I believe we all sit here today with a heavy heart because we have lost our brother and friend. Mr. Tanoh-Boutchoue was kind and caring. He always had a smile on his face and his laughter was contagious. I do not know how we come to terms with the fact that we lost him so soon. I have no doubt that …
I should like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Mr. Zouev, as well as Ambassador Schoulgin Nyoni of Sweden, for their remarks today. I would especially like to welcome Mr. Liberty to the Council today and to thank him for his briefing and for telling…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing. I thank my British colleague for keeping the Security Council updated.
Last week, the Council met five times to discuss the chemical weapons attack in Douma. Today we are here yet again to talk about chemical weapons. This time it is about a m…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock once again for his briefing. As always, he informs us and puts the gravity of Syria’s humanitarian situation in perspective.
First, given all of the interesting accusations we heard earlier, I want to make a few points crystal clear. The 75 members of the Glo…
I thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing.
The delegation of the United States welcomes Special Envoy Griffiths to the Council. He has taken on one of the world’s most difficult diplomatic assignments and we thank him for it. The United States fully supports his efforts to find a political solution to t…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed, Special
Representative Patten and Ms. Sultana for their briefings today. The report of the Secretary-General on the rising levels of conflict-related sexual violence (S/2018/250) is chilling. We welcome the discussion today and hope that it serves as an im…
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing today.
This is the fifth Security Council meeting in the past week in which we have addressed the situation in Syria. A week has gone by in which we have talked. We have talked about the victims in Douma. We have talked about the Al-Assad regime and it…
I started to listen to my Russian friend so as to respond to him, but instead I am truly in awe of his ability to say what he said with a straight face.
Today’s meeting of the Security Council has been convened under truly strange circumstances. The Russian Federation has asked us to discuss what i…
The United States supports the adoption of the modalities resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (resolution 72/274). We appreciate all of the work of the resolution’s facilitators, Italy and Uruguay. We also thank Uruguay for convening and leading the World Hea…
The United States strongly supports South-South and triangular cooperation. Although we joined the consensus on the
theme and sub-themes of the High-level Conference on South-South Cooperation to be held in Buenos Aires in 2019, we take this opportunity to reiterate our call for transparency and co…
The United States joined other member States today in adopting resolution 72/271, on global road safety. However, the United States finds it necessary to disassociate from agreement with paragraphs 5, 6, 9, 17, 21, 22 and 24. We also strongly maintain that, while the objective of resolution 72/271 m…
I would like to thank Ambassador Llorentty Solíz for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) — a landmark resolution in its day, which has become one of the pillars of the international non-proliferation architecture.
Given the ongoi…
Like others, I want to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Annadif for his briefing, which is always excellent, and also Ambassador Skoog for leading the mission to Mali and for his briefing today. I would also like to join others in welcoming Foreign Minister Coulibaly back to New…
I thank you, Sir, and members of the Security Council for what has been another frustrating day. My parents always said that you should always see the good in everyone and in everything. I have therefore been trying to figure out what the good is in Russia. I believe that it is very good at being co…
Yesterday I said that history will record this moment (see S/PV.8225) as one when we as the Security Council either lived up to our responsibilities or showed our complete failure to protect the Syrian people. Today we have our answer. The votes have been cast. The record will show that today some c…
I would like to thank Ambassador Balé and Special Envoy Djinnit for their briefings and their work to advance the commitments under the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region.
A little more than a month ago, the United States was pleased to…
Today’s resolution 2410 (2018), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) for another year, is about Haiti. It is about the continuing progress the country has made towards security and stability. It is about adapting the United Nations peacekeeping …
We have reached a decisive moment as the Security Council. On Saturday the first haunting images appeared from Douma, in Syria. We gathered around this table yesterday (see S/PV.8225) to express our collective outrage. We then collectively agreed that the Council needed to take steps to determine ex…
I thank Mr. De Mistura and Mr. Markram for their briefings.
Almost exactly one year ago, I stood on the floor of the Security Council and held up pictures of dead Syrian children (see S/PV.7915). After that day, I prayed that I would never have to do that again. I could; there are many truly grueso…
Yesterday, the Council met on the tragic anniversary of the use of sarin gas in Khan Shaykhun, Syria (see S/PV.8221). Ambassador Haley urged us to use the meeting as the start of a renewed partnership and a renewed commitment to addressing chemical weapons. That is because, as she said, no one wants…
