I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Swan and to our two virtual briefers for their useful, informative presentations. The United States welcomes, as other speakers have, the considerable progress on Somalia’s electoral process over the past three months. When the Security Council…
I thank Special Representative Lyons and Ms. Shaharzad Akbar for their briefings, which were particularly sobering and important to hear. We also thank Ambassador Isaczai for participating today and for his comments.
The United States strongly condemns the increase in violent attacks in Afghanistan…
I would like to start today by congratulating France on its successful presidency of the Security Council in July and to wish India and its team success during the month of August. I also wish to thank Mr. Thomas Markram for his briefing and for the extraordinary work of the Organization for the Pro…
I thank Chad and Costa Rica for having facilitated today’s resolution (resolution 75/314). The United States strongly supports the creation of the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent. We fully engaged in the modalities to shape its mandate. The Biden-Harris Administration has put dismantli…
The United States delegation wishes to address the oral
amendment circulated last week on operative paragraph 9 (A/75/L.121). While the United States supports necessary funding to make the Permanent Forum successful, the last-minute amendment to operative paragraph 9 distorts the agreement that was…
I would actually like to hear the answer to the question that was posed by the United Kingdom delegation to the Secretariat. After that, I would request the floor to clarify what the United States delegation is actually proposing, which is not a substantive amendment to the draft text itself. It is …
I apologize for taking the floor again this afternoon given the lateness of the hour. I will be brief.
We would like to make a simple and straightforward request: to reallocate the consideration of draft resolution A/75/L.119 to sub-item (a) agenda item 70, entitled “Elimination of racism, racial d…
I would like to just point out that there were two oral amendments circulated this morning by the President of the General Assembly. There was also, we understand, an amendment (A/75/L.121/Rev.1) to the amendment (A/75/L.121) that had already been submitted in writing. It is not clear that Member St…
The United States would first like to commend Turkmenistan for its hard work in facilitating the negotiation of the text of resolution 75/313 and navigating us towards a consensus-based conclusion.
With regard to paragraph 14 of resolution 75/313, the United States recognizes the role of the United…
The United States welcomes the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Central African Republic and the renewal of the arms embargo, the travel ban and the assets freeze measures for a further 12 months. Those measures remain critical to promoting peace and security in the Central Af…
I thank Ms. Hastings for her briefing. Once
again, I would like to express my deep appreciation for the work of the United Nations, particularly her team and Special Coordinator Wennesland. I also thank Ms. Oppenheimer for her participation today. I welcome and acknowledge the participation of the …
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for his comprehensive brief. More importantly, I thank him for his leadership in ensuring that the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) drew down in an exceptionally short period of time, given the extreme logistical constraints that th…
The United States is pleased to join the consensus on resolution 75/310 and reaffirms its position on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as detailed in its explanation of position delivered on 1 September 2015.
We are pleased that the resolution includes rights- based language related to p…
The United States welcomes the appointment of Christian Schmidt by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council. However, the United States, together with its partners in the Security Council, will not support a text that undermines the Dayton Peace Agreement and decisions made by the Stee…
To start with, the United States would like to thank
the co-facilitators, Côte d’Ivoire and Russia, for all the hard work that they have put into leading us in these negotiations.
The United States appreciates the time that all delegations devoted to negotiating this modalities draft resolution (A…
I thank the French presidency for bringing us together to discuss this pressing issue. I also would like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, Director General Mardini and Delegate Director Grosjean for their compelling remarks.
A new and sickening trend has emerged: the deliberate t…
I am equally honoured and saddened to deliver this statement on behalf of the United States in its capacity as host country.
I join my colleagues in the General Assembly Hall today in expressing our shock and sadness and strong condemnation at the horrific assassination on 7 July of President Joven…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his briefing
and presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2021/603). We appreciate the vital role that the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia continues to play in supporting peace i…
Let me start by expressing deep gratitude to the co-penholders for the extraordinary efforts they made to get us to this point today. I also want to thank all of the members of the Security Council for their support.
Thanks to resolution 2585 (2021), millions of Syrians can breathe a sigh of relief…
Let me start by thanking you the briefers — Special Envoy Onanga-Anyanga, Executive Director Andersen and the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, speaking on behalf of Chairman Tshisekedi — for the information that they shared with us today. I would also like to welcome the parti…
