Despite a rushed process and a lack of appropriate consultation by the authors of draft resolution S/2023/970, the United States engaged in good faith on the text. We proposed language with an eye to arriving at a constructive draft resolution that would have reinforced the life-saving diplomacy we …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. I also want to thank Secretary-General Guterres for his remarks, as well as Executive Director Waly, Ms. Cammett and Ms. Nyanjura for their efforts to strengthen the Security Council’s understanding of transnational organized crime. I…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Director of Coordination Rajasingham for their briefings today.
Since February of 2022, Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine has resulted in the deaths of nearly 10,000 civilians, injured more than 18,000 people and displaced more than 6 m…
The United States welcomes draft resolutions A/78/L.15 and A/78/L.13 and greatly values the platform that the General Assembly provides to elevate important ocean and fisheries issues.
We gather today near the end of another extraordinary year of action towards protecting ocean health. The United S…
I thank Special Adviser Ritscher for his briefing on the efforts of United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) to ensure accountability for the group’s heinous crimes in Iraq. I also welcome the Iraqi Amba…
Since this is the first time I take the floor under your presidency, Sir, let me congratulate you and your team for assuming the Security Council presidency and offer my delegation’s full support as you carry out your duties.
I wish to thank Council members for their engagement on this resolution (…
I would first like to thank the United Kingdom, as the penholder, for its strenuous efforts to try to find consensus on the text.
While the United States voted in favour of resolution 2715 (2023) in order to enable a safe and orderly drawdown of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance M…
I thank Secretary-General Guterres and Special Coordinator Wennesland for their briefings. I also join in welcoming the many Ministers with us here today.
We are now on the sixth day of the humanitarian pause in Gaza — a pause that amid the darkness of a conflict that Hamas set into motion has been…
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi and Director Wosornu for their briefings and for their unwavering commitment to bringing a sustainable peace to the people of Syria.
During last month’s briefing (see S/PV.9459), we expressed concern about the multiple recent attacks by the Syrian regime and Russ…
Let me add one thing. The United States has never fired any weapons towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We are working with our allies to help them in the protection of their sovereignty against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s actions, which are based on paranoia about a p…
I thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to take the floor once again, and I will try to be as brief as possible. We have heard 13 Member States sitting around this table call on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to cease its unlawful testing. The message is therefore clear. It is a viola…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for briefing the Council on this grave threat to international peace and security.
Many times, the Council has urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to halt its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes. Many times, we have ask…
I thank Executive Director Bahous, Executive Director Russell and Executive Director Kanem for their briefings. We appreciate all that they are doing to alleviate the suffering of all women and children around the world. And I want to take this moment to wish Executive Director Russell a full recove…
I am honoured to represent the United States in the General Assembly today. It is wonderful to join colleagues from the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, including Board Chair Gene Sykes and Michelle Schwartz from the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Country Director in Ukraine at the World Food Programme (WFP) Hollingworth for their briefings today.
This month we mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Holodomor, which translates to death by starvation — death by starvation. Millions of Ukrainian wom…
Let me start by thanking China for convening today’s important discussion on peace and sustainable development. I would also like to thank all of the briefers for their insights.
When all people in a country are not able to enjoy the benefits of development equally or when they cannot exercise thei…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for her briefing today. We note that the Russian Federation invited an official from Moscow’s Patriarchate to brief the Security Council today about the religious-freedom situation in another Member State. We also take note of Russia’s change of position with …
I often find it useful to look to the words and wisdom of one of the founders of the United Nations, Ralph Bunche. Nearly three quarters of a century ago, he said that “The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace.” The same can be s…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for her briefing and for her leadership in the face of this dire crisis.
The United States strongly supports the efforts of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS), and we call on all Council members to continue to…
We thank each Ambassador for their briefings and leadership in drawing attention to the work of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings an…
