Let me start by thanking the Secretary- General for his presence here with us today and for his crucial remarks. I would also like to thank Under- Secretary-General Griffiths for his briefing, as well as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations humanitarian agen…
I thank Mr. Haysom and Ms. Mudawi for their comprehensive briefings today, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for raising the possibility of a Council visit to Juba, which my delegation will consider. But in the meantime, we look forward to the visit to Juba by the end of the ye…
I thank Special Representative La Lime for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and for the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the United Nations country team. I thank Mr. Descardes for his invaluable perspective on the issues faced by civil society and it…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this important and timely briefing on cooperation with the European Union (EU).
The United States deeply appreciates the European Union’s contributions across the globe, which the High Representative just enumerated, including its cooperation with the Un…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s vital debate. I also thank Secretary-General Guterres for participating today.
I would also like to express my appreciation to all the briefers and to the representatives of regional organizations who have joined us today. The role of regional org…
Let me start by thanking Special Envoy Grundberg, Ms. Mudawi, Acting Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Al-Salafi, our civil society briefer, for their briefings today. We are very grateful for all their dedicated effo…
I thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings on the efforts of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals to bring perpetrators to justice for the atrocities committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. We heard from the President this morning some of the c…
I thank Special Representative Wane for his briefing today. I would especially like to thank Ms. Touré for her important yet troubling observations about the serious challenges facing the people of Mali, in particular women and young people, as well as the dire need for the Government to more effect…
We join the international community and all stakeholders here today in the General Assembly in honouring and remembering the more than 36 million people, including 700,000 Americans, who have tragically died from AIDS-related illness since the start of the epidemic. We also renew our commitment to s…
I want to start by thanking the many Member States that worked on and sponsored the “standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council”, including Liechtenstein, for all of their efforts that brought us to today.
This meeting is unprecedented in the history …
Let me thank our three briefers this morning for their informative and useful briefings.
Let me begin by highlighting two issues that have been raised by several of my colleagues who spoke before me — two issues that are causing a great deal of harm in the Central African region and exacerbating co…
I thank the Special Adviser for his briefing and his leadership of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), as it carries out its challenging but critical mandate.
The United States welcomes the ne…
On behalf of the United States, as host country of the United Nations we extend our sincere congratulations to President- elect Kőrösi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session, and welcome him back to New York.
The President-elect’s campaign promised a vis…
Since I was not here for the beginning of your presidency, I would like to enthusiastically welcome you, Mr. President, to your new role and to wish you the best during this month. I thank Albania for calling this very important meeting, and I would also like to give a special thanks to our briefers…
The United States welcomes the adoption of the mandate renewal for the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) (resolution 2636 (2022)), which starts another year for the Mission’s support for the Sudan’s democratic transition.
We voted in favour of this manda…
I want to thank you, Prime Minister Rama, for giving me the floor today. I would also like to welcome Albania on the start of its Security Council presidency, and thank you, Sir, more broadly, for the leadership role that Albania has played in the pursuit of accountability. Let me also join others t…
On behalf of the United States Government, let me start by thanking Lebanon for the successful shepherding of resolution 76/264 to adoption by consensus. The United States remains actively engaged in the work of addressing global food insecurity through significant humanitarian and development assis…
Last week, we were deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. And today, on behalf of the United States, I want to offer my heartfelt condolences to his family and to the people of the United Arab Emirates.
During Sheikh Khalifa’s rule, the U…
The United States is disappointed that negotiations again
failed to achieve the adoption of a substantive, year-long mandate that authorizes the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to continue its work in Libya with the foundation it needs to be successful. UNSMIL is an essential partn…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing this morning.
I would also like to commend the continued diligence and professionalism of the independent experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). We salute their tireless efforts to ensure the implementation of the…
