I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your team on your presidency of the Security Council in the current month and I would like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan, and his team for the successful presidency of the Council last month.
I would also lik…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your team for your prompt response to my country’s request to convene this emergency meeting to discuss the repercussions of the brutal Israeli aggression against the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. I also thank the delegations of Algeria and Soma…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. I would also like to welcome Ms. Amneh Khoulani, from civil society, and thank her for her valuable br…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We wish you and your team every success. I also wish to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Denmark, and her team for their effective management of t…
At the outset, I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark here in New York, and his attendance in part of the meeting. I thank Denmark for the support that it is providing to Syria and the Syrian people. I also thank you, Madam President, and your team for your leadership …
At the outset, I congratulate you and Denmark, Madam President, on presiding over the Security Council this month, and I wish you every success in your endeavour. Syria stands ready to support your efforts. Please allow me to thank the permanent delegation of the People’s Republic of China for succe…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, and your delegation on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. You can rely on our support and our trust in your able leadership of the work of the Council. We also thank the Permanent Mission of Algeria for its successful management of the …
Allow me to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for his briefing. We support his efforts and work to implement the mission’s mandate. We also welcome Major General Patrick Gauchat, Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Org…
It is our pleasure to see sisterly Algeria presiding over the Security Council. I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and your delegation on assuming the presidency of the Council this month. We are confident that you will conduct its work wisely.
I deliver this statement upon the instructions of …
The Syrian Arab Republic reiterates its condemnation of the use of chemical weapons at anytime, anywhere, by anyone and under any circumstances. We reiterate our commitment to continue our cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and its Technical Secretariat.…
Repeating lies will do no good. Repeating wrongful policies will do no good. Continuing to defend crimes and practices and promoting and giving lectures on human rights will do no good. We all know how the United States punishes the Syrian people collectively through unilateral coercive measures. We…
Ten years ago, we sat in this Chamber (see S/PV.7242) and adopted resolution 2170 (2014), on combating the Da’esh and the Jabhat Al-Nusra Front terrorist organizations. A few weeks later, we returned here for a high-level meeting of the Council (see S/PV.7272), during which the Council adopted resol…
At the outset, my country’s delegation finds it strange that the United States has failed at the beginning of its presidency of the Security Council for this month to respect the Council’s working criteria and working procedures. It uses the Council to serve its own agenda and attempts to harm a Uni…
The Israeli occupation entity, emboldened
by the Security Council’s inability to fulfil its responsibilities, continues its brutal aggression against the countries and peoples of our region. It continues to intensify its heinous attacks on my country’s territory, targeting buildings and residential…
My delegation aligns itself with the statements delivered, respectively, by the representatives of Uganda, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries; Iraq, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China; and Eritrea, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations.…
In its frantic quest to set the region ablaze and start a large-scale war, the Israeli occupation entity, on the morning of Saturday, 26 October, launched an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran, targeting a number of sites in three Iranian provinces and killing four military personnel. That Israe…
I will be very brief. The representative of the United States Administration, which destroyed the city of Raqqa under the excuse of combating terrorism, killing tens of thousands of its residents and burying them under the rubble of its buildings, is a supporter of terrorism. It created terrorism, i…
I did not have the intention of taking the floor again, but what the representative of the United States Administration said made me do so. I will be brief.
In every meeting, the representative of the United States Administration tries to find false excuses and misleading allegations to justify the…
For more than 70 years, our region has suffered from the continued Israeli occupation of Arab territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and from the brutal acts of aggression and systematic crimes that the occupation authorities have continued to commit. Our region is also suffering from the hosti…
I begin my statement where my colleague the representative of Palestine ended his statement before the Security Council yesterday (see S/PV.9744), namely, that the Israeli occupation authorities do not listen to the Council. They continue to flout the United Nations and international law and commit …
