In February 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council commission of inquiry released its now famous report on human rights in North Korea (A/HRC/25/63), methodically documenting the widespread and systematic human rights violations carried out by the Government of the Democratic People’s Republi…
The United States wishes to reaffirm its strong support
for the United Nations leadership in humanitarian assistance. We will remember 2016 for the renewed commitment to efficient, effective and well-coordinated humanitarian response that Member States and United Nations humanitarian leaders made d…
The United States extends its sincere appreciation to President Agius, President Meron and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings today to the Security Council as well as for their leadership and contributions to advancing justice for victims of the worst atrocities committed in the former Yugosla…
My delegation is pleased to co-sponsor draft resolutions A/71/L.26 and A/71/L.24, entitled, respectively, “Oceans and the law of the sea” and “Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea …
As the origin of the Syrian crisis has been raised by others who just took the floor, in March 2011 protests against Bashar Al-Assad began in Syria. He responded with brutal violence, which dramatically escalated the situation, and then relied upon others to support him. The United Nations responded…
Abu Jaafar, a coroner in eastern Aleppo, recently told a reporter,
“You know, it is not our job to bury people, but if we do not, no one else will. Where we used to bury one man, we now lay down entire families. We dig and we dig; it never ends”.
We dig and we dig; it never ends. Today we had a ch…
I wish at the outset to thank our briefers.
As we approach the constitutionally mandated end of President Kabila’s term, on December 19, the United States is increasingly concerned about the risk of widespread violence and instability. We thank the African Union for facilitating the national dialog…
We have heard the representative of Russia talk about conversations with the United States. Russia says that it was on the cusp of reaching a deal with the United States to allow for some resolution of the situation in eastern Aleppo, and that the draft resolution (S/2016/1026) before us undermines …
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura, Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and Mr. Cappelaere for their appropriately grim briefings.
Like my British colleague, I would like to respond to the question that Under-Secretary-General O’Brien said is posed to him wherever he goes, whether in Syria or in the regi…
I thank the Secretary-General for being here on such an important occasion.
We are here because of dangerous choices made by a State Member of the United Nations — the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — including the choice to be the only country in the twenty-first century …
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for your leadership in focusing the attention of the Security Council on the important linkages between water and international peace and security. I also thank our briefers for so eloquently framing the issues this morning.
As we have heard, conflict over water is increa…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and the World Health Organization Country Director Hoff for their comprehensive and deeply disturbing briefings. I thank them, as always, for presenting us with the unvarnished and unbiased facts. Their remarks show once again what happens when the conflic…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s very important meeting and I thank Senegal for its leadership in peacekeeping in general. I also thank today’s briefers — Assistant Secretary-General Wane, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Menkerios, High Representative Mr. Kaberuka and Ambassad…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General, Mr. Miroslav Jenča; Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Hameed Opeloyeru; and Mr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne for joining us.
Our discussion today is a timely one. Over the past two years, States Members of the United …
I would like to start by thanking Germany for leading negotiations on this year’s draft resolution (A/71/L.13). I would also like to thank Afghanistan and all other nations that constructively engaged on the text.
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor this year’s draft resolution on the situat…
Let me start by paying tribute to Special Representative Løj for her briefing, but above all for her more than two years of service in one of the most difficult Missions on the planet. We could tell, from our two trips to South Sudan — one at the beginning of her deployment and the other, recently, …
I would like to start by thanking Council members for the extension that allowed us to work intensively over these last couple weeks with the Russian Federation to secure the text that we have just voted on unanimously today, and I offer my sincere thanks for the spirit in which Russia carried out t…
My delegation welcomes Foreign Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing.
We welcome the positive tone of the Secretary- General’s most recent report (S/2016/901) and its acknowledgement of the overall economic and poli…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and the four Police Commissioners who have joined us here today. I wish to thank all Police Commissioners serving around the world, as well as the 13,000 United Nations police.
In listening to the briefings, I was quite struck by how much each of the four Com…
The United States strongly supports resolution 2317 (2016), which targets many of the most serious causes of instability in the Horn of Africa and mandates the United Nations Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group to continue its crucial work. Renewing that mandate reflects the Security Council’s unde…
