We are grateful for the briefings by Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti Carlos Ruiz Massieu and Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime John Brandolino. We also welcome the delegations from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Barbados, w…
We thank the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Ms. Nazhat Shameem Khan, for her remote briefing on the progress of the Court’s investigations relating to the situation in the Sudan, and we welcome the representative of the Sudan to this meeting.
We regret the fact that the Depu…
We express our gratitude to Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, Ms. Martha Pobee, for her detailed briefing and to Mr. Ahmad Batebi and Ms. Masih Alinejad for their respective briefings. We also welcome the representa…
We thank the presidency of the Council for convening this meeting, as well as the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Head and Representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for their brie…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their participation and for the valuable information they have provided regarding the situation o…
I would like to thank the Director and Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Adedeji Ebo, for presenting the report on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) (S/2025/850, annex, enclosure) and for the latest update from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical …
We extend the warmest of welcomes to the representatives of Bahrain, Colombia, Liberia, Latvia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have joined the Security Council as elected members and are at the table with us today. We congratulate Somalia on assuming the presidency of the Council thi…
I must confess that when you gave me the floor, Mr. President, I was tempted to reply that I had no wish to deliver a statement. Nonetheless, I did not want miss this final opportunity in your presidency to commend you for your wise stewardship of it.
Allow me to be brief. Our country continues to …
It is our pleasure to commend Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the Secretary-General’s report (S/2025/814). We welcome Ms. Hedda Samson, Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, and the representatives of those countries honouring us with their …
We are grateful to the presidency for convening this meeting, and we thank the Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Mohamed Khaled Khiari, for his detailed briefing on the situation that brings us together today. We acknowledge the presence of the delegations from t…
Panama thanks Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari, Ms. Edem Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and independent analyst Mr. Cameron Hudson for their briefings. We welcome His Excellency Mr. Kamil El-Tayeb Idris, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Sudan, and we…
Panama welcomes the presentation by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Hanna Tetteh, and acknowledges her leadership at the helm of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). We also appreciate the endeavours of Ambassador Mohammed Rabi Yusuf, Chair of the Committee …
I extend my appreciation to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator; and Ms. Mariam Jalabi, co-founder of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement…
We, too, congratulate Ambassador Michael Imram Kanu and his team from Sierra Leone for their leadership and commitment throughout their two years on the Security Council. We also congratulate Denmark as co-penholder. I thank the Slovenian presidency for convening this meeting and Deputy Special Repr…
Panama thanks Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for presenting the quarterly report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), which provides a detailed and worrisome assessment of the situation on the ground, both in Gaza and in the West Bank, …
We wish to thank the Slovenian presidency for convening this timely open debate on leadership for peace. We express our appreciation to His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon for his insightful reflections drawing on his exceptional experience and journey as Secretary-General of the Organization. We also th…
Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Mr. Mohamed Javid Abdelmoneim, International President of Médecins sans frontières, for their valuable briefings. Their efforts on the ground, putting their lives at risk amid extreme violence, are commendabl…
Panama voted in favour of this resolution (resolution 2807 (2025)) because we seek to enhance the responsibility of the Council to be more inclusive and to strengthen its role in supporting young people.
We thank Sierra Leone and Guyana for their initiative, for their work and for bringing forward …
At the outset, we thank Guyana for its report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti. On behalf of Panama and Ambassador Alfaro de Alba, we would
like to highlight the firm and constructive leadership of Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Burkett, who…
Allow me to begin by thanking Her Excellency Ms. Tanja Fajon, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, who is presiding over this meeting. We also thank the briefers, Georgette Gagnon, Tom Fletcher and Negina Yari, for their valuable contributions.
Today, 10 December, Human Rights Day, we recall t…
