I wish to thank the Force Commanders for briefing the Security Council today and for their service in three of the world’s most demanding United Nations peacekeeping missions. We would also like to recognize the efforts of the Force Commanders who are not speaking today, many of whom are in the Cham…
I wish to thank the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary- General and their teams for their extraordinary leadership in confronting the Ebola virus and for mobilizing all the determination and the resources of the United Nations system behind that. We are taking the floor to strongly support the …
We wish to return briefly to agenda item 64 and the decision taken moments ago to defer its consideration to the sixty-ninth session. We simply want to state for the record our concern that the agenda item had been closed and was not reopened by the Assembly before it was addressed, and that we were…
The four structured dialogues on possible arrangements for a facilitation mechanism to promote the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies have reconfirmed the importance of technology to development solutions and generated ideas about possible next st…
We welcome the adoption today of resolution 68/309, as amended, on the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (A/68/970), which represents an important way station on the road to 2015.
We would first like to express our sincere appreciation for your leadership on this iss…
I thank Special Representative Zarif for his briefing. I would also like to thank Foreign Minister Dačić and Foreign Minister Hoxhaj for their remarks today.
The United States welcomes Kosovo’s continuing steps towards full integration within the international community. We commend the Governments …
Thank you very much for your strong leadership of the Council
this month, Mr. President. You and your very capable team have guided us efficiently and kept us on track and on time throughout this busy month of August.
Today I would like to share my delegation’s views on some areas where the Securi…
This is our twenty-fourth meeting to try to rein in Russia’s aggressive acts in Ukraine. Every single one of those meetings has sent a straight-forward, unified message: Russia, stop this conflict. Russia is not listening.
We said it when Russia flagrantly violated international law by occupying Cr…
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for convening this important discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for their insightful and informative briefings. I also thank the High Commissioner for her service to the United Nations and to th…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this timely discussion. I also would like to thank the briefers for their participation today.
On this eleventh anniversary of the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad and as we mark the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1994 Convention on the Safety o…
Thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling today’s meeting and for initiating this very worthy mission by the Security Council. On behalf of Ambassador Power, let me thank
all Council members for contributing to a timely and constructive visit to South Sudan. Special thanks go out to Ambassador Gasan…
The growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Nusra Front and other associates of Al-Qaida represents a grave threat to the people of Syria and of Iraq, as well as to the region and the larger international community.
Through its rapid and brutal advance across northern Iraq, I…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and his team for the thorough research contained in the report of the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
This is an extremely challenging time for the people of Ukraine. No-one should be driven from their home, and we are committ…
I wish to thank Minister Simmonds of the United Kingdom for having convened this important event. I should also like to thank Angolan Defence Minister Gonçalves Lourenço; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Tshibanda N’tungamulongo; South African Defence Min…
I thank Mr. Ging for his briefing.
As a result of the ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainians have had to flee their homes. Many have been subjected to harassment, arbitrary detention and killing at the hands of Russian- supported separatists. The general environment of insecur…
The United States is pleased to join the consensus on resolution 68/303, on mediation. We thank those who worked so hard to forge agreement on a final text, particularly the representatives of Turkey and Finland, who acted as the resolution’s facilitators.
We want to take this opportunity to reiter…
The United States was pleased to join the consensus on resolution 68/302 and looks forward to working with the General Assembly and the multi-stakeholder community during
the high-level meeting to be held in December 2015. We very much appreciate the excellent leadership of the Permanent Representa…
I thank you, Sir, for your steady and very efficient stewardship of the Council this month. The Rwandan coffee that you shared with us at the beginning of July has held us in good stead.
To the delegation of the United Kingdom, we wish a successful month of August and look forward to working with i…
I thank the Secretary-General; the European External Action Service Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Popowski; and the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, Mr. António. I thank you, Ambassador Gasana, for convening and framing today’s debate, which could not be more timely. Rw…
I would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and for his efforts to secure peace and protect civilians in the Middle East.
My remarks today will address two areas, Israel and Gaza, and Syria.
First, in Gaza, the United States is working intensively to secure an immediate ce…
