At the outset, allow me to thank the President of the Assembly for convening this important meeting on a subject that is so close to the heart of every Israeli citizen. Israel’s delegation is honoured by the presence here earlier today of the Secretary-General and the President of the Assembly, lend…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your able stewardship of the Council during the month of August. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General and the relevant Member States for their involvement and engagement and for their continuing commitment to the im…
Thank you, Sir, for your able stewardship of the Council this month. I also wish to thank the Mission of the United States for their very able leadership of the Council last month and Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for his customarily comprehensive briefing.
I would also like to take this opportun…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, on your stewardship of this Assembly and thank you for convening this important high-level meeting. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his statement and all the other speakers and panellists for their informative presentations…
At the outset, allow me, Sir, on this, your last day — for the moment — as President of the Security Council, to congratulate you and to thank you for your able stewardship of the Council during this month and for convening this important debate. I also wish to thank Ms. Hoppe for her informative br…
I wish to congratulate the President on his leadership of the Assembly and thank him for convening this important high-level thematic debate on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his message, as well as the chairs and panellists who participated i…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your very able stewardship of the Council this month and to thank you for your principled leadership. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for honouring us with his presence at the opening of this meeting and for his commitment …
Allow to me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your able stewardship of the Council this month, and thank you for convening this important debate. My delegation wishes to welcome the Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), Mr. Mike Smith, and thank him for his i…
Two days ago — and as a matter of fact, a few minutes ago in his statement — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Hamas’s rocket fire against Israel and called on Hamas and other terrorist and militant groups to cease all acts of violence and terrorism. He also called on Israel to exercise maximu…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate President Kerim on his able stewardship of this Assembly and to thank him for convening this important thematic debate entitled “Addressing Climate Change: The United Nations and the World at Work”.
My delegation wishes to thank President Kerim for organizing…
Many members of the Council here today have expressed through this debate their concern over the futility of these meetings, and they may now justifiably feel they were right. I wish to express my own sentiment that I did feel such futility through much of the meeting’s duration. However, I feel tha…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his informative briefing.
In the absence of the President, I would like to point out that the growing instability and dangers to international peace and security in Lebanon, particularly those posed by Hizbullah in the areas south of the Lita…
The situation in the region today did not develop overnight. It is the consequence of many choices — repeatedly the wrong choices — made by the Palestinians, to adopt terrorism and violence over peace and negotiations with Israel.
In contrast, Israel has shown that it understands the consequences o…
My delegation wishes to take this opportunity to express its appreciation to all the original sponsors, to those Member States that joined along the way and to those that voted in support of resolution 62/190. We wish also to thank the representative of Finland, Chairperson of the Second Committee, …
“We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.”
Those were the words spoken by Eleanor Roosevelt at the adoption of the Universal Declaration o…
Let me conclude by saying that our actions directly impact the environment our children live in. Our decisions and choices can pave the way for peril or for peace. It is the road we take that determines our children’s fate. Thus, it remains our primary responsibility to protect and promote their rig…
When we skimp on education, we pay in ignorance. When we skimp on health, we pay in sickness. When we skimp on safety, we pay in accidents. When we skimp on welfare, we pay in distress. When we skimp on reducing gaps, we pay in polarization. When we skimp on prevention, we pay in delinquency. When w…
First, let me add my delegation’s condolences to the Algerian people for the loss of so many innocent lives.
At the outset, allow me to congratulate Mr. Srgjan Kerim on his able stewardship of the Assembly and to thank him for convening this important meeting. It is an honour for me to represent my…
The Israeli delegation voted against draft resolutions A/62/L.18 to A/62/L.23, which all promote a single biased and inaccurate narrative of the situation in the Middle East and of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The ritualistic recycling of these outdated draft resolutions shows that the Assembly…
The situation in the Middle East is rapidly changing. Although some previously embraced the misleading narrative that the Israeli- Palestinian conflict is the cause of instability in our region, the facts on the ground show precisely the opposite: that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the consequ…
