I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the 10 elected members of the Security Council (E10).
We commend Albania for organizing today’s debate and Ambassador Ferit Hoxha for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Qu…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Executive Director Gherman and Ms. Khalaf for their information and introductory briefings.
The Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/568) confirms the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, known as Da’esh, to international peace and secur…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting on Ukraine. I also thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing and the civil-society representatives for their testimonies.
Today not only marks a year and a half since the invasion of Ukraine began but a year and a half …
I am grateful for the information provided by Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Lubna Alkanawati of Women
Now for Development. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representatives of Syria, Türkiye and Iran.
My delegation acknowledges the work of Mr. Pedersen and echoes his recommendations to…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for the briefing he delivered this morning on the situation in the region and reiterate our support for his important work.
For the fifteenth time this year, the Council has heard a troubling report. Violence, provocation and destruction persist. Earlier …
What kind of resistance to a military invasion is possible without weapons and military means? That has not generally been the case in the wars of this century or the previous one. When has war not been a voracious driver of increased arms production and supply or of an arms race? The former Union o…
I am grateful for the briefings by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ms. Elizabeth Salmón. I am also grateful for the testimony by Mr. Ilhyeok Kim. I recogn…
I thank the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for her briefing. I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia and the representatives of Azerbaijan, Türkiye and the European Union.
Ecuador ta…
I am grateful for the information provided by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg. My thanks also go to the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Edem Wosornu, and Ms. Amat Al-Salam Abdullah Abd…
We thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, and Ms. Edem Wosornu, of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings.
Ecuador condemns the armed violence of the past 116 days and the adverse effects it has had for the civilian population. We cann…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this debate and thank the briefers for their valuable presentations.
Ecuador aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the delegation of Ireland on behalf of the Group of Friends of Action on Conflict and Hunger, which we co-chair.
What did it …
First of all, I would like to express my delegation’s appreciation for the way in which you, Mr. President, have steered the work of the Council. I listened closely to the briefers.
This is the fifth meeting we have held in the past two weeks on Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. I must …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, as well as Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and the Force Commanders of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Nations Mission in South Sudan and United Nations Interim Force…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing this morning, and I welcome the delegations of Israel and Palestine, as well as the other delegations that are participating in today’s open debate.
Once again the Council heard a troubling and discouraging report. In recent weeks w…
I would like to thank Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão for his briefing this morning and congratulate him on his recent appointment as Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS). We wish him every success in his work. We also thank the Secretary-Gene…
My delegation thanks the President of the General Assembly for convening this joint meeting. I also thank the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Support Office for providing guidance for our deliberations.
Today’s challenges are interconnected and can be addressed onl…
“The first obligation of intelligence is to distrust itself,” said the Polish writer Stanisław Lem. But that
element is something we cannot expect from artificial intelligence (AI).
I therefore stress the relevance of the theme that brings us together, at the initiative of the United Kingdom, and …
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I appreciate the briefing by the Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo.
Since the beginning of Ecuador’s term on the Security Council in January 2023, we have addressed the issue of the military…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate on a very important issue. I am also grateful for the information provided by Special Representative Patten, as well as the testimonies and recommendations of the civil-society briefers.
We are concerned about the information provided in the Se…
I am grateful for the support received for resolution 2692 (2023), on extending and strengthening the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), sponsored by Ecuador and the United States. I would also like to acknowledge the valuable and constructive contribution of all Counc…
