On the understanding that there has been a request for a vote on the oral amendment proposed by the delegation of South Africa, I would like to make the following statement.
We are very grateful that Colombia invited Brazil to join this initiative, which is fully in line with the traditional priori…
I thank Special Representative Bathily for his briefing and for the intensification of his efforts in facilitating the intra-Libyan dialogue following the adoption of resolution 2702 (2023). I thank the representative of the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) conce…
I thank Judge Graciela Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz for their most recent report (see S/2023/566) on the activities of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). I also commend them for their dedication to the fulfilment of the mandate of the Mechanism.
Thi…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. I also thank Ms. Sandrine Lusamba for bringing to the Council her perspectives on the fragile situation in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I welcome the delegations of the Democratic…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Ilze Brands Kehris for her briefing and Mr. Vakhtang Kipshidze for his remarks.
I also welcome the representative of Ukraine to today’s meeting.
Brazil attaches great importance to the freedom of religion or belief, without discrimination. It is a fundamental h…
Brazil fully aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on behalf of the L.69 group and the representative of Germany on behalf of the Group of Four (see A/78/PV.34).
I commend the firm commitment of the President of the General Assembly to…
I join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for her comprehensive briefing, and I welcome the Sudanese delegation to this meeting.
We welcome the agreement reached between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces as a result of the Jeddah talks last week. We commend th…
The adoption of a Security Council resolution on the horrific humanitarian and hostage crisis unfolding in Gaza and Israel (resolution 2712 (2023)) is certainly to be welcomed. It was long overdue. A response by this body commensurate with the gravity of the situation was urgent since day one — that…
Brazil thanks Ambassadors Frazier, Nusseibeh and Montalvo Sosa for their briefings today and for their able leadership, respectively, of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida …
I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix and Police Adviser Shahkar for their briefings, and Commissioners Fossen and Bizimungu for their remarks and for their valuable work. I also want to express my appreciation to Ms. Landgren for her insights.
The police component of United Nations missions has…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing.
We deeply regret the civilian casualties in Donetsk. We would like to offer our condolences to the families of the victims and to express our solidarity to those injured in the incident. This episode, as with many previous episodes, demon…
I join others in thanking Directors Menikdiwela and Liljert for their briefings.
The coercive measures exceptionally authorized by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, through resolution 2240 (2015), have been justified as necessary to combat the smuggling of…
My delegation joins others in expressing our deepest sympathies for the tragic loss of life in the Kingdom of Morocco and in Libya due to recent natural disasters.
Brazil expresses its appreciation for the efforts made by France and the United Arab Emirates regarding draft resolution S/2063/638, on…
I join others in thanking the Albanian presidency for organizing this meeting, as well as Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing.
Brazil knows first-hand the importance of United Nations peace missions. In the past 70 years, more than 55,000 Brazilian military and police personnel have pa…
I thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing today.
As we have done in the past, we have read the latest report (see S/2023/637) of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) closely and have been unable…
I thank Special Representative Bathily for his briefing. I also thank Ms. Al Jerbi from civil society for her contribution, and I join others in welcoming the Libyan delegation to this meeting.
Brazil has followed with deep concern the recent armed clashes that erupted in Tripoli on 14 and 15 Augus…
Like others, I thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix, Lieutenant General Subramanian, Lieutenant General Rodrigues De Miranda Filho and Major General Lázaro Sáenz for their insightful briefings. I also thank all those who serve as peacekeepers and are essential to the Organization’s long history of…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Leonardo Simão, and the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Omar Touray, for their briefings and work for West Africa and the Sahel. On behalf of Brazil, I wish Mr. Simão every suc…
My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Switzerland, and I would now like to make some additional remarks in my national capacity on the political aspects of the conflict in Syria.
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi for her briefing and Special Envoy Peders…
In 2005, our leaders agreed that each individual State had the primary responsibility to protect its own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. That is the first pillar on which the concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P) rests. The second pillar …
