I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling today’s briefing and for your leadership on what I think we all believe was a timely and valuable mission of the Security Council to Haiti. I would also like to thank all of our colleagues on the Council who joined us in Haiti, since the parti…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s urgent meeting. We are grateful for Under-Secretary-General Feltman’s thorough briefing on such short notice.
Just five days ago (see S/PV.7365), we met in the Council and denounced the devastating consequences of attacks by Russian-backed separatis…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. We are grateful for Under- Secretary-General Feltman’s unflagging attention to this alarming situation and for the alarm he sounded in the Security Council today in very explicit terms.
As this is the Counci…
I thank you, President Bachelet, for presiding over this critically important meeting and for Chile’s leadership on these issues and many others in the Council and around the world. I thank you as well for your lifelong efforts, including during your tenure here as Director of UN-Women and as Chilea…
I thank and welcome you, Sir. We are grateful to have you here to chair a meeting on such critically important issues and we are appreciative of Chile’s leadership every day.
We thank Assistant Secretary-General ad interim Toyberg-Frandzen for his informative briefing.
Today I will speak on three …
In recent years, no Government has invested more in the effort
to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace than the United States. Peace, however difficult it may be to forge, is too important to give up on. As we were reminded this summer in Gaza, and as we have been reminded too painfully recently in Je…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for their informative and appropriately bleak briefings and for the ongoing attention that their respective teams give to the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in spite of persistent obstacles…
I thank you, Foreign Minister Mahamat again for being here with us in person. The United States greatly appreciates Chad’s leadership and its work to focus the Council on the nexus between terrorism and transnational organized crime. I also thank Foreign Minister Wali and Minister Asselborn for thei…
Thank you, Foreign Minister Mahamat, for chairing this important meeting. Your presence here adds weight to an already weighty discussion. I welcome Special Representative Haysom to the Security Council and thank him for his briefing and his work on the ground in Afghanistan. We congratulate him on …
Thank you, Madam President and Foreign Minister Bishop, for being here to preside over this crucial meeting. I also thank Special Envoy Nabarro and Special Representative Banbury for their briefings. To Mr. Mauget, we express our gratitude for his remarks — but even more for his service, just as we …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Toyberg-Frandzen for his clear and objective briefing. We are grateful to Ambassadors Apakan and Tagliavini for briefing us today and for the brave and critically imp…
I, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for joining us today and for briefing us on his recent trip to the region.
We are living in a time of tremendous turmoil in the Middle East, a time that demands brave and decisive leadership by both regional leaders and the international community. …
I want to thank members of the Council for their efforts to forge a consensus that reaffirms to the people of Haiti today that the members of the Security Council remain united in their support for Haiti’s aspirations to a secure and stable country.
We agree with the Chilean Ambassador — and, I ass…
I wish to thank the Force Commanders for briefing the Security Council today and for their service in three of the world’s most demanding United Nations peacekeeping missions. We would also like to recognize the efforts of the Force Commanders who are not speaking today, many of whom are in the Cham…
This is our twenty-fourth meeting to try to rein in Russia’s aggressive acts in Ukraine. Every single one of those meetings has sent a straight-forward, unified message: Russia, stop this conflict. Russia is not listening.
We said it when Russia flagrantly violated international law by occupying Cr…
The growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Nusra Front and other associates of Al-Qaida represents a grave threat to the people of Syria and of Iraq, as well as to the region and the larger international community.
Through its rapid and brutal advance across northern Iraq, I…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović and his team for the thorough research contained in the report of the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
This is an extremely challenging time for the people of Ukraine. No-one should be driven from their home, and we are committ…
I thank the Secretary-General; the European External Action Service Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Popowski; and the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, Mr. António. I thank you, Ambassador Gasana, for convening and framing today’s debate, which could not be more timely. Rw…
I would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing and for his efforts to secure peace and protect civilians in the Middle East.
My remarks today will address two areas, Israel and Gaza, and Syria.
First, in Gaza, the United States is working intensively to secure an immediate ce…
Today’s resolution 2166 (2014) calls for a full, through and independent investigation into the horrific downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17. When 298 civilians are killed, we agree that we must stop at nothing to determine who is responsible and to bring them to justice. As we take that step,…
