I would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his briefing and Ms. Comfort Ero for her great insights from the perspective of the International Crisis Group.
The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory remains alarming. Ireland strongly opposes Israel’s illegal policy of settlement expansion…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Kubiš for his briefing, as well as Ambassador Tirumurti for his update regarding the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya. I also want to thank Ms. Bensaad for her heartfelt messages. Her appetite to participa…
I want to thank Prosecutor Khan for his report and briefing this afternoon during his first visit to the Security Council as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). I also want to welcome our friend and colleague, Ambassador Elsonni of Libya.
We have seen a number of hard-won achievem…
I should like to thank our briefers this morning, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Amal Kabashi, for their critical and very frank
assessments of the recent legislative elections. I am also delighted to see our colleague Mr. Mohammed Bahr Aluloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq, among us in the Cha…
I have the honour of introducing the pre-recorded statement of the Minister of Justice of Ireland, Her Excellency Ms. Helen McEntee.
A pre-recorded video statement was shown in the General Assembly Hall (see annex 16 and A/76/569).
I want to begin by thanking Mexico for convening today’s important meeting and to thank you, Mr. Minister, for personally being here with us today. I also welcome Minister Bhattacharyya from India, my neighbour here at the table. I would also like to thank Director Geiss and Ms. María Pía Devoto for…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Lyons for her briefing; we deeply appreciate it. I am really grateful to Ms. Karim for her briefing, especially when we know that her sharing her testimony at this time is not without risk. She has left her mark in this Chamber; I want to assur…
I thank Special Representatives Swan and Madeira for their briefings. I also welcome my colleague, the Permanent Representative of Somalia. I wish to thank Ms. Siyad in particular for her powerful and very frank remarks to us this morning.
The finalization of elections to the Upper House of Parliam…
I would like to thank our briefers — Secretary-General Guterres, President Shahid, our dear friend and colleague Ambassador Kelapile and Judge Donoghue — for their interventions this morning. It is really reassuring to have such staunch supporters of multilateralism surrounding us at the table today…
I wish to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting on a long-standing issue of critical importance to the work and long-term relevance of the Organization — the question of Security Council reform. At the outset, I should like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Qatar and Denmark on t…
I would like to begin by reiterating the expression of condolences by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland to the victims and families who were affected by the heinous attack in the Niger last week. That incident highlights the urgent need for enhanced efforts to protect civilians across the …
Ireland associates itself with the statement made earlier on behalf of the European Union and its member States (see A/76/PV.29).
At the outset, I wish to thank the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its annual report (see A/76/293) to the United Nations. I also congratulate President Hofmański…
I thank Mexico for convening today’s briefing. I want to also thank Mexico for the important focus that your country, Madam President, is putting on women and peace and security.
Ireland is truly proud to work together with Kenya and Mexico in forming a trio of presidencies committed not just to hi…
I would like to thank Mexico and you personally, President López Obrador, for being with us today and for bringing this important item to the Council.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing. I thank, in particular, Ms. Lourdes Tibán Guala for the powerful messa…
I want to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and, in particular, High Representative Obasanjo, for their very important briefings.
In the context of what we have just heard and the excellent work that the High Representative is already doing despite the uncertainties we heard from Un…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming your important functions as our President for this month. I thank your predecessor Ambassador Kimani for his deft handling of the presidency in the month of October. I also thank his team.
I would like to begin by emphasizing our strong s…
I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Wane, for his briefing. The energy that he has brought to his role is commendable. I would like to express our gratitude to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and t…
I make this statement today on behalf of the co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file — Norway and Ireland.
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for his briefing. He has set before us in stark terms the enormity of the humanitarian needs facing the people of Syria — a…
Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, the Special Envoy and former President Mbeki for their insightful briefings. I would also like to welcome the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan here with us today.
Ireland had been encouraged by the continued improvement in relati…
I am delighted to join the Security Council today under the Kenyan presidency for the open debate on women and peace and security. Given the agreement among Ireland, Mexico and Kenya to form a trio of women and peace and security presidencies, I am especially pleased to be giving expression to our s…
