I would like to thank Special Representative Fall for his briefing today. I would also like to join other speakers in recognizing your contribution, Mr. President, on these issues during your term on the Security Council. Your efforts have been very important to our work here in the Council.
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First, I want to join others in thanking Mr. Nicholas Haysom and Ms. Wafaa Saeed for their briefings this morning. I think they were refreshingly clear and were illustrative of both the challenges overcome and those remaining, which are concerning. I would also like welcome our colleagues from South…
Ireland welcomes the reports of the Secretary-General (S/2021/995) and the Joint Commission (see S/2021/992 and S/2021/1019) and has taken note of their findings. I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Skoog for their informative briefings.
Ireland is strongly committe…
I want to convey our thanks to our briefers, even if the news we received is far from good.
As the Council convenes to consider Yemen for the final time this year, I would like to make four points.
First, with regard to the military situation, I deeply regret that despite all efforts to secure pea…
I wish to again express my appreciation to Security Council members for their trust in appointing me as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
Over the course of this year, I have done my utmost to support the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of…
I want to thank President Carmel Agius and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their comprehensive briefings this morning. We are pleased to welcome them both back to the Chamber among us today. We commend and acknowledge the leadership that they have shown in guiding the International Residual Mechanism…
Ireland is deeply disappointed that the Security Council has failed to adopt draft resolution S/2021/990, on climate and security. We regret the decision of certain countries to use their right of veto to block the adoption of this groundbreaking draft resolution. We believed that the weight of evid…
I take the floor on behalf of Ireland and the Niger, the co-penholders for draft resolution S/2021/990, which is before the Council for its consideration this morning.
Many months of effort have gone into bringing this text to the Council table today. However, as we all know, it has taken years of …
I want to thank Special Representative Perthes for his briefing and for the valiant and tireless work we know he is doing in very complex circumstances. I also thank Sven Jürgenson for his report and his excellent stewardship over the
past two years. I am delighted to welcome our colleague from the…
I would like to begin by sincerely thanking the Niger through you, Sir, for the warm and generous welcome that you extended to us during the Security Council’s visit to the Niger last month. I express my deepest condolences to you and the families of the Nigerien soldiers who were killed this week a…
It was very good to hear from the Foreign Minister of Norway earlier. I also want to thank the High Commissioner for his briefing and particularly for the warnings he delivered this morning. As always, Mr. Grandi has been honest with us. He tells us what we need to hear, not what we want to hear, an…
I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, whom it is a pleasure to see here among us this morning, and Ms. Kalala for their briefings. Ireland is very grateful for the work of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I also thank Ms. Keit…
We welcome the adoption today of resolution 2608 (2021) to renew the authorization of international counter-piracy measures in Somalia. We express our appreciation for the efforts of the United States as penholder.
Ireland strongly supports our continued cooperation and partnership with Somalia in …
I extend our warm congratulations to you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. You can count on our full support. I also wish to congratulate our colleague, Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, and his delegation on an excellent presidency. I thank Mr. Ritsch…
I would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his briefing and Ms. Comfort Ero for her great insights from the perspective of the International Crisis Group.
The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory remains alarming. Ireland strongly opposes Israel’s illegal policy of settlement expansion…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Kubiš for his briefing, as well as Ambassador Tirumurti for his update regarding the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya. I also want to thank Ms. Bensaad for her heartfelt messages. Her appetite to participa…
I want to thank Prosecutor Khan for his report and briefing this afternoon during his first visit to the Security Council as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). I also want to welcome our friend and colleague, Ambassador Elsonni of Libya.
We have seen a number of hard-won achievem…
I should like to thank our briefers this morning, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Amal Kabashi, for their critical and very frank
assessments of the recent legislative elections. I am also delighted to see our colleague Mr. Mohammed Bahr Aluloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq, among us in the Cha…
I want to begin by thanking Mexico for convening today’s important meeting and to thank you, Mr. Minister, for personally being here with us today. I also welcome Minister Bhattacharyya from India, my neighbour here at the table. I would also like to thank Director Geiss and Ms. María Pía Devoto for…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Lyons for her briefing; we deeply appreciate it. I am really grateful to Ms. Karim for her briefing, especially when we know that her sharing her testimony at this time is not without risk. She has left her mark in this Chamber; I want to assur…
