I too would like to thank the Secretary-General and our other briefings this morning. I want to express a very warm welcome to President Zelenskyy, who is with us this morning. President Zelenskyy’s leadership and courage, and that of the Ukrainian people, are an example to us all.
On 24 February, …
I too would like to thank Special Representative Keita for her insightful and important briefing this morning. Ireland welcomes her leadership and the essential work of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I also acknowledge the pre…
I would also like to thank Executive Director David Beasley, Mr. Amir Abdulla and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for updating the Security Council on the humanitarian catastrophe that is engulfing the people of Ukraine. I also want to welcome our dear colleague from Ukraine among us this af…
I wish to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Volker Perthes for his excellent briefing. I have to say that he did paint a very bleak picture of the situation in the Sudan.
We deeply regret that the fallout from the coup last October continues to have such devastating effects on t…
I want to say at the beginning how much the Irish delegation appreciates the messages of condolence we have received on the sudden loss of an outstanding Irish diplomat, colleague and friend. May he rest in peace.
I would like to thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Ireland deeply…
I also would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Assistant High Commissioner Mazou and Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus for their very sobering briefings. Their messages are very grim. We commend all humanitarian organizations working to alleviate the human-made catastrophe being visit…
I want to thank our briefers — Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Tirumurti and Ms. Shuaiter — and to welcome our colleague the Ambassador of Libya to this morning’s meeting.
The deterioration of the overall situation on the ground in Libya since the postponement of the December election…
I, too, would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing this morning. I would like to wish Minister Rau a very warm welcome to the Council and extend many thanks for his informative briefing earlier.
At the outset, I would certainly like to express Ireland’s admiration and appr…
I would like to thank Ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez for his briefing today. This has been a difficult and challenging year for him and for his work and for that of his team. It has been really exemplary in guiding the progress of the Council and the progress by the Committee, so I wante…
I would like to thank High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu and Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for their sober briefings this morning.
Ireland deeply regrets the decision of the Russian Federation to call for today’s meeting. It has done so for no other reason than to advance baseless clai…
I want to thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her very important briefing to the Security Council today.
I want to begin by stressing the importance of maintaining our collective commitment to upholding the international legal norm against chemical weapons, which are abhorrent. There can be no …
First, I would like to thank Mr. Haysom for not only illustrating the achievements of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), but for also very clearly setting out the challenges that remain. I think he provided a very timely and insightful reflection on where we are
currently at as we …
I would first like to thank UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
and welcome her to the Chamber, and to thank her and Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for their briefings today. Their messages were really, really stark, but we need to hear them. The international community needs to h…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, for their briefings, and I thank Director General Grossi for his urgent call for action today. We are here today because of our concern about the…
When I spoke earlier, I said that the path towards diplomacy and dialogue was perilously narrow. I did not realize, in fact, how narrow and how close to the precipice we really were just over an hour ago. We now see that that path has been closed by the announcement of a military aggression on the p…
I would like to thank the Special Coordinator for his comprehensive briefing this morning.
Ireland is seriously concerned about the escalation in tensions in recent weeks across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Incidents of provocation, violence, including settler violence, and escalatory a…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for their very sobering remarks at the beginning of the meeting.
Tonight, as we gather at this table, we are staring into the abyss of a major conflict in Europe — a conflict that would have major global implications. T…
I, too, would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ndiaye, the African Union Special Representative, Mr. Matondo, as well as Executive Secretary, Mr. Caholo, for their very informative briefings this morning.
I would like to acknowledge the presence at today’s meet…
We welcome the unanimous adoption today of resolution 2621 (2022). I would like to thank Ambassador Gaffey for his briefing and to warmly welcome to the Chamber Mr. Fuad Mohammad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, as well as our colleague Mansour Alotaibi, Ambassador of Kuwait.
I would …
I, too, want to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
We meet tonight at a moment of great danger for the people of Ukraine; for peace and security in Europe; and for the international norms and principles that all of us around this table have a responsibility to defend. …
