I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing.
The United States remains deeply concerned by the level of violence in the West Bank. In the first six months of this year, the number of Palestinian deaths has already surpassed the number of deaths in all of 2022. The number of Israelis…
I would like to thank the members of the Council for their engagement on this resolution and France for its leadership as penholder, especially through the extensive consultations.
The United States was pleased to vote in favour of the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Central…
I thank Special Representative Simão and Mr. Touray for their very informative briefings.
The United States remains gravely concerned about democratic backsliding across the region and strongly supports the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) and its instrumental role in pr…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for the Secretariat’s work on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2023/473) and for her briefing to the Security Council today. I also thank Ambassador Frazier for her facilitation of the report. I also wish to thank Ambassador Skoog for his briefing.
The …
The United States urges fellow Council members to vote
to allow the representative of Ukraine to speak under rule 37 during this briefing on resolution 2231 (2015). Both Iran and Russia have violated their obligations under resolution 2231 (2015) by participating in the transfer of unmanned aerial …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing today. Her continued leadership to counter weapons diversion has been indispensable.
As we have repeatedly stated in the Council, it is categorically false for Russia to allege that the international support for Ukraine’s legitimate self- defen…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing, as well as Mr. James Zogby for his insights. We share their
alarm over the violence in the West Bank and remain deeply troubled by the escalation we have witnessed this year.
We were horrified by the brutal terror attack on 21 June on Israel…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for her briefing.
The importance of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the broader region is clear. That is why the United States is concerned a…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva and Ms. Basij-Rasikh for their briefings. Let me also thank the entire the team comprising the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for its work in advancing the Security Council’s goal of a stable, prosperous, in…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Rugwabiza for her leadership and briefing today. The United States appreciates her, her team’s and the troop- and police-contributing countries’ commitment to peace in the Central African Republic. I also wish to thank Ms. Bahous, Ambassador Ad…
I thank Special Representative Haysom, Ambassador Gituai and Mr. Impagliazzo for their comprehensive briefings today.
The United States is alarmed about the 8 June reports of deadly intercommunal violence in the Malakal protection of civilians site. We condemn the reported attacks and offer our dee…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his briefing.
Today we have seen yet another tragic outcome of Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is deeply alarming and concerning that the Nova Kakhovka dam, a crucial hydroelectric plant on the Dnipro River, was destroyed. Its de…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abarry for the informative briefing. I also wish to thank Mr. Da Piedade Veríssimo and Ms. Tamoifo for their briefings.
I would like to begin by expressing the United States’ firm commitment to supporting an inclusive and sustainable democrati…
I apologize for taking the floor, and I promise not to be very long in responding to a few of these charges.
First, I would like to note that I found interesting that the representative of the Chinese delegation did not, at any point, condemn the space launch of the Democratic
People’s Republic of…
The United States is grateful that the Security Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan for another six months. We voted in favour of resolution 2685 (2023) to express our strong support for Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing.
It is with considerable frustration that we find ourselves back in the Security Council to discuss yet another provocation by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the Democrati…
I thank Mr. Ebo for his detailed briefing.
We gather again just weeks after discussing the same topic, and unfortunately little has changed. We are here again listening to Russia’s allegations that arms shipments from the United States and other countries providing support for Ukraine and its self-…
The United States commends Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on resolution 76/299 declaring Central Asia a zone of peace, trust and cooperation. The intent to establish the region as a zone of peace creates a foundation for greater cooperation. It reinforces the interco…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his sobering remarks.
First, let me underscore that every day that Russia obstructs and threatens to suspend the Black Sea Grain Initiative, it raises global food prices around the world. That means higher prices for everyone, including poor and middle-…
I thank Assistant-Secretary-General Pobee and Special Envoy Tetteh for sharing the progress of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on mandate implementation and their updates on Abyei.
I would like to begin by thanking UNISFA’s leadership personnel, who continue to provide …
