Nearly seven months after Hamas’s acts of terror in Israel, tensions are at their highest in the Middle East. Switzerland condemned both the Israeli attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus on 1 April and the coordinated Iranian attacks on Israel on 13 and 14 April.
In view of the tragic consequ…
Ensuring the peaceful, safe and sustainable use of outer space contributes to our security and prosperity. It is in the common interest of all States. Any threat in this sensitive field could have major consequences for international peace and security. Preserving space so as to enable future genera…
I would like to thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ghada Waly, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, for their briefings. I also welcome Mr. Roberto Álvarez Gil, …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ms. Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. We would also like to thank Mr. Ibn Chambas, High Representative for the Silencing the Guns Initiative of the Af…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this meeting, and I thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), His Excellency Mr. Ian Borg, for his briefing. Switzerland pledges its full support to Mr. Borg in this difficult task, and we particula…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and Director of Operations Edem Wosornu for their briefings.
“The war in Ukraine should not be normalized.” That was the call from Denise Brown, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ukraine, after fresh attacks in the city of Kharki…
I would like to thank Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu, who will do us the honour of taking part on Thursday in the Forum for International Cooperation in Switzerland to talk about the Colombian peace process. I also wish to thank Ms. Sánchez Buitrago for her statement.
I would also like …
Thank you, Madam President, for convening this emergency meeting, and we thank the speakers for their briefings.
Last month, the Council met at the request of Guyana and Switzerland, as informal focal points on the issue of conflict and hunger, warning of the food insecurity in the Gaza Strip (see …
I would like to thank Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari and Ms. Lisa Doughten for their briefings. We welcome the holding of this meeting and the presence of the representatives of Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Since the previous Council meeting (see S/PV.9541), the security situation in Myanmar has …
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing this briefing. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mrs. Gamba de Potgieter; the Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF, Mr. Chaiban; and the representative of civil society, Ms. Atim Niger- Thomas, for their briefings and for th…
As this is the first open meeting of the month, I pledge the full support of Switzerland for your presidency, Madam, and I thank Japan for its excellent leadership during the month of March.
We would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, for his briefing …
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing and for all the work done by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). I would also like to thank Ms. Jacquie-Anna for sharing …
I would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for their briefings.
This month of March marks the tragic thirteenth anniversary of the conflict in Syria. Hundreds of thousands of victims have died or disappeared, millions have been displaced and made r…
I thank the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, for his briefing.
In six months’ time, we will be meeting for the Summit of the Future, which, inter alia, will be an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of collaborat…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari and Director Lisa Doughten of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings.
As we enter the third year of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, today’s meeting is a reminder of its devastating impact on the civ…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing and welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of South Sudan in today’s meeting.
Since our previous meeting on this topic in December (see S/PV.9507), very limited progress has been made towards credible and peaceful elections. Whi…
Allow me first of all to congratulate Guyana on the excellent work accomplished during the month of February, and to assure you, Mr. President, and your team of our full support for your presidency. I would also like to thank the Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Adedeji…
I thank the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme for their briefings.
Switzerland thanks all the humanitarian actors for their efforts in response to the alarming level of…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
My thoughts once again go out to all the victims of the earthquake a year ago, and I will return to that subject later, in the humanitarian part of my statement.
On the security front, the situation continues…
I thank Special Representative Rugwabiza for her briefing and welcome the participation of the representative of the Central African Republic in this meeting. I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families and troop-contributing countries that have suffered casualties, especially Cam…
