I thank the presidency for convening today’s important discussion today. I also
thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for her very useful briefing. I join others in welcoming to the Security Council Chamber the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq and the representative of Türk…
I thank Brazil for hosting this important annual meeting. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de Potgieter and Executive Director Russell for their tireless advocacy for children globally. I thank Mr. Kumi for his truly powerful testimony, as well as for his very clear…
I too would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General La Lime for her briefing, as well as Mr. Arnoux Descardes for his important testimony today. I also want to welcome the Foreign Minister of Haiti to the Chamber. I will focus my remarks this afternoon on three areas of particu…
I want to thank President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings this morning.
As this was President Agius’s last briefing to the Council in his capacity as President, I join others in paying tribute to him for his tireless leadership in guiding the International Residual …
I thank our briefers.
As we have heard today, technology is a positive force for good in our lives but can also be a powerful weapon for fomenting violence and conflict. Cyberattacks, cybercrime and the abuse of technology to spread disinformation are severely damaging trust, while advances in mode…
I would like to thank our briefers, Special Envoy Grundberg and Under Secretary- General Griffiths. We rarely have the opportunity to hear positive news in the Security Council on the situation in Yemen. We therefore very much welcome what we heard in their briefings this morning.
I join others in …
Thank you, Mr. President, for having convened today’s debate and in particular for bringing to the table such strong voices from civil society. The work that Nadia, Mariana and Hilina do to protect and advocate for survivors of sexual violence is invaluable. I thank them for them courage, courage th…
I would like to thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia, for his briefing, and his team for their dedicated work. I also wish to extend a warm welcome to His Excellency President Duque Márquez. We recognize and commend the efforts of the Colomb…
I thank the briefers for providing us with updated analyses and insights on the scale of the challenge remaining on the implementation of measures related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
We remain firmly of the opinion that no one is safe from COVID-…
I thank our briefers, in particular our civil society briefer, Ms. Kateryna Cherepakha. The sobering words that we heard this morning leave us in no doubt as to the human misery and suffering inflicted on the people of Ukraine by the Russian Federation’s senseless and illegal war.
We have all seen …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for his briefing this morning and for the continued work of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in an increasingly challenging environment. The Mission’s work on the protecti…
I would also like to thank Ms. Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM)…
Ireland welcomes the adoption this morning of resolution 2626 (2022), renewing the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I would like to express our sincere appreciation to Norway as penholder for its untiring efforts to secure an agreement on a new mandate for UNA…
Let me join other in congratulating you, Madam, on assuming the presidency of the Council. I would also like to thank Special Representative Lyons and her team for all the vital work they are doing, as well as Ms. Safi for her very powerful message to the Council this morning.
I will focus on three…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General La Lime and, through her, the hard-working United Nations team in Haiti.
I would also like to welcome the representative of Haiti to the Chamber today.
Unfortunately, the issues we are discussing here today are not new for Haiti. As we have h…
I also want to thank Under- Secretary-General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Weixiong Chen for their informative if sobering briefings.
The Secretary-General’s report (S/2022/63) is clear that the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to international peace and sec…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Khan for his briefing and report. I also welcome the representative of the Sudan.
Since we last heard from Mr. Khan’s predecessor on the situation in the Sudan (see S/PV.8791), the democratic transition has suffered a significant setback following the military coup …
Ireland associates itself with the statement made earlier on behalf of the European Union and its member States (see A/76/PV.29).
At the outset, I wish to thank the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its annual report (see A/76/293) to the United Nations. I also congratulate President Hofmański…
Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, the Special Envoy and former President Mbeki for their insightful briefings. I would also like to welcome the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan here with us today.
Ireland had been encouraged by the continued improvement in relati…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Deborah Lyons for her deeply worrisome but very important briefing. I also thank Ambassador Ghulam M. Isaczai of Afghanistan for his participation here today. I would like to express my appreciation to Ms. Shaharzad Akbar for addressing the Sec…
