I would like to once again congratulate last year’s Chair, Croatia, on a very successful 2023 Peacebuilding Commission annual session. It was an honour and great pleasure for us to serve as one of the Commission’s Vice-Chairs. Germany is also very encouraged by the current Peacebuilding Commission (…
Germany aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the European Union.
We sincerely thank the Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committ…
Germany welcomes that, on 22 December 2023, the Security Council was able to adopt resolution 2720 (2023), on aid scale-up and monitoring in Gaza. We thank all those members of the Security Council who contributed to reaching an agreement on that resolution by bridging differences within the Council…
Germany welcomes Albania’s initiative to discuss the working methods of the Security Council.
The transparency, efficiency and accountability of the Security Council’s working methods are not a question of style, but of substance. We have always believed that the Security Council must undergo a pro…
I would like to express my gratitude to Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Frazier and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings and their efforts to support and monitor the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
For the past four years, Iran’s violations of its commitments under the Joint C…
Germany aligns itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the European Union and on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect. We thank the Secretary- General for this year’s report (A/77/910) and its recommendations, and we thank Special Adviser Okoth-Obbo for his prese…
I thank the President of the General Assembly for ensuring the timely holding of this debate. Let me also thank the United Arab Emirates presidency of the Security Council, as well as Switzerland and Brazil, for their contributions to the very detailed report of the Security Council for 2022 (A/77/2…
Before turning to the focus of today’s debate, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your delegation’s recent assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We welcome Gabon’s priorities and the importance afforded to issues of peace and security on the African continent. I would also like to…
Germany fully aligns itself with the statement delivered by Japan on behalf
of the Group of Four, and I should like to add some comments in my national capacity.
A few weeks ago, a major German weekly published an article entitled “Why Germany should leave the United Nations”. I want to assure eve…
Germany aligns itself with the statement of the European Union and the statement delivered on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect (see A/76/PV.86).
Seventeen years ago, we as the international community unanimously agreed on the principle of the responsibility to protect…
