I thank you, Mr. President, from the bottom of my heart for your comments at the opening of today’s meetings, which really moved me. When I play them later for my children, it will move them too.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman, Ambassador Cardi, Ambassador Vale de Almeida for their briefin…
I thank you so much, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I also thank the briefers — Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun; Under-Secretary-General O’Brien, who has led for so long on this issue and challenge; and, above all, Ms. Askira, for sharing the vital voice from the ground. I think wha…
I thank you, Madam President, for taking up this important cause, as you have done throughout your career. Let me also take this occasion to welcome our new members: Sweden, Italy, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan. We look forward to working with each of them.
I welcome Secretary-General Guterres f…
Let me begin with a quote,
“The United States will not support the use of any additional land for the purpose of settlements during the transitional period. Indeed, the immediate adoption of a settlements freeze by Israel, more than any other action, could create the confidence needed for wider par…
This should not have been a contentions draft resolution (S/2016/1085). The United States proposed a draft resolution meant to show that the architects of mass atrocities and those who defy the demands of the Security Council day in and day would face consequences. We urged members of the Council to…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for showing his deep dedication to the people of South Sudan by being here today and injecting his passion and compassion for the people of a country that he has visited many times.
I want to begin my remarks by apologizing to the Secretary-General, because I d…
Here is what is happening right now in eastern Aleppo. Syrians trapped by the fighting are sending out their final appeals for help, or they are saying their goodbyes. A doctor named Mohammad Abu Rajab left a voice message:
“This is a final distress call to the world. Save the lives of these childr…
Before I begin, I would like to join the President of the General Assembly and others in thanking the Deputy Secretary- General for his truly remarkable service. We have every expectation that he will continue to carry the Charter of the United Nations in his pocket for the rest of time and continue…
I wish to thank all Council members that supported the holding of this meeting in order to address a grave crisis. I thank also Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, whom we will miss, and assistant Secretary-General Gilmour for their appropriately bleak briefings.
This is the third time that the Coun…
In February 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council commission of inquiry released its now famous report on human rights in North Korea (A/HRC/25/63), methodically documenting the widespread and systematic human rights violations carried out by the Government of the Democratic People’s Republi…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura, Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and Mr. Cappelaere for their appropriately grim briefings.
Like my British colleague, I would like to respond to the question that Under-Secretary-General O’Brien said is posed to him wherever he goes, whether in Syria or in the regi…
I thank the Secretary-General for being here on such an important occasion.
We are here because of dangerous choices made by a State Member of the United Nations — the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — including the choice to be the only country in the twenty-first century …
I thank the Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and the World Health Organization Country Director Hoff for their comprehensive and deeply disturbing briefings. I thank them, as always, for presenting us with the unvarnished and unbiased facts. Their remarks show once again what happens when the conflic…
I would like to start by thanking Council members for the extension that allowed us to work intensively over these last couple weeks with the Russian Federation to secure the text that we have just voted on unanimously today, and I offer my sincere thanks for the spirit in which Russia carried out t…
Let me start by paying tribute to Special Representative Løj for her briefing, but above all for her more than two years of service in one of the most difficult Missions on the planet. We could tell, from our two trips to South Sudan — one at the beginning of her deployment and the other, recently, …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and the four Police Commissioners who have joined us here today. I wish to thank all Police Commissioners serving around the world, as well as the 13,000 United Nations police.
In listening to the briefings, I was quite struck by how much each of the four Com…
I want to thank Minister Ndiaye and Senegal for highlighting the risks posed by extremists and militia to civilians and to peacekeepers. I think one can tell by the packed Chamber that this conversation is overdue, and we really thank him for leading and putting the issue on the map. Although the Co…
I thank Special Envoy Cheikh Ahmed, Under-Secretary- General O’Brien and World Food Programme Regional Director Hadi for their briefings. I pay special thanks to Mr. Hadi for bearing witness on behalf of Yemenis whose voices, as we all know, are too rarely heard in this conflict.
Recently, a father…
Today is one of the many days that I feel very privileged to represent the host country of the United Nations so as to have the chance to address those present on such
an important occasion. On behalf of the United States of America, I wish to convey our deepest and most heartfelt condolences to He…
For more than 50 years, the United States had a policy aimed at isolating the Government of Cuba. For roughly half of those years, Member States voted overwhelmingly for a General Assembly draft resolution condemning the United States embargo and calling for it to be ended.
The United States has al…
