The State of Palestine thanks Algeria, Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for calling for this very important and timely meeting. We also want to express our appreciation to the three briefers for sharing with us the stunning facts about the horrifying reality of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Str…
There is no international law-based order without the International Court of Justice. The Court is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and one of the main pillars of the post-Second World War order. We rely on the Court, in both its contentious and advisory proceedings, to guide Stat…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for your decision to personally preside over this meeting and to express our appreciation to the Ministers who are taking part in this open debate. I would also like to thank the briefer, Mr. Tor Wennesland, and through him the United Nations, as…
Allow me to start by quoting two senior United Nations officials. While listening to them describing the situation in Gaza, especially northern Gaza, I want members to imagine that they were speaking about their families — their parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters and children. A couple of days…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, and your country’s delegation for convening this important open debate.
As we meet today in the Security Council on the occasion of the anniversary of adopting the landmark resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security, the women …
I want to thank Algeria for requesting an urgent meeting on behalf of the Group of Arab States. We also want to thank you, Madam President, and the members of the Security Council for their swift convening of this meeting. I also add my voice to those who have thanked the Acting Under- Secretary-Gen…
I was reluctant to take the floor, but it seems that the Israeli representative keeps pushing for a reaction. In that connection, let me say the following.
I am not asking his Government to condemn the killing of Palestinian civilians. I am telling his Government to stop killing them.
I do not wan…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank Slovenia and Algeria for requesting this meeting. I also thank the briefers, Mr. Lazzarini and Ms. Doughten, for their words but more importantly for the actions undertaken by their agencies — notably the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, and the delegation of Slovenia on your presidency of the Security Council for this month, and to thank you for convening this important ministerial meeting on the Palestinian question. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate y…
In 2015, we gathered for the historic adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the most ambitious, transformative plan of action for building a prosperous, equitable and sustainable world. More importantly, the Agenda is centred on human dignity and shared prosperity in a just world …
Palestine welcomes the Foreign Minister of Slovenia presiding over this meeting of the Security Council, and we thank her for her statement as well. Allow me at the outset to thank the briefers for their presentations. We thank the honourable Ms. Helen Clark for her significant contribution to our d…
I thank you, Mr. President, and the Slovenian presidency of the Security Council, for your swift response to Algeria’s request for convening this meeting in the light of the further deterioration of the grave situation and increasing civilian casualties in occupied Palestine — both the Gaza Strip an…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the briefers for their presentations, and in particular Dr. Louisa Baxter for her poignant testimony. Through her, I would like to pay tribute to all humanitarians working in impossible conditions, notably Palestinian humanitarian workers. Instead of being offered t…
As we gather here, for the tenth month in a row, to advance a ceasefire to save human lives, Israel continues taking human lives and every action possible to spread a wildfire across the Middle East. As we sit here on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, which were
birthed in th…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your swift response to Algeria and China’s request to convene this emergency meeting
to address the further grave developments regarding the Palestine question and the broader situation in the Middle East. We recognize that this meeting takes place on the last day of…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank Russia, Algeria and China for convening this meeting. Allow me also to thank the briefers and, through them, the humanitarian community.
Humanitarians in Palestine are trying to deliver on their noble mission under impossible circumstances and at the peril of their…
At the outset, Sir, allow me to express our appreciation for your decision to take part in and preside over this ministerial-level meeting and to thank the Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary- General for his briefing.
There is an old Greek proverb that says, “A society grows great when old men plant …
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s quarterly report (S/2024/480) on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The report of the Secretary-General tells a story — a story members know only too well, but to which they should never grow accus…
The State of Palestine welcomes the statements delivered by the Republic of Uganda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the statement delivered by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the U…
