I would like to thank Malaysia for organizing today’s meeting, as well as to especially thank you, Mr. Hamidi, for being with us here today. Your presence, Sir, underscores the significance of the issue.
It is important to recall the achievements that the Security Council has made in the area of no…
I thank Under Secretary-General O’Brien for his briefing. As we have heard from Under Secretary-General O’Brien and other colleagues, last week the world’s attention was indeed transfixed by the shocked, blank stare of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who looked out from the back of an ambulance after hav…
Last week, the United Nations reported that during the month of July when fighting in Juba surged, soldiers killed innocent civilians and raped women in broad daylight. The United Nations documented 217 cases of sexual violence between 8 and 25 July in Juba alone. Those are the cases that were repor…
I thank you so much, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting and for all the work you and your team have done to shine a light on how children are faring around the world in your time on the Security Council.
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for consistently giving the issu…
I do not wish to try people’s patience on a Friday evening, so I shall be brief. The point I wished to make in my explanation of vote was that when the African Union (AU) came together, as it did usefully to propose the deployment of 200 monitors a year and two months
prior to the negotiation of a …
I thank the representative of China for his response, which is probably to my comments. I think that one of the things that the Chinese Ambassador appealed for was a cautious approach, and I just want to say that I think that it is very safe to say, a year and a half into the crisis, that the Counci…
I would like to thank the co-facilitators and all those who worked painstakingly for months to achieve this outcome, and in doing so, to offer further clarity on a critical element of the 2030 Agenda. We also want to thank the many countries that came to the table in good faith over the past months …
We are profoundly concerned about the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burundi over the past year and a half. During this period, as we all know, some 270,000 people have been displaced; at least 348 people have reportedly been the victims of extrajudicial killings; and 651 reported cases …
The renewal of violence in South Sudan earlier this month was horrifying, but sadly not unexpected. It was horrifying because, as we all know, in only a few days 300 men, women and children were reportedly killed, tens of thousands were displaced, and 4,500 metric tons of humanitarian aid — food tha…
I thank Secretary-General Ban, Minister Mohamed and Commissioner Chergui for their briefings. I offer thanks to each of them as well as to the Ministers who have shown the importance of the issue before us by making the long trip here to New York. We are very grateful.
Preventing conflicts and prom…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting on the continuing, ever-more urgent crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, which, as others have noted, deserves greater attention from the Security Council and from the broader international community. I thank Under-Secretaries-General Feltman and O’Brien for…
On 30 June, 165 Governments, including my own, as member States of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) came to consensus in Geneva to recommend that IOM enter into a relationship agreement with the United Nations. The United States fully supports the draft relationship agreement and w…
I would like to say a couple of words in response.
First of all, I think that it would be very useful if the Russian Federation could circulate the results of its investigation to the Council. Personally, having been very concerned about Russian strikes — particularly on hospitals in Aleppo and ot…
The United States welcomes the formal adoption by the General Assembly of the Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020 (resolution 70/294). As we did in An…
I thank Under-Secretary-General O’Brien for his briefing and for his special attention to the 250,000 to 275,000 Syrians trapped in eastern Aleppo.
Let us put eastern Aleppo in some context. For years, the Council has called on the Al-Assad regime to end the brutal sieges that have inflicted suffer…
I would like to begin by thanking Foreign Secretary Johnson for his presence here today and for the United Kingdom’s leadership on this issue.
The United States strongly endorses the authorization of Member States to assist in the transfer and destruction of Libya’s Category 2 chemical weapons outs…
At a time when the Security Council is grappling with crises from South Sudan to Syria, when the Council’s and the United Nations response to terrorism is ever more important, and with threats from pandemics to proliferation requiring united action, it is appropriate that we discuss our working meth…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing today and Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi both for the briefing and the leadership that he and his team have demonstrated in supporting the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
It has been one year since the United States, France, the United…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his sobering presentation.
Across the Middle East, we see trends moving in the wrong direction — of rising violence, of political leaders choosing conflict over peace, of innocent people paying the price as conflicts fester. Today, I will discuss those tren…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting on the biennial review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. We thank Ambassador Gunnarsson and Ambassador Garcia Moritán for taking on the formidable task of co-facilitating these extremely important negoti…
