At the outset, allow me to commend Panama for convening this timely and important meeting and to congratulate Your Excellency President Mulino Quintero for leading today’s debate on maritime security, a cornerstone of the modern interconnected world and a matter of high priority for both of our coun…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent meeting upon the request of the European members of the Council. I also wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for their brie…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Leonardo Santos Simão for his briefing and express my country’s full support for the work of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS). I wou…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Ambassador Alfaro de Alba, for briefing the Council in your capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) on its work, and I would like to congratulate Panama on assuming the duties of Chair of the Committee and to assure you th…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing and Mr. Ilay David for his powerful and moving testimony, and I express my deep sympathy for the suffering that he and other
Greece reiterates its firm condemnation of the heinous terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hama…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Panama on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of August and to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this emergency meeting. I extend my congratulations to Pakistan for its successful stewardship of the Council during t…
We meet for a second time in the course of one week on the subject of Ukraine. Yet, the wording of the request for today’s meeting is in itself misleading. What is described as the “Ukrainian conflict’’ is in fact a war of aggression against Ukraine, ongoing for the last three and a half years, disr…
At the outset, I would like to welcome this briefing, which is focused on one of the most crucial aspects of United Nations peace operations, namely, the need to adapt them in order to be better positioned to pursue political solutions. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Mr. Jean- Pi…
Allow me to start by thanking Special Envoy Pedersen and Director Wosornu for their briefings. I also welcome the representative of Syria to this meeting.
I wish to highlight the following four points today.
First, as the security landscape in Syria remains fragile, there is no room for sectarian …
Let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari and Mr. Yousef Al-Dobeay, Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), for their briefings.
Greece very much welcomes today’s opportunity to exchange views on the cooperation between the United Nations and the OIC in a…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his detailed and insightful briefing.
Volatility in the Red Sea region, a nodal maritime route, exposes the international community to acute security risks and economic uncertainty, jeopardizing global trade and supply chains. Unde…
At the outset, I would like to welcome your presence, Mr. President, and congratulate Pakistan for presiding over the Security Council for the month of July. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
The promotion of international peace and security through multilateralism …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his informative briefing and for his tireless work throughout his term as SRSG for Colombia. I also welcome the presence of the Vice-Minister for Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Mauricio Jarami…
Allow me to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his detailed briefing.
Today’s meeting comes at another critical moment for Syria. We share the deep concern expressed by the Secretary-General on the continued escalation of violence in Suwayda’, a Druze-majority area in southern Syri…
I thank you, Mr. President, for responding to the joint call of five Member States — namely, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Slovenia and my own country, Greece — for an urgent briefing on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. I would also like to thank our briefers, Under-Secretary-General Tom F…
I would like to thank Ms. Nazhat Shameem Khan, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the presentation of the Court’s forty-first report on the situation in Darfur. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Sudan in today’s meeting.
The Sudan i…
I would also like to thank the Special Envoy, Mr. Hans Grundberg, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, and the Chief Executive Officer from Yemen Aid, Ms. Summer Nasser, for their informative briefings today. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Repres…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and Pakistan on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July and to thank Guyana for its successful presidency in June. Allow me also to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNO…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Khiari, for his briefing today.
While the world’s attention was diverted elsewhere, amid momentous developments in the region and beyond, the scale of the suffering of civilians — in particular that borne by the children in Gaza — has cont…
Let me start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee, Ms. Shayna Lewis, and Ambassador Joonkook Hwang, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan, for their comprehensive briefings. I also welcome the participation of the representatives …
