Before I start my statement, I would like to express our deep regret that the Security Council just voted, and the use of the veto was exercised on a draft resolution (S/2023/970) calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
As I address the General Assembly today, children in Gaza are being killed, injured, m…
I would like to welcome you to New York, Sir, and to congratulate you and your country on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to express our appreciation for the presence of the Secretary- General and for his principled position reflected in the letter (…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your decision to hold this meeting at the ministerial level and for presiding over it. I thank all the ministers who decided to attend — notably the Arab and Organization of Islamic Cooperation ministers, who have been touring the world to advocate for an end to the I…
At the outset, I would like to renew our gratitude to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, under the leadership of Senegal and Ambassador Cheikh Niang, and its Bureau members, Cuba, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Namibia, for remaining at the forefro…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for your able leadership of the Security Council. I also wish to thank the United Arab Emirates and Malta for calling for this meeting focused on women and children and for their efforts in elaborating resolution 2712 (2023), adopted by the Counci…
Gaza bleeds. Death, devastation and destruction are everywhere. No one has been spared — not our children, not our women, not our elderly, not our civilians. Nothing has been spared — not our hospitals, not the United Nations shelters and schools, not our water plants, not our homes. All that shoul…
I thank China, the President of the Security Council, for convening this important meeting and for your leadership of the Council in these times of crisis. I also want to thank the briefers, who have shared disturbing reflections on the facts of the catastrophic situation faced by the Palestinian pe…
We thank President Donoghue for her report (see A/78/PV.20) and the Court for its important work.
The State of Palestine associates itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the Group of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/78/…
In all of 2022, across all conflict areas around the world combined, approximately 3,000 children were killed — 3,000 too many. In three weeks, Israel killed 3,600 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip — more than all the children killed in all conflict areas in a year. Of the 8,800 Palestinians ki…
I want to begin by welcoming you, Mr. President, to the Chamber and thanking you for leading the deliberation of this emergency meeting requested by our colleagues from the United Arab Emirates and China, which we appreciate. The fact that you, Mr. President, are with us for the third time this mont…
We are here today to stop the killing and to stop the massacres being committed against the Palestinian people. The ongoing massacres being deliberately, systematically and savagely perpetrated by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Palestinian civilian population under its illegal occupation m…
There is no right under international law to commit massacres. Israel is perpetrating massacres in Gaza every single day. For more than 10 days now, we have seen it kill entire families, bombing shelters, schools, hospitals, residential buildings and convoys. We have heard it tell people to head to …
For 10 days, the Security Council has been watching Israel assault more than 2 million Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. People are being killed, injured, displaced and terrorized. Israel has not spared a single Palestinian family in Gaza. No one should forget that these are human lives, that Pa…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Council, and to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari for his briefing.
Why is it that the warmongers are full of certainty and the peacemakers are full of doubt? Why are the warmongers implementin…
I accept your apology, Madam President.
I will not dignify with a response the customary barrage of lies and distortion in complete contradiction to international law, the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the Security Council and General Assembly. We …
At the outset, we thank the Secretary-General for his reports (A/77/266 and A/77/718) and for his continuous efforts aimed at strengthening and ensuring that our multilateral international-law-based order is mobilized in the fight against terrorism and that this fight is conducted in a manner that i…
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate the Russian Federation on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and to express our appreciation for your decision to convene today’s open debate. Allow me also to acknowledge and thank all the countries that will speak today in defence…
As we speak, parts of humankind’s immediate survival are in jeopardy due to climate change. Those nations and their peoples are watching as the sea and the ocean that were their blessing become an existential threat due to climate change. They endure desertification and droughts, which are bringing …
Allow me, at the outset, to commend the brotherly nation of Mozambique for its able leadership of the Security Council and for holding this important meeting.
Allow me also to stress that the report of the Secretary-General presented by Special Coordinator Wennesland demonstrates once again persist…
At the outset, Madam President, allow me to congratulate Malta on steering the work of the Security Council this month. We share deep bonds of friendship and common values with your country. It is fitting for the Council to be meeting and adopting a presidential statement (S/PRST/2023/1) under your …
