I am taking the floor in support of the amendment to the draft oral decision under consideration that has just been proposed by Brazil on behalf of the Group of Four countries.
At the outset, I would like to thank the co-Chairs, Ambassadors Joanna Wronecka and Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Re…
We welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate on the report of the Security Council. Being in our sixth month of this term on the Security Council, we are encouraged by the fact that the report was presented well on time before the deadline of 31 May. We would like to commend the delegatio…
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement by His Excellency Mr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India, at today’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS.
Let me begin by thanking High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell Fontelles, for his briefing. Mr. Borrell Fontelles is a strong advocate of the India-European Union Strategic Partnership. I join others in extending a warm welcome to the Securi…
At the outset, I would like to state that India is not a signatory to the Rome Statute and not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
We take note of the thirty-third report of the ICC Prosecutor, Ms. Fatou Bensouda, on the situation in Darfur, submitted pursuant to paragraph 8 of reso…
Let me at the outset thank President Carmel Agius and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their briefings and for their assessment of the work of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. On behalf of my delegation, I also extend my condolences to the family of esteemed Judge Gberdao G…
Allow me to begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General François Fall for his briefing on the recent developments concerning the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the situation in the Lake Chad basin region. We deeply appreciate his contribution.
T…
Let me begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu and the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Fernando Arias, for the briefings.
We have noted the contents of the latest report of the Di…
I thank Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner- General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Mr. Rashid Khalidi for their briefings.
The situation in East Jeru…
My delegation joins others in thanking the Chinese presidency for resuming in-person meetings in the Council Chamber.
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General James Swan for updating us on the latest report of the Secretary-General on Somalia (S/2021/485) and the imp…
I take the floor to introduce draft amendment A/75/L.89 to draft decision A/75/L.86, entitled “Participation of non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions and the private sector in the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS”. The amendment seeks to restore the Indian …
I thank the President for convening today’s meeting. In the past week, the Security Council has held two closed meetings and an open debate on the developments in the Middle East (see S/2021/480) over the past 10 years. At those meetings, we expressed our deep concern about the violence in Jerusalem…
I have the honour of introducing draft resolution A/75/L.63, entitled “International Year of Millets, 2023”, submitted by Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Senegal and my own country, India.
At the outset, we would like to thank the more than 60 delegations that have sponso…
I thank the President for giving me the opportunity to explain our position on resolution 75/258. At the outset, we sincerely acknowledge the efforts of the facilitators of the negotiations, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, for their inclusive and transparent approach during the negotiations. India joined …
It is my privilege to deliver a joint statement on behalf of India and Sweden on this important issue. We would first like to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of United Nations humanitarian and medical personnel around the world who have been at the front lines of a joint response to the coronav…
I would like to begin by thanking all delegations that participated in the consultations on draft resolution A/74/L.45, in particular our German colleagues, who as usual ably facilitated the negotiation process. My delegation attaches great importance to the consensual adoption of the draft resoluti…
At the outset, let me express my heartfelt condolences for the untimely death of Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As India’s first representative to the Palestinian Authority, I lived in Gaza between 1996 and 1998 and vividly rec…
We are grateful to you, Sir, for convening this meeting to commemorate all victims of the Second World War. We also thank the delegation of the Russian Federation for having piloted resolution 75/5, which called for this meeting. We are thankful to the Russian Federation for hosting the Victory Day …
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. You have the support of my delegation in striving for a successful seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly.
India aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on behalf of the L.69…
We appreciate the efforts made by the proponents of draft decision A/75/L.7/Rev.1 to generate a conversation on the preparedness and business continuity of the General Assembly, and we engaged in the informal consultations on the draft decision in that spirit. However, we cannot support the proposal…
