I would like to start by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Annadif for his truly comprehensive and frank assessment of developments over the past six months and for stewarding the vital work of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) in what are clear…
We are delighted to see you in the Chair, Madam, and I want to wish you and your team an excellent month ahead. I also wish to echo your remarks regarding your predecessor, Ambassador Abarry, and his excellent presidency of the Council for the month of December. I would like to welcome our new colle…
We welcome this morning’s adoption of resolution 2615 (2021), which provides a much-needed and unequivocal exemption to the sanctions imposed under the resolution 1988 (2011) Taliban sanctions regime. It provides clarity and will facilitate and accelerate the provision of vital life-saving and life-…
I make this statement today on behalf of the co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file, Norway and Ireland.
I want to thank Martin Griffiths for his comprehensive briefing, which has underlined the severity of the humanitarian need and the complex challenge of delivering humanitarian response t…
I would like to thank Special Representative Fall for his briefing today. I would also like to join other speakers in recognizing your contribution, Mr. President, on these issues during your term on the Security Council. Your efforts have been very important to our work here in the Council.
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First, I want to join others in thanking Mr. Nicholas Haysom and Ms. Wafaa Saeed for their briefings this morning. I think they were refreshingly clear and were illustrative of both the challenges overcome and those remaining, which are concerning. I would also like welcome our colleagues from South…
Ireland welcomes the reports of the Secretary-General (S/2021/995) and the Joint Commission (see S/2021/992 and S/2021/1019) and has taken note of their findings. I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Skoog for their informative briefings.
Ireland is strongly committe…
I want to convey our thanks to our briefers, even if the news we received is far from good.
As the Council convenes to consider Yemen for the final time this year, I would like to make four points.
First, with regard to the military situation, I deeply regret that despite all efforts to secure pea…
I wish to again express my appreciation to Security Council members for their trust in appointing me as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
Over the course of this year, I have done my utmost to support the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of…
I want to thank President Carmel Agius and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings this morning. We are pleased to welcome them both back to the Chamber among us today. We commend and acknowledge the leadership that they have shown in guiding the International Residual Mechanism…
Ireland is deeply disappointed that the Security Council has failed to adopt draft resolution S/2021/990, on climate and security. We regret the decision of certain countries to use their right of veto to block the adoption of this groundbreaking draft resolution. We believed that the weight of evid…
I take the floor on behalf of Ireland and the Niger, the co-penholders for draft resolution S/2021/990, which is before the Council for its consideration this morning.
Many months of effort have gone into bringing this text to the Council table today. However, as we all know, it has taken years of …
I want to thank Special Representative Perthes for his briefing and for the valiant and tireless work we know he is doing in very complex circumstances. I also thank Sven Jürgenson for his report and his excellent stewardship over the
past two years. I am delighted to welcome our colleague from the…
I would like to begin by sincerely thanking the Niger through you, Sir, for the warm and generous welcome that you extended to us during the Security Council’s visit to the Niger last month. I express my deepest condolences to you and the families of the Nigerien soldiers who were killed this week a…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her informative briefing today.
The continuing lack of progress on this file is a matter of serious concern for us. It is eight years since the horrific chemical weapons attack at
Ghouta, which killed hundreds of innocent civilians and caused lasting injur…
It was very good to hear from the Foreign Minister of Norway earlier. I also want to thank the High Commissioner for his briefing and particularly for the warnings he delivered this morning. As always, Mr. Grandi has been honest with us. He tells us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear, an…
I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, whom it is a pleasure to see here among us this morning, and Ms. Kalala for their briefings. Ireland is very grateful for the work of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I also thank Ms. Keit…
We welcome the adoption today of resolution 2608 (2021) to renew the authorization of international counter-piracy measures in Somalia. We express our appreciation for the efforts of the United States as penholder.
Ireland strongly supports our continued cooperation and partnership with Somalia in …
Allow me to first thank each of the Chairs of the three subsidiary bodies for their excellent briefings this afternoon and express Ireland’s thanks for their excellent stewardship of their respective Committees over the past year.
The briefings today underline the fact that terrorism remains a grav…
I extend our warm congratulations to you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. You can count on our full support. I also wish to congratulate our colleague, Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, and his delegation on an excellent presidency. I thank Mr. Ritsch…
