Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Council and to thank you for convening this open debate. Allow me also to thank the Deputy Special Coordinator for his briefing and relentless efforts.
We knew that the ceasefire was the only way forward: t…
For almost 650 days now, more than 2 million Palestinians, half of them children, have woken up not knowing if they will make it through the day and have gone to sleep not knowing if they will wake up the next morning, day after day after day. They have spent every hour — all 15,600 of them — with d…
I wonder, if this is not Israel attempting to destroy Palestine, what is it?
We heard that Israel is taking every precaution not to harm civilians. I can only imagine what it would be like if it were not taking those precautions. The representative of Israel asked questions, but as it happens, we a…
We have seen attacks on humanitarian workers and United Nations staff. We have seen the narrative that Palestinians are bloodthirsty monsters and that the United Nations was part of a terrorism network. That narrative and incitement led to the real-life consequences of occupation forces killing enti…
I wonder if that peaceful settlement for the Middle East includes the independent and sovereign State of Palestine — or is it, again, based on the illusion that, somehow, there is a way to destroy the Palestinian people instead of recognizing and upholding their rights.
We have declared very clearl…
Allow me to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2025/415) on the implementation — or rather, the continuous breaches —of resolution 2334 (2016).
The report shows two important things.
First, the ongoing killing and mass displacement o…
There is no right to the mass killing of civilians. There is no right to starve an entire civilian population. There is no right to forcibly displace a people. And there is no right to annexation. Yet that is what Israel is doing in Gaza. Those are its war objectives. That is what the absence of a c…
Allow me to start by quoting two senior United Nations officials. While listening to them describing the situation in Gaza, especially northern Gaza, I want members to imagine that they were speaking about their families — their parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters and children. A couple of days…
If the Israeli assault stopped today and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the past eight months, it would take us nearly 100 years to honour them all. The Council adopted only a week ago a resolution on the protection of United Nations and humanitarian per…
The killing of Palestinian civilians is not a collateral effect of the war. The Israeli assault relies by design on the mass and indiscriminate killing of civilians. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is not the consequence of a war. It is a tool employed by Israel to pressure people and force the…
In all of 2022, across all conflict areas around the world combined, approximately 3,000 children were killed — 3,000 too many. In three weeks, Israel killed 3,600 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip — more than all the children killed in all conflict areas in a year. Of the 8,800 Palestinians ki…
Our multilateral order was conceived and built in the aftermath of the Second World War, as we became conscious that a crisis somewhere could turn into conflict everywhere. We discovered we were interconnected in the worst way possible and decided to address it in the best way possible. One of the m…
I would like to remind the Israeli representative in which Hall we are talking. We are talking at the United Nations. When we speak of narrow political goals, it is disrespectful for many delegations at the United Nations that have fought and struggled for their own freedom from all forms of oppress…
I thank the delegations for bearing with me speaking twice in a such a short span of time.
We are grateful to the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his briefing (see A/77/ PV.22), but more importantly for his leadership in these challenging times. We would also like to take th…
We thank President Donoghue for her report (A/77/4) and the Court for its important work and, following the passing of Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade to Brazil, we join the international community in expressing our deepest
condolences to his wife and children and the global law and justice …
International law is often elaborated in the aftermath of great tragedies and horrors. Often unable to prevent their occurrence, it aims to prevent their recurrence. In the post-Second World War era, humankind developed unprecedented and far-reaching instruments, adopting in the span of five years t…
Let me start by saying that resorting to the International Court of Justice is never a threat. These are international law mechanisms, civilized mechanisms, peaceful mechanisms. We have heard delegation after delegation calling on States whenever they were confronted with situations to resort to the…
We align ourselves with the statement made by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (see A/76/PV.22).
At the outset, I would like to thank Judge Donahue, President of the International Court of Justice, for her report (A/76/4) on the work of the Court o…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf, for his report (A/75/4) on the work of the Court over the past year, and to commend the Court for its important role and for having continued to make every effort to fulfil its mandate despi…
Let me start by thanking the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its annual report to the United Nations (see A/75/324) and the President of the ICC for presenting the main points in the report as well as highlighting the history that underlies the establishment of this important Court. We
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