Let me start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for the information he provided.
The recent developments in the West Bank continue to be troubling and disturbing. We are almost at a loss for the words to deplore the pervasive cycle of violence and its consequences, but we will never los…
We are used to the practice of what has proved to be “meetings of opportunity” that Russia has been calling regularly on Ukraine. Most of the time they fail to bring forward an issue worth the discussion and the attention of the Council, since the intention is to divert the attention away from the r…
In a war that has lost its way, as part of a policy that has no meaning and as a terrible result of an erratic judgement since the start, Russia is targeting everything: innocent people, including children; residential areas; civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage. All these amount to war cri…
Albania joins others in congratulating Mr. Simão for assuming the role of Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel. I assure him of my delegation’s full support and call on all stakeholders to engage constructively with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in tackling the …
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Director Rajasingham for their briefings.
As we have just heard, the humanitarian demands of Syria remain the largest worldwide. We anticipate a dramatic increase in needs, exacerbating an already immense humanitarian crisis resulting from more than 12 years of co…
Albania aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the European Union (see A/77/PV.90).
On 11 July the Security Council failed to adopt draft resolution S/2023/506, on the cross-border delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of north-west Syria. Today we once again deplore Ru…
Albania voted in favour of the resolution requesting the drawdown and withdrawal of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) (resolution 2690 (2023)), as requested by the transitional Government of Mali. We thank the France as the penholder for its work.…
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is one of the most significant normative advancements in the past two decades, especially as it reframes sovereignty as responsibility. It provides concrete guidance to the world community in upholding fundamental norms and values and addressing gross violations.
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Let me begin by thanking Special Adviser Ritscher for his work and his briefing today. Albania greatly values the investigations and evidence collection carried out by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant …
Let me begin by congratulating our African colleagues on Africa Day. On this day, we also pay tribute to all those who have contributed, and are contributing, to peacekeeping operations. I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, His Excellency Mr. Adeoye and Director Tadesse for their valuable insigh…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her presentation.
Ten years after the adoption of resolution 2118 (2013), we still have not seen any evidence of Syria having destroyed its chemical weapons programme. That is troubling and deplorable.
We commend the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemic…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Ms. Doughten for their briefings.
The Syrian people have just entered the thirteenth year of their descent into deeper despair, destitution and destruction, without an end in sight. The magnitude of the humanitarian catastrophe that has befallen them is simply uni…
Today we mark one year since the adoption by consensus of resolution 76/262. Albania was proud to co-sponsor that innovative mechanism, along with 82 Member States, to ensure that the Security Council acts in the interests of the international community and for the maintenance of international peace…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
As this is the first formal meeting of the Security Council for this month, I would like, as other colleagues before me have done, to thank Mozambique for having presided over our work in a very thoughtful and professional way in March. I very much hope that…
I thank Mozambique for convening today’s important open debate. I also thank the briefers for their insightful remarks. We see value in re-engaging the Security Council on this important issue. We welcome the guiding spirit of the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want Master Roadmap. In th…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Petersen and Mr. Talahma for their briefings.
It saddens us deeply that every time we take the floor to speak on this file, we struggle to find the words to describe the deterioration of the catastrophic situation in Syria, which is entering its thirteenth year…
I thank the briefers for attending today’s meeting.
In June last year, Albania convened a meeting of the Security Council on incitement to violence leading to atrocity crimes (see S/PV.9069). We referred to historical examples, how language and rhetoric could lead to massacres, war crimes, crimes a…
Let me start by thanking Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The Syrian regime has used chemical weapons nine times — I repeat, nine times — against its own people, claiming hundreds of lives, including those of children. Every one of those nine incidents was independently verified by the releva…
Allow me to thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Under-Secretary-General Griffiths and Director Muhrez for their briefings.
In less than two weeks, it will be 12 years since a handful of Syrian teenagers were arrested by the Al-Assad regime for spraying pro-democracy graffiti
in Dara’a. That sparked the …
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing. We listened carefully to the interventions of Mr. Sachs and Mr. McGovern on the matter.
At the Security Council meeting on 30 September (see S/PV.9144), we expressed our deep concern regarding an apparent act of sabotage on the Nord Stream …
