Human trafficking and modern slavery are among the biggest human rights scandals of our time. They are an affront to the public conscience, constitute grave violations of human rights law and are a serious obstacle to
sustainable development. They directly affect 46 million people worldwide.
With …
Mr. President, it is good to see you presiding over this session of the General Assembly. We know that we are in very able hands, and I look forward to working closely with you. We also salute the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, for his leadership. I am confident that he will chart an intel…
Liechtenstein voted in favour of resolution 71/327, entitled “The United Nations in global economic governance”, for the same reasons just expressed eloquently by the representative of Singapore.
Liechtenstein has a long-standing commitment to strengthening the United Nations as an inclusive and tr…
Liechtenstein welcomes this opportunity to discuss the role of peacekeeping in the context of the broader United Nations efforts to sustain peace. We support the initiatives of the Secretary-General to strengthen the focus of the United Nations on prevention and its ability to sustain peace. Peaceke…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Mr. Michel Sidibé and his
team for their incredible leadership in fighting the HIV/ AIDS epidemic.
For over three decades, that epidemic has caused immense suffering throughout the world and has had a dev…
We welcome the focus of today’s debate on health care in armed conflict. It also illustrates a deeper problem we are facing: the erosion of the respect for international humanitarian law. Article 24 of the First Geneva Convention states:
“Medical personnel exclusively engaged in the search for, or …
We thank Uruguay for providing us with the opportunity to speak on this important issue. And we are grateful to Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed, Under Secretary-General Dieng and Ms. Mina Jaf for their very important and substantial briefings. We would also like to thank Ms. Bangura for her excell…
I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to speak in this open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The Council needs to address a number of critical issues under this agenda item. The prospects for a two-State solution in the Israeli-Palestinian …
Last week, the United Nations reported that 5 million Syrians had fled to neighbouring countries, a new but sadly unsurprising record high in the light of the devastating ongoing conflict in Syria. The chemical-weapon attack earlier this week is a particularly abhorrent example of the complete disre…
We thank the United Kingdom for this opportunity to speak on human trafficking in conflict and on modern slavery. The prohibition of slavery is one of the very rare norms of international law applicable at all times in all places to all actors. States are under legal obligation to criminalize, inves…
I would like to begin by expressing Liechtenstein’s deep sympathies to the Russian delegation on the passing of Ambassador Churkin. Our thoughts are with his wife and family as well as his friends and his colleagues at the Russian Mission.
Liechtenstein welcomes today’s open debate on conflicts in …
Liechtenstein thanks the Swedish presidency, and in particular Foreign Minister Wallström, for this Security Council open debate on conflict prevention and sustaining peace. After a year of overwhelming conflict-induced human suffering, a discussion on how to strengthen preventive action in the Unit…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of Australia and Switzerland, as well as on behalf of my own country.
Modern slavery and human trafficking are both causes and symptoms of instability and conflicts and a threat to both development and peace and security. Trafficking in persons is a human …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of Australia, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and my own country, Liechtenstein.
I would like to remind delegations that the wording in question is the exact wording agreed on by consensus in previous years. Concerning the first proposed amendm…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of Iceland and my own country, Liechtenstein.
We thank the President of the Human Rights Council for presenting the Council’s report (A/71/53) to the General Assembly, an established practice that reinforces the dynamic relationship between the …
We thank President Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi for the presentation of the report of the International Criminal Court (see A/71/342), which illustrates the impressive progress the Court has made in the reporting period.
We regret the recent decisions of South Africa and Burundi to leave the Court.…
It is my honour to deliver this statement on behalf of Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland and my own country, Liechtenstein.
We welcome the opportunity to discuss the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and its follow-up resolutions, notably resolution 2242 (2015), adopted last year in the wake of…
Today’s debate offers us an opportunity to pay tribute to the victims of one of the most heinous crimes committed against humankind, but it also allows us to reflect on the continued relevance of the subject today. Liechtenstein is proud to have contributed to the creation of a permanent memorial, w…
The migration and refugee crises are at the heart of our debate these days, both here and back home. People around the world are on the move in unprecedented numbers. Some 65 million have been forcibly displaced in the last year. At the summit on Monday, we made an important collective statement tha…
The annual report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/360) illustrates that the suffering of children in times of armed conflict continues, including forced abduction and sexual abuse, with very few truly positive developments to report. Accountability for perpetrators and the listing mechanism establi…
