I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Arab States, comprising 22 countries.
On this day in 1947, the Palestinian question was referred to the United Nations. Today, although 79 years have passed, the Palestinian people continue to endure the woes of Israeli occupatio…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on the good stewardship of the Security Council’s work this month, and I thank the briefers for their briefings. I wish Mr. Claudio Cordone every success in his new role as Deputy Special Envoy for Syria. I had the pleasure of hosting him two days ago…
It is Israel, for some reason, that decided to come to the meetings on Syria. It is not Syria that is attending the meetings on Israel. So, it is not for us to be here in the Council to have it as a battleground, and the best way to ensure that is, for Israel, if it wants to come, to come with clear…
Since the Israeli delegation started participating in these meetings, they have been talking about intentions, and apparently the notes are not being updated with what has been happening on the ground. Perhaps, given that they are having to deal with a lot of United Nations reports on human rights a…
At the outset, allow me to express my gratitude to the briefers and to the members of the Council who recognized the significant efforts made by the Syrian Government to ensure that its actions are fully in line with international humanitarian law, as well as to those States that clearly distinguish…
At the outset, I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your brotherly country, Somalia, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and I wish you every success in managing its work.
I would also like to thank Mr. Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs,…
Moments ago, the Security Council had its say, declaring clearly and unanimously that the Agreement on
Disengagement between Israeli and Syrian Forces must be respected and implemented. Anyone who reads the operative paragraphs of the resolution (resolution 2811 (2025)) and listens to the comprehen…
I appreciate that we are running out of time.
Again, to be able to exert control, one needs to be able to have access and be able to control and have one’s security forces there present. None of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force reports or the closed briefings that have been held here…
The issue with the statement of Ambassador Danon is that the facts that he mentioned appear to be only coming from one source — not the United Nations, not the reports, not any Member State in this Chamber, not any of the intelligence agencies we work with on countering Islamic State in Iraq and Syr…
Before I deliver my statement, allow me, from this global forum, to extend my warmest congratulations to the Syrian people, men and women, inside Syria and abroad, on the occasion of Liberation Day. May they and Syria enjoy well-being every year.
At the outset, I thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her …
At the outset, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, and your team for your excellent stewardship of the Security Council’s work this month. Allow me to express the deep appreciation and gratitude of the Syrian Arab Republic to you and to the representatives of Algeria and Denmark for the cons…
I will be speaking in English, as some countries are very good at erecting barriers. I therefore hope to reduce one barrier today — the language barrier — by speaking directly in English in response to the statement made by the representative of Israel.
I am very glad that we have arrived at the th…
Allow me to speak today about the present, not by describing it directly but by taking Security Council members back to the past, so that we may view the present through it.
I will not take Council members far back, only to the recent past, to 19 November 2024, this very day one year ago, so that t…
Allow me to thank the briefers and to thank Council members for their support for the new Syria.
A month has elapsed since the most recent meeting on Syria in the Council (S/PV.9999) — a month that felt like a year. To the Syrian miracles that took place during that time and to those that have occu…
I will be speaking in English. On 7 December 2024, both Mr. Pedersen and I were together in Doha when we received the news that the regime had fallen. Being a Special Envoy for any conflict, let alone the one that we Syrians have known, is no easy job — I think that everyone around this table can ag…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your stewardship of the work of the Security Council this month, and I thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings. I…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your friendly country, the Republic of Korea, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September, and I wish you every success. I thank His Excellency the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Panama for his efforts in conductin…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your presidency of the Security Council in the current month and I would like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan, and his team for the successful presidency of the Council last month.
I would also lik…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your team for your prompt response to my country’s request to convene this emergency meeting to discuss the repercussions of the brutal Israeli aggression against the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. I also thank the delegations of Algeria and Soma…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome Ms. Amneh Khoulani, from civil society, and thank her for her valuable br…
