I thank you, Mr. President, and Italy for your leadership on this matter. We also thank all the briefers for their very informative reports.
We want to extend a special thanks to the Secretary- General for his strong condemnation of reports of African migrants being sold as slaves in Libya. To see …
I would like to start by thanking the German delegation for its work in leading the negotiations on this year’s draft resolution (A/72/L.8). I am also grateful to Afghanistan and all the other nations that engaged constructively on the text, as well to Mr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of the I…
I thank you, Mr. President — Foreign Minister Alfano — for presiding over this important discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing this afternoon.
Several members have already spoken about many of the specific challenges countries around the Mediterranean face. Terrorism, illi…
In a world in which the Council’s time and attention could be productively devoted to 100 different things, Russia is wasting our time. Conflicts are raging. Outlaw States are acquiring nuclear weapons. The human dignity of millions is violated every day. Brutal regimes are using chemical weapons on…
There are a few things that I think we have to realize here. I think a lot of it has do with genuineness — whether it was used or not; with the actors, whether they were to be trusted or not; with the process of how all of that played out; and where we go from there. Given that, I have a few comment…
Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations gives the Council the responsibility to
“determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations ... to maintain or restore international peace and security”.
Among the greatest th…
Mr. President, your presence and that of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Libya, Mr. Mohamed Siala, underscore the importance of this briefing. We also thank Special Representative Salamé and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings.
The United States joins the many others around this table in offer…
Rule 32 of the provisional rules of procedure states that principal motions and draft resolutions shall have precedence in the order of their submission.
I would like to read out the first part of rule 32 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, which says “Principal motions and draft resolutions shall have precedence in the order of their submission.”
My Russian friends have chosen once again to say that they go according to p…
I thank Ambassador Delattre for France’s efforts to ensure that the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has the mandate to address the evolving situation in the Central African Republic. It has been a challenging year for MINUSCA…
We appreciate the successful work of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in stabilizing Abyei. The mission’s efforts in working with local communities to strengthen ties, resolve disputes and increase stability have greatly contributed to the general calm in that contested a…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing. I also wabt to thank Ambassador Çitaku and Minister Dačić for their participation.
We congratulate Kosovo on formulating a new Government following free, fair and peaceful democratic elections in June, which clearly dem…
The United States strongly supports the Council’s adoption today of resolution 2385 (2017), an important resolution that renews the mandate of the Somalia and Eritrea sanctions regimes. The renewal reflects the Security Council’s understanding that those regimes are a significant part of the interna…
The United States would like to thank Ambassador Nusseibeh and Ambassador Drobnjak, co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly for the seventy-first session. They led the Working Group through a robust series of meetings on the General Assembly’s …
We thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for the update on the work of the Office of the Prosecutor, pursuant to Security Council resolution 1970 (2011). Six years ago, the Council referred the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC), given the context of the appalling violations of human ri…
The United States looks forward to another round of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. I would like to welcome our new co-Chairs, Ambassadors Nusseibeh and Imnadze, to whom we will look for guidance on and oversight of the intergovernmental negotiations process.
I would also…
I would like to thank High Representative Inzko for his update on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Office of the High Representative has played a critical role for more than 22 years in helping Bosnia and Herzegovina move towards peace and prosperity and promoting the security and stability of the region…
I want to thank Ms. Nakamitsu for her briefing today.
I want to say a special word about Mr. Mulet and to thank him for being here. One look at his resume shows that he is the right man to lead the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JI…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and the Police
Commissioners for their briefings. It is quite inspiring to hear about the work that they do and the challenges that they face every day in completing their mission. It is clear to us that police work is a crucial part of United Nations peaceke…
We would like to thank Mr. Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for his briefing. It is good to have him here with us this morning. The United States remains steadfast in our support for the High Commissioner’s mandate and for the work of his Office, which is more critical now than…
