We thank the penholder of China for its dedicated and constructive approach to ensuring that this important mandate continues. Let me also take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the staff of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Their dedication and hard wor…
Latvia voted against draft resolution S/2026/159, submitted by the Russian Federation, for the following reasons.
Latvia unequivocally supports the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations recalled in this text, including the prohibition of the use of force against the territoria…
Latvia voted in favour of, and co-sponsored, resolution 2817 (2026), submitted by Bahrain on behalf of the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Jordan.
We express our full solidarity with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and other affected countries…
At the outset, I wish to thank the United States, as President of the Council, for convening this meeting, and I extend my appreciation to Secretary Wright for being with us today. I also thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing.
Energy and international security are intrinsically lin…
Let me start by congratulating the United States on the beginning of its presidency of the Council and for starting it with the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Melania Trump, presiding over this meeting. We wish you a warm welcome, Madam President, and thank you for your leadership. I extend m…
Allow me to begin by thanking the United Kingdom, as President of the Council, for convening this meeting on such short notice. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for the briefing provided.
For decades, Iran has been a malign, destabilizing actor in the region and beyond. It has repea…
I first wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza for her briefing and commend her for her steadfast leadership, as well as the tireless efforts of all civilian and uniformed personnel of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing on behalf of the Secretary-General. Let me pay respect to the United Nations staff working on the ground in Ukraine and doing their job in very difficult circumstances.
One thousand four hundred sixty-one days of an entirely illegal, unjustif…
At the outset, I would like to thank the United Kingdom for focusing this high-level meeting on the Sudan and Sudanese women. I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Director Edem Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Hala Al-Karib for their briefings …
Let me thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her informative briefing. I also express deep appreciation to civil society briefers Ms. Hiba Qasas and Mr. Nadav Tamir for their valuable contribution to our discussion. Their words reminded us, with both courage and humanity, that even amid…
I wish to thank Ms. Hanna Tetteh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, for her briefing, as well as civil society representative Ahmed Albibas for his insightful presentation on the situation
in Libya. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Libya i…
I would like to warmly welcome Mr. Claudio Cordone, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, to his first briefing to the Security Council. I wish him every success in strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and Syria and in advancing the priorities he outlined today. We are convinced that the e…
I thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Director Lisa Doughten, for their briefings, and I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Yemen in today’s meeting.
Having heard the valuable insights from the briefers and taking…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, Mr. Owinow and Mr. Yakani for their informative briefings.
A little over a decade ago, civil war in South Sudan unleashed mass death and displacement. Hundreds of thousands were killed, and millions were displaced and fled to neighbouring States. Today we ar…
I wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, Police Adviser Shahkar, and Police Commissioners Ouédraogo and Schlotmann for their insightful briefings, and I take this opportunity to express our gratitude to all United Nations police personnel for their service and sacrifice.
United Nations poli…
Let me start by congratulating the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of February. I wish you success, Mr. President. I also wish to thank Somalia for their dedicated handling of the work of the Council last month. I thank Acting Under-Secretary-General Zouev and …
I wish to thank the penholders, Panama and the United States, for their dedicated and constructive leadership in bringing forward this resolution on the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) (resolution 2814 (2026)). We also welcome the resolution’s unanimous adoption.
La…
I would like to thank Deputy Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov for his briefing.
There are prospects for stability in the Middle East. The terrorist networks of Hamas, Hizbullah and the Houthis have been severely degraded. The failed Iranian regime has been weakened, and its nuclear programme has…
We thank the Somali presidency for choosing the rule of law as the theme for today’s signature open debate, which is both essential and timely. We thank His Excellency Secretary-General António Guterres; His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission; and Judge
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We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his comprehensive briefing. We welcome Vice-Minister for Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, to this meeting.
Reflecting on the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2025/849) and developmen…
