Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General, António Guterres, for his remarks. I am also grateful to Special Coordinator Mr. Tor Wennesland and to the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Ms. Lynn Hastings, for their in-depth briefings.
The events on the ground are inde…
I would like to welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. We thank the Secretary-General for his most recent report (S/2023/735) on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and we are also …
Ghana is grateful to Brazil for spotlighting during this open debate of its presidency the importance of dialogue and peaceful means in preventing and resolving disputes. We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing and Ms. Michelle Bachelet and Mr. Thabo Mbeki for
their rema…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the African members of the Security Council (A3).
We thank Ms. Catriona Laing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, and His Excellency Mr. Mohamed El-Amine S…
Let me begin by thanking your presidency, Sir, and all delegations for their efforts to produce a consensual draft resolution that could have helped support the efforts of the Security Council to de-escalate the growing tensions and respond to the tragic situation that we are all witnessing in the G…
We listened carefully to the sobering briefings by Special Coordinator Wennesland and Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths.
We remain deeply concerned about the unfolding developments in the Gaza Strip and Israel. At the outset, while reiterating our strong condemnation of the current hostiliti…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3).
The A3 would like to express its appreciation to Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, for his briefing and for his active engagement and efforts…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative, for his briefing and for reminding us about the measures needed to address the risk of proliferation and diversion to unintended users
associated with the transfer of conventional weapons. We share the concern …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, namely, Gabon, Mozambique and my own country, Ghana (A3).
We thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mi…
I thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary- General Joyce Msuya their sobering briefings on the deeply concerning and persisting humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
The intense military contestations of the warring parties in Ukraine continues to create grave concerns for the s…
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3).
I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her truly remarkable work at the head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mis…
We are grateful to Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing to the Council on the overall situation in the Middle East, with an emphasis on the implementation of the provisions of resolution 2334 (2016).
Ghana has been following the recent positive developments in the Middle East with ke…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique (A3).
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, f…
We listened closely to the information provided by the briefers and have noted our common interest in unravelling the facts surrounding the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. The successive damage done to the pipelines — at a time when the global energy crisis was already worsening …
At the outset, we would like to thank you, Madam President, and France for convening this meeting on the recent security developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. We also are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing. We welcome in this meeting the Foreign Ministers …
We begin by thanking Albania for convening this important and novel open
debate and note with appreciation the insightful briefings by Ms. Cindy McCain, Mr. Jared Cohen and Mr. Michael Miebach.
The unprecedented level of humanitarian needs globally, which is being driven strongly by such factors a…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3).
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Volker Perthes and Ms. Edem Wosornu for their briefings and commend the efforts of the United Nations Integrated Transition Ass…
At the outset, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her informative briefing. I also thank the civil-society briefer, Mr. George Szamuely, for sharing his views.
Ghana continues to be deeply concerned about the Russian Federation’s sustained aggression against Ukraine and its…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his informative briefing.
We are dismayed by the ongoing local elections being conducted by the authorities of the Russian Federation in four regions of Ukraine, namely, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya. The purported elections consti…
As this is the first time that we are taking the floor during your presidency of the Security Council, Sir, we would like to congratulate you and your team and wish you the very best for your term. Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing to the Council against…
