I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over today’s meeting, Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson for his thorough briefing and the Foreign Ministers present for joining us today.
Across Israel, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, clouds of fear have settled in. In the context of the r…
We would like to thank Jordan for convening this emergency session. We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for briefing the Council today and for his and the United Nations ongoing efforts in the region.
The United States shares the deep concern of everyone in the Council today abo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing and presiding over today’s debate. Your presence is a real show of Spain’s leadership on the issue of women’s empowerment. I thank the Secretary-General for his continuing leadership in the area and Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka for her briefing and her stewardship of …
Two thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight: that is the number of people who, according to the International Organization for Migration, have died trying to make the journey across the Mediterranean so far this year. These are the deaths that we know about, and we also know that the actual number is…
The United States has long been, is today, and will remain committed to achieving the peace that Palestinians and Israelis deserve: two States for two peoples, with a sovereign, viable, and independent Palestinian State, living side by side in peace and security with a Jewish and democratic Israel. …
Let me begin by thanking Nigeria for keeping the international community focused on Ebola with this meeting and, of course, for deploying more than 500 health workers to the countries affected at the peak of the outbreak, when they were so desperately needed. I wish also to commend Nigeria’s swift a…
Today the Security Council has taken another step aimed at stopping the use of chemical weapons in Syria. That step is necessary because, despite our previous efforts
to stop the use of chemical weapons, the attacks have continued. Those efforts have included the Council’s adoption in September 201…
I thank all the Ministers who have travelled to New York for this important meeting.
Shuba Jaya and her husband Paul Goes were flying back home from the Netherlands, where they had brought their one-year-old daughter, Kaela, to meet Paul’s parents for the first time. Nick Norris was bringing his th…
I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the Government of the United States of America, the country that has the privilege of hosting the United Nations. I offer our deepest condolences to the people and the Government of the Republic of Djibouti on the passing away of His Excellency Ambassado…
I thank Foreign Minister McCully for convening this meeting, and Special Coordinator Mladenov for his informative briefing and for all his essential work.
When the Security Council convenes every three months for an open debate on the Middle East, our discussion inevitably returns to a similar set …
Today we have adopted resolution 2231 (2015), enshrining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed to six days ago in Vienna.
By now, many are familiar with the basic tenets of the deal, which, if implemented, would cut off all pathways to fissile material for a nuclear weapon for the Islamic R…
In the spirit of this sober commemoration, I shall be very brief.
First, I would say that every country and every people should grapple with their history, and grappling with that history is a prerequisite to reconciliation. We in this country are going through something like that right now after t…
I thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson and High Commissioner for Human Rights Al Hussein for their powerful briefings.
I was a 24-year-old reporter in July 1995 living in Sarajevo when the Bosnian Serbs made their move on Srebrenica. I was there when, a few days after the Srebrenica safe area fe…
Today, as a Council, we have recognized and recommitted to Darfur. We have done so as we face intensifying levels of conflict and a continuing and brutal campaign waged by the Government of the Sudan and its associated militia. We have done so against a backdrop of massive displacements and reports …
I thank all of the Force Commanders for their briefings and for their service. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous for assembling the Force Commanders here. This is a critical annual gathering and an important rite of passage.
As we mark the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, th…
In closing, I would just like to note the absurdity of two things. The first is the representative of the Russian Federation’s citing of the Charter of the United Nations in the context of a discussion about Ukraine when, despite the fact that the Russian presence in Ukraine is an open secret, there…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s meeting to speak to the recent developments in eastern Ukraine. join others in thanking our briefers, Under Secretary-General Feltman and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Deputy Chief Monitor Hug, for providing the Council and the in…
I thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over this meeting and for Lithuania’s consistent effort to integrate the issue of press freedom and the threats to it across the work we do at the Council., I would also like to thank our guest briefers, Mr. Deloire and Ms. Pearl, for their powerful words to…
Seventy years ago today — on 5 May 1945 — soldiers from the United States Army 11th Armored Division liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen. It is estimated that nearly 200,000 prisoners had passed through Mauthausen’s gates since 1938 — including Jews, Roma, Spanish Republicans, commun…
I thank you, Minister Judeh, for dedicating today’s meeting to a crisis that so urgently demands the world’s attention. I also thank our briefers, Under-Secretary-General Amos, High Commissioner Guterres, Executive Director Cousin and Special Envoy Jolie, for their appropriately stark, firm and extr…
