I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the Government of the United States of America, the country that has the privilege of hosting the United Nations. I offer our deepest condolences to the people and the Government of the Republic of Djibouti on the passing away of His Excellency Ambassado…
I thank Foreign Minister McCully for convening this meeting, and Special Coordinator Mladenov for his informative briefing and for all his essential work.
When the Security Council convenes every three months for an open debate on the Middle East, our discussion inevitably returns to a similar set …
Today we have adopted resolution 2231 (2015), enshrining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed to six days ago in Vienna.
By now, many are familiar with the basic tenets of the deal, which, if implemented, would cut off all pathways to fissile material for a nuclear weapon for the Islamic R…
In the spirit of this sober commemoration, I shall be very brief.
First, I would say that every country and every people should grapple with their history, and grappling with that history is a prerequisite to reconciliation. We in this country are going through something like that right now after t…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson and High Commissioner for Human Rights Al Hussein for their powerful briefings.
I was a 24-year-old reporter in July 1995 living in Sarajevo when the Bosnian Serbs made their move on Srebrenica. I was there when, a few days after the Srebrenica safe area fe…
I thank you, Mr. President, and the Malaysian delegation for your leadership this month.
Much of our time this month has been spent addressing security challenges in Africa, and much of that on Burundi. Yesterday, Burundi recklessly moved forward with elections, despite the African Union (AU), the …
Today, as a Council, we have recognized and recommitted to Darfur. We have done so as we face intensifying levels of conflict and a continuing and brutal campaign waged by the Government of the Sudan and its associated militia. We have done so against a backdrop of massive displacements and reports …
The public discussion of Darfur in recent weeks and months has centred on three terms: hibernation, exit strategy and non-cooperation. In each case, however, there is a deeper story to tell, and with respect to all three the discussion would benefit from a renewed focus on those men, women and child…
I would like to thank Ambassadors Patriota and Skoog for their briefings earlier. I also thank Ambassador Patriota for his work as the outgoing Chair of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), especially during the outbreak of the Ebola virus in
the three countries on th…
I thank Ambassador Oyarzun for his briefing.
We may be entering a critical moment in the Security Council’s consideration of the Iranian nuclear
issue. For almost nine years, the Security Council has acted in response to concerns about the nature of Iran’s nuclear programme. By applying progressiv…
I thank Special Representative Haysom and Ambassador Tanin for their candid and detailed remarks and for their dedicated work to sustain a fruitful partnership between the international community and the Afghan Government. The United States warmly welcomes the progress that both of them have noted i…
I would like to begin by thanking Foreign Minister Aman
for presiding over this meeting and for Malaysia’s leadership of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui and…
I thank all of the Force Commanders for their briefings and for their service. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for assembling the Force Commanders here. This is a critical annual gathering and an important rite of passage.
As we mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, th…
The United States would like to thank the Chairs of the three Committees, the Ambassadors of Spain, Lithuania and New Zealand, for their briefings.
I would like to start with some observations on the Committee established pursuant to resolutionin 1540 (2004). We congratulate Spain for its active le…
On behalf of the United States, as the host country of the United Nations, I have the honour of warmly welcoming the election of His Excellency Mr. Mogens Lykketoft as President of the General Assembly at its historic
seventieth session. My Government appreciates the fact that the President-elect i…
The United States commends the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and partner Governments on the tremendous progress outlined in the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HI…
In closing, I would just like to note the absurdity of two things. The first is the representative of the Russian Federation’s citing of the Charter of the United Nations in the context of a discussion about Ukraine when, despite the fact that the Russian presence in Ukraine is an open secret, there…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s meeting to speak to the recent developments in eastern Ukraine. join others in thanking our briefers, Under Secretary-General Feltman and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Deputy Chief Monitor Hug, for providing the Council and the in…
The United States was pleased to participate in the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, earlier this year. We are deeply grateful to the Government of Japan for hosting the Conference and providing invaluable leadership in efforts to address disas…
I thank Presidents Meron and Joensen and Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow for their reports and, as always, for their steadfast dedication to advancing global justice. At this time, I would like to express particular gratitude and thanks to President Meron in his last briefing before the Council as …
