We join the international community and all stakeholders here today in the General Assembly in honouring and remembering the more than 36 million people, including 700,000 Americans, who have tragically died from AIDS-related illness since the start of the epidemic. We also renew our commitment to s…
First and foremost, we would like to express our appreciation to the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes and the Secretariat for their efforts to find safe and i…
The United States engaged constructively in the negotiations for this modalities resolution (resolution 75/315), and we look forward to the 2023 high-level meeting on universal health coverage. The coronavirus disease pandemic has reinforced the critical importance of a solid global architecture for…
I would like to begin by thanking the co-facilitators, Austria and Senegal, for their efforts to achieve a consensus on this important issue. The United States abstained in the voting on resolution 75/290 A to protest the failure of some Member States to approach the negotiations on this vital issue…
The United States is pleased to have voted in favour of resolution 74/307, entitled “United response against global health threats: combating COVID-19”. We thank the Government of Saudi Arabia and the core group for the transparent and effective negotiation process it led and appreciate its efforts …
I wish to thank the co-facilitators for their efforts to achieve agreement on resolution 74/306. The United States appreciates the cooperation and collaboration of the international community in the global effort to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As we strive to make progress to defeat C…
The United States had informed the Secretariat that it was requesting votes on both operative paragraph 7 and operative paragraph 34 before we act on the entire resolution.
The United States would like to deliver an explanation of position with regard to resolution 74/305. The United States wishes to note that it does not concur with the references to the World Health Organization in the twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth prea…
The United States appreciates Lebanon’s regional role with respect to religious freedom and diversity. While we commend its commitment to tolerance and interfaith dialogue, resolution 73/344 is problematic for a number of reasons, and unfortunately we cannot support it. The United States cannot supp…
The United States welcomes resolution A/73/L.115, on the twenty- fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25), and will join the consensus on its adoption. Civil-society organizations and human rights defenders play a critical role in implementing the Beijing Dec…
The United States joins consensus on resolution 73/337 in recognizing the need to strengthen malaria surveillance and data quality and urges the global anti-malaria community to use data to make evidence-based decisions. Given the influx of data and advancements in the development of new malaria con…
