I thank Special Representative Bathily for his update this morning. We continue to support his efforts to reach a sustainable and peaceful Libyan-led and Libyan-owned solution to the current crisis.
We reiterate our calls for Libyan leaders to come together and agree on a constitutional basis for t…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix, Ms. Birikorang and Police Commissioners Fossen and Berethe for their insightful briefings. Huge thanks go to Ghana for arranging this important meeting.
Ireland is a strong supporter of the Secretary- General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) agenda. Action f…
Ireland welcomes the adoption of resolution 2659 (2022), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) for one year. In a context marked by the persistence of violence and with a heavy price being paid by the ci…
Ireland aligns itself with the statement made on behalf of the European Union.
We want to thank Germany for draft resolu tion A/77/L.11 and its constructive facilitation of the text. As a member of the core group, Ireland actively participated in the negotiations. The adoption by con sensus of t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your presence at this meeting today and for your leadership. And I thank the Ghanaian presidency for organizing this important briefing. I also want to thank Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed, His Excellency Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Ms. Von Seherr-Thoss and Ms. Ero fo…
We thank Prosecutor Khan for his report and briefing today. I also welcome the Permanent Representative of Libya to today’s meeting.
Without accountability for international crimes, even the strongest democracy will wither in time. Impunity undermines efforts to resolve conflict, perpetuating cycle…
Ireland aligns itself with the statement of the European Union (EU) (see A/77/ PV.31). I wish to make the following statement in my national capacity.
I would like to thank Czechia for introducing draft resolution A/77/L.9, on the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ireland str…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing this morning.
In 2013, the Security Council adopted resolution 2118 (2013). It did so in the wake of the chemical-weapon attack in Ghouta that killed and injured more than a thousand Syrian civilians in the most horrific of circumstances. I wan…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Khiari for his very useful briefing.
Ireland condemns the recent missile launches by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in violation of Security Council resolutions. The 25 missiles launched in less than 24 hours, including the seventh intercontinental b…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this timely debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his wise words, and our briefers for their thought-provoking messages to the Security Council. I am particularly proud to sit at this table and listen to a former President of Ireland…
Ireland upholds the right of any State party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), under article VI, to bring a complaint to the Security Council if it finds that another State is acting in breach of its obligations under the BWC.
We duly listened to the complaint brought by the Rus…
Let me join others in commending Gabon on its presidency of the Security Council last month — and now it finds itself in the most comfortable chair in the Chamber. I also would like to wish you, Mr. President, the best of luck for the month ahead.
I would like to thank the United Nations High Comm…
Let me begin, Sir, by congratulating you on your presidency of the Security Council for this month.
Ireland very much welcomes the adoption just now of resolution 2658 (2022), which reauthorizes the European Union Military Operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ireland is very proud to participate in…
Ireland associates itself with the statement made on behalf of the European Union and its member States (see A/77/PV.22).
I wish to take this opportunity to thank the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its annual report
to the United Nations (see A/77/305) and President Hofmański for his prese…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Griffiths and Secretary-General Grynspan for their briefings.
Ireland deeply regrets the decision by the Russian Federation to suspend its involvement in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. That deal is vital to ensuring the export of much-needed grain and fertilizers t…
I thank Mr. Sciacchitano, President of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), for his briefing.
Ireland welcomes the conclusions of the ICAO investigation into the forced landing of a Ryanair aircraft in Minsk in May 2021, as confirmed by the ICAO Council and endorsed by its Assembly…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing and assure him of Ireland’s strong support for his work, and I stress the importance of the continued facilitation by all parties of his efforts.
As Special Coordinator Wennesland outlined, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory i…
Ireland would like to thank the International Court of Justice for its annual report (A/77/4) and President Donoghue for her presentation today (see A/77/PV.20), which details a particularly high level of judicial activity over the past year.
At the outset, I too would like to echo the sentiments e…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee and Special Envoy Tetteh for their briefings today. I also welcome the representatives of South Sudan and the Sudan to the Chamber.
The humanitarian situation in Abyei is exacerbated by frequent outbreaks of violence and insecurity and the ongoing challenge…
I thank Mr. Ebo for his very clear briefing today.
The use of biological agents or toxins as instruments of war is truly abhorrent. It is rightly banned under
international law, and there can be no impunity for those who use them. Ireland looks forward to the ninth Review Conference Biological Wea…
