I make this statement on behalf of the co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file, namely, Norway and Ireland.
We would like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres; Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham; and the Country Director of CARE, Tu…
I would like to join my colleagues in wishing Nicholas Haysom a very warm
welcome and sincere best wishes in his new role — a challenging one, no doubt, but one in which we have every confidence that he will be able to deliver.
I also want to express my appreciation for the remarks made earlier by…
Let me also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Helen La Lime for her briefing today and express my appreciation to Ms. Chantal Hudicourt Ewald for her valuable briefing. I also acknowledge the presence of Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph at this meeting today.
I want to focus …
I would like to warmly welcome High Representative Borrell Fontelles today and to thank him for his thought-provoking intervention. We are very delighted to have him with us.
The steadfast belief of the European Union (EU) in multilateralism and its strong commitment to the United Nations are borne…
I would like to give special thanks to Prosecutor Bensouda for her report as well as for her briefing.
The Sudan has continued to make significant headway in its political transition and reform efforts, which I am pleased to see is being matched by tangible steps by the transitional Government to w…
I thank President Carmel Agius and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings today.
I would also like to offer my sincere condolences on the passing of Judge Gustave Kam. Judge Kam’s death is a loss for international criminal justice. I would like to acknowledge his dedicated ser…
I would like to begin, like others, by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Fall for his briefing and for the relevant and necessary work of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) in the subregion.
I will focus my comments today on a number of country-spec…
I would like to thank Director-General Arias for his briefing today. Ireland has full confidence in his leadership in guiding the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). I also want to thank Under-Secretary General Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The OPCW plays an essen…
I want to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for the briefing this morning and express special thanks, too, to Commissioner- General Lazzarini and Professor Khalidi for their truly valuable insights this morning.
Ireland welcomes the ceasefire agreed last weekend following 11 days of violent conf…
Like others, I would like to thank the President for bringing us back to the Chamber today. In our case, it is our first day in the Chamber since we were elected to the Security Council almost one year ago, so we are delighted to be here. I also wanted to thank our briefers this morning. We were gla…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his statement earlier today and for the updates on the increasingly distressing situation, especially in the Gaza Strip. Ireland aligns itself with the statement by the Head of Delegation of the European Union (see A/75/PV.67).
I would also like to th…
I thank the President for convening today’s debate.
Ireland aligns itself with the statements made by the representatives of the European Union, in its capacity as observer, and Costa Rica, on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect (see A/75/PV.64).
Recognizing that each S…
I thank the President for convening this meeting on a long-standing issue of critical importance to the work of the Organization — the question of Security Council reform. It is a question that we have been dealing with for many years and to which we have not yet found the answer.
The essence of th…
Ireland associates itself with the statement delivered earlier by the observer of the European Union. My remarks this morning will further complement those made by the representative of Germany on behalf of 71 States.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the International Criminal Court (…
Let me wish the Ambassador of China in advance a very Happy New Year. Let me begin by joining others in thanking the Secretary- General for his report (A/74/1) and very clear words to us yesterday morning (see A/74/PV.54). We could not agree more that, on the eve of the seventy-fifth anniversary of …
Ireland aligns itself with the statement delivered today on behalf of the European Union and its member States.
As others have said, it has been another extremely challenging year for the global humanitarian response. The launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview: 2020 earlier this month highlight…
We fully align ourselves with the statement made earlier by the observer of the European Union.
Let me begin my remarks by thanking and acknowledging the excellent work carried out by the Permanent Representatives of Austria and the Kingdom of Bhutan as facilitators of the Political Declaration ado…