I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for their respective briefings.
The 52 people killed in the village of Hroza adds to the terrible and unbearable list of suffering of the deadly war in Ukraine. In recent weeks, the bombings a…
We are once again meeting today on the issue of the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines off the Baltic Sea on 26 and 27 September 2022. Those were malicious acts against energy infrastructure that sparked Council members’ outrage and condemnation. The extent of the material damage, the…
I would like to thank Albania for convening this important open debate. The briefings delivered by Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Mr. Jared Cohen and Mr. Michael Miebach were particularly informative on the role of the private sector in responding to the alar…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu for her edifying briefing. I listened carefully to the statement of Mr. Szamuely.
The issue that brings us together today is a recurrent one on the Security Council’s agenda. Arms deliveries continue to increase, and new military allianc…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing.
In the current context of intensifying fighting along various fronts of the war in Ukraine, the decision to organize local and municipal elections in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson territories on 10 September 2023 …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing on peacekeeping around the world.
The effectiveness of peacekeeping operations has been tested for a number of years, while the vital need to adapt them to today’s many security challenges has become clear. It is particularly important in the…
My country and Germany, together with the Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking, wish to reaffirm before the General Assembly our shared commitment to combatting poaching and the illicit trafficking of wildlife in order to put an end to them. I would like to thank all those d…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his important update and commend his efforts in search of peace and stability in Syria. We listened w…
I would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his briefing.
Since our previous meeting on 27 July (see S/PV.9387), security incidents involving civilians have continued. The terrible toll cited by Special Coordinator Wennesland in his brief…
I would like to thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ms. Elisabeth Salmón, for their respective briefings. I listened carefully to Mr. Ilhyeok Kim’s brie…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the members of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination o…
I thank Ms. Wosornu for her briefing and welcome the presence in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia, as well as the representatives of Azerbaijan, Türkiye and the European Union.
We are concerned about the humanitarian situation of the civilian populations living in the …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my own country, Gabon.
We thank Director Adedeji Ebo for briefing us on the status of the implementation of the elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons p…
I congratulate the United States of America on its presidency of the Council and on the initiative of convening this important debate, which highlights the link between food insecurity and armed conflict.
I would like to thank Ms. Reena Ghelani, United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordin…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Head of the Delegation of the European Union Olof Skoog for their briefings on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). I also thank Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Permanent Representative of Malta, in her capacity as Facilitator for the impleme…
I have the honour of making this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Ghana, Mozambique and my country, Gabon. I would like to thank Special Representative María Isabel Salvador for her briefing on the situation in Haiti. I also thank Ms. Gilles for …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her informative briefing. We listened attentively to Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Bowes and Mr. Radchenko.
After 16 months of war, Ukraine remains immersed in an unprecedented spiral of violence. The war has led to terrible human suffering and a humanitarian situati…
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing. I also thank Mr. James Zogby for his briefing, which we listened closely to.
Since Israel’s military raid on Jenin on June 19, the situation on the ground has deteriorated dramatically. The intense clashes in the northern part of the occu…
On behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3) — Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique — we thank the United Kingdom for its efforts in facilitating consensus on the text of resolution 2687 (2023), which was just unanimously adopted. We welcome the extension of the mandate of the African…
Our vote in favour of the resolution just now adopted unanimously is part of our trend and efforts to improve the security
landscape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by tightening the noose around the armed groups and offering the Congolese authorities the full capacity to effectively counte…
