Today’s debate comes at a critical time for the Middle East peace process and the viability of the two-State solution. Three years since the adoption of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016), the situation on the ground has continued to deteriorate. Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including …
At the outset, I would like to join others in expressing particular thanks to Ambassadors Nusseibeh and Braun for their exemplary leadership over the past year on this difficult but important process.
The requirement for Security Council reform grows ever-more pressing. As we and others have repeat…
Ireland associates itself with the statement made earlier on behalf of the European Union and its member States (see A/74/PV.25).
My delegation would particularly like to emphasize its strong belief in the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its full confidence in the impartial…
My country, Ireland, welcomes the holding of today’s debate. It is an important one for us for a number of reasons. First, the debate is clearly part of the Security Council’s obligation, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to submit an annual report to the General Assembly (A/73/2). …
Ireland aligns itself with the statement delivered by the observer of the European Union, and I thank the briefers Secretary-General Guterres, Mr. Zerbo and Ms. Thunborg for their thoughtful remarks. Ireland is pleased to join other States and civil society here today in observing the International …
First of all, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on having assumed the presidency of the Council, and to wish you all the best for the month ahead. I also want to thank today’s briefers, in particular Ms. Mariatu Kamara and Mr. Majok Peter Awan, for having delivered such important and movi…
I am delighted to speak today at this event to commemorate the twenty- fifth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its contribution to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals. It is my pleasure to deliver this statement on behalf of the following gr…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for having organized this important debate and for your continued leadership in strengthening our understanding of the linkages between international terrorism and organized crime, both of which, as we have just heard, have grown substantially in…
We welcome the convening of today’s debate. The inclusion of the responsibility to protect on the formal agenda of the General Assembly is indicative of the widespread support for this concept and its continuing importance to our work. The debate today is particularly timely, as we mark the seventi…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate. I would also like to thank our briefers.
At the outset, I would like to align myself with the statement delivered on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) group.
Working methods are not an end in themselves. We and ot…
We are delighted that the Indonesian presidency has convened this debate. As we mark 20 years of the protection of civilians agenda in the Security Council and 70 years since the signing of the Geneva Conventions, my country, Ireland, sincerely welcomes the culture of protection that has been brough…
I would like to thank the current Chairperson and his predecessor for their exemplary leadership of our work in the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).
This morning, I should like to focus on two concrete aspects of our work based on the reports before us today (A/73/724 and A/73/829). The first is to …
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, and your delegation for having convened today’s debate. Like Indonesia, my country has a long and proud tradition of peacekeeping. For any troop- contributing country, keeping those we deploy to the field safe will always be uppermost. Here I would like to pay tri…
It is hard to imagine a topic that requires our determined focus more than this one. It highlights the real-life test that each of us here faces as we cross the threshold of the United Nations every day, endeavouring to live out our own
commitments to multilateralism in our own day- to-day jobs. Th…
I would like to thank Germany for convening today’s debate and all the briefers for their powerful statements. I particularly welcome the fact that Pramila Patten, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, whose work we strongly support, is still with us at this stage in the day listening…
Ireland is proud to align itself with the statements delivered earlier by the representatives of Croatia and Lichtenstein.
This year marks the ninth year of the crisis in Syria, where we continue to see appalling suffering, destruction and displacement. Nine years is a long time. We all know that t…
As a representative of a country of seasoned peacekeepers, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate on what we see as the critical issue of women in peacekeeping.
We are speaking today over lunchtime because it is important that the Action for Peacekeeping pledges and …
The history of independent Ireland and the history of the International Labour Organization (ILO) are closely intertwined. On 21 January 1919, the Dáil Éireann, Ireland’s Parliament, sat for the first time and adopted a Declaration of Independence and sent a message to the free nations of the world.…
Let me begin by thanking Minister Le Drian for chairing this important debate on preventing and combating the financing of terrorism.
Nearly one year ago, Ireland was one of the 70 States that convened in Paris for the high-level International Conference on Combating the Financing of Da’esh and Al-…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s debate and the work of the Council on resolution 2457 (2019), which we are very happy to co-sponsor.
We are here because we think that this debate matters. Ireland believes that cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organization…
