This is the twenty-seventh year that the General Assembly has held this vote. Every year, with the exception of one, the United States has voted against this draft resolution. As this draft resolution is currently constructed, the United States will oppose it again today.
Cuba and its allies do the…
As the United States said in April (see S/PV.8246), we have embarked on a new approach to the mandate of the
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
First, there can be no more business as usual on Western Sahara. Secondly, we must lend our full support to the Person…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for briefing the Security Council today.
The United States joins others in condemning the announcement by the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics that they intend to hold what they call elections on 11 Nove…
The United States recently announced a change in its policy regarding the International Criminal Court (ICC). The reasons for that change in policy have been made public, including in the speech delivered 10 September by our National Security Advisor, Mr. John Bolton, and are widely available. We wi…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for his sobering briefing.
The timing of this meeting is especially important. On Friday, we heard the Syrian representative issue a chilling warning, in crystal clear terms, that the regime will “fully recover Idlib when we deem it necessary.” (S/PV.8383, p…
My delegation fully supports resolution 73/6, concerning the fiftieth anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. However, we would like to explain our views on three parts of the resolution, which by no means signifies that we have any obj…
In 1958, soon after the launching of Earth-orbiting satellites had imparted new intensity to the cold war, the United Nations created the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in the hope that the use of outer space would avoid extensions of national rivalries and instead be harness…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura for his briefing.
The United States, along with all other members of the small group — Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom — and other like-minded Security Council partners are united in our position that the United Nations should mov…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s open debate, and the Secretary-General for his briefing and strong commitment to supporting women’s meaningful participation with regard to issue of peace and security. I also thank the Executive Director of UN-Women and the Ministers …
I want to especially thank Mr. Darusman, Chairperson of the independent international fact-finding mission on myanmar established by the Human Rights Council. It is critically important that he be with us in the Security Council today for this briefing. One question that I would like to ask him at s…
Let me add our voice to those thanking Under-Secretary- General Lowcock for his deeply concerning, sobering and important briefing today. We are very grateful for his hard work and the work that his team does on the ground in Yemen every day.
The stories behind the huge number of people affected by…
I too thank each of our three briefers today for their presentations and for the work that they have done in support of peace and security in the Central African Republic over the past year. We would also like to extend our thanks to Ambassador Adom for his exceptional leadership
in bringing the Co…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for today’s briefing.
Implementing the mandate of United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is an incredibly challenging task. A large part of that mandate — with a force of more than 12,000 personnel in a country the …
I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing. Special Coordinator Mladenov’s briefing was informative and it is appreciated. Mr. El-Ad’s briefing, by contrast, was the sort of distorted and one-sided account that is provided all too often at the United Nations when it comes to Israel and th…
With the closure of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in December 2017, the United States thanks those who served at the ICTY for their hard work in providing justice to the victims of atrocities and for their efforts in promoting international criminal accountability. Jus…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura for his briefing and his hard work to prepare for political progress in Syria. We have before the Security Council today a very rare thing — a brief window of opportunity to advance a political solution in Syria. We should take it. History will be unforgiving if we f…
I thank you, Sir, for calling this meeting on today’s important topic. We would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and participation in today’s meeting.
The link between natural resources and conflict is complex, and the United States shares the concern that in many instances…
For decades, the United States has been committed to achieving a comprehensive end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Only through direct negotiations between the parties can the Israelis and the Palestinians achieve the peace that they both deserve, which remains our goal today. We cannot support…
I thank Ms. Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mr. Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for their briefings today. We deeply appreciate their updates, especially in these final two months be…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jean Arnault for his important and detailed briefing today. We warmly welcome Foreign Minister Trujillo García and the other Colombian guests.
The historic peace accord that ended half a century of fighting in Colombia brings us together today…
