I thank our briefers for their remarks this morning.
Russia asked the Security Council for today’s meeting for the sole purpose of lying and spreading disinformation and that is exactly what members have heard from the Russian Permanent Representative. Members also heard from Mrs. Nakamitsu that th…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing this morning.
It continues to be essential that the Security Council receive these regular updates on chemical weapons in Syria and on the critical work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in that regard.
Last week, th…
I welcome you, Madam President, and thank you for convening us here today to discuss this critical issue. I would like to welcome all the ministers and other guests who have joined us here today, and it is also great to see so many women around the table at this event. I thank our briefers for their…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom and the briefers for their insightful and sobering presentations. Their reports provide a clear understanding of current developments and lack of progress in South Sudan and of the significant contributions that the United Nations Missio…
I thank Executive Director Russell at her first briefing to the Security Council. We welcome her to this setting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths. Both their briefings were extraordinarily sobering, but we very much appreciate the work that they do. I also want to say that we are so a…
By the grace of God, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night. We all waited to exhale as we watched the horrific situation unfold in real time. I applaud the ability of the Ukrainian operators to keep all six reactors in safe conditions while under attack, and to report, as they …
I am sorry to take the floor again. I just wanted to make the point that China’s extended references to the reserve issue contain falsehoods and, it seems to me, were designed to score political points with the Taliban, I suppose — I am not sure — rather than anything else. China knows exactly what …
I thank Special Representative Lyons for her briefing. I also thank her team at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for its work and commitment. I thank Ms. Safi for her intervention and perspective.
The United States remains firmly in support of UNAMA and its mission. We w…
I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for their truly sobering briefings. I think they underscore what the Secretary-General has said, which is that this …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Yet again, through reports by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), we are presented, with more incontrovertible evidence that chemical weapons were used in Syria. Those reports are of course alarming. T…
On Friday night, we stood together outside this Chamber to declare that the Russian veto (see S/PV.8979) would not stop us from holding Russia accountable for invading a sovereign State — a State that dared to be a democracy. Russia vetoed Friday’s draft resolution (S/2022/155) but, as I have said b…
I am not going to respond to the atrocious lies, propaganda and disinformation that we have just heard from our Russian colleague. I have asked to take the floor for a different reason.
I have asked to take the floor to recall some of our members whose names may not have been heard earlier. Due to …
Not surprisingly, Russia exercised its veto power today in an effort to protect Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, unjustified and unconscionable war in Ukraine. But let me make one thing clear: Russia can veto draft resolution S/2022/155, but it cannot veto our voices. It cannot veto the truth. It …
In light of comments just made by the representative of the Russian Federation, I just want to make a few points for the record myself.
First, the United States thanks Mexico for putting forward resolution 2622 (2022) to extend the mandate of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Assistant Secretary- General Msuya for their briefings and would like to welcome the Assistant Secretary-General, who is here for the first time. Their briefings are important because it is imperative that the Security Council continue to publicly discuss the ongoi…
We are here today because of Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified, unconscionable war on Ukraine.
Let us never forget that this is a war of choice — Russia’s choice. Russia chose to invade its neighbour. Russia chose to inflict untold suffering on the Ukrainian people and its own citizens. Russia chos…
I thank Special Representative Hennis- Plasschaert for her briefing and ongoing leadership on this critical file. We truly appreciate the support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to Iraq’s peace and stability.
I welcome the Permanent Representative of Iraq to today’s meetin…
In my remarks tonight, I said that we predicted Russia’s false flag attacks — the misinformation, the theatrical emergency meetings and the cyberattacks. But one piece had not come to pass. Unfortunately, while we have been meeting in the Security Council tonight, it appears that President Putin has…
We stand at a crossroads in the history of the General Assembly. On Monday, President Putin announced that Russia would recognize as independent States the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic regions, which are part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine that have been c…
I thank the Secretary-General for his strong stance and powerful remarks today before the General Assembly (see A/76/PV.58) and for his remarks tonight.
A few moments ago, I spoke to President Biden, who asked me to convey in the strongest possible terms his and our steadfast support for Ukraine an…
