Resolution 75/16, on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), refers to the OIC 2025 programme of action that was adopted in 2016. Behind the phrase “programme of action” hides yet again another attack against Israel. It seems that no matter what we d…
At this moment, more than 167 million people on our planet are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. That is 35 million more than when we met at this time last year. The number seems too staggering to absorb, but it represents 167 million individuals living in misery and fear, and it is our …
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, stands out as the clearest example of the interconnectedness of the SDGs. Good health allows individuals and communities to develop and support other goals, while progress on other goals, su…
Israel wishes to express its gratitude to the President of the General Assembly for convening this high-level meeting. The Programme of Action, adopted in Cairo in 1994, was a historic achievement. The document was far-sighted and remains as relevant today as when it was adopted a generation ago. It…
I would like to convey the delegation of Israel’s sincere gratitude to the European Union for serving as Chair of the Kimberley Process
for 2018 and for its leadership role in facilitating draft resolution A/73/L.75. We welcome India as the new Chair for 2019 and look forward to continuing the grou…
The Secretariat announced additional co-sponsors of the resolution on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of the United Nations personnel (resolution 73/137). Among them was the observer State of Palestine.
According to paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 52/250, of …
Today more than 134 million people around the world are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. The scale of the problem and the depth of human suffering are staggering. Israel commends the efforts and actions of the United Nations humanitarian response system, working under difficult and often u…
Resolution 73/135, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)”, refers to the OIC Programme of Action that was adopted in 2016. Not only does the Programme of Action contain biased information against Israel, but it employs language that is sim…
Once again, I will have to repeat what I have already said. Paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 52/250, adopted on 13 July 1998, on the participation of Palestine in the work of the United Nations, determines that it has “[t]he right to co-sponsor draft resolutions and decisions on Palestinian an…
Israel believes that resolution 72/131, on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel, reaffirms the unique role played by the United Nations when providing humanitarian assistance.
Paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 52/250, dated 13 July 1998, …
