Today, the General Assembly has adopted a resolution of unquestionable significance (resolution 76/262). Although it may appear to be a modest initiative, it is in fact an important step forward in strengthening the United Nations.
We have suffered from the absence of an effective system of account…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Msuya and Ms. Nirvana Shawky for their briefings. I also welcome the delegations of Syria, Iran and Turkey to today’s meeting.
First of all, with regard to the implementation…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing and welcome the delegations of Israel and Palestine to today’s meeting.
Mexico expresses its concern that, despite calls for calm, the situation in the West Bank, and particularly in Jerusalem, continues to be very volatile. It is regrettable …
My delegation thanks Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Hanna Tetteh for their briefings this morning. We would also like to welcome the representatives of South Sudan and the Sudan to today’s meeting.
The coup d’état in the Sudan in October last year and the multiple ch…
I will begin by welcoming the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, and to thank her for her first briefing to the Council as the Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We also welcome Minister Selaković and Ms. Gërvalla- Schwarz.…
I thank Ms. Kelly Clements, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. António Vitorino, the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for their briefings. I also want to recognize the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of Ir…
We would like to begin by thanking Special Envoy Grundberg and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
Today, I will focus my statement on three points: the truce, the political process and the FSO SAFER oil tanker. On these three issues, we are seeing some progress for the first tim…
We thank the United Kingdom for convening this timely and necessary debate. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Pramila Patten; Nobel Prize laureate Ms. Nadia Murad; and Ms. Mariana Karkoutly and Ms. Hilina Berhanu for their briefings. Their testimonies compel us to…
I would like to thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his briefing. We also welcome the presence today in the Security Council of President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia. W…
Mexico thanks Mr. Ted Chaiban, Ms. Esperanza Martinez and Mr. Emmanuel Ojwang for their briefings. We also welcome to the Security Council Minister Al Amiri of the United Arab Emirates.
Mexico believes that the Security Council’s monitoring of the implementation of resolutions 2532 (2020) and 2565 …
I wish to welcome you, Sir, to the Council. We are grateful for the briefings by the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Bahous; UNICEF’s Director of Emergencies, Mr. Manuel Fontaine; and Ms. Kateryna Cherepakha, whose civil-society perspective reaffirms not only the vulnerability but also the …
My delegation thanks Special Envoy Wane and Ms. Samaké for their briefings. We welcome the representative of Mali here among us today.
We once again note the extreme complexity of the situation in Mali, its widespread impact on the entire Sahel region and the need to seriously reflect on the releva…
We wish you every success, Madam President, during your presidency this month and acknowledge the work of the United Arab Emirates in leading the Security Council last month.
We thank the Secretary-General and Under- Secretaries DiCarlo and Griffiths for their briefings. We acknowledge the particip…
Mexico thanks Ms. Catherine Marchi- Uhel for presenting (see A/76/PV.65) the eighth report of the report of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in th…
As other speakers who have taken the floor before me, I would like to thank Special Representative Bintou Keita her very comprehensive briefing today. Of course, I pay tribute to her work.
Over the past three months, we witnessed major changes on the political front, in particular the drafting of t…
It is an honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States.
We would like to extend our appreciation to you, Mr. President, for having convened this plenary meeting in commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and th…
I thank Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, for their briefings. We also welcome the Ambassador of Ukraine to this meeting.
Each week, the humanitarian tragedy in Ukraine increases exponentiall…
My delegation joins others in expressing its thanks to Special Representative Perthes for his report (S/2022/172).
At the previous meeting of the Council on the subject (see S/PV.8948), the Special Representative initiated a consultation process at an extremely delicate political juncture with a vi…
I thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, Under- Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Hossam Zaki for their briefings. I also welcome the delegations of Syria, Iran and Turkey.
There can be no doubt that the highest price for these 11 years of c…
As the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation made a direct reference to my delegation, I reiterate that we are open to a constructive and frank dialogue that will enable us to find common solutions and the best way for the Security Council to support the protection of civilians and to e…
