We thank Mr. Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and offer our congratulations to President Gustavo Petro Urrego, represented in the Chamber today by Foreign Minister Leyva Durán, on his election victory. We wish to extend a warm welcome to Foreign Minister Leyva Durán. Let me also thank the briefers for …
We thank the Secretary- General and Chairperson Faki Mahamat for their valuable insights. The global challenges we face are disproportionately affecting Africa. We thank Gabon, as well as Ghana and Kenya, for their efforts to ensure that the effects on Africa are placed higher on the Security Counci…
I thank you, Mr. President, for putting this important topic on the agenda, and Ms. Waly, Mr. Adeoye and Mr. Handy for their insightful briefings.
Conflict over the management of natural resources is one of the key drivers of violence against civilians, and crimes related to such resources have giv…
First, let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing. We also welcome the participation of the representatives of Japan and the Republic of Korea at this meeting.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has performed a record number of ballistic missile tests since the b…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Hennis- Plasschaert, for her clear and important briefing and for all her efforts and those of her team during very challenging times.
Almost a year has gone by since Iraq conducted parliamentary elections, yet still no Government has been for…
I thank the briefers for their relevant briefings.
Norway is deeply concerned by the deteriorating security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and its regional implications, particularly the recurrent and recently intensified attacks by armed groups, including the Mouvement d…
We voted in favour of draft resolution S/2022/720. The Security Council has a responsibility to act to prevent and end acts of aggression and atrocities, and certainly where breaches of territorial integrity are concerned. We deeply regret that the draft resolution was not adopted owing to a veto ca…
We thank the briefers for their updates.
The damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in international waters within the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark is deeply worrying and has created a very serious situation in terms of climate and environmental consequences and risks to shipping. We r…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing on the progress in the elimination of Syria’s chemical-weapons programme.
It is unfortunate that we must convene amid no progress made on this file, not just in the past month, but, in reality, for the entirety of 2022. It is clear that Syria i…
I too would like to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
Last week, Norway chaired the annual ministerial meeting of the donor group for Palestine — the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee — here in New York. The Committee urged Israelis, Palestinians and international partners to take steps…
We thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing.
In recent days, we have all seen images of armed Russian soldiers going door to door in occupied parts of Ukraine to collect votes for a so-called referendum on joining Russia. This is a phony pretext from the aggressor, Russia, to try to …
I thank Mr. Potzel, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and Ms. Waly, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Fawzia Koofi for her powerful remarks.
One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanist…
I thank Special Representative La Lime and the representatives of the World Food Programme and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the Foreign Ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Permanent Representative of C…
We live in challenging times indeed. As a global community, we face the dire consequences of war, climate change, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, food insecurity and inequality. The Secretary-General underlined that eloquently in his address to the General Assembly (see A/77/PV.4). We h…
I thank the Secretary-General and Prosecutor Karim Khan for their briefings.
This week at the United Nations we have seen how we, as a global community, face dire challenges from war, climate change, energy shortages, food insecurity and inequality. And we see how it is ordinary people who pay the …
I thank Special Representative Haysom and Ms. Riziq for their briefings.
In the past couple of weeks, we have seen that tangible progress in implementing the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan is indeed possible, particularly in two specific areas…
Let me begin by expressing our deep appreciation to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme for sharing their very important insights.
We listened with great concern to OCHA’s update on food insecurity due to…
I too thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing. I also welcome the presence here today of the representatives for Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Tensions have been on the rise again in recent weeks and we are deeply concerned about the ongoing military hostilities along the Armenia-Azerba…
I make this statement on the political situation in Syria in my national capacity as the representative of Norway. I once again thank the Deputy Special Envoy and Mr. Darwish for their remarks.
The issue of missing and arbitrarily detained persons in Syria is vitally important, and Norway welcomes …
I deliever this statement on behalf of Ireland and Norway, the co-penholders on the Syria humanitarian file. Let me first thank the briefers for their presentations.
As we have heard so many times, the humanitarian situation in Syria remains alarming. Conflict, food insecurity, drought, the coronav…
