Mr. President, I apologize to the Council, but I made a mistake on one of the points onwhichI wishedto give information. I said that we had requested a military medical unit from Poland. This was notthe case. We have requested one ordnance company, to establish a base ordnance depot at Leopoldville,…
Mr. President. I thank yOu for giving me this opportunity to extend my warm congratulations to the members of the Asian-Af- rican Legal Consultative Committee. which recently cele- brated its twenty-fifth anniversary. It is most appropriate that this important milestone in the history of the Com- mi…
As the representa- tive of the Republic of the Congo has asked [887th meeting] for the right later on to be permitted to give a "mise au point" of this or that statement of mine, it may not be considered inappropriate if I myself exercise that same right at this stage of the debate. I shall not take…
In my capacity as Secretary-General and on my own behalf, I wish to reiterate to the Soviet delegation the heartfelt. condolences I have al- ready conveyed to its Government on the death of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repu…
Twenty years ago, on 14 December 1960, the General Assembly adopted the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. It solemnly proclaimed the necessity of bringing a speedy end to colonialism and declared that the subjection of peoples to alien rule is co…
The thirtieth anniver- sary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights comes at a time when the occasion serves as more than a symbol. It is a time when, both in the United Nations and outside, we are witnassing a new surge of thought and feeling about the importance of human rights in national an…
On 16 February the Special Representative, Mr. Dayal, reportedto me about rumoUl'S that various personalities in Leopold- ville had been deported to South Kasai. The rumours a180 indicated a possibility thatthe persons inquestion had been executed in Bakwanga. 1 requested im- mediately the fullest p…
After the circulation of the report from the Special Representative in the Congo regarding Mr. Lumumba [S/4688], the Secre- tariat has this morning received information from Elisabethville of a most serious and tragic nature, the substance of which is already well known to the members. In view of th…
I will speak directly to three areas today: the principles, the facts and the way out.
First, regarding the principles, the Charter of the United Nations provides the foundation for the maintenance of international peace and security. Article 2 of the Charter clearly states that all Members shall r…
I congratulate Somalia on its presidency of the Security Council, and I also welcome my fellow briefers: His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission; and Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf, former President of the International Court of Justice and founding President of t…
I thank the presidency of the Council for the month, Sierra Leone, for convening this important meeting, and I thank His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio for his leadership and tireless commitment to regional peace and stability.
We meet at a moment of profound urgency. The security situation …
Greetings from Hanoi.
We meet today on the eightieth anniversary of a body that has shaped the United Nations and the course of history. In the spring of 1946, the first ballot box of the Security Council was opened for inspection before voting. To everyone’s surprise, there was already a slip of p…
Twenty-five years ago, resolution 1325 (2000) gave voice to a simple truth: women’s leadership is central to just and lasting peace. And over the past quarter-century, the women and peace and security agenda has inspired countless resolutions, reports and round tables.
But let us speak frankly. Too…
I thank the Republic of Korea for convening this high-level open debate at a decisive moment for global cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI).
AI is no longer a distant horizon — it is here, transforming daily life, the information space and the global economy at breathtaking speed. The ques…
We are confronting one of the darkest chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nearly two years after the horrific Hamas terror attacks of 7 October 2023 and the devastating Israeli military response that followed, the violence has only deepened across the occupied Palestinian territory, with g…
In February, the Council marked three years since the Russian Federation launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a war that has brought immense suffering and instability to the region and beyond. On that occasion, the Council and the General Assembly adopted resolutions (resolution 2774 (2025) …
I thank Panama for convening this briefing on the humanitarian and child protection situation in Haiti.
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The Haitian people are caught in a spiral of suffering. State authority is crumbling as gang violence engulfs Port-au-Prince and spreads beyond, paralysing daily life and forci…
I want to thank Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar and Pakistan for convening today’s open debate.
The topic of today’s debate shines a light on the clear connection between international peace and multilateralism. Eighty years ago, the United Nations was founded with …
With your permission, Madam President, I will give a short introduction, and then my two colleagues will brief the Council.
Two days ago in this very Chamber, I made a direct appeal: give peace a chance (see S/PV.9939). That call was not heeded. Instead, the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by…
Allow me to deliver a brief introduction before my colleagues’ briefings.
There are moments when the choices before us are not just consequential, they are defining— moments when the direction taken will shape not only the fate of nations, but potentially, our collective future. This is such a mome…
