I would like to start by thanking Ms. Nathita Premabhuti for leading the negotiations on the global health and foreign policy resolutions 72/138 and 72/139 so skilfully and for
bringing consensus to the many difficult but important issues treated in those resolutions. She has ably guided the negoti…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her briefing. We agree with her that the victims in Darfur need justice. Since the beginning of the conflict in Darfur more than 300,000 people have been killed and 4.7 million others affected, including more than 2 million who have been and remain inter…
I thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing, and Ms. Patten for her leadership and service.
As we confront issues like this one, it is important that we hear stories, and when we hear the stories, we have to imagine the faces because; otherwise these are just numbers or yet more impersonal pieces of data.…
The United States of America is strongly committed to encouraging a culture of peace through the promotion of justice, democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as by rejecting violence and addressing the root causes of conflict. Furthermore, the United States firmly supports efforts…
I thank Assistant-Secretary-General Jenča and High Commissioner Al-Hussein for their briefings. I am grateful for this discussion today, because we must tell the full story of the North Korean people. Only a few of them, some of whom are with us today, have escaped to
tell the truth about their str…
This issue has become a repeated problem. We continue to think that there is a separation between peace and security and human rights, and there is not. If we go back in
history, it shows that any country that does not take care of its people ends up in conflict. We have seen that in multiple cases…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor draft resolution A/72/L.22, entitled “Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel”, and draft resolution A/72/L.24, entitled “Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United N…
The Jewish people are a patient people. Throughout 3,000 years of civilization, foreign conquest, exile and return, Jerusalem has remained their spiritual home. For nearly
70 years, the city of Jerusalem has been the capital of the State of Israel, despite many attempts by others to deny that reali…
I would like to begin today by expressing our heartfelt condolences to the families of the 14 Tanzanian peacekeepers who were killed and the more than 40 wounded in last night’s attack in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are horrified by that cowardly attack on those who …
The United States joins the rest of the Security Council in applauding Iraq’s complete implementation of the measures imposed by the Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in the oil-for-food resolutions. That programme started more than 20 years ago, when Iraq was facing gra…
Although the United States voted in favour of resolution 72/74, in the spirit of maintaining consensus on this item,
we are forced to dissociate ourselves from the fourth preambular paragraph, just cited by the representative of Israel, which reads:
“Noting the adoption by the Islamic Summit Confe…
Today is an especially momentous occasion as we reflect upon the most recent report (see S/2017/662) and, more importantly, the closing of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the end of the month. The United States thanks Judge Meron, President of the International Residua…
A week ago, more than 300 Egyptians, including women, men and children, were killed while they prayed at the Al-Rawdah mosque in north Sinai, Egypt. The United States condemns that attack in the strongest possible terms. We were shocked, and we continue to extend our deepest sympathies and condolenc…
I thank the invitees for their briefings, and also I also thank Italy for having organized this meeting.
Earlier this year, Iraqi soldiers discovered tunnels dug below the remains of the tomb and osque of Jonah
in Mosul, which showed that militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing. Under-Secretary-General Lowcock warned us today about dire conditions in the besieged community of
eastern Ghouta. He warned us about children on their deathbeds due to severe, acute malnutrition and about hundreds of sick people who despera…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership in convening this meeting and for your leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006). We also appreciate Mr. Feltman’s briefing.
This is the ninth time this year that the Security Council has met in reference to North Kore…
I thank Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for their timely updates.
Over the past week, a video of African migrants sold as slaves in Libya has rightly sparked moral …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate Coninsx, and the Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qa…
I thank Ms. Keita for her briefing.
Every member of the Council is familiar with the horrifying statistics being produced by the violence in South Sudan. Millions of South Sudanese are facing famine and have been driven from their homes. Tens of thousands are dead, and thousands of children have be…
I thank Special Representative Kubiš and Major Patrono for their informative briefings this morning, as well as for the important work that both the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Italian Carabinieri are doing in Iraq.
I would like to take this opportunity to briefly hig…
