I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zarif for his briefing. We welcome Foreign Ministers Thaçi and Dačić back to the Security Council.
I commend both countries for their continued dedication to the normalization of relations. We particularly welcome Kosovo’s continuing integrati…
Mårten Grunditz’s career as a diplomat spanned more than four decades. He was first posted as an attaché to the Swedish mission in Moscow in 1973, when it was still part of the Soviet Union. He went on to serve in Beijing, Washington, D.C., London, Geneva, Athens, and, of course, here in New York. H…
On behalf of the United States as host country for the United Nations, I wish to offer our condolences to the people and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the loss of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
There is an Arabic proverb that says, “A tree begins with a seed”. King Abdulla…
I thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over this important meeting. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Kang, Ms. Durham of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ms. Elman of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security
for their informative and moving briefi…
I would like to thank the Mission of Chile for its steady leadership during the busy month of January. We are grateful, Sir, for your team’s diligent and conscientious hard work.
As these first few weeks of 2015 have shown, this year we will be returning to several of the same crises that we faced …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling today’s briefing and for your leadership on what I think we all believe was a timely and valuable mission of the Security Council to Haiti. I would also like to thank all of our colleagues on the Council who joined us in Haiti, since the parti…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s urgent meeting. We are grateful for Under-Secretary-General Feltman’s thorough briefing on such short notice.
Just five days ago (see S/PV.7365), we met in the Council and denounced the devastating consequences of attacks by Russian-backed separatis…
I certainly understand the desire of the representative of the Russian Federation to speak about other conflicts and other crises, rather than the situation and their tactics of continuing to support the separatists who are
wreaking havoc in Ukraine. It seems that while Russia continues the same ta…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. We are grateful for Under- Secretary-General Feltman’s unflagging attention to this alarming situation and for the alarm he sounded in the Security Council today in very explicit terms.
As this is the Counci…
I thank you, President Bachelet, for presiding over this critically important meeting and for Chile’s leadership on these issues and many others in the Council and around the world. I thank you as well for your lifelong efforts, including during your tenure here as Director of UN-Women and as Chilea…
My delegation would like to thank the co-Chairs for their leadership during this process and our colleagues for their flexibility and constructive spirit, which enabled us all to reach a consensus on the important decision 69/555.
The United States notes that paragraph 4 states that “the outcome do…
I thank and welcome you, Sir. We are grateful to have you here to chair a meeting on such critically important issues and we are appreciative of Chile’s leadership every day.
We thank Assistant Secretary-General ad interim Toyberg-Frandzen for his informative briefing.
Today I will speak on three …
Let me begin by thanking the Deputy Secretary-General and Ambassador Patriota for their leadership on this issue and for their briefings this morning. I also thank you, Mr. President — Foreign Minister Muñoz — for your presence here today, I also thank Chile for convening this important discussion.
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In recent years, no Government has invested more in the effort
to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace than the United States. Peace, however difficult it may be to forge, is too important to give up on. As we were reminded this summer in Gaza, and as we have been reminded too painfully recently in Je…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for their informative and appropriately bleak briefings and for the ongoing attention that their respective teams give to the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in spite of persistent obstacles…
I thank the President and the entire mission of Chad for their leadership during this busy month of December. To our Chilean colleagues, we wish the very best for January. They can count on our support.
Today I would like to share our delegation’s views on some areas where the Security Council has …
The United States is disappointed that a vote was forced on resolution 69/239. We did not want to vote on this resolution and did so reluctantly. It is highly unfortunate that we were forced to vote when, in our view, consensus
was possible and we had even this week made efforts to reach it. In tha…
The United States is profoundly disappointed that resolution 69/238, on operational activities for development, has been voted on. The operational activities of the United Nations development system are critical to the ability of the United Nations to deliver development assistance to the people who…
I thank you, Foreign Minister Mahamat again for being here with us in person. The United States greatly appreciates Chad’s leadership and its work to focus the Council on the nexus between terrorism and transnational organized crime. I also thank Foreign Minister Wali and Minister Asselborn for thei…
Thank you, Foreign Minister Mahamat, for chairing this important meeting. Your presence here adds weight to an already weighty discussion. I welcome Special Representative Haysom to the Security Council and thank him for his briefing and his work on the ground in Afghanistan. We congratulate him on …
