The United States delegation is pleased to speak this year again on the follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Our delegation is also pleased to co-sponsor this year’s draft resolution, entitled “Permanent memorial to and re…
The United States strongly supports the Kimberley Process. We warmly welcome the Democratic Republic of the Congo as it assumes the chairmanship of the Kimberley Process in 2011, and look forward to working closely with it. We also express our gratitude to Israel for being the Chair in 2010, for mak…
With respect to the situation in the Middle East, the United States is working vigorously towards a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, resulting in two States, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security. In that context, we are disheartened to be presented with unbalanced resolut…
The United States is deeply committed to finding solutions to our world’s water challenges. In the United States Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, released in September 2010, we welcomed progress, recognizing that over 1.6 billion people gained access to improved sources of drin…
The United States would like to commend Member States for the success of the September High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Now is the time to work collectively, bilaterally and at the national level to accelerate progress towards achieving the MDGs and other intern…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate and for your leadership on the presidential statement that we adopted today (S/PRST/2010/25). Let me also thank Under-Secretaries-General Amos and Le Roy, High Commissioner Pillay and the Director General of the International Comm…
Thank you, Mr. President, for that excellent statement. I want to commend the United Kingdom for calling this important meeting, which gives us the opportunity to help chart a way towards a durable peace for all of the people of the Sudan. I want to commend the Security Council for its recent visit …
Contrary to the statements the Council has heard, the United States has taken a number of actions with respect to Luis Posada Carriles. The actions of the United States are consistent with international law as well as with our domestic legal framework, which provides for due process and various cons…
Let me, too, thank the Chairmen for their briefings. Their dedicated leadership is central to the effectiveness of the Council’s three counter-terrorism-related committees. I would especially like to thank the Chairmen for their recommendations, which merit serious consideration.
The importance of …
I would like to welcome Foreign Minister Jeremić of Serbia and Acting Foreign Minister Çitaku of Kosovo to the Council and to thank them for their comments. Let me also thank Special Representative Zannier for his briefing and his service.
I have three points to make today. First, as Secretary of S…
I would like to thank the Security Council President for this month, Ambassador Lyall Grant of the United Kingdom, for his introduction of the Security Council’s annual report (A/65/2) to the General Assembly, and Ambassador Ogwu and the Nigerian delegation for their preparation of the annual report…
Let me begin by welcoming His Excellency Mr. Nebojša Radmanović, the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thanking him for his comments. Let me also welcome High Representative Inzko back to the Council and thank him for his comprehensive briefing and service in support of the D…
The United States supports the adoption of the draft resolution (A/65/L.10) on the report (see A/65/140) of
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). As we have done in the past, we have co-sponsored the draft resolution to emphasize our strong support for the Agency and its invaluable role in…
The United States is pleased to join other Member States in co-sponsoring the General Assembly’s draft resolution (A/65/L.9) on the situation in Afghanistan. The draft resolution recognizes the progress made by the Afghan people in building a stronger Afghanistan and acknowledges that much important…
We join our fellow members in welcoming the President of the Human Rights Council, and we thank him for the report of the Council’s activities during the past year (A/65/53), the first report during the United States membership on the Council.
The report before us is a reflection of both the Counci…
We wish to join others who have expressed condolences to the people of Barbados on the death of Prime Minister David John Howard Thompson. We also wish to express our condolences to the people of Argentina on the death of former President Néstor Kirchner.
We would also like to thank President Song …
The United States of America would like to thank our colleagues from Ireland, Mexico and South Africa for
their fine work. We welcome their comprehensive report (A/64/838, annex).
The review of the Peacebuilding Commission provides many important recommendations on how to move peacebuilding forwar…
Mr. President, I want to thank you and the Government of Uganda in its role as Council President for convening this important meeting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000).
This meeting gives Member States and non-governmental organizations an invaluable opportunity to …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important debate today. Let me also thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2010/514) and briefing. My thanks go as well to the Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), Ambassador Lamamra, for his important cont…
First of all, I would like to thank the President of the Assembly for convening this meeting and the Secretary-General for his report on recent improvements to the working methods of the Economic and Social Council and its role in follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and…
