I would like to wish a blessed Ramadam to all. I salute His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Mr. Anifah Aman, and the President of the Security Council for convening this timely debate on children and armed conflict. This matter is of highest priority and urgency for the Stat…
On behalf of the delegation of the State of Palestine, allow me to thank you, Your Excellency Mr. Nasser Judeh, Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, for presiding over this important meeting of the Security Council. We also congratulate Jordan on its presiden…
I believe that Palestine’s statement today sufficiently refuted what was said today by the representatives of Israel and that it conveyed the stark, disturbing and bitter reality of life for Palestinian children and their families under Israeli occupation. The perpetration of those brutal and illega…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate on children and armed conflict. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Leila Zerrougui for her briefing, and the others for their briefings, as well as the United Nations agencies supporting Palestinian children, includin…
On behalf of the State of Palestine, I congratulate the friendly country of Chile on its presidency of the Security Council and wish it every success in steering the important agenda of work. We are confident in its able leadership. We also welcome you, Mr. Heraldo Muñoz, Minister for Foreign Affair…
I come before the Security Council on behalf of the leadership of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian people — a long- suffering, yet proud and dignified people who remain steadfast and fully committed to the achievement of their inalienable rights, justice and their legitimate national aspir…
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people between May 2013 and April 2014 (A/69/84), I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to the Secretary-General and his team for their work on the report, which covers every aspect of the economic an…
It is my honour to address the General Assembly, on behalf of the State of Palestine, at this important debate. On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I reaffirm the gratitude of the Palestinian people and Government for the compelling expressions of solidarity and supp…
Allow me at the outset to thank Mr. Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his very important briefing and for the principled elements that he raised, especially the position of the Secretary-General that all these illegal activities, policies and practices of Israel, the occupy…
I will be very short. We are interested in peace. We also consider the building of settlements and declaring Jerusalem the capital of the State of Israel, and not an occupied territory, to be unilateral illegal actions condemned by everyone here, who also demand that Israel stop illegal settlement a…
I want to thank you, Madam President, and all of the members of the Security Council and the large number of representatives speaking on behalf of the entire international community for reaffirming their commitment to justice for the Palestinian people, and for their call for an end to the occupatio…
I congratulate the friendly country of Argentina on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month, and express our appreciation, Madam, for your able leadership of the Council’s efforts to address the many critical issues on its agenda at this time.
I also express our apprecia…
I speak in right of reply on behalf of the delegation of the Observer State of Palestine, in response to the statement made by the representative of Israel, the occupying Power.
We would have liked to have been able to come to the General Assembly to consider this important agenda item and to take …
I thank you, Mr. President, for your skilled stewardship of the Security Council this month and for the efforts to address the crisis being faced by the Palestinian people, particularly due to the Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his brief…
We have called for this emergency meeting of the Security Council due to the ongoing crisis faced by the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. With every moment that passes, the life of another Palestinian child, mother or father is cruelly taken by the Israeli occupying forces in their murde…
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a public health problem in Palestine, and the Government attaches great importance to the control of NCDs.
NCDs are a global and regional problem, not only a national one. However, the age group of those affected
by NCDs in Palestine is different than in other …
I want to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your country’s accession to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We trust in your wisdom and leadership in successfully leading the Council this month. We also wish to convey our thanks to your predecessor, the Ambassador of the Russia…
At the outset, Madam President, I congratulate Nigeria on its presidency of the Security Council under your wise and able leadership. We also express appreciation for Luxembourg’s skilled leadership of the Council in March. I also thank Mr. Robert Serry, Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
My delegation will not continue the circus started by Israel and its representatives, but we would just like to add for the record that Israel’s so-called democracy is a democracy only for Jews, where non-Jews are inferior, whether they be Muslim, Christian or others, whether it be with regard to th…
We thank His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania for presiding over the earlier segment of this meeting, and we also thank His Excellency the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Promoting and strengthening the rule of law at the national and international levels…
