I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing. I would like to welcome both Minister for Foreign Affairs Hoxhaj and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mrkić to the Council, and thank them for sharing their perspectives with us. I would also like to express …
The United States is pleased to join other Member States in sponsoring the draft resolution on the situation in Afghanistan (A/67/L.16). The draft resolution reflects the fact that the international community remains committed to supporting the Afghan people in building a secure, stable and prospero…
The United States welcomes today’s discussion, and we thank Ambassador Moraes Cabral for his diligent work as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions.
Under the United Nations Charter, the Security Council has the primary responsibility in the United Nati…
The United States welcomes cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. We also support international engagement in developing consensus on appropriate cyberspace behaviour, based on existing principles of international law. States …
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson for his briefing. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for his most recent report on piracy (S/2012/783).
The international community has made sustained efforts to combat piracy, and the integrated multidimensional approach we have pursued toge…
I would like to thank the Security Council President, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, for his presentation of the Council’s annual report to the General Assembly (A/67/2), and Ambassador Néstor Osorio and the Colombian delegation for their preparation of the introduction to the report during their pr…
In the General Assembly in September, President Obama reminded us that terror attacks are not simply an assault on one country, but an assault on the very ideals upon which the United Nations was founded (see A/67/PV.6). Through concerted action and international cooperation, the world has made sign…
I would like to welcome High Representative Inzko back to the Security Council and to thank him for his comprehensive briefing and his service to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the interests of preserving peace and promoting stability in the region.
I have three main points to make in reac…
I thank Acting Special Representative of the Secretary- General Reske-Nielsen for his briefing. I commend him on his strong leadership and commitment in the final but very crucial phase of the presence of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). I also wish to thank the Governme…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month, and to assure you of my delegation’s full cooperation. I would also like to express sincere appreciation to Ambassador Rosenthal and the delegation of Guatemala for their excellent …
We would like to thank President Song for his report (A/67/308) and for his service to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
As we stated last month in the Security Council’s open debate on the role of the International Criminal
Court (see S/PV.6849), strengthening accountability for those respo…
We would like to thank President Tomka for his leadership as President of the International Court of Justice and for his report on its activities (A/67/4), including on the very important cases on which the Court rendered decisions during the past year. The International Court of Justice is the prin…
The United States values the Economic and Social Council as an essential platform for exchanging ideas, learning from one another’s national experiences and sharpening our collective thinking about a next-generation global development agenda. Strengthening the Council has been a long-standing item o…
The United States welcomes the report of the Secretary- General (A/67/204) on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the report entitled “2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa” (A/66/169). We appreciate the opportunity to address the…
We are grateful for the convening of this important debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and President Song and Mr. Mochochoko of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their briefings.
Strengthening the global system of accountability for the worst atrocities remains an imp…
Somalia has made significant progress in recent months. Among Somalis and the international community alike, pervasive despair has turned to cautious optimism as Somalia enters a historic new phase of national development.
First and foremost, I congratulate the Somali people and applaud their hard …
First, let me thank President Meron of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and President Joensen of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for briefing us today and for their continued service.…
I wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing.
I will begin with Syria, where the horrifying situation is getting worse. Escalating violence driven by the Al-Assad regime has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions of Syrians. There is no clearer demonstration of the situ…
The United States would like to add its thanks to last year’s co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, Ambassador Waffa-Ogoo of the Gambia and Ambassador Lomaia of Georgia, for their attention to this issue during the sixty-sixth session of the…
I should like to welcome to the Council today the President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Shireen Fisher, and the Prosecutor, Brenda Hollis, as well as the Court’s Registrar, Binta Mansaray, and the head of the Defence Office, Clare Carlton-Hanciles. I thank them for their briefings, and I …
