Silence can be deafening, but in our region silence kills. It is time for the Palestinian leadership to end its silence and to start acting as leaders. Mr. Mansour, you cannot condemn terrorism, you cannot say it here: “I condemn all acts of terror.” You cannot say it here. People are looking to you…
Shame on you for not saying, “We condemn all acts of terror, period.” That is what we are saying. We condemn all acts of terror. That is what I want you to say, Mr. Mansour. You are being translated into five languages. You can say it right now.
We are saying it all the time. You should say it in Arabic, not in English. You should teach it in your schools. You should stop the hatred. You should stop naming streets after terrorists. Look at the squares in Ramallah. Look at the streets in Jenin. You are naming streets after terrorists.
Once again we have gathered to discuss the Middle East, Israel and the Palestinians. Time and time again we meet in this Chamber for this debate. We hear very long discussions about the nature of the conflict and new proposals to solve it. But the root of the conflict is not very hard to understand,…
I almost did not make it here today. As I was driving to this meeting in the terrible New York traffic, almost in a rage, I remembered what I was coming here to do and how calm we have to be on the road.
At the outset, let me thank the World Health Organization for its leadership role on this life-…
As we are approaching the end of the month, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and commend you, Sir, for your able stewardship of the Security Council this month.
All around the world, the lives and well-being of millions of women and girls are threatened by conflict and strife. They are oft…
Seventy years ago, when representatives of 50 nations met to establish the founding vision for the newly formed United Nations, they were not engaging in a merely academic exercise. The purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations emerged from a painful confrontation with the horrors…
I would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s debate on an important issue. I also wish to express my thanks to the Secretary-General for his Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (A/70/674) and our appreciation for the hard work of the President’s Office, w…
Allow me to refer to some of the accusations that we have heard here today.
The representative of Lebanon sat here and accused Israel of attempting to undermine the tripartite mechanism and questioned its commitment to resolution 1701 (2006). Interestingly enough, there is no evidence in United Nat…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Uruguay on its becoming a member of the Security Council and for a successful month as Security Council President. That is no easy task, and you, Mr. President, have performed it well. As we begin this new year with a new Security Council, please allow me …
Like others, I would like to thank Angola for its able chairmanship in 2015 and wish the United Arab Emirates great success in assuming the chairmanship this year.
All too often, we meet here in this Hall to discuss intractable challenges and missed opportunities. Today I am very pleased to say tha…
During the past four months, Israelis have been stabbed in their homes, shot at in the streets and run over by terrorists using cars as weapons. Over the course of that wave of violence, 29 people were killed and hundreds were injured. One would expect that the Palestinian Authority would condemn th…
Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate Uruguay on joining the Security Council and on acceding to the presidency this month. We are quite aware of how difficult it is to be a President of the Security Council, but even more so in one’s first month of membership. We wish you good luck, Sir…
I would like to congratulate the co-facilitators and all those who contributed to the successful conclusion of the negotiations on the draft outcome document of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (A/70/L.33). We believe it faithfully reflects the vision of the WSIS process and is a t…
Israel fully supports the noble vision of calling for the world to unite against violence and violent extremism. The content of resolution 70/109 is commendable and praiseworthy.
The problem with today’s vote is not with the message, but with the messenger. For the second time, one of the world’s m…
