I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Frazier and Ambassador Lamdrinidis for their briefings.
Switzerland remains disappointed and concerned about the state of the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Switzerland ha…
I would like to thank President Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their clear briefings and updates. We also welcome the participation of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Rwanda in this meeting.…
Switzerland would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We also noted the briefing by Mr. Raed Al Saleh, Director of the White Helmets.
The intensifying hostilities in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo in recent days have been very worrisome. That new escalation could gravely …
I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his briefing and the presentation of his twenty-eighth report on the situation in Libya.
We welcome the significant progress made in implementing the renewed strategy and road map aimed at completing the investigation phase by the…
I would like to thank the Chairs of the Committees for their leadership. Their briefings demonstrate the scale of the challenges and the urgent need to strengthen our collective response.
Allow me to make a few comments on the work of the Committees.
Targeted sanctions against Da’esh, Al-Qaida and…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Pobee, for her presentation, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan in today’s meeting.
As the Secretary-General emphasizes in his report (S/2024/740), Abyei remains a victim of a fragile and tense …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing and welcome the participation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in our deliberations.
Switzerland condemns the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, apparently of a new type, capable of carrying multiple nuclear warh…
Switzerland would like to thank the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her report (see A/79/198), which highlights the remarkable work carried out by ICC in all regions of the world, despite the fact that it has never been so heavily in demand or worked under such difficult cond…
I thank Mr. Sivanka Dhanapala, Director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New York, and Mr. Pär Liljert, Director of the International Organization for Migration Office to the United Nations in New York, for their contributions and for giving us a holistic…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Director of Coordination at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham for their statements.
I would like to highlight three points.
With regard to the security situation, Switzerland remains very concerned about…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing. I welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Central Africans Abroad of the Central African Republic.
While the Central African Republic’s efforts, supported by the Unite…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this briefing. I thank former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de Potgieter and UNICEF Deputy Executive
Director Chaiban. We also thank the child briefer for his powerful testimony.
There is no second chan…
I thank the Acting Special Representative, Mr. Swan, and the Special Representative of the African Union, Mr. Souef, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Somalia at this meeting. We congratulate Somalia on its election as a member of the Security Council for…
I would first like to thank Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva and Ms. Lisa Doughten, the Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. We are also grateful to Ms. Manizha Wafeq for her clear and powerful tes…
I thank the Republic of Korea for organizing this important debate on threats to cybersecurity. I also thank the Secretary-General, Professor Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo and Mr. Stéphane Duguin, Chief Executive Officer of the CyberPeace Institute in Geneva, for their briefings.
Switzerland is witnessing t…
I want to thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Stephanie Koury for her presentation and to welcome the participation of the representative of Libya.
Switzerland supports the United Nations in its commitment to helping the Libyan people begin a process aimed at breaking the p…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings. I would like to thank Limiaa Ahmed in particular for her courageous and alarming testimony.
The continued suff…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
We thank the United Nations for its unwavering support since the beginning of the war in the search for peace guided by international law, including the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and by the resol…
I thank Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, for her statement.
Switzerland would like to take the opportunity presented by this meeting to address a key condition for conflict prevention and peacebuilding — respect for human rights and…
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the United Kingdom for its efforts during the negotiations and to Security Council members for their commitment.
Switzerland voted in favour of the resolution (resolution 2736 (2024)) and welcomes its adoption. Given the extremely alarming situation i…