ukraine, the fighting has intensified in recent weeks in the south of the country, with increasing numbers of drone, missile and other long-range-weapon atta…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his important update and commend his efforts in search of peace and stability in Syria. We listened w…
I would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his briefing.
Since our previous meeting on 27 July (see S/PV.9387), security incidents involving civilians have continued. The terrible toll cited by Special Coordinator Wennesland in his brief…
I would like to thank 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. Elisabeth Salmón, for their respective briefings. I listened carefully to Mr. Ilhyeok Kim’s brie…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing. I also paid close attention to Mr. Haiphong’s briefing.
We are concerned about the announcements of additional arms deliveries and the rhetoric with regard to offensives, counter-offensives and new military alliances, a…
