I thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; Mr. Lamamra, African Union (AU) High Representative for Silencing the Guns in Africa; and Mr. Gounden, Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, for their briefings today…
I apologize for taking the floor at this late hour, but I feel that we have no other choice.
We did in fact engage in a statement that the Russian Federation had proposed. We had hoped that it would track with the actual situation on the ground, as opposed to applying an approach that had been used…
I would like to respond briefly to the remarks of the representative of the Russian Federation.
I think we are all aware of efforts that are being made — far away from here, in Hanoi — over the next couple of days to solve some problems that arose during the Cold War. But that is not the rhetoric …
I thank Ms. Ghelani for her briefing and the important work that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and her partners are doing to support the Syrian people.
We applaud OCHA’s work to facilitate the largest- ever humanitarian aid convoy in Syria during the successful join…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her very sobering and comprehensive briefing.
We are here today because of the de facto Maduro regime’s refusal to allow humanitarian aid to enter Venezuela on 23 February, which led to deaths, injuries and violence on two international borders. Those act…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her briefing on the latest developments on the ground in Darfur.
We continue to evaluate the impact President Omar Al-Bashir’s announcement last Friday. We are deeply concerned about the declaration of a national state of emergency, and ca…
I would like to extend a warm welcome to Foreign Minister Baïpo-Temon. I thank Special Representative Onanga- Anyanga for his briefing and, more important, for his stewardship of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) over the p…
The United States would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s important meeting. We also welcome President Poroshenko and thank him for joining us today.
Five years ago the world bore witness to Russia’s brazen occupation and purported annexation of Crimea and it…
I thank Special Envoy Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for their briefings, and for their and their teams’ tireless efforts.
On 13 February, the United States joined the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in welcoming the adoption of resolutions 2451 (2018) and 2…
I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Burundi, Mr. Michel Kafando, for today’s briefing on the latest developments in Burundi, and to thank Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and Chair of the Burundi Configuration of …
I thank Assistant Secretaries-General Jenča and Mueller and Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik for their briefings and for their calls for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements.
We are nearing to the five-year anniversary of the start of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which has left more…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We thank also the Secretary-General; the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tanin, for his briefing. I also welcome Foreign Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku back to the Security Council.
We appreciate the understanding reached by the Council to end the practice of quarterly briefings on the United Nations…
I would like to thank you, Mr. Esono Angue, for joining us and presiding over today’s meeting. I also thank Mr. Fedotov and Mrs. Ukonga for their briefings. The United States thanks Equatorial Guinea for putting this deeply problematic side effect of our modern global economy on the Security Council…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, which is focused on African countries but is relevant throughout the world. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and Chairperson Faki Mahamat for their remarks today and to welcome the ministers who are joining us i…
We thank the United Kingdom delegation for its efforts to strength the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping
Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to ensure that it conveys the strong sentiment of the Security Council and the international community that peacekeeping operations must support political solu…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing and for the important work that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and its partners are doing to support the Syrian people.
Last month, the Security Council renewed key provisions of resolution 2165 (2014) (…
I had not intended to speak, but it seems to me that it is worthwhile, and indeed necessary, to respond to the statements made on behalf of the regime in Venezuela. I cannot respond to every attack that was made against every country here, such as the insults that were made by calling many countries…
On behalf of President Trump and the American people, I first want to thank Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the Dominican Republic, the current President of the Security Council, for scheduling this meeting. My former colleague, Ambassador Haley, lobbied for a year to get the Council to …
The focus of the Security Council is to safeguard international peace and security. The former Maduro regime oppressed its people for years, forcing millions of Venezuelans to flee the country merely to gain very
basic access to food and water. That has overwhelmed the capacity of regional countrie…
