We would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative briefings. We also listened attentively to civil society representative Ms. Summer Nasser.
The situation in Yeme…
We would first like to thank Guyana for its flawless presidency of the Security Council in June. I am sure that we will be saying the same about the Pakistani presidency in August, and we wish Pakistan every success in the meantime. We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča a…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his detailed briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Unfortunately, as made clear by Mr. Khiari’s briefing and the report of the Secretary-Gen…
We thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, for their briefings. We also listened attentively to Ms. Shayna Lewis. We wel…
We would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Michael Kanu, Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone and Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2024), concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their briefings. We…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Central African Republic in the meeting.
First, we would like to express our condolences to the Government of the Central African Republic in connection with t…
We appreciate the organization of today’s debate and thank the briefers for their contributions to the discussion.
Year after year, the Secretary-General’s reports on the issue of children indicate an increase in the number of grave violations against children: in 2024, that figure rose yet again b…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Representative of Slovenia, Samuel Žbogar, and take this opportunity to congratulate our Slovenian colleagues on the consensus approval of the Facili…
Before I begin my statement, I would like to join those in this Chamber who extended congratulations on the International Day of Women in Diplomacy. Without women diplomats, it would be difficult to imagine the work of the United Nations and the Security Council in maintaining international peace an…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, and the Head of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, for the…
We are grateful to the presidency of Guyana for promptly convening today’s meeting to discuss the extremely dangerous developments in the Middle East, which have been further exacerbated by the strikes conducted by the United States overnight targeting Iranian sites. We would like to thank Secretary…
Today we are once again witnessing a parade of European countries who are seeking to make their so- called invaluable contribution to the discussion by repeating identical narratives and parading themselves on television screens and in the news feeds of their countries. The European Union (EU) membe…
We are grateful to the Guyanese presidency for its prompt response to the request by Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria to convene this meeting. We thank the Secretary-General for his opening remarks, as well as the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the Director Ge…
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as you preside over the Security Council today. The Guyanese presidency has proposed for discussion in the Security Council today an issue that many regard as complex and most inconvenient: the link between poverty and conflict. We thank the Secretary-General for his br…
We are grateful to Najat Rochdi, Joyce Msuya and Amneh Khoulani for their briefings.
Since the most recent Council meeting on this issue (see S/PV.9920), all the challenges facing the country remain relevant. There has been a significant increase in the risks of resumption of large-scale terrorist …
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Assistant Secretary-General Ms. Joyce Msuya for their briefings.
Unfortunately, the settlement process in Yemen is stalled, owing to instability both in Yemen itself and in the region as a whole. Wo…
At the outset, we wish to comment on the statement delivered by the representative of the United Kingdom.
First and foremost, he did not describe specifically how the description of Mr. Karadžić’s stay was inaccurate.
Secondly, his visit relates to a period before the most recent meeting of the Co…
The regular reports by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) to the Security Council are one of the issues that divert the Council’s attention from genuinely important matters on its agenda.
Today’s meeting should have served as a platform for discussing practical issu…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mohamed Al Hassan, for his briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq. His statement clearly shows that the situation in the country has definitively normalized. That is further proof that the decision to draw down th…
We would like to thank Mr. Abdou Abarry, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa, and Mr. Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), for their briefings.
Russia has consistently supported the eff…
