The United States would like once again to thank the Government and people of Samoa, and the United Nations offices and agencies and the intergovernmental organizations that have worked in partnership with Samoa to host a very successful conference. We were very pleased to be closely involved in the…
The United States is pleased to participate in this annual plenary debate on the important topic of Security Council reform.
Today’s debate occurs as we look ahead to the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations next year. The United Nations is a very different place, as is the world. Since its…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Toyberg-Frandzen for his clear and objective briefing. We are grateful to Ambassadors Apakan and Tagliavini for briefing us today and for the brave and critically imp…
I thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her informative briefing and for the ongoing work of her Office to help end impunity for atrocity crimes committed in Libya.
When the Council decided, in 2011, to refer the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (see S/PV.6491), it stressed the …
I wish to thank High Representative Inzko for his briefing today. The United States continues to support his mandate under the General Framework Agreement for Peace. We commend his work and offer him our strong support for his role as a member of the Peace Implementation Council.
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We appreciate the presentation given by President Song on the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014, as described in the ICC’s annual report to the General Assembly (A/69/321). We recognize President Song for his service to the Court.
Strengthen…
On behalf of the United States of America, I would like to express my Government’s deep condolences on the passing of Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata. We extend our sympathies to the President’s family and to the people of Zambia during this time of mourning.
We honour President Sata’s year…
I thank the President for her strong leadership of the Council this month. You, Madam President, and your team — Mario in particular — have been excellent, and the United States thanks you for having guided us capably and for keeping us on track through a very busy month of October.
Today I would…
We would like to thank President Tomka for his leadership as President of the International Court of Justice, and
for the recent report regarding the activities of the Court over the past year (A/69/4).
We are again struck by how productive the Court continues to be. Over the past year, the Court …
Thank you, Madam President, and I thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman for his briefing.
We are deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation in Jerusalem, especially over the past two weeks. We are living in a time of tremendous turmoil in the Middle East. It is a time that requires brave lead…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for this important meeting. I would also like to thank Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Mr. Edmond Mulet, Mr. Chaloka Beyani and Ms. Suaad Allami for their briefings, their dedication to the peace and security of women around the world, and their courage. We also wel…
The United States strongly supports resolution 2181 (2014), which targets many of the most serious causes of instability and insecurity in Somalia. This resolution reflects the Security Council’s knowledge that the international response to the situation in Somalia must be comprehensive in order to …
I thank Assistant Secretaries-General Oscar Fernandez- Taranco and Ivan Šimonović for their briefings.
The United States has always been and remains steadfastly committed to finding a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine. Peace requires respect — respect for international law, respect for bor…
We offer our praise to you, Madam President, and to your delegation for your leadership of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions over the past two years. You have shown a steady hand in guiding us to agreement on a number of improvements that my delegation believ…
I, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for joining us today and for briefing us on his recent trip to the region.
We are living in a time of tremendous turmoil in the Middle East, a time that demands brave and decisive leadership by both regional leaders and the international community. …
The United States would like to thank Monaco and Tunisia, the co-Chairs of the Group of Friends of Sport for Development and Peace, as well as the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, Mr. Wilfried Lemke, for their work in supporting sport’s role in furthering …
The United States of America welcomes this opportunity to share views with colleagues on the progress of and support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Today’s discussion and the issues involved ‑ security, governance and inclusive economic growth, among others ‑ present an op…
I want to thank members of the Council for their efforts to forge a consensus that reaffirms to the people of Haiti today that the members of the Security Council remain united in their support for Haiti’s aspirations to a secure and stable country.
We agree with the Chilean Ambassador — and, I ass…
The United States thanks Presidents Meron and Joensen for their reports on the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, as well as for their tireless work in …
It is an honour to speak on behalf of the United States and to join other Member States, United Nations agencies and civil society in renewing our full support for the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), adopted in Cairo nearly 20 years ago to th…
