I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his report.
Iran’s illicit nuclear programme presents a grave threat to international peace and security. Today we are confronted with an unsustainable and dangerous status quo. Without swift and serious progress to resolve the international community’s d…
I welcome Special Representative of the Secretary- General Kubiš to the Council and thank him for his comments. He has our support in carrying out his challenging assignment.
I also thank the staff of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for the important work they do each d…
Like others, the United States would like to thank Ambassador Momen and Ambassador Gasana, as well as the Chairs of the six country-specific configurations, the Peacebuilding Support Office and our in-country partners for their dedication and leadership. They all deserve credit for the progress that…
Today we gather to discuss the wave of change that has swept the Middle East and North Africa. While each country’s experience has been unique, all of those democratic movements have sprung from a common desire for rights, freedom, economic hope and human dignity. Those universal aspirations are ens…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Fernández for his briefing.
As Council members saw on our recent trip, and as the report (S/2012/128) of the Secretary-General makes clear, Haiti’s stands at a moment of decision. In the two years since the earthquake, Haiti has…
We in the Security Council welcome the Prime Minister and are delighted to have him in our presence. We are grateful for his very helpful and constructive statement. I regret that our Russian colleague has found it necessary to raise the old canard yet again in the Security Council regarding NATO, b…
I would like welcome you, Mr. Minister. We extend our congratulations to the United Kingdom on assuming the Council’s presidency and thank the delegation of Togo for its leadership of the Council last month. We thank the Secretary-General for his statement this morning and Special Representative Mah…
Let me begin this report on the Security Council’s trip to Haiti by thanking Mr. Mariano Fernandez Amunategui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, the team of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Government of Haiti for welcoming us and for faci…
I thank you, Mr. President, particularly for organizing and sharing this debate. I also want to thank Under-Secretary- General Pascoe, Mr. Abdel Fatau Musah of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Mrs. Florentina Ukonga of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) for their briefing…
The United States requested this vote today after consultation with a large group of countries that have significant substantive and procedural concerns over draft resolution A/66/L.37.
We continue, in particular, to have significant concerns about the timing and the content of the intergovernmenta…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your presence here today and for organizing this open debate. I would also like to thank Special Representative Wallström and Under-Secretary- General Ladsous for their comprehensive briefings. Of course, I would like to thank Ms. Megheirbi for her remar…
I would like to welcome President José Ramos-Horta to the Council. The United States deeply appreciates his passionate advocacy of human rights and democracy around the world and thanks him for his presence and assessments on the progress Timor-Leste has made.
We also wish to congratulate Timor-Les…
We thank the Secretary-General for producing his informative report (S/2012/50), and Under-Secretary- General O’Brien and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings today. We believe that the report, prepared in conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United…
The United States is pleased to have voted in favour of resolution 2036 (2012). The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) need to work together in fighting Al-Shabaab. This resolution supports that goal. The expansion of the AMISOM troop c…
I would like to thank you in particular, Mr. President, for convening this important debate on the impact of transnational organized crime on peace, security and stability in West Africa and the Sahel region. I also want to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Executive Director Fedotov for their…
I thank United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay both for her briefing and for all the work she and her Office are doing to highlight the plight of the Syrian people during this most difficult time.
The information that High Commissioner Pillay has just provided us is deeply disturb…
I would like to welcome Deputy Prime Minister Gilmore to the Security Council and congratulate both him and Ireland on having assumed the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I also thank him for his comprehensive briefing today.
The Organization for Security and…
I want to thank Assistant Secretary-General Mulet for his briefing and Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zarif for participating today. I also welcome Foreign Minister Hoxhaj and Foreign Minister Jeremić
back to the Council, and I thank them for sharing their perspectives with us.
I…
The United States is disgusted that a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here, which is to address an ever-deepening crisis in Syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security. For months, this Council has been held hostage by a couple …
Let me begin by thanking Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim and Secretary-General Elaraby for their thorough briefings.
The Arab League has demonstrated important leadership in this crisis. For many months, the people of the region and the world have watched in horror as the Assad regime executed a ca…
