I thank Ms. Ghelani for her briefing and the important work that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and her partners are doing to support the Syrian people.
We applaud OCHA’s work to facilitate the largest- ever humanitarian aid convoy in Syria during the successful join…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her briefing on the latest developments on the ground in Darfur.
We continue to evaluate the impact President Omar Al-Bashir’s announcement last Friday. We are deeply concerned about the declaration of a national state of emergency, and ca…
I would like to extend a warm welcome to Foreign Minister Baïpo-Temon. I thank Special Representative Onanga- Anyanga for his briefing and, more important, for his stewardship of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) over the p…
The United States would like to thank the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s important meeting. We also welcome President Poroshenko and thank him for joining us today.
Five years ago the world bore witness to Russia’s brazen occupation and purported annexation of Crimea and it…
I thank Special Envoy Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for their briefings, and for their and their teams’ tireless efforts.
On 13 February, the United States joined the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in welcoming the adoption of resolutions 2451 (2018) and 2…
I would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Burundi, Mr. Michel Kafando, for today’s briefing on the latest developments in Burundi, and to thank Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and Chair of the Burundi Configuration of …
I thank Assistant Secretaries-General Jenča and Mueller and Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik for their briefings and for their calls for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements.
We are nearing to the five-year anniversary of the start of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which has left more…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We thank also the Secretary-General; the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Tanin, for his briefing. I also welcome Foreign Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku back to the Security Council.
We appreciate the understanding reached by the Council to end the practice of quarterly briefings on the United Nations…
I would like to thank you, Mr. Esono Angue, for joining us and presiding over today’s meeting. I also thank Mr. Fedotov and Mrs. Ukonga for their briefings. The United States thanks Equatorial Guinea for putting this deeply problematic side effect of our modern global economy on the Security Council…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting, which is focused on African countries but is relevant throughout the world. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and Chairperson Faki Mahamat for their remarks today and to welcome the ministers who are joining us i…
We thank the United Kingdom delegation for its efforts to strength the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping
Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to ensure that it conveys the strong sentiment of the Security Council and the international community that peacekeeping operations must support political solu…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing and for the important work that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and its partners are doing to support the Syrian people.
Last month, the Security Council renewed key provisions of resolution 2165 (2014) (…
I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this important meeting. I welcome the many ministers joining us today.
I would also like to thank Administrator Steiner, Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Mr. Kabat and Ms. Getschel for their contributions and helpful framing of today’s discussion.
Many of ou…
We welcome the President in the Security Council today; it is excellent to have him back with us. We thank Special Representative Ruiz Massieu for his briefing. We look forward to his leadership as we begin the next chapter in the United Nations Verification Mission in
Colombia. We also thank forme…
I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing. I welcome Indonesian Foreign Minister Marsudi and thank her for joining us in the Security Council for today’s briefing. We offer our deepest condolences to Chad on the loss of 10 peacekeepers in Mali over the weekend.
Turning to today’s subjec…
I thank Special Representative Salamé for his briefing and his continuing efforts, and those of his team, in a very challenging environment.
As the representative of the United Kingdom noted and every subsequent speaker suggested, the status quo in Libya is not sustainable. Terrorists continue to p…
Our profound thanks go to Special Representative Zerrougui, Foreign Minister Malanji, Ambassador Fatima Mohammed, Mr. Nangaa Yobeluo, President of the Commission électorale nationale indépendante, and Monseigneur Utembi, President of the Conférence épiscopale nationale du Congo (CENCO), for their in…
I thank Special Representative Chambas for his briefing here today, which clearly outlined areas of progress as well as the immense challenges that remain in West Africa.
We appreciate the work that the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) does in support of international pe…
I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, for their briefings and for their excellent work to achieve and implement the agreements reached in Stockho…
