I want to start by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing today and for his leadership and participation at the United Nations peacekeeping ministerial meeting last week in Accra, where we met. I also want to thank Ambassador Biang for his briefing as Chair …
The United States welcome’s today’s renewal of the mandate of the Monitoring Team under resolution 1988 (2011) for an additional year and the reaffirmation of the 1988 regime’s assets freeze, travel ban and targeted arms embargo. The result of today’s voting serves as confirmation of the continued i…
I thank Secretary-General Guterres and Special Coordinator Wennesland for their briefings. I also join in welcoming the many Ministers with us here today.
We are now on the sixth day of the humanitarian pause in Gaza — a pause that amid the darkness of a conflict that Hamas set into motion has been…
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi and Director Wosornu for their briefings and for their unwavering commitment to bringing a sustainable peace to the people of Syria.
During last month’s briefing (see S/PV.9459), we expressed concern about the multiple recent attacks by the Syrian regime and Russ…
Let me add one thing. The United States has never fired any weapons towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We are working with our allies to help them in the protection of their sovereignty against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s actions, which are based on paranoia about a p…
I thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to take the floor once again, and I will try to be as brief as possible. We have heard 13 Member States sitting around this table call on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to cease its unlawful testing. The message is therefore clear. It is a viola…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for briefing the Council on this grave threat to international peace and security.
Many times, the Council has urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to halt its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes. Many times, we have ask…
I thank Executive Director Bahous, Executive Director Russell and Executive Director Kanem for their briefings. We appreciate all that they are doing to alleviate the suffering of all women and children around the world. And I want to take this moment to wish Executive Director Russell a full recove…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Country Director in Ukraine at the World Food Programme (WFP) Hollingworth for their briefings today.
This month we mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Holodomor, which translates to death by starvation — death by starvation. Millions of Ukrainian wom…
Let me start by thanking China for convening today’s important discussion on peace and sustainable development. I would also like to thank all of the briefers for their insights.
When all people in a country are not able to enjoy the benefits of development equally or when they cannot exercise thei…
I often find it useful to look to the words and wisdom of one of the founders of the United Nations, Ralph Bunche. Nearly three quarters of a century ago, he said that “The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace.” The same can be s…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for her briefing and for her leadership in the face of this dire crisis.
The United States strongly supports the efforts of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS), and we call on all Council members to continue to…
Over the past month, the world has watched with understandable frustration and increasing concern
as the Security Council has been unable to speak out on a pressing matter of international peace and security. And it was not for lack of trying. We got very close last month when the United States put…
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Commissioner-General Lazzarini, Executive Director Russell and Director Doughten and their teams for the courageous work done by them under the most difficult circumstances.
Humanitarian actors have stepped up, as they always do, to try and save lives in …
The United States is pleased to see the Security Council reaffirm its support for the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and for United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), led by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Alexan…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Ms. Wosornu for their continued attention to the ongoing conflict and dire humanitarian needs in Syria.
Before Hamas’s horrific terrorist attacks against Israel on 7 October, the Special Envoy warned the Security Council that increased military activity in Syria h…
I thank Brazil for convening today’s open debate as we mark the twenty-third anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. I thank the Secretary-General and Ms. Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as all of today’s briefers, f…
Last week, I said that the Council needed to let diplomacy play out and that we needed to give Secretary-General Guterres, President Biden and Secretary Blinken, as well as regional leaders, the chance to move progress forward (see S/PV.9442). Over the past few days, we have seen the fruits of that …
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their sobering briefings.
President Biden just spoke to these issues in Israel, and he has made clear that the United States is outraged and saddened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. We mourn this terr…
As we meet, President Biden is in the region. His trip is a clear demonstration of the fact that the United States is actively engaging at the highest levels to secure the release of hostages, to prevent the conflict from spreading, to stress the need to protect civilian lives, to address the humani…
