At each and every open debate, the representative of Saudi Arabia uses this platform arrogantly to accuse my country of abusing human rights and violating the freedom of religion. And yet the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world leader in abusing human rights. In the Islamic State of Saudi Arabia, nin…
I congratulate Chile for its able stewardship of the Security Council this month. I thank Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz for being here today to preside over this session. Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate the new non-permanent members of the Security Council: Angola, Malaysia, New Z…
The Palestinians have found every possible opportunity to avoid direct negotiations with Israel. They have engaged in a never-ending string of political games, and now they are parading into the Council Chamber with a preposterous unilateral proposal.
I have news for the Palestinians: you cannot ag…
I would like to thank the Foreign Minister of Chad for presiding over today’s debate.
Before I begin, I would like to say a few words about the recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Australia. The cowardly attacks on children in a school and on innocent civilians in a coffee shop are a painful r…
Every year we are forced to listen to the Palestinian observer’s lectures. Every year I know that those lectures have two unmistakable qualities: they are long and they are wrong. Amid the tired accusations, one resounding message emerges: the Palestinian leadership is never at fault. The Palestinia…
Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to the People’s Republic of China for its chairmanship and able stewardship of the Kimberley Process in 2014, including the important contribution it made to curb the trade in conflict diamonds.
This year has seen many achievements, including the strengtheni…
Israel has the honour to sponsor both the humanitarian omnibus draft resolution on strengthening the coordination of humanitarian and disaster-relief assistance, and the draft resolution on the
safety and security of humanitarian personnel and on the protection of United Nations personnel (A/69/L.…
Israel is proud to support and sponsor today’s global health and foreign policy initiative, as well as the International Day of Yoga. As the international community prepares to lay out the development agenda beyond 2015, we are witnessing an emerging consensus on the major paradigm shifts that will …
I stand before the world as a proud representative of the State of Israel and the Jewish
people. I stand tall before this Assembly, knowing that truth and morality are on my side. And yet, I stand here knowing that today in the Assembly, truth will be turned on its head and morality cast aside. The…
I thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting. We also thank the delegation of Jamaica for their leadership and their efforts to bring this important issue to the forefront of the United Nations’ agenda and lead the drive to formally honour the victims of slavery. We also recognize the many oth…
I will also be very brief, but I would like to respond to some of the allegations we have heard made against my country today.
I think it is truly absurd to hear the representative of the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia criticize the Middle East’s only democracy. Under the guise of combating terrorism…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this important debate. I would also like to express my appreciation to the Secretary- General for his briefing and to the Chairs of the counter- terrorism committees for their briefings this morning.
Yesterday. the citizens of Israel woke up to learn that…
Israel recognizes that resolution 69/16 contains extremely important elements, and Israel supports its goal. However, Israel must disassociate itself from the reference in several preambular paragraphs in the resolution to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conferenc…
Earlier today (see A/69/PV.52) we heard the Syrian delegation launch baseless accusations against Israel. The Syrian Government seems to think that it can distract attention from its brutal and horrific crimes committed against its own people. Others in the Arab world also seek to distract from the …
Barely a week has gone by since the Security Council met to discuss the situation in the Middle East (see S/PV.7281). One would think that we have reconvened today to address the rampant violence and bloodshed that plagues the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea. After all, the …
This debate marks the fourteenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) and provides an important opportunity to address the persistent and emerging gaps to the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda.
Last week, I read a story about Amsha, a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who was…
I will be very brief. We are familiar with the Palestinian delegation’s selective descriptions of the reality on the ground. They are probably the result of selective hearing. We said it earlier today, we say it in each and every meeting, we say it every day: this is our dream, we want peace.
Unila…
Once again, we have heard serial human rights abusers, such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Nicaragua, Cuba, Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as systematic religious rights violators such as Bahrain, Qatar and — once again — Iran and Saudi Arabia attack my country. President Kennedy once said, “No matter how bi…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on the Argentine presidency of the Security Council this month and thank you for presiding over today’s important debate and for your country’s almost two years of service to the Security Council. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing, which…
