The Syrian people are once again caught between violence, starvation, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and a harsh winter. This year, the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance has risen to 14 million people.
Earlier this week, the United Nations Deputy Regional Humanitarian …
Although Da’esh has suffered major setbacks in Syria and Iraq, we have seen its capacity to stage attacks. We believe that a three-pronged approach is needed to effectively tackle the threat posed by Da’esh.
First, genuine intelligence-sharing is essential. Da’esh remains a common threat to humanki…
We speak often in this Chamber of the need to tackle the root cause of a conflict. The fact is that the root cause of the crisis in Syria was political. The Syrian people have been deprived of their basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. They have known injustice for decades — the injustice of…
We would like to thank the President for organizing this timely and important debate. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Organization (A/76/1), which provides a useful review of the past year, highlighting key objectives and outcomes. As a follow-up to the ext…
At the outset, we would like to thank the delegation of the Dominican Republic for trying to find common ground vis-à-vis the divergence of opinion on the rescheduling of Ad Hoc Committee meeting, which resulted from a force majeure.
We would like to clarify that Turkey does not oppose the necessar…
At the outset, we wish to congratulate you, Madam, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. We also commend the new members of the Council and wish them success.
We thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
There is one clear takeaway from the ninety-ninth monthly report (se…
I welcome today’s meeting and I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings. I would also like to salute Ms. Amani Ballour and I thank the Secretary-General for his report on United Nations humanitarian operations in Syria, submitted pursuant to resolution …
In the statement that has just been delivered by my delegation, we spoke of the unparalleled — I repeat, unparalleled — humanitarian assistance, protection and care that my country, Turkey, continues to provide to 9 million Syrians, approximately 4 million of whom are under temporary protection in T…
At the outset, we would like to thank the delegations of Argentina, Bangladesh, the European Union and Sweden for facilitating the humanitarian draft resolutions under consideration by the General Assembly today (A/76/L.23, A/76/L.24, A/76/L.26 and A/76/L.27).
The continued failure to address the m…
My country asked for a vote and voted against resolution 76/72, entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” under sub-item (a) of agenda item 78.
Turkey agrees in principle with the general content of the resolution, whose scope has expanded significantly over the years to include a wide range of deve…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the Niger’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for December. I also thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
As the ninety-eighth monthly report (see S/2021/989) of the Director-General of the Organization for the Pr…
As to the hallucinatory statement made by the representative of the Syrian regime, I will repeat: I do not consider him as my legitimate counterpart. His comments here are an affront to the millions of Syrians who have suffered countless crimes at the hands of the regime. Therefore, we will not hono…
I am obliged to take the floor in reply to the statements of representatives who raised baseless allegations against my country.
However, allow me to begin by expressing our appreciation to the delegation of Greece for introducing and facilitating resolution 76/16, entitled “Return or restitution o…
It is a pleasure to address the General Assembly at this high-level meeting on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 64/293). We thank the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Abdulla Shahid, and his team for organizing this meeting,…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting. We greatly appreciate the commitment of the General Assembly to the Security Council reform process. I would like to thank the co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations during the previous session of the General Assembly, the former Permanent Repre…
Allow me to express our deep appreciation to the Permanent Representatives of Algeria and Denmark and their teams for their professionalism and constructive approach throughout the consultations on the resident coordinator (RC) system review, including its funding arrangements.
We are glad that we …
At the outset, I wish to thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary- General Griffiths for their timely and informative briefings. I would also like to thank Ms. Albarouki for her briefing.
After 10 years of atrocities, Syria remains the world’s largest protection crisis. Twelve million peopl…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
It is with great sadness that we received the news of the passing away of former President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, His Excellency Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On behalf of t…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on Kenya’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for October. I also thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The non-compliance of the Syrian regime vis-à-vis its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Conventi…
First, I would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing. I would also like to thank Ms. Rouba Mhaissen for highlighting the crucial role of Syrian women in the efforts towards finding a lasting political solution to the conflict. The perspective of Syrian communities with regard to the
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