I would like to begin by expressing the United States’ deepest condolences to the victims and the families of those killed in the heinous terrorist attack at Istanbul’s international airport yesterday. We remain steadfast in our support for Turkey and all of our friends and allies as we continue to …
The United States supports the Security Council’s adoption
of resolution 2296 (2016), renewing the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year. The United States welcomes the Government of the Sudan’s recent declaration of a unilateral cessation …
I wish at the outset to thank Special Representative Haysom for his briefing.
Afghanistan continues to demonstrate resilience in confronting significant security, governance and economic challenges. We recognize and welcome the gains made in Afghanistan over the past 15 years, and we all share an i…
On behalf of the United States, the host country of the United Nations, I have the honour of warmly welcoming the election of His Excellency Mr. Peter Thomson as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. The United States also wishes to express its thanks to His Excellency Mr. …
I thank Minister Ayrault for being here with us to provide over today’s debate. His presence is an affirmation of the importance that France attaches to protecting civilians, as evidenced in recent years by President Hollande’s decision to send French forces to Mali and to the Central African Republ…
I want to begin by thanking the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for its leadership. Today, we know the depth and breadth of the HIV pandemic, the number in need of treatment and have a global shared vision of 90-90-90 because of Michel Sidibé and UNAIDS. This week, as we mark the…
I thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing.
The Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court in 2005. Since then, the instability, insecurity, violence and suffering in Darfur have continued unabated. But it is too facile to simply recall the acts of violence tha…
The United States would like to express its appreciation to the Governments of Switzerland and Zambia,and their respective Permanent Representatives to the United Nations, Mr. Jürg Lauber and Dr. Patricia Mwaba Kasese-Bota, for their exemplary efforts as co-facilitators of this United Nations High-l…
I would like to begin by welcoming the President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Agius, and to welcome and congratulate both Judge Meron on his reappointment in March as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and Prosecutor Bram…
Let me also join others in thanking High Representative Mogherini for making the journey to be with us today, for her briefing and for her consistent leadership in addressing so many of the challenges she described.
As President Obama has observed, the European Union (EU)
“remains one of the great…
I thank you, Sir, for chairing and having organized this open debate and included the perspectives of civil society in our discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and leadership on this critical issue, and Special Representative Bangura, Special Rapporteur Giammarinaro and Ms…
I would like to take the opportunity of this wrap-up session to highlight several current pressing security concerns, including the situation in Syria, the issue of health care
in armed conflict, and our ongoing efforts to increase cooperation between the Council and the African Union (AU) on secur…
The Security Council has watched the situation in South Sudan particularly closely over these past three months. In early March, as the targeted sanctions established
by resolution 2206 (2015) were due to be renewed, the Council extended them for 45 days. We proposed that somewhat unconventional ap…
I do not want to take much time here, but I am struck by the number of factual claims that have been made by the Ambassador from Syria that impugn the reputation of the United Nations and the brave humanitarians who are trying to get food to people who are being starved — to death, in many cases. I…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative Ibn Chambas, Executive Secretary Barbut, Executive Director Laborde and Ms. Ibrahim for their briefings today. I should also like to give a special thanks to Spain and Egypt for drawing the Security Council’s attention to the urgent need to focus on th…
I thank the Prosecutor for briefing the Council on the efforts of the International Criminal Court to promote justice for atrocity crimes in Libya. The abuses that the Prosecutor has described today, and which have been reported separately to the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, emerge…
As we terminate sanctions today, it is worth recalling how far Liberia has come. Today is the first day that Liberia is not subject to United Nations sanctions since 1992. The current sanctions date from 2003, shortly after Charles Taylor went into exile and a comprehensive peace agreement had been …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous, Special Envoy Menkerios, Ambassador Kamau and Ambassador António for their briefings today, and I offer a special thanks to Egypt for convening this meeting.
I would like to address four key features of the African Union (AU)-United Nations partnership toda…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing. I also thank Foreign Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku for their statements.
Since 1999, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has made critical contributions to assisting the people of …
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, Secretary-General Afifi and Deputy General Counsel Crown for taking the time to brief us today on this very important topic. I also want to single out Egypt for thanks, and Mr. Selim specifically, for calling this meeting.
I would also like to offer my sym…
