With regard to the inclusion of the item “The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”, my delegation reiterates its position, as expressed at the sixty-second and sixty-third plenary meetings of the seventy-fourth session, h…
My country abstained in the voting on resolution 74/307. We are not convinced that the procedures that took place last Friday and led to the non-consensual adoption of the resolution were sound. The results of the vote on the non-consensual resolution reflected a lack of support for the resolution. …
I have requested the floor to inquire about the procedural rules governing the issue of the letter sent by a number of Member States on the draft resolution contained in document A/74/L.57, which, as you will recall, Mr. President, the General Assembly did not adopt by consensus once the silence pro…
As you know, Mr. President, my country voted in favour of resolution 74/306, and I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, would like to thank the co-facilitators, from Afghanistan and Croatia, for the
efforts that they have made to achieve the final form of the resolution. I thank them also for th…
This is the third time that we have come to this Hall and witnessed disappointing actions by some States in manipulating our procedures to undermine the informal dialogue process on the responsibility to protect. Those States have requested the inclusion of agenda item 130, entitled “The responsibil…
The Syrian Arab Republic remains convinced that the request to include the item entitled “The situation in the temporary occupied territories of Ukraine” on the agenda of the General Assembly is a politicized request that reflects the desire of some countries to escalate the situation in that territ…
The Syrian Arab Republic continues to believe that the inclusion of the item “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine” on the agenda of the General Assembly was and remains a unilateral, irresponsible and politicized step reflecting the desire of certain Governments to escal…
My delegation aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Guyana on behalf of the Group of 77 and China (see A/74/PV.55).
Allow me to present the following points in my national capacity. Yesterday His Excellency the Secretary-General delivered an important and transparent b…
The delegation of my country would like to express its categorical reservation on paragraph 3 of resolution 74/191, under agenda item 83. We dissociate ourselves from any consensus on this paragraph, whose wording refers to the report of the Secretary-General contained in document A/74/139.
The rea…
My delegation would like to explain its position on draft resolution A/74/L.12/Rev.1, entitled “Problem of the militarization of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, as well as parts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov”.
The Syrian delegation continues to believe …
In my country, Syria, the famous poet Nizar Qabbani, known as the poet of the fatherland and of the woman, writes in one of his poems,
“As a woman, you must know that you are half of all life; That you are the colour white in our world; That you are the spring and the rain that comes to quench the …
At the outset I want to stress that my delegation
dissociates itself from the consensus on resolution 74/6, entitled “Report of the International Criminal Court”.
My country’s position vis-à-vis the International Criminal Court (ICC), with all due respect for the jurists working in it, remains bas…
Allow me first of all to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the important and sensitive presidency of the General Assembly at its seventy- fourth session. That reflects the confidence placed in your country and your personal and professional ability to lead the work of the Assembly. You ca…
We refer to our statement at the previous session of the General Assembly (A/73/PV.107). We also disassociate ourselves from the consensus to include this item in the agenda of the seventy-fourth session.
At the outset, I should like to draw attention to this touching moment for all of us in this Hall. My colleagues and I are saddened, Madam, that this is your last day on this rostrum as President of the General Assembly, and we wish you every success in your professional, political and diplomatic en…
My delegation would once again like to express its surprise and concern about certain delegations’ insistence on having this item on the responsibility to protect included in the agenda of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. We have concerns about the procedure, formulation and subst…
My delegation has taken note of the letter of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the Secretary-General, issued as document A/73/840, as well as the explanatory memorandum issued in the annex to document A/73/193. However, my delegation reiterates its position with regard to the request for the incl…
At the outset, my delegation would like to stress that its participation in today’s meeting and in this open debate on the so-called International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under Internationa…
We did not wish to ask for the floor once again. However, the response delivered just now by the representative of the Government and State of Qatar compelled us to ask for the floor a second time.
We say to our responding colleague, first, that we should be called representatives of the Syrian Ara…
The Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the adoption of resolution 2462 (2019) and looks forward to a genuine international and collective commitment to its implementation. The credibility and the effectiveness of the United Nations in implementing such a resolution depend primarily on the implementation …
