I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov and Under-Secretary- General O’Brien for their briefings today. Let me begin by discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before moving ont o Iraq and Syria.
We appreciate the briefing that we received today on the troubling political, security, humanitarian a…
We thank Special Representative Honoré for her briefing today. First and foremost, I want to convey our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Haiti for the devastation and loss of life that Hurricane Matthew inflicted last week. Against that backdrop, I am going to speak today abou…
This text was a deceptive attempt to get the Security Council
to ratify what Russia and the regime are doing in Aleppo, as they will undoubtedly claim that any and all of the devastation that they are raining down is directed at terrorists, not the innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure tha…
Yesterday we met in the consultations room and listened to United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura describe the daily deadly indiscriminate bombings raining down on eastern Aleppo. We heard Special Envoy de Mistura implore the Security Council to take urgent action to avert a large-scale mas…
As we get an early start on this year’s revitalization process, the United States would first like to thank the past year’s co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Croatia and Namibia, for their expert leadersh…
I think I can agree with one point made by the representative of Venezuela, which is that this is indeed a human drama, and a tragic one at that. Over 130,000 people have set off from the North African coast to attempt to reach Italy this year alone; more than 3,000 of them did not survive that jour…
Last week, the United Nations reported that during the month of July when fighting in Juba surged, soldiers killed innocent civilians and raped women in broad daylight. The United Nations documented 217 cases of sexual violence between 8 and 25 July in Juba alone. Those are the cases that were repor…
I would like to begin by thanking Foreign Secretary Johnson for his presence here today and for the United Kingdom’s leadership on this issue.
The United States strongly endorses the authorization of Member States to assist in the transfer and destruction of Libya’s Category 2 chemical weapons outs…
I would like to begin by expressing the United States’ deepest condolences to the victims and the families of those killed in the heinous terrorist attack at Istanbul’s international airport yesterday. We remain steadfast in our support for Turkey and all of our friends and allies as we continue to …
The United States supports the Security Council’s adoption
of resolution 2296 (2016), renewing the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year. The United States welcomes the Government of the Sudan’s recent declaration of a unilateral cessation …
On behalf of the United States, the host country of the United Nations, I have the honour of warmly welcoming the election of His Excellency Mr. Peter Thomson as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. The United States also wishes to express its thanks to His Excellency Mr. …
I thank Ms. Bensouda for her briefing.
The Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court in 2005. Since then, the instability, insecurity, violence and suffering in Darfur have continued unabated. But it is too facile to simply recall the acts of violence tha…
I would like to begin by welcoming the President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Agius, and to welcome and congratulate both Judge Meron on his reappointment in March as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and Prosecutor Bram…
The Security Council has watched the situation in South Sudan particularly closely over these past three months. In early March, as the targeted sanctions established
by resolution 2206 (2015) were due to be renewed, the Council extended them for 45 days. We proposed that somewhat unconventional ap…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative Ibn Chambas, Executive Secretary Barbut, Executive Director Laborde and Ms. Ibrahim for their briefings today. I should also like to give a special thanks to Spain and Egypt for drawing the Security Council’s attention to the urgent need to focus on th…
As we terminate sanctions today, it is worth recalling how far Liberia has come. Today is the first day that Liberia is not subject to United Nations sanctions since 1992. The current sanctions date from 2003, shortly after Charles Taylor went into exile and a comprehensive peace agreement had been …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing. I also thank Foreign Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku for their statements.
Since 1999, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has made critical contributions to assisting the people of …
I thank High Representative Inzko for his briefing, service, representation of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and stewardship of the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The United States again reiterates its strong support for High Representative Inz…
I welcome President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to New York and thank him for being here. We appreciate
the important work he is doing, his optimism about Somalia’s future and the clear portrait he has painted of the opportunities and the challenges his nation faces at this pivotal moment. I would also l…
I would like to begin by thanking the Secretary-General for his briefing.
The commitment of the United States to peace in the Middle East and to advancing the vision of two States, living by side by side in peace, is unwavering. Many are rightly frustrated with the lack of progress, and we are too.…
