At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to thank the representatives of Algeria, Slovenia and Denmark — the co-leads — and all members of the Council for arranging that timely and meaningful visit to Lebanon and also commend the Secretar…
Since this is the first time that I have the honour to represent my country, Lebanon, in the Security Council, allow me to express our appreciation to you, Mr. President, and the rest of the Council. We look forward to cooperating with you in the coming days. I also thank you for holding this meetin…
I will be very brief, Mr. President. If Israel is concerned about the future of Lebanon and its people, it should start by, first, respecting its sovereignty and territorial integrity; secondly, respecting and implementing resolution 1701 (2006) and the arrangement of the cessation of hostilities; t…
(spoke in Arabic): At the outset, as this is the first time that Lebanon takes the floor this month in the Council, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your presidency of the Council. I would like to thank Algeria for its continued support for Lebanon, as brotherly Algeria has always sto…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
At the outset, the Arab Group congratulates you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. We thank you for responding to the request to convene this emergency meeting to discuss t…
It is my honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
At the outset, the Arab Group thanks the United Kingdom, which presides over the Security Council this month, for holding this open meeting on the situation in the Middle East. The Group welcomes the Secretary of State…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
At the outset, the Arab Group thanks Algeria, Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for their request to convene this important meeting to discuss the risk of famine in northern Gaza, following the report issued on Friday…
We thank Switzerland for organizing this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, and we welcome the participation of His Excellency Mr. Ignazio Cassis, Head of the Federal Department for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. We also thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his briefing.
/Over a year has pas…
We thank France for requesting this meeting and the Swiss presidency of the Security Council for convening it. We also thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Mr. Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for their valuable briefings.
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At the outset, I congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and I thank Slovenia for its presidency of the Council during September. I would also like to thank France for requesting the holding of this emergency meeting, as well as to thank …
At the outset, I wish to warmly congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his election to the helm of the Assembly at its seventy-ninth session. We wish him every success and convey to him our full support for his agenda, “Unity in diversity for the advancement of peace, sustainable deve…
At the outset, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the French Republic for requesting this important meeting of the Security Council in the light of the difficult situation that Lebanon is going through. France has always been a loyal friend of Lebanon and its people and has stood by us thr…
Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon has honoured me with the task of delivering his special speech to the General Assembly at the Summit of the Future. He also offers his apologies for his inability to attend due to the compelling and devastating circumstances targeting the safety of the Lebanese…
First, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and High Commissioner Türk for their briefings. I also thank all members of the Council for acknowledging the severity and devastating consequences of the electronic attacks on peace, security and faith in humanity.
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I thank you, Mr. President, and all the members of the Security Council for the tremendous efforts made to approve the one-year extension of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). I also
commend the penholder, France, which made possible the adoption of resolution 2749…
Today we meet in the Security Council 10 months after the beginning of the Israeli aggression against Gaza and Lebanon. Today we see that aggression reaching our capital, Beirut, with a bloody, clear and explicit message. The culprit is the Israeli Government and its Prime Minister. The victim is th…
We are meeting again today in the Security Council, at the kind invitation of the Russian Federation, to discuss the volatile situation in the Middle East, which has lasted more than nine months. The conflict has widened, conditions have deteriorated, and the ball of fire rages on, following the int…
I thank the President for convening this meeting.
Lebanon associates itself with the statement made by the representative of the sisterly United Arab Emirates, on behalf of the Group of Arab States (see A/78/PV.74).
Lebanon deeply regrets that, on 18 April, the Security Council was unable to adopt…
We meet today at a time of increased attention to, but also of increased frustration towards, the United Nations. Recently, with each impending Security Council vote on Gaza, the eyes of the world have been drawn to this building, yearning for a long-overdue resolution to this unspeakable tragedy. U…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting.
My country’s delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Group of Arab States.
We would like to thank Mr. Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United N…
