The United States is pleased to join consensus on the text today and we thank Norway for its facilitation of resolution 76/257.
The United States continues to work alongside its international partners to end the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and strengthen our
global capacity to p…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Keita for his briefing and for her commitment to her mission. I would also like to welcome our colleague the Permanent Representative from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Chamber today.
Also, let me express concerns about the repor…
I thank you, Madam, for welcoming me as I represent the United States at the Security Council today. I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Msuya and Executive Director Beasley for their briefings today and welcome Deputy Executive Director Abdulla. Of course, I also welcome the Ambassador from Uk…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Perthes for his comprehensive briefing and reporting.
The United States fully supports the efforts of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) to monitor and report on the situation in the Sudan, inclu…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Under-Secretary-General Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General Zaki for their briefings.
Eleven years after the beginning of the Syrian uprising and the start of the Al-Assad regime’s brutal war on the people of Syria, some in the Security Council want to move on,…
The Russian Permanent Representative asks
why we decided to abstain and not veto. To be honest, it was not necessary to veto, and I do not think the draft resolution put before us (S/2022/231) was worthy of the United States using its precious veto power. Thirteen members of the Security Council ab…
Once again, Russia is attempting to use the Council to provide cover for its brutal actions. It really is unconscionable that Russia would have the audacity to put forward a draft resolution asking the international community to solve a humanitarian crisis that Russia alone created.
The United Stat…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing. We fully support his continued and close engagement with all parties to promote dialogue and peace.
The United States remains committed to widening relations between Israel and its neighbours. One way we can do that is by deepening cooperatio…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening us here to mark this important International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. I also thank the Secretary-General for joining us today in this important meeting.
I just now left the Security Council, where I learned of the passing of our Iri…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for joining us today to repeat exactly what she gave us last week (see S/PV.8991).
Last week, we heard a tirade of bizarre conspiracy theories from the Russian representative. This week, we are hearing a whole lot more where that came
from — things that sound…
I was momentarily pleased to hear that the Russians were pulling down the vote on their farcical humanitarian draft resolution S/2022/231, which was doomed to fail. We know that if Russia truly cared about the humanitarian crisis — the one that it created — it could simply stop its attacks on the pe…
At the outset, the United States would like to commend Norway for the cooperative and constructive spirit with which it led the Security Council’s negotiations on this text.
The Council’s adoption of a new and robust mandate for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) demonstra…
I thank the briefers for their briefings today.
Just three weeks ago, Russia launched its unprovoked, unjustified, unconscionable full-scale invasion into Ukraine and assault on democracy. Now, over 3 million refugees have fled the country, creating a devastating humanitarian crisis felt around the…
I want to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Tirumurti and Ms. Shuaiter for their briefings today.
Clearly, the current situation in Libya is deeply concerning. Multiple actors, whose political legitimacy is in question, are vying for control of the Government, raising the risk of es…
The United States dissociates itself from the consensus on Belarus’s election to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, in the light of that country’s role in Russia’s unprovoked further invasion of Ukraine, which is in direct violation of international law and the international p…
I thank our briefers, Special Envoy Grundberg and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths, for their tireless efforts, and I welcome the participation of the Yemeni Permanent Representative at today’s meeting.
Today I want to address four aspects of the situation in Yemen. Progress toward an inclusive po…
The United States thanks Council members for their efforts to strengthen the mandate of the
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and ensure that the Mission supports the people of South Sudan in their pursuit of lasting peace, security and stability. The mandate reinforces the core missio…
The United States thanks Mexico for its leadership in achieving the unanimous adoption of resolution 2622 (2022). This technical extension of the mandate of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) for most of the remainder of this year will allow the Committee and its Group of E…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing today. I also thank Foreign Minister Rau for his briefing to the Security Council. His engagement with
the Council comes at a critical juncture — as many of my colleagues have said — a critical juncture for European and international securi…
I know that the Russian representative expects me to respond, but we are not going to give any more air time to the lies that those present are hearing today. It is beneath the Security Council. There is only one aggressor here, and that is Russia. We hope that it will be able to find it in its cons…
