We welcome the adoption today of the resolution on Afghanistan (resolution 2593 (2021)). I want to express our appreciation to France, the United Kingdom and the United States for their efforts in bringing it forward.
Ireland voted in favour of the resolution because we believe in the importance of…
I would like to preface my remarks, if I may, by offering my sincere condolences to the families of the victims of the horrific attack today in Kabul.
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting today. I thank the Secretary- General for his insightful, yet — I must admit — …
I welcome and thank Special Representative Hennis-Plasschaert for her
trademark frank and excellent briefing. I would also like to welcome our Iraqi colleague to this meeting.
I begin by extending my deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who tragically lost their lives in the …
Today I make this statement on behalf of the co-penholders of the Syrian humanitarian file, Norway and Ireland.
We would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths; Special Envoy Geir Pedersen; and the Secretary-General of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, …
I would like to thank today’s briefers and welcome Mr. Martin Griffiths to the Chamber. It is good to see him here in his new role. I am always very happy to see Ms. Henrietta Fore in the Chamber.
I would also like to welcome the appointment earlier this month of Mr. Hans Grundberg as the new Speci…
I would like to thank the Indian presidency for ensuring a continued focus on the critical issue of counter-terrorism. I also want to thank our three briefers this morning for their excellent briefings.
It may sound like a truism, but it is indeed a fact: the scourge of terrorism remains one of the…
I am delighted to welcome you among us in the Chamber, Mr. Minister. I want to thank India most sincerely for organizing this important discussion and welcome the adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2021/17 on this issue.
Ireland shares with India a deep and long-standing commitment to peacek…
I want to thank the Secretary-General for his presence here today and for his very powerful words at the beginning of our meeting.
We supported the convening of this urgent meeting to discuss the unfolding tragic developments in Afghanistan. Over the past weeks, as we heard, we have witnessed in re…
I want to thank this morning’s briefers for their invaluable insights. It is great to see the Special Representative Madeira in the Chamber this morning, and I thank him for his insights. I was particularly struck by the heartfelt and sincere presentation of Ms. Batula Sheikh Axmed Gaballe. It is al…
I thank our briefers for their insights. I also want to recognize the presence of our guests today, the Ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and the Sudan and the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, speaking on behalf of the Chair of the African Union (AU).
It is our shared conviction t…
I would also like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Annadif for his briefing. We are grateful for the essential role played by the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) in conflict prevention in the region. I would
like to welcome Ms. Chantal Ayemou, Pr…
We are deeply saddened by the horrible assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti and the attack against his wife. We convey our sincere condolences to the family and to the people and the Government of Haiti.
I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita and Ms. Ritha Kibambe for their very releva…
I thank Rosemary DiCarlo and Ramesh Rajasingham for their insightful, yet deeply troubling, briefings today.
Ethiopia is a long-standing and important partner for Ireland. For that reason, the deteriorating crisis in the Tigray region and its severe humanitarian consequences are of genuine and deep…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings. We welcome the eleventh report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2021/582), as well as the report of the Joint Commission on the status of the Procurement Working…
It is good to see Special Envoy Geir Pedersen in the Chamber with us. I thank him for his briefing and, of course, for his ongoing efforts on the Constitutional Committee. We sincerely welcome those efforts to focus the Security Council’s attention on the crisis in Syria and to press all parties to …
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing, which, together with the Secretary-General’s report (S/2021/584), painted a grim picture of developments in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
Illegal settlement activity further entrenches the illegal Israeli occupation, undermin…
I would also like to thank the briefers for their very clear and relevant briefings today. I would like to acknowledge, in particular, the presence of His Excellency President Lourenço. The work of the Central African and Great Lakes region has been and will remain crucial for the Central African Re…
I make this statement on behalf of the co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file, namely, Norway and Ireland.
We would like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres; Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham; and the Country Director of CARE, Tu…
I would like to join my colleagues in wishing Nicholas Haysom a very warm
welcome and sincere best wishes in his new role — a challenging one, no doubt, but one in which we have every confidence that he will be able to deliver.
I also want to express my appreciation for the remarks made earlier by…
I would like to warmly welcome High Representative Borrell Fontelles today and to thank him for his thought-provoking intervention. We are very delighted to have him with us.
The steadfast belief of the European Union (EU) in multilateralism and its strong commitment to the United Nations are borne…
