I apologize for taking the floor once again. I will be very brief. I just want to make it clear — if I did not do so earlier — that the United States has tried on numerous occasions to have a dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It has refused an unconditional dialogue. We have t…
I apologize for taking the floor, but I needed to respond to some points that were made by our Russian colleague.
She raised the issue of the United States being active, I believe, in increasing briefings on this issue. The reason we are active in raising this issue in briefings and calling for bri…
Let me also welcome the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to this meeting.
The United States is proud to have voted in favour of resolution 2717 (2023), which clearly responds to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s request to change the status quo while maintaining the Mission’s…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland and the Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Major General Gauchat, for their briefings.
Over the past few days and weeks, we have shared many of our thoughts on the subject, and we will have more to say late…
I thank Mr. Khaled Khiari for his briefing on why we are here.
From the outset, I want to affirm that the United States condemns in the strongest terms the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile and short-range ballistic missile launches this past weekend. There …
I will group all interventions on these various draft amendments and draft resolutions together and highlight by title.
With regard to draft amendment A/78/L.31, which is the proposed amendment to the eighth preambular paragraph of draft resolution A/78/L.24, the issue of whether and how to include…
I am pleased to introduce draft resolution A/78/L.24, entitled “Enhancing action at the national, regional and international levels to address the global public health and security challenges posed by synthetic drugs”.
The United States introduced the draft resolution to highlight emerging global i…
The United States firmly supports efforts to promote interreligious and intercultural dialogue and cooperation. We thank the Philippines and Pakistan for their initiative in submitting resolution 78/129, on an important topic of key interest to all United Nations delegations. We would like to take t…
I thank Special Representative Bathily for his briefing and for his ongoing efforts to convene key Libyan stakeholders to galvanize the political process and consolidate support for elections as soon as possible.
It is increasingly clear that achieving a credible elections road map and a peaceful t…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings and the Security Council’s appointed Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) for the presentation of her report (see S/2023/963).
We are meeting at a time when Iran continues to take increasingly p…
I thank all of today’s briefers for their efforts to call attention to the detrimental effects that the diversion and illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons have on international peace and security.
Responsible State use of conventional weapons contributes to global and regional securi…
I want to start by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing today and for his leadership and participation at the United Nations peacekeeping ministerial meeting last week in Accra, where we met. I also want to thank Ambassador Biang for his briefing as Chair …
The United States welcome’s today’s renewal of the mandate of the Monitoring Team under resolution 1988 (2011) for an additional year and the reaffirmation of the 1988 regime’s assets freeze, travel ban and targeted arms embargo. The result of today’s voting serves as confirmation of the continued i…
I thank Mr. Abarry, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his informative briefing, and it is a pleasure to welcome him back to the Council.
I would like to first express my country’s firm commitment to supporting the democratic aspirations of the people of Central Africa. There are…
I thank President Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz very much for this briefing on the ongoing work of
the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals to advance accountability for atrocities committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. We are grateful to President Gatti Santana …
The United States thanks Gabon for its stewardship of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) concerning Haiti and commends the Committee’s activities this past year. We are also grateful to the Panel of Experts for their important work. Their comprehensive reporting has kept th…
I thank the Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Ebo, for his briefing.
We all know why Russia calls repeated meetings on this topic. Six hundred and fifty-five days since the start of its illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has fai…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Keita for her informative briefing today. I would also like to welcome the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to today’s meeting. The United States appreciates the dedication that Special Representative of the Se…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor the humanitarian omnibus safety and security and natural disasters draft resolutions.
The humanitarian work of the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies is unfortunately needed now more than ever. The United States remains a steadfast leader in re…
I thank Secretary-General Guterres for his briefing.
For the past two months, the Security Council has been engaged in continuous meetings on the topics highlighted in his recent letter (S/2023/962). In parallel, and even as it has supported the right of another Member State to defend its people ag…
