Let me thank our three briefers this morning for their informative and useful briefings.
Let me begin by highlighting two issues that have been raised by several of my colleagues who spoke before me — two issues that are causing a great deal of harm in the Central African region and exacerbating co…
I thank the Special Adviser for his briefing and his leadership of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), as it carries out its challenging but critical mandate.
The United States welcomes the ne…
On behalf of the United States Government, let me start by thanking Lebanon for the successful shepherding of resolution 76/264 to adoption by consensus. The United States remains actively engaged in the work of addressing global food insecurity through significant humanitarian and development assis…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing this morning.
I would also like to commend the continued diligence and professionalism of the independent experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). We salute their tireless efforts to ensure the implementation of the…
I thank Special Envoy Xia for his informative briefing and for joining us today. I also want to thank our other briefers for their very helpful and useful briefings.
The United States continues to support the United Nations regional strategy for the Great Lakes. We encourage Special Envoy Xia to ac…
The United States knows that the veto is controversial. It was controversial from the very beginning, with heated debates on that issue when the Charter of the United Nations was negotiated, in San Francisco in 1945. The veto has continued to be controversial to this day, which is the reason why the…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Assistant Secretary- General Msuya for their briefings. My delegation would also like to express its gratitude to Ms. Shawky, not only for her detailed briefing but, most importantly for the life-saving work done by her organization and so many other international …
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing. The United States supports his continued close engagement with all parties to promote calm and to foster dialogue.
As we just heard, this month billions of people around the globe celebrate Ramadan, Passover and Easter. Those holidays are a r…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General
Caroline Ziadeh for her briefing today, and we look forward to working with her. I also would like to thank Foreign Minister Nikola Selaković and Foreign Minister Gërvalla-Schwarz for participating in this meeting.
As has been noted, this is …
I thank Special Representative Wane and Ms. Bintou Founé Samaké for their briefings today.
I appreciated Ms. Samaké’s insightful emphasis on the critical role of women under the Algiers Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali and
in peacebuilding in Mali. We fully endorse her call for the me…
The United States was pleased to vote in favour of resolution 2628 (2022) today. We appreciate the extraordinary efforts of our United Kingdom colleagues to produce a quality mandate for the reconfigured mission in Somalia. We would like to take a moment to recognize and honour the sacrifices made b…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Under-Secretary-General Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General Zaki for their briefings.
Eleven years after the beginning of the Syrian uprising and the start of the Al-Assad regime’s brutal war on the people of Syria, some in the Security Council want to move on,…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing today. I also thank Foreign Minister Rau for his briefing to the Security Council. His engagement with
the Council comes at a critical juncture — as many of my colleagues have said — a critical juncture for European and international securi…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing this morning.
It continues to be essential that the Security Council receive these regular updates on chemical weapons in Syria and on the critical work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in that regard.
Last week, th…
I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for their truly sobering briefings. I think they underscore what the Secretary-General has said, which is that this …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Yet again, through reports by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), we are presented, with more incontrovertible evidence that chemical weapons were used in Syria. Those reports are of course alarming. T…
In light of comments just made by the representative of the Russian Federation, I just want to make a few points for the record myself.
First, the United States thanks Mexico for putting forward resolution 2622 (2022) to extend the mandate of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Assistant Secretary- General Msuya for their briefings and would like to welcome the Assistant Secretary-General, who is here for the first time. Their briefings are important because it is imperative that the Security Council continue to publicly discuss the ongoi…
I would like to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing. We fully support his close engagement to work with all the parties and his continued efforts to foster dialogue.
Today I would like to discuss three aspects of the situation: the progress supported by the Abraham Accords, the he…
I would like to thank Ambassador Gaffey for his briefing.
As it winds to a close, we can judge the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) as a successful mechanism for post-conflict management, made possible by the Security Council’s collective commitment to multilateralism and the maintenan…
