We have heard the representative of Russia talk about conversations with the United States. Russia says that it was on the cusp of reaching a deal with the United States to allow for some resolution of the situation in eastern Aleppo, and that the draft resolution (S/2016/1026) before us undermines …
I thank Assistant Secretary- General, Mr. Miroslav Jenča; Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Hameed Opeloyeru; and Mr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne for joining us.
Our discussion today is a timely one. Over the past two years, States Members of the United …
I would like to start by thanking Germany for leading negotiations on this year’s draft resolution (A/71/L.13). I would also like to thank Afghanistan and all other nations that constructively engaged on the text.
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor this year’s draft resolution on the situat…
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her report and for her continued engagement with the Security Council on the importance of accountability for atrocity crimes committed in Libya.
Libya’s ongoing crisis provides a climate of impunity for such crimes. More broadly,…
The United States welcomes the decision of the Security Council to extend the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). This brief extension is intended to give the Council additional time to ensure the renewal of the JIM mandate for another year.
The Council faces some very difficult dec…
First, I want to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and for his leadership in building strong partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations. I thank the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Mr. Bordyuzha; the Secretary-General of the Shangh…
I thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Maurer and Ms. Liu for their very moving briefings. The United States deeply appreciates the life-saving work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and we commend their unstinting efforts to treat the sick and th…
As Secretary Kerry quoted earlier in this session, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan had said my colleagues are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. Let us just keep in mind the facts of who is prolonging the suffering of the Syrian people. The last speaker’s statement was so ful…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto for his briefing, and especially for his focus on both opportunity and hope. The United States
welcomes his appointment and thanks him and his team for their sustained commitment to the Afghan people. I also thank you, Foreign Ministe…
After nearly four years of negotiations and over half a century of conflict, the Colombian Government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) have reached a final peace accord that covers myriad complex issues. Today the United States welcomes the support of the Security Council t…
As we head into September and a new General Assembly high season, it is appropriate for us to take a moment to consider some of the Security Council priorities we have addressed during the busy month of August, which we will need to continue to address moving forward. In particular, I would like to …
We welcome First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku back to the Security Council for this quarterly briefing.
First of all, I would like to start by taking a moment to congratulate the athletes from both of their countri…
I would like to thank Malaysia for organizing today’s meeting, as well as to especially thank you, Mr. Hamidi, for being with us here today. Your presence, Sir, underscores the significance of the issue.
It is important to recall the achievements that the Security Council has made in the area of no…
I thank Under Secretary-General O’Brien for his briefing. As we have heard from Under Secretary-General O’Brien and other colleagues, last week the world’s attention was indeed transfixed by the shocked, blank stare of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who looked out from the back of an ambulance after hav…
At a time when the Security Council is grappling with crises from South Sudan to Syria, when the Council’s and the United Nations response to terrorism is ever more important, and with threats from pandemics to proliferation requiring united action, it is appropriate that we discuss our working meth…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting on the biennial review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. We thank Ambassador Gunnarsson and Ambassador Garcia Moritán for taking on the formidable task of co-facilitating these extremely important negoti…
I wish at the outset to thank Special Representative Haysom for his briefing.
Afghanistan continues to demonstrate resilience in confronting significant security, governance and economic challenges. We recognize and welcome the gains made in Afghanistan over the past 15 years, and we all share an i…
I thank you, Sir, for chairing and having organized this open debate and included the perspectives of civil society in our discussion. I also thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and leadership on this critical issue, and Special Representative Bangura, Special Rapporteur Giammarinaro and Ms…
I would like to take the opportunity of this wrap-up session to highlight several current pressing security concerns, including the situation in Syria, the issue of health care
in armed conflict, and our ongoing efforts to increase cooperation between the Council and the African Union (AU) on secur…
I thank the Prosecutor for briefing the Council on the efforts of the International Criminal Court to promote justice for atrocity crimes in Libya. The abuses that the Prosecutor has described today, and which have been reported separately to the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, emerge…
