I had not intended to speak today. I thought this would be one of the occasions when we would go into closed consultations and talk to one another rather than to the gallery. But I feel compelled, owing to the statement by the Russian representative and the attack on the United Nations, which has be…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Under-Secretary- General Mlambo-Ngcuka and Ms. Lopidia for their briefings and reality checks from the real world. I have two impressions from this debate so far.
First, the energy in the Chamber is palpable — it is not an energy we often feel here — and it is…
As the proud host country of the United Nations, the United States joins all the other delegations in this Hall in welcoming the appointment of António Guterres as the next Secretary-General.
Let me start by saying a word about Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, who over the past 10 years has shown th…
I thank Special Envoy De Mistura for being here and for his refusal to give up.
We have convened the Security Council today because the Russian Federation and the Al-Assad regime have launched an all-out air and ground offensive against eastern Aleppo and its 275,000 civilians. Russia and Al-Assad …
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and Foreign Minister McCully for presiding over this meeting.
Allow me also, on behalf of the United States, to wish former Israeli President Shimon Peres a speedy recovery. I last had the chance to meet President Peres at his office in Israel …
I thank you so much, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting and for all the work you and your team have done to shine a light on how children are faring around the world in your time on the Security Council.
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for consistently giving the issu…
I do not wish to try people’s patience on a Friday evening, so I shall be brief. The point I wished to make in my explanation of vote was that when the African Union (AU) came together, as it did usefully to propose the deployment of 200 monitors a year and two months
prior to the negotiation of a …
We are profoundly concerned about the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Burundi over the past year and a half. During this period, as we all know, some 270,000 people have been displaced; at least 348 people have reportedly been the victims of extrajudicial killings; and 651 reported cases …
The renewal of violence in South Sudan earlier this month was horrifying, but sadly not unexpected. It was horrifying because, as we all know, in only a few days 300 men, women and children were reportedly killed, tens of thousands were displaced, and 4,500 metric tons of humanitarian aid — food tha…
I thank Secretary-General Ban, Minister Mohamed and Commissioner Chergui for their briefings. I offer thanks to each of them as well as to the Ministers who have shown the importance of the issue before us by making the long trip here to New York. We are very grateful.
Preventing conflicts and prom…
I thank you, Sir, for convening today’s meeting on the continuing, ever-more urgent crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, which, as others have noted, deserves greater attention from the Security Council and from the broader international community. I thank Under-Secretaries-General Feltman and O’Brien for…
I would like to say a couple of words in response.
First of all, I think that it would be very useful if the Russian Federation could circulate the results of its investigation to the Council. Personally, having been very concerned about Russian strikes — particularly on hospitals in Aleppo and ot…
I thank Under-Secretary-General O’Brien for his briefing and for his special attention to the 250,000 to 275,000 Syrians trapped in eastern Aleppo.
Let us put eastern Aleppo in some context. For years, the Council has called on the Al-Assad regime to end the brutal sieges that have inflicted suffer…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing today and Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi both for the briefing and the leadership that he and his team have demonstrated in supporting the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
It has been one year since the United States, France, the United…
I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his sobering presentation.
Across the Middle East, we see trends moving in the wrong direction — of rising violence, of political leaders choosing conflict over peace, of innocent people paying the price as conflicts fester. Today, I will discuss those tren…
I thank Minister Ayrault for being here with us to provide over today’s debate. His presence is an affirmation of the importance that France attaches to protecting civilians, as evidenced in recent years by President Hollande’s decision to send French forces to Mali and to the Central African Republ…
Let me also join others in thanking High Representative Mogherini for making the journey to be with us today, for her briefing and for her consistent leadership in addressing so many of the challenges she described.
As President Obama has observed, the European Union (EU)
“remains one of the great…
I do not want to take much time here, but I am struck by the number of factual claims that have been made by the Ambassador from Syria that impugn the reputation of the United Nations and the brave humanitarians who are trying to get food to people who are being starved — to death, in many cases. I…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous, Special Envoy Menkerios, Ambassador Kamau and Ambassador António for their briefings today, and I offer a special thanks to Egypt for convening this meeting.
I would like to address four key features of the African Union (AU)-United Nations partnership toda…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, Secretary-General Afifi and Deputy General Counsel Crown for taking the time to brief us today on this very important topic. I also want to single out Egypt for thanks, and Mr. Selim specifically, for calling this meeting.
I would also like to offer my sym…
