I thank Acting Under-Secretary-General Msuya for her briefing, and I thank Ecuador and France for calling the Security Council’s attention to the humanitarian impact of Russia’s recent missile and drone assault on Ukraine.
Russia’s ongoing aerial assault on Ukraine, which began on 24 August, Ukrain…
I thank Slovenia for hosting this important discussion and our speakers for their interventions.
This discussion comes at a time when peacekeeping is under intense strain. That strain is due to the unprecedented fracturing of the political support that United Nations peacekeeping missions have trad…
The United States thanks Canada and Peru for co-facilitating resolution 78/328, on enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and institutions at the United Nations. We appreciate the precedent that they set by including Indigenous representatives in the process as much as po…
The United States welcomes the adoption of resolution 78/327, on the modalities of the 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
We express our appreciation for the steadfast work of the co-facilitators, the United Arab Emirates and Sen…
We would again like to thank the People’s Republic of Bangladesh for its leadership and constructive engagement on this important resolution (resolution 78/326). We care deeply about poverty eradication, especially in rural communities. That is why we work in partnership with developing countries ar…
The United States takes the floor to explain why we will call for a vote on the proposed amendment A/78/L.92/ Rev.1 to draft resolution A/78/L.84/Rev.2.
First, we thank the proponent and facilitator of the draft resolution, Bangladesh, for its efforts to work towards a consensual outcome. The text …
Multilingualism is a core value of the United Nations. It allows Member States to speak to each other in their native tongues or in whichever of the six official languages they prefer. In the United States we have 42 million speakers of Spanish, who, if they constituted their own nation, would repre…
I thank Director Ebo for his briefing.
This month marks 11 years since the adoption of resolution 2118 (2013), which the Council adopted unanimously in response to horrific chemical-weapons attacks in Syria. Today the United States wishes
to review where we stand on the critical pillars of that re…
I apologize for taking the floor once again, Mr. President. I have
addressed this issue and other United States colleagues have addressed it before. I think everybody knows the difficulties of trying to reach the hostage-ceasefire agreement, so I am not going to sit here and once again spell those …
I just want to respond very briefly to my Russian colleague’s remarks. First and foremost, I am very glad to hear him pledge support for the Charter of the United Nations. I hope that means that Russia will soon be pulling its troops out of Ukraine and ending its war of aggression there.
My second …
Let me begin by thanking you, Sir, for organizing this high- level plenary to commemorate the International Day against Nuclear Tests.
For more than six decades, the world has enjoyed freedom from nuclear explosive tests occurring in the atmosphere, in outer space or under water. But despite the gr…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the assumption of the presidency. I would also like to commend Sierra Leone for a successful presidency during the month of August. I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo, Director Wosornu, Dr. Bron-Harlev and Ms. Novak for their briefings during wha…
I will be equally brief regarding the remarks just made by the representative of the Russian Federation. I would simply point out that he just reinforced all the points I made in my earlier statement. I have nothing more to say.
I will be brief. I will just say, as I have said many times in this Chamber, that I will continue to call out those countries, including China, that provide support to Russia’s industrial base. I will cease those calls when that support terminates.
I thank Mr. Ebo, Director of the Office for Disarmament Affairs for his briefing.
As we all know, Russia started this war by invading Ukraine in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations. Russia’s alleged concern that United Nations Member States are helping Ukraine defend itself is noth…
I thank you, Mr. President, I apologize once again.
My Russian colleague — he or his Permanent Representative — has been in the Chamber in all of those discussions. He knows exactly what our positions were with regard to each of the resolutions and what we insisted on and what we thought was real…
My apologies for taking the floor once again, but I do need to respond to the remarks made by the representative of the Russian Federation.
Our Russian colleague’s long-winded statement contained little but the usual politicization of this tragic conflict in Gaza. He rambled on with his usual anti-…
I thank Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Msuya and Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization Ryan for their briefings.
Polio is a scourge of a disease — one that had nearly been eradicated through the dedicated efforts of agencies such as the World Health Orga…
I apologize for taking the floor, but I need to respond to some comments that were made by the representative of the Al-Assad regime.
Let us be clear: no one has inflicted more harm on the Syrian people — whether it be economic, political or military — than the Al-Assad regime. Let us not
forget …
I will be brief. The representative of the Russian Federation, who once again left the Chamber immediately after delivering a package of misinformation, disinformation, lies and propaganda, bragged about liberating parts of Ukraine and, in essence, taking possession of those parts. Ukraine is not Ru…
