I thank President Kafando for his briefing today.
The United States welcomes President Nkurunziza’s announcement in June that he does not intend to seek a fourth term. The act of stepping down of his own accord would be a strong step forward for Burundi and democracy, and would set a positive examp…
We congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s accession to the presidency of the Security Council this month. We also congratulate the Swedish delegation on its work with such a busy schedule in July.
We are glad to see Mr. Griffiths in the Chamber again. Yesterday, I said to him, and I r…
This is a brief explanation of position. While we join consensus on resolution 72/307, we would like to take the opportunity to clarify points regarding paragraphs 13 through 16. Certain elements of the small island developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action Pathway, such as on international…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock and Special Representative Gamba for their detailed and disturbing briefings and for their important work on Syria.
The United States condemns the attack that took place earlier this week in Syria’s Al-Suwayda province, for which the Islamic Sta…
I would like to thank the representative of Kuwait, as Chair of the Committee established, pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zerrougui for their briefings. We appreciate their efforts to keep the Se…
I want to thank Special Representative Arnault for his briefing and welcome the participation of Vice-President Naranjo Trujillo. With regard to our Colombian friends, I want
to take a moment to reflect on the hard-won opportunity for a lasting peace that they have achieved, which seemed like an im…
While we joined the consensus on resolution 72/306, entitled “Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)”, we would like to make reference to our prior statements containing points of clarification on language related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
On behalf of the United States, I wish to express my sincere condolences to the people of the Argentine Republic regarding the passing of Mr. Dante Maria Caputo,
former Argentine Foreign Minister and President of the General Assembly at its forty-third session.
Dante Caputo was a driven and passio…
I would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing. Before I go to the main point of my remarks, I want to emphasize one item that Mr. Mladenov touched upon. In the past three months, the terrorist flaming swastika kites that have crossed over from Gaza into Israel have damaged or destroyed 7,500 a…
I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of Iceland and Qatar, and their teams in support of these negotiations. We would also like to recognize those who engaged constructively in this process.
Working to improve the Economic and Social Council’s t…
We are very pleased to have you with us for today’s discussion, Madam President. We would also like to thank Commissioner Chergui and Special Representative Zewde for their briefings, and to congratulate Ms. Zewde on her new appointment. We look forward to working with her.
As the Council has recog…
First, I would like to thank our new colleague from Côte d’Ivoire. We are very excited to have Ambassador Adom with us and look forward to working with him. We welcome him.
I take the floor before the vote because we have reached a critical moment. The people of South Sudan have endured unimaginabl…
We thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. We also would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Minister Janabi and Ms. Ibrahim for their important and compelling briefings this morning.
The task of addressing challenges to peace and security is complex and is influenced by man…
I would like to thank you, Madam President, and our briefers.
Throughout my years of public service, I have encouraged women to use the power of their voice. I have been inspired by my mother, who went to law
school and was offered a judgeship in India but was unable to take the bench, owing to th…
I congratulate Sweden on its presidency and I thank the Russian delegation for its leadership in June. I want to thank the Prime Minister of Sweden for convening this very important debate. I thank Ms. Fore and Ms. Gamba for their leadership. Ms. Londoño’s story is inspiring. I welcome her to the cl…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting. I want to thank the Bolivian delegation as well for calling the Security Council’s attention to this important issue. Of course I want to thank Assistant Secretary-General Zouev for his briefing to us here today. We hope that today’s discussion will h…
The United States would like to thank France, the penholder, and all our Council colleagues for their collaboration in renewing one of the world’s largest peacekeeping missions.
As Mali prepares for presidential elections in a few short weeks, the people of Mali find themselves at another significa…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Van Oosterom and Ambassador Vale de Almeida for their briefings today.
As has been noted, on 8 May, President Trump announced that the United States would end its participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear pr…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura and Director Ging for their briefings this morning.
We are no closer to peace in Syria and no closer to addressing any of the Security Council’s concerns about the Al-Assad regime’s denials of humanitarian access. The situation in the south-west de-escalation zone h…
I thank the President for having convened this General Assembly meeting on the biennial review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. We also sincerely thank Ambassador Sauer of Finland and Ambassador Bahous of Jordan and their teams for co-facilitating this difficult but important…
