I wish to thank Under- Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Executive Director Catherine Russel for their briefings and I thank them for their work. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine.
The rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine is gravely …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council, namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya (A3).
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Nicholas Haysom, Major General Charles Gituai and Ms. Riya Williams Yuyada for their briefings. …
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Director General Grossi for their briefings.
Kenya is deeply concerned by the reports made yesterday of a fire in the close vicinity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It is with relief that we learned from the International Atomic Energ…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency. My delegation wishes the United Arab Emirates success, and it can count on our support.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Lyons for her briefing on the latest developments in Afghanistan and …
We voted in favour of the renewal of the sanctions regime established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) and we did so because we are committed to strengthening the resolution and enabling it to respond more effectively to the evolving threat. We note that, despite multiple diplomatic engagements, t…
I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for their briefings. I also welcome the participation today of the representative of Ukraine.
The humanitarian suff…
Kenya voted in favour of draft resolution S/2022/155 to affirm Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations, according to which all members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State. We vo…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), Gabon, Ghana and Kenya. We thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Assistant Secretary-General Msuya for their briefings. We also welcome the participation of the representatives of Syria, Iran …
I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s debate on such an urgent matter.
Since 2014, the General Assembly has adopted resolutions reiterating its support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. The …
I thank the Secretary- General for his urgent plea for peace and Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
In this grave moment, Kenya continues to call for respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine, in line with the core tenets of th…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing and continued engagement with his counterparts in the Middle East Quartet. I would also like to recognize the presence of the representatives of Israel and Palestine who are with us today.
Kenya condemns the extremist and terrorist acts p…
I thank Ambassador Michael Gaffey, President of the Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), for his presentation of the final report on the work of the Commission (S/2022/104, annex). We also welcome the participation of Mr. Fuad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs …
I thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
We meet tonight on the brink of a major conflict in Ukraine. The diplomacy we urged on 17 February (see S/PV.8968) is failing. The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine stands breached. The Charter of the United Nations …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya.
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Helen La Lime for her presentation and welcome His Excellency Mr. Antonio Rodrigue, Permanent Re…
We thank the Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine for their briefings.
Kenya cannot contemplate the conti…
I thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Mr. Stanislav Zas, Secretary- General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), for their briefings and perspectives on the subject under discussion. I also welcome the participation of the member States of the CSTO.
International peace an…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, the Under-Secretary-General and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) for their briefings and welcome the participation of the representative of Yemen at this meeting.
Kenya regrets the alarming escalation of ho…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Chen for their briefings on the Secretary-General’s fourteenth strategic-level report (S/2022/63) on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh).
In his report Our Common Agenda (A/75/982), the Secreta…
I congratulate the Russian Federation on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of February, and I commend Norway on its successful presidency for the month of January. I also thank Under-Secretaries- General Rosemary DiCarlo and Martin Griffiths for their reflections…
I thank you, Madam President, for the able way in which you have presided over the Security Council in the month of January. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing and welcome the participation of the representatives of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland in today’…
