I am honoured to be here today and I wish to begin by reading out a letter from the United States Congressional Black Caucus addressed to the Secretary-General:
“Dear Secretary-General:
“Over four centuries, more than 18 million people were forcefully removed from their homes in Africa and exiled …
I would like to thank the Ambassador of Spain for his briefing. We also thank Spain for its leadership of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) in carrying forward its important work.
The Committee’s work has been an integral element of our broader diplomacy.…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Honoré for her briefing and leadership. I also thank all the dedicated men and women serving in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), who are working with her to build a more secure and stable Haiti.
The United States w…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom and Ambassador Tanin for their observations today. On behalf of the United States, I would like to thank Mr. Haysom and his team for their dedicated and humane work to help the Afghan people improve their lives, their institutions and th…
I should like to welcome European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini to the Security Council and to thank you, Mr. President, and the Secretary-General for your briefings today.
As you rightly point out, Mr. President, we face pressing and unprecede…
I realize we are taxing the patience of the rest of the Council, so I will be very brief. The Russian representative has several times used the expression “good faith” — as in,
we do this or that “in good faith”. That is absurd in this context.
The challenge posed by these back-and-forth statements is that Russia no longer has any credibility whatsoever. None. Russian representatives months ago, at one of the first of the 32 meetings so far on this topic, said that Russia had no soldiers, no heavy weapons and no presence in Crimea. Later, …
I will be extremely brief. I would just refer Council members and
anybody watching this meeting to the reports that have been prepared by the experts of the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. I would not myself deign to weigh in at the level of detail …
We have adopted resolution 2209 (2015) today, a year and a half after the Council adopted a binding resolution in the wake of a horrific, gruesome chemical weapons attack that left more than 1,000 civilians and hundreds of children dead. Resolution 2118 (2013) required the Syrian regime to dismantle…
We continue to believe that compliance with the September Minsk agreements and the February implementation package provides a road map to peace in Ukraine. For
the first time since the Minsk implementation package was signed, on 12 February, we have seen a reduction in violence. Of course, no one f…
The United States wishes to thank the Mongolian delegation
in its capacity as facilitator and sponsor of the resolution just adopted (resolution 69/268).
We wish to recognize the vital work that the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) is doing to support democracy and human rights around the wor…
For the past 14 months, the United States has supported the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the region in their efforts to facilitate talks between the warring parties in South Sudan aimed at reaching a comprehensive and inclusive peace agreement and establishing a transitional…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Kang and High Commissioner Guterres for their powerful presentations.
One year ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 2139 (2014), aimed at addressing the humanitarian and human rights catastrophe in Syria. As today’s briefings made clear, the humanitarian …
I would like to welcome the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, Minister Dačić, to the Security Council and thank him for his briefing on OSCE activities under Serbia’s leadership. The partnership between the OSCE and the United Nations is critically imp…
I wish to thank Minister Lavrov, Minister Rodríguez Gómez, Minister McCully, Minister Aman, Minister Linkevičius and Minister Wali for participating in this debate. Above all, I thank Minister Wang Yi for coming to the United Nations to preside over this important discussion.
The drafters of the Ch…
I just want to be clear in response to my Russian colleague that the United States wholeheartedly welcomes the agreement. We will do all we can to support it. But if Russia is committed to peace, it does not need a Security Council resolution to prove it. There are actually easier ways to prove it. …
We have gotten used to living in an upside-down world with respect to Ukraine. Russia speaks of peace and then fuels conflict. Russia signs agreements and then does everything within its power to undermine them. Russia champions the sovereignty of nations and then acts as if its neighbours’ borders …
The United States is pleased to support the adoption of a Security
Council resolution that sends a clear message. All parties in Yemen, especially the Houthi, must commit to resolving the country’s political crisis by consensus through a peaceful and inclusive dialogue.
Today, the Council deplores…
Today the Security Council has adopted a robust Chapter VII resolution to counter the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Al-Nusra Front and other individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida. The unanimous vote in favour of resolution 2199 (2015) shows our join…
Last November, the Security Council was confronted with
reports of an alleged mass rape in Thabit, a town in North Darfur, the Sudan. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur attempted to investigate, but was systematically denied meaningful access. The one time the peacekeepers were permi…
