Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing and by welcoming Special Envoy Tetteh. The Special Envoy has assumed her role at a vital time for the Horn of Africa. Her recent experience, working closely with the African Union (AU), is welcome, as the AU has a key role to …
I want to begin by welcoming Special Representative of the Secretary- General Ziadeh to the Security Council for the first time. She has our full support in her work going forward. I would also like to recognize Ministers Gërvalla-Schwarz and Selaković and welcome them to the Council.
Building peac…
I, too, would like to thank our three briefers today for their informative briefings.
I will confine myself to speaking on the political situation, as the Ambassador of Norway already spoke on behalf of Norway and Ireland as co-penholders on the humanitarian file.
This month marked 11 years of con…
Ireland abstained in this afternoon’s voting for a clear and simple reason.
Draft resolution S/2022/231, submitted by the Russian Federation, does nothing to ease the humanitarian suffering of the Ukrainian people. Indeed, the draft resolution before us today failed to call for the very thing that …
I thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The Special Coordinator’s briefing highlights the increase in violence in the occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, at this particula…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General Griffiths for their briefings today.
The conflict in Yemen has caused unthinkable suffering for too long. Yemenis have endured more than seven years of conflict, which has savaged their country. As we heard from Mr. Griffith…
Let me thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs for her informative briefing today.
I would like to begin by reiterating Ireland’s condemnation of any use of chemical weapons in the strongest possible terms. Any use of chemical weapons is an affront to international law, on which we al…
Allow me to first thank each of the Chairs of the three subsidiary bodies for their excellent briefings this afternoon and express Ireland’s thanks for their excellent stewardship of their respective Committees over the past year.
The briefings today underline the fact that terrorism remains a grav…
Let me also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Helen La Lime for her briefing today and express my appreciation to Ms. Chantal Hudicourt Ewald for her valuable briefing. I also acknowledge the presence of Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph at this meeting today.
I want to focus …
I would like to begin, like others, by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Fall for his briefing and for the relevant and necessary work of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) in the subregion.
I will focus my comments today on a number of country-spec…
