On behalf of the United States, as the host nation of the United Nations, we warmly welcome His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians to the United Nations and New York. We also warmly welcome you, Mr. Minister, and thank you for presiding over the Security Council today. We tha…
First, I would like to thank the United Kingdom, as penholder, for proposing resolution 2510 (2020), which was just adopted. However, I want to note that we are disappointed that today’s vote did not garner unanimous support among the members of the Security Council, despite commitments agreed to by…
I want to begin by welcoming President Abbas today to the Council and also to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Mladenov and Ambassador Danon and my Council colleagues for their comments.
How the Council allocates its time defines who we are and what we believe is important. This is especially true …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Assistant Secretary-General Coninsx and the Monitoring Team of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups…
It is an honour to have Prime Minister Rama with us today in the Chamber, and we thank him for his briefing. Human rights, democracy, peace and the maintenance of regional stability are vitally important to all of us, but they cannot be preserved without deliberate effort. That makes the Organizatio…
I thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings.
The United States joined the United Kingdom and France in calling for today’s meeting because we are appalled at the Al-Assad regime’s escalation of violence in north-west Syria. The Trump Administration condemns in the strongest p…
I congratulate Belgium on its assumption of the presidency. I would also extend congratulations to Viet Nam for a very successful presidency last month. I also thank High Representative Nakamitsu and Mr. Spleeters for their briefings.
In 2001, the General Assembly adopted by consensus the Programme…
The United States is pleased to join the large majority of Council members in voting in favour of resolution 2507 (2020), renewing the sanctions regime in the Central African Republic. We hope that the extension of the arms embargo, assets freeze and travel ban will keep necessary pressure on the ar…
It is an honour to join with so many others today in paying tribute to one of the world’s great leaders of the past 50 years, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said. He will be missed not only by the people of Oman, but also by his friends and admirers the world over, including in the United States.
Wh…
It was a pleasure to have the Secretary-General of the United Nations here, as well as the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Dato Lim Jock Hoi, whom we thank for his briefing and for highlighting ASEAN’s essential and growing role in regional cooperation.
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I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his update on the increasingly alarming situation in Libya.
Less than two weeks ago, international leaders gathered in Berlin, where they called for a sustained ceasefire and clearly committed to supporting effecti…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing this morning.
Since the Council met last month (see S/PV.8694), the humanitarian crisis situation in Syria has significantly deteriorated, as we have seen and heard. The lives of millions of civilians are now at even greater risk, as the comb…
I very much thank Deputy Special Envoy Matar for her briefing and updates today. We continue to extend our full support to her and to Special Envoy Pedersen. Monthly briefings to the Security Council remain crucial to guiding our efforts to end the conflict; therefore, we appreciate her availability…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. Addressing these issues in a fair manner is not easy and we appreciate her efforts and those of her team to
do so. I also thank Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing.
As I have stated on many prior occasions, if we are to see…
I thank Special Envoy Griffiths and Director Rajasingham for their briefings and for the dedicated work of their teams.
The United States welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement, with full Council support. With the renewal of the mandate, …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing.
Last June, the Security Council adopted resolution 2480 (2019). Its aim was to encourage the Government of Mali and the signatory armed groups to show follow- through and progress towards the benchmarks in the Algiers Agreement on Peace and …
The United States attaches great importance to the work of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ). The ACABQ’s technical expertise and recommendations have formed the basis for decisions by the Fifth Committee on many complex issues. All Member States have a vital i…
I thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and for taking the time to be here; it is really nice to see him. I congratulate the Minister for Foreign Affairs on her new role; it is lovely to see her. We welcome the High Commissioner to the Council today.
Three years after the signing of the pe…
The United States abstained in this evening’s voting for one reason and one reason only. After months of negotiations, the text of resolution 2504 (2020) was the only path forward that would reasonably allow for the delivery of any aid at all to the Syrian people. We could not veto such a measure, a…
We are very glad that you are with us today, Mr. President, and the United States appreciates that the signature event of Viet Nam’s Security Council presidency is focused on the enduring importance of the Charter of the United Nations. We also thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Chair …
