I would like to thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia, for his briefing, and his team for their dedicated work. I also wish to extend a warm welcome to His Excellency President Duque Márquez. We recognize and commend the efforts of the Colomb…
I thank the briefers for providing us with updated analyses and insights on the scale of the challenge remaining on the implementation of measures related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
We remain firmly of the opinion that no one is safe from COVID-…
I thank our briefers, in particular our civil society briefer, Ms. Kateryna Cherepakha. The sobering words that we heard this morning leave us in no doubt as to the human misery and suffering inflicted on the people of Ukraine by the Russian Federation’s senseless and illegal war.
We have all seen …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for his briefing this morning and for the continued work of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in an increasingly challenging environment. The Mission’s work on the protecti…
I too would like to thank the Secretary-General and our other briefings this morning. I want to express a very warm welcome to President Zelenskyy, who is with us this morning. President Zelenskyy’s leadership and courage, and that of the Ukrainian people, are an example to us all.
On 24 February, …
I would also like to thank Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM)…
I too would like to thank Special Representative Keita for her insightful and important briefing this morning. Ireland welcomes her leadership and the essential work of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I also acknowledge the pre…
I would also like to thank Executive Director David Beasley, Mr. Amir Abdulla and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for updating the Security Council on the humanitarian catastrophe that is engulfing the people of Ukraine. I also want to welcome our dear colleague from Ukraine among us this af…
I wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Volker Perthes for his excellent briefing. I have to say that he did paint a very bleak picture of the situation in the Sudan.
We deeply regret that the fallout from the coup last October continues to have such devastating effects on t…
I, too, would like to thank our three briefers today for their informative briefings.
I will confine myself to speaking on the political situation, as the Ambassador of Norway already spoke on behalf of Norway and Ireland as co-penholders on the humanitarian file.
This month marked 11 years of con…
Ireland abstained in this afternoon’s voting for a clear and simple reason.
Draft resolution S/2022/231, submitted by the Russian Federation, does nothing to ease the humanitarian suffering of the Ukrainian people. Indeed, the draft resolution before us today failed to call for the very thing that …
I thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The Special Coordinator’s briefing highlights the increase in violence in the occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, at this particula…
I want to say at the beginning how much the Irish delegation appreciates the messages of condolence we have received on the sudden loss of an outstanding Irish diplomat, colleague and friend. May he rest in peace.
I would like to thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Ireland deeply…
I also would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Assistant High Commissioner Mazou and Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus for their very sobering briefings. Their messages are very grim. We commend all humanitarian organizations working to alleviate the human-made catastrophe being visit…
Ireland welcomes the adoption this morning of resolution 2626 (2022), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I would like to express our sincere appreciation to Norway as penholder for its untiring efforts to secure an agreement on a new mandate for UNA…
I want to thank our briefers — Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Tirumurti and Ms. Shuaiter — and to welcome our colleague the Ambassador of Libya to this morning’s meeting.
The deterioration of the overall situation on the ground in Libya since the postponement of the December election…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General Griffiths for their briefings today.
The conflict in Yemen has caused unthinkable suffering for too long. Yemenis have endured more than seven years of conflict, which has savaged their country. As we heard from Mr. Griffith…
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing this morning. I would like to wish Minister Rau a very warm welcome to the Council and extend many thanks for his informative briefing earlier.
At the outset, I would certainly like to express Ireland’s admiration and appr…
I would like to thank Ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez for his briefing today. This has been a difficult and challenging year for him and for his work and for that of his team. It has been really exemplary in guiding the progress of the Council and the progress by the Committee, so I wante…
I would like to thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu and Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for their sober briefings this morning.
Ireland deeply regrets the decision of the Russian Federation to call for today’s meeting. It has done so for no other reason than to advance baseless clai…
