We thank Special Representative Honoré for her briefing today. First and foremost, I want to convey our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Haiti for the devastation and loss of life that Hurricane Matthew inflicted last week. Against that backdrop, I am going to speak today abou…
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to ratify what Russia and the regime are doing in Aleppo, as they will undoubtedly claim that any and all of the devastation that they are raining down is directed at terrorists, not the innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure tha…
Yesterday we met in the consultations room and listened to United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura describe the daily deadly indiscriminate bombings raining down on eastern Aleppo. We heard Special Envoy de Mistura implore the Security Council to take urgent action to avert a large-scale mas…
As we get an early start on this year’s revitalization process, the United States would first like to thank the past year’s co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Croatia and Namibia, for their expert leadersh…
I think I can agree with one point made by the representative of Venezuela, which is that this is indeed a human drama, and a tragic one at that. Over 130,000 people have set off from the North African coast to attempt to reach Italy this year alone; more than 3,000 of them did not survive that jour…
I thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Maurer and Ms. Liu for their very moving briefings. The United States deeply appreciates the life-saving work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and we commend their unstinting efforts to treat the sick and th…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura for being here and for his refusal to give up.
We have convened the Security Council today because the Russian Federation and the Al-Assad regime have launched an all-out air and ground offensive against eastern Aleppo and its 275,000 civilians. Russia and Al-Assad …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton entered the General Assembly with a pen in hand, the pen that he had used to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), the same pen used by President John F. Kennedy decades earlier to bring…
First, we express our appreciation to the United Kingdom and Secretary Johnson of the United Kingdom for bringing attention to this important issue on aviation security. I thank Secretary Johnson for his leadership on the issue. I also wish to commend the work of the International Civil Aviation Org…
As Secretary Kerry quoted earlier in this session, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan had said my colleagues are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. Let us just keep in mind the facts of who is prolonging the suffering of the Syrian people. The last speaker’s statement was so ful…
I want to thank my colleague from New Zealand in particular for convening this very important meeting on the crisis in Syria. I believe that it is appropriate that we are gathering here a couple of rooms over from where yesterday so many Heads of State came together in what I thought was a remarkabl…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and Foreign Minister McCully for presiding over this meeting.
Allow me also, on behalf of the United States, to wish former Israeli President Shimon Peres a speedy recovery. I last had the chance to meet President Peres at his office in Israel …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto for his briefing, and especially for his focus on both opportunity and hope. The United States
welcomes his appointment and thanks him and his team for their sustained commitment to the Afghan people. I also thank you, Foreign Ministe…
The United States wishes to express its full support for retaining agenda item 130 as it is currently on the agenda of the General Assembly and for including it in the draft agenda of its seventy-first session. As several other delegations have stated, including Haiti’s, that remains, as ever, a rel…
After nearly four years of negotiations and over half a century of conflict, the Colombian Government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) have reached a final peace accord that covers myriad complex issues. Today the United States welcomes the support of the Security Council t…
The United States wishes to express its support for the transfer of agenda item 130. Despite the fact that refugees and migrants are included elsewhere in the General Assembly’s scope of work, we believe there is still a place and a need for a specific focus on the issue, and wish to see it included…
The United States is pleased to join consensus on resolution 70/302 before us, which decides to transmit the draft outcome document of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session for adoption at the high-level plenary meeting on addressing …
Our thanks go to the President of the General Assembly for having convened this meeting. The United States welcomes this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to addressing the scourge of sexual exploitation and abuse and our collective support for the Secretary- General’s zero-tolerance policy and…
As we head into September and a new General Assembly high season, it is appropriate for us to take a moment to consider some of the Security Council priorities we have addressed during the busy month of August, which we will need to continue to address moving forward. In particular, I would like to …
We welcome First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku back to the Security Council for this quarterly briefing.
First of all, I would like to start by taking a moment to congratulate the athletes from both of their countri…
