I appreciate the late turnout and the late hour. However, we would like to suggest that we suspend the meeting briefly to go into closed consultations on the votes before us.
I would like to join others in congratulating Brazil on its assumption of the presidency of the Council and thanking Albania for its very capable leadership last month.
When the world met two weeks ago, a clear call rang out from the General Assembly. It came from Haiti, from the Caribbean Communit…
I also thank our briefers, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Roza Otunbayeva, Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous and Ms. Karima Bennoune, for their valuable remarks today.
We have now passed the two-year mark of the Taliban being in power in Afghanistan. The latest report of the Secr…
I would like to begin by thanking all our briefers for their very insightful remarks and ideas today. I also want to commend you, Foreign Minister, and the Albanian presidency on your initiative in hosting today’s open debate. Public-private partnerships are crucial in the humanitarian sector, and m…
The fact is that tensions on the Blue Line are at a level unseen since the 2006 war. Over the past year, on a daily basis, Hizbullah has been making a mockery of resolutions 1701 (2006) and 1559 (2004). It has erected concrete military outposts and observation towers, conducted military drills with …
I would like to start by thanking all Council members for their flexibility and engagement throughout the negotiations on draft resolution S/2023/638 on the renewal of the Security Council sanctions regime concerning Mali. We also thank France for partnering with us as co-penholders and for the exte…
I would like also to begin by thanking Under-Secretary- General Di Carlo and Ambassador Skoog for their comprehensive briefings. I would also like to thank Ambassador Frazier for her work and for her briefing today in her capacity as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution …
I too would like to start by thanking the penholder, the United States, for facilitating the consultations on resolution 2683 (2023). The United Arab Emirates affirms its commitment, alongside all the other members of the Security Council, to supporting all efforts towards peace and stability in Sou…
I would like to begin by thanking our briefers today for their very comprehensive updates on the developments in the Sudan, and I welcome the participation of the Ambassador of Sudan in this meeting.
The United Arab Emirates welcomes the short- term ceasefire and humanitarian arrangement agreed and…
I thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Ms. Edem Wosornu for their briefings, and I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Yemen in today’s meeting. I also take note of the briefing delivered by Ms. Yasmeen Al-Eryani.
In recent weeks, we have witnessed concerted efforts to create suita…
I would like to join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his informative briefing today.
His sobering report is a reminder of not only the importance of why we are here but also what we must do our utmost to avoid: losing our sense of urgency about the conflict. And we should n…
I would also like to begin by thanking Special Representative Ziadeh for her informative briefing, and I welcome the participation of Mr. Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Ms. Gërvalla- Schwarz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, today.
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I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of Japan and the United Arab Emirates in our capacity as co-penholders on the Afghanistan file.
I would like to start by thanking the Russian Presidency for its flexibility in scheduling today’s vote.
Today Security Council members are votin…
I would like to thank all our briefers today for their sobering remarks. I thank Special Representative Perthes in particular for providing us with the most recent updates, and I join others in expressing our hope that the United Nations team is holding up and staying safe under such difficult circu…
The United Arab Emirates unequivocally condemns the September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. Those criminal acts caused severe environmental harm and endangered global energy security. The sabotage of transboundary energy infrastructure is of serious concern to the international…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing and welcome the participation of the representative of the Republic of Korea here today.
We join the Secretary-General in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by the Democra…
I would like to join others in thanking Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his informative briefing today. We support his strong message on the ripple effects of this conflict across the globe.
The war in Ukraine does not exist in a vacuum. Food insecurity is just one way the conflict manifests …
I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of Japan and the United Arab Emirates in our capacity as co-penholders on Afghanistan.
Today, the Security Council unanimously adopted two resolutions concerning the situation in Afghanistan (resolutions 2678 (2023) and 2679 (2023)). The firs…
I deliver this explanation of vote on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3) — Ghana, Gabon and Mozambique — and the United Arab Emirates.
The A3 and the United Arab Emirates would like to recognize and thank the penholder for its efforts in facilitating the negotiations p…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva for her updates, as well as and today’s briefer, Ms. Zubaida Akbar, for her powerful testimony.
The Security Council last met in this setting in December (see S/PV.9227). While in the Chamber, we received news of the Taliba…
