We are grateful to you, Mr. President, as well as to Ambassador Wittig and the German Mission, for hosting this important debate and for your leadership as Chair of the Security Council Working Group. We also very much appreciate the important statements by the Secretary-General, Special Representat…
The United States deeply regrets the necessity to vote on this resolution to end the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS). We call on the Government of the Sudan yet again to reconsider its demand that UNMIS cease its activities in the Republic of the Sudan effective 9 July. Th…
We need to understand what we are voting on. Forgive me for interrupting. How would paragraph 1 be changed in this context — to put a period after UNMIS?
Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Council and by thanking the Ambassador of Gabon for his very able leadership last month.
I thank both Special Representative De Mistura and Ambassador Tanin. I want to thank Special Representative De Mistura for hi…
The United States strongly supports the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which is implementing an important mandate. However, the use of General Assembly funding resolutions to pursue claims against a Member State procedurally is not correct. That is the reason that we have opposed the Gener…
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has played a critical role in maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Syria since 1974, and we welcome today’s vote. The calm in UNDOF’s area of operations was seriously disrupted just weeks ago. The United States is deeply concerned about…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I would also like to thank UNODC Executive Director Fedotov for his thorough briefing and to welcome him back to the Council.
The World Drug Report 2011, rele…
I wish to thank Ambassador Osorio for his briefing today. We are grateful for his able leadership, which has done so much to ensure that the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) remains active and focused on the implementation of its important mandate.
One year ago, the Council …
I thank Mr. Zachary Muburi-Muita for his briefing this morning.
The United States recognizes the importance of and the challenges involved in forging effective partnerships to carry out peace and security missions in Africa. We thank both the United Nations and the African Union (AU) for their effo…
We join our colleagues in thanking Under-Secretary-General O’Brien for her thorough briefing this morning. The United States fully agrees with Under-Secretary- General O’Brien and Special Adviser Jack Lang that to address piracy effectively solutions must be found both on land and at sea, and that t…
We welcome the news that the parties have just signed an agreement on temporary administrative and security arrangements for Abyei and on the withdrawal of Sudanese Armed Forces. We are encouraged by this news. We greatly appreciate the intensive efforts of former President Thabo Mbeki and the Afric…
This is an important day in the life of this institution. On behalf of the United States of America, the host country of the United Nations, I have the honour of warmly welcoming Mr. Ban Ki-moon’s reappointment as Secretary-General of the United Nations. No one understands the burdens of that role b…
The United States welcomes the renewal of the Iran Panel of Experts’ mandate today. United Nations sanctions panels are a well-established independent tool for improving the implementation of United Nations sanctions. They play a critical role in enhancing the credibility of Security Council resolut…
I am honoured to represent the United States at this High- level Meeting on HIV/AIDS.
Today, 30 years after the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first reported on the condition that would eventually become known as HIV, the world has proven that we can tackle this pandemic. …
We are grateful for your personal leadership, Mr. President, in the fight against HIV/AIDS. I also thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon for his laudable leadership and Executive Director Sidibé of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and his team for coordinating the massive global respons…
I greatly thank Presidents Robinson and Kahn and Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow for their briefings today. I congratulate Judge Kahn on her new appointment and thank Judge Byron for his valuable service.
The Council has opened this debate on a day when Ratko Mladić is in The Hague. His capture, a…
On behalf of Ambassador Churkin, with whom I co-led the trip to the Sudan, I would like to make the following report.
Unfortunately, the situation in Abyei rapidly deteriorated as we travelled to the region. Thus, our mission had three overriding purposes: first, to urge a halt to the fighting and …
Let me also thank the Government of France for hosting this important meeting on the stabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I also thank the Secretary-General for his insightful statement, and Minister Tshibanda for his candid remarks.
The United States is committed to working with …
