I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Pedersen, and the Director of Coordination for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Rajasingham, for their valuable briefings.
The Syrian crisis remains unresolved with no end in sight. The humanitarian situat…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Major General Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement, for their briefings.
I must begin by expressing Japan’s strong condemnation of the drone attacks by the Houthis on Tel Aviv on Friday, which killed one Israeli civ…
I thank the briefers for their briefings.
Today the world faces severe challenges, including the devastating conflict in Gaza, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and numerous violations of international law, such as North Korea’s breach of Security Council resolutions. Those crises gravely affect…
Japan welcomes the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2744 (2024), reforming the focal point mechanism set out in resolution 1730 (2006). This contributes to improving due process in Security Council sanctions. Japan hopes that the informal working group of the Security Council on g…
I thank Chef de Cabinet Rattray for his briefing.
More than nine months have passed since the outbreak of the devastating conflict in the Gaza Strip following the brutal acts of terror by Hamas and other militant groups. Japan deeply regrets the heavy civilian casualties and destruction caused by t…
I thank the President for convening this meeting. I also wish to express my appreciation to the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) for facilitating the work of peacebuilding.
The root causes of conflict depend on the context of ea…
No one country can single-handedly solve the various complex global challenges of today, which my fellow Council members have already outlined. We need a collective multilateral response, and the United Nations should be at the heart of it. Multilateralism can function only when Member States work t…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Simão for the insightful briefing.
Japan welcomes positive recent developments in the region, including in Senegal, Liberia, the Gambia and, most recently, Mauritania, notably in the fields of democracy and the rule of law and judicial reforms…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz Massieu for his briefing. I also thank Mr. Diego Tovar for his statement. I also warmly welcome the President of Colombia, Mr. Gustavo Petro Urrego, whose presence here is a clear testimony to the country’s political will towards total pea…
I thank Ms. Msuya and Mr. Zhovnir for their detailed briefings. Today we have come together once again to confront the grim reality caused by the escalating attacks by Russia across Ukraine.
According to reports, a barrage of Russian missiles across Ukraine caused serious damage and many casualties…
I would like to express my gratitude to Special Representative of the Secretary- General Keita for her briefing. I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The attacks in May against the Presidential Palace and the residence of the former …
I appreciate Special Representative Salvador’s insightful briefing. I welcome the interim Prime Minister of Haiti, Mr. Garry Conille, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Álvarez Gil, as well as the representatives of Canada, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Kenya.
We welcom…
I thank the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, for her valuable updates describing the human misery, as she said, that is having a negative impact even on future generations, as well as for her valuable observations and calls for urgent action.
The humanitarian sit…
I thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and Mr. Jonah Leff, Executive Director at Conflict Armament Research, for their sobering and extremely alarming briefings.
I must begin by condemning yet another ballistic missile launch by North …
I would like to express my gratitude to Special Representative Rugwabiza for her briefing. I welcome the presence of Her Excellency Foreign Minister Baipo Temon of the Central African Republic.
For sustainable peace and stability in the Central African Republic, we must continue to promote politica…
I thank the Republic of Korea for convening this important annual debate on children and armed conflict. I also would like to thank Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Mrs. Gamba de Potgieter, Mr. Chaiban and the child briefer for their sobering briefings. I especially thank His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon for today’s …
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his informative briefing.
More than 250 days of violence, grief and suffering have passed and still the situation worsens day by day. Japan maintains its condemnation of the heinous terror attacks by Hamas and others on 7 October as well as their takin…
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Director Rajasingham for their valuable briefings.
The Syrian crisis, now in its fourteenth year, has left more than 90 per cent of the population living below the poverty line. Both the humanitarian and eco…
I thank Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General James Swan and Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia Mohamed El-Amine Souef for their informative briefings. I also would like to welcome the presence of the representative of Somalia and t…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo, His Excellency Mr. Lambrinidis and Ambassador Frazier for their informative briefings.
Six months have passed since we last discussed Iran’s non-proliferation agenda in the Chamber (see S/PV.9511). Unfortunately, the situation remains tense. Japan is deeply…
