I thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing. The United States would also like to thank Special Representative Djinnit for his continued leadership in the United Nations Office for West Africa and in the Sahel region. We greatly appreciate the work that went into the United Nations inter…
The United States is honoured and grateful for the opportunity to serve as the Kimberley Process Chair for 2012. We look forward to working closely with the Vice-Chair, the Republic of South Africa, in the year ahead to advance the credibility of the Process and the efficacy of its work. We thank th…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing.
I will begin on a welcome and even hopeful note. King Abdullah and the Jordanian Government have taken a bold step and shown tremendous leadership in bringing the parties together for direct meetings in
coordination with the Q…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comments today and for his comprehensive report (S/2011/634*). We welcome this opportunity to join the discussion on justice and the rule of law. As the Secretary-General’s report, of October 2011, makes clear, the rule of law and transitional just…
I want to thank the Secretary-General for his presence and remarks. I also welcome the Ministers present here, as well as Commissioner Lamamra. At the outset, I want especially to thank President Zuma for convening this important and timely debate.
The relationship between the United Nations and th…
We welcome you to the Council today, Madam, as well as the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, and we thank you both for your statements.
I would like to thank African Union (AU) Peace and Security Commissioner Lamamra and Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for their briefings. I would also like to thank …
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his report.
We meet at a critical moment in the Council’s ongoing effort to address the threat posed by Iran’s illicit nuclear activities. Since our last meeting, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently released a da…
I would like to welcome Deputy Foreign Minister Ludin to the Council today and to thank him for sharing his views with us. I would also like to thank Under- Secretary-General Ladsous for his briefing this morning.
Let me take a moment to express our deep gratitude to outgoing Special Representative…
The United States joins others gathered here today to recognize the twentieth anniversary of resolution 46/182, a pivotal instrument in shaping the framework for the coordination of United Nations emergency humanitarian assistance. As a foundational document, resolution 46/182 laid out the guiding p…
We wish to thank Tribunal Presidents Khan and Meron and Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz for their briefings today. We also wish to congratulate President Meron on his recent re-election as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and wish him much success. I…
As we continue our important discussions on financing for development, we must ensure that our deliberations reflect the dramatic shifts in the development landscape. Official development assistance (ODA) from Governments and multilateral organizations is no longer the primary driver of economic gro…
My delegation has the honour to co-sponsor the draft resolution entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” (A/66/L.21). We also have the honour to introduce, on behalf of the sponsors, the draft resolution on sustainable fisheries (A/66/L.22).
Healthy oceans and coasts and their resources are necessa…
Let me begin by thanking all volunteers worldwide for their service. In particular, United Nations Volunteers
(UNV) deserves our gratitude and recognition as one of the few international organizations that sends volunteers to work in some of the most dangerous situations in the world.
Today, as ho…
One of the most impressive achievements of the United Nations system in the past generation has been its contribution to reducing the devastating toll of war around the world through its mediators, peacekeepers and humanitarian and development agencies.
Ensuring that peace endures, in turn, require…
The United States would like to thank last year’s co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Lithuania and Saint Vincent and Grenadines, for their excellent work. Their efforts and leadership culminated in the res…
The United States remains troubled by the annual, repetitive and disproportionate number of one-sided resolutions in the Assembly condemning Israel. There are a total of 17 such resolutions this year, six of them under today’s agenda items, all of them unbalanced in their explicit or implicit one-si…
The United States appreciates the commitment of Portugal to improving the working methods of the Security Council, as shown by your initiative, Mr. President, in convening this fourth open debate on the topic.
Additionally, we recognize Ambassador Ivan Barbalić of Bosnia and Herzegovina for his wor…
I thank Mr. Zarif for his briefing. We welcome him in his new role as the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I thank Foreign Minister Hoxhaj and Foreign Minister Jeremić for their presence here today and f…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for bring us together to discuss these new challenges to peace and security. Many thanks also to Executive Director Fedotov, High Commissioner Guterres and Director- General Chan for their briefings today. I also welcome the Ministers from Bosnia and Herz…
Mr. President, I wish to welcome you to the Council. I wish also to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste and the Vice-Minister of Brazil. I extend my thanks to Special Representative Haq for her briefing this morning and for her dedicated leadership and commitment to solidifying p…
