I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing. I would like to welcome Foreign Minister Coulibaly and, on behalf of the United States, congratulate him on his re-appointment. We look forward to working closely with him.
As Ambassador Haley has said, it is our priority to see enduring pea…
I would like to thank Special Representative Yamamoto and the other briefers.
Earlier this week, President Trump unveiled a new United States national security strategy, which embodies the concept of principled realism. Nowhere is that approach more evident than with this Administration’s regional …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her briefing on areas in peacekeeping where improvement is needed and on how it can be achieved.
Unlike many other issues related to peacekeeping that require our attention, force generation and capability gaps present challenges where concrete progress…
Three years ago, the Council, in an extraordinary meeting of our Heads of Government (see S/PV.7272), tackled the problem of foreign terrorist fighters. In 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) was ascendant. Terrorists had just captured large swathes of territory, and ISIS’s ideology …
The Security Council and the international community have found common cause in our fight against terrorism, but we are continually reminded of how much more we have to do. In 2017, terrorists have targeted villagers in the Sahel and worshippers in the Sinai. Even here in the great global city of Ne…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his commitment to conflict prevention and the sustaining peace agenda. We stand behind the Secretary-General as he implements an ambitious vision for a United Nations that can better address the world’s most complicated and pressing challenges.…
Today, the Council came together on an issue of critical importance. Our adoption today of resolution 2393 (2017) enables the United Nations to continue to provide vital, lifesaving cross-border assistance to millions of Syrians who need it to survive. Thanks to its mandate, more than 1 million Syri…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing on the report of the Secretary-General on small arms and light weapons (S/2017/1025).
Sixteen years ago, the General Assembly adopted by consensus the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weap…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her briefing. We agree with her that the victims in Darfur need justice. Since the beginning of the conflict in Darfur more than 300,000 people have been killed and 4.7 million others affected, including more than 2 million who have been and remain inter…
Today is an especially momentous occasion as we reflect upon the most recent report (see S/2017/662) and, more importantly, the closing of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the end of the month. The United States thanks Judge Meron, President of the International Residua…
I thank the invitees for their briefings, and also I also thank Italy for having organized this meeting.
Earlier this year, Iraqi soldiers discovered tunnels dug below the remains of the tomb and osque of Jonah
in Mosul, which showed that militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing. Under-Secretary-General Lowcock warned us today about dire conditions in the besieged community of
eastern Ghouta. He warned us about children on their deathbeds due to severe, acute malnutrition and about hundreds of sick people who despera…
I thank Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for their timely updates.
Over the past week, a video of African migrants sold as slaves in Libya has rightly sparked moral …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate Coninsx, and the Chair of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qa…
I thank Special Representative Kubiš and Major Patrono for their informative briefings this morning, as well as for the important work that both the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Italian Carabinieri are doing in Iraq.
I would like to take this opportunity to briefly hig…
I thank you, Mr. President — Foreign Minister Alfano — for presiding over this important discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing this afternoon.
Several members have already spoken about many of the specific challenges countries around the Mediterranean face. Terrorism, illi…
Mr. President, your presence and that of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Libya, Mr. Mohamed Siala, underscore the importance of this briefing. We also thank Special Representative Salamé and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings.
The United States joins the many others around this table in offer…
I thank Ambassador Delattre for France’s efforts to ensure that the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has the mandate to address the evolving situation in the Central African Republic. It has been a challenging year for MINUSCA…
We appreciate the successful work of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in stabilizing Abyei. The mission’s efforts in working with local communities to strengthen ties, resolve disputes and increase stability have greatly contributed to the general calm in that contested a…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tanin for his briefing. I also wabt to thank Ambassador Çitaku and Minister Dačić for their participation.
We congratulate Kosovo on formulating a new Government following free, fair and peaceful democratic elections in June, which clearly dem…
