I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, whose tireless efforts are facilitating the Middle East peace process, containing the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza and fostering Palestinian reconciliation efforts.
The Palestinian cause has existed since the creation of the Security Coun…
The world today faces many humanitarian crises that are unfortunately concentrated in the Middle East, a region that has recently been plagued by increasing instability. We must bear in mind that one of the underlying causes of that instability is the decades of injustices done to the Arab people du…
The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories has been going on for 51 years. Despite the fact that occupations are by nature temporary, that particular occupation is slowly but surely becoming semi-permanent and perpetuating the oldest and most serious conflict in the Middle East, and as su…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing today and for his ongoing efforts to achieve a settlement to the Palestine question. I also thank Mr. Hagai El-Ad for his participation in today’s meeting and his comprehensive and detailed briefing.
I do not believe that a…
Resolution 71/130, which we adopted this morning, contains
nothing new. It fails to identify the causes of the Syrian crisis. The two sponsors of the resolution described some of the facts, but the text is not commensurate with the scale of the crisis, which is one of the worst humanitarian crises …
