I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary-General Ilze Brands Kehris and Ms. Oleksandra Drik for their briefings.
Two weeks ago, the Security Council met to discuss the situation in Ukraine (see S/PV.9115) after six months of conflict. The report Under-Secr…
I would like to begin by thanking Ambassador Zhang Jun and his team at the Chinese mission for the dynamic leadership in the exercise of the presidency in the month of August. I
also congratulate you, Mr. President, on taking over the presidency this month and pledge to you the full support of my d…
Let me start by expressing our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his briefing. I also thank the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for his team’s visit to Zaporizhzhya and his report.
The IAEA mission last week to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was a pos…
I would like to start by thanking my colleague Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud for the comprehensive overview of the work of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2021. We are grateful to him and to Egypt for the insight and leadership they gave us last year. I also want to express my w…
I thank the briefers for their presentations. My delegation would like to focus on three points. The first is the humanitarian situation in Syria, the second is the political process and the third lies at the intersection between the humanitarian and political aspects.
First, regarding the delivery…
I acknowledge the participation in this meeting of President Zelenskyy, whom I congratulate on Ukraine’s national day. I thank the Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for their remarks.
Six months after the start of hostilities, there seems to be no solution in sight for the confl…
I would like to thank China for convening this briefing, and the Secretary- General for his important remarks. I would also like to thank Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen for his insightful intervention.
While it is important to clarify that the decisions concerning the review process of the Treaty on …
For the second time in a period of a few months, in line with the stipulations of resolution 76/262, the General Assembly is meeting to discuss a situation in which the Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution (S/2022/538), owing to the vote against the draft resolution of one of its perm…
At the outset, I would like to thank Ambassador Byrne Nason for her briefing, her report (S/2022/510) and her tireless work as Facilitator on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). The work of the Facilitator is a central element in the process of monitoring the implementation of the resoluti…
Let me start by addressing one misunderstanding about this set of sanctions of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its Group of Experts that I am afraid is not uncommon.
Neither the multilateral sanctions …
It is my privilege to deliver this statement on behalf of India and Brazil at today’s open debate on the working methods of the Security Council.
First, we would like to thank the representative of Ireland for the statement she delivered on behalf of the 10 elected members of the Security Council (…
Allow me to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
Brazil remains concerned about the continuous incidents of violence involving Israelis and Palestinians. The mounting tension that was witnessed this past month, with the string of attacks against Israeli citizens and military raids…
First of all, Brazil would like to express its heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of the earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan yesterday. As we wait for more precise information about the full extent of the devastation and the number of victims, Brazil expresses its appreciati…
I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation to Secretary-General António Guterres for very forcefully outlining the gravity of the situation in Syria. I thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for his update and presentation of the latest report on the humanitarian requirements in Sy…
I would like to express my appreciation to Special Representative of the Secretary- General Helen La Lime for her comprehensive yet stark report. I also thank Mr. Descardes for his valuable input. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the re…
Let me start by congratulating and thanking Judge Carmel Agius for his remarkable tenure as the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. In full compliance with the mandate he received from the Security Council, he has acted to lower the judicial caseload of the Mech…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the initiative today to have the representatives of China and Russia explain before the General Assembly the reasons that led them to cast a veto on draft Security Council resolution S/2022/431.
Brazil is committed to strengthening the international nuclear di…
At the outset, let me thank the briefers — Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten, Ms. Karbowska and Ms. Rollins Westin — for their valuable accounts of the situation in Ukraine with respect to sexual violence and human trafficking.
As the co…
First, let me join others in thanking Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield for the competent and professional way she and her team led the Security Council in May. Brazil would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the Albanian presidency of the Security Council, for organizing this important open deb…
At the outset, let me thank the co-penholders of resolution 2634 (2022), Ghana and Norway, for their hard work during the negotiations. Brazil recognizes that both delegations made intense
efforts in trying to achieve a balanced and meaningful text on such a pressing issue. We are pleased to have j…
