Let me begin by thanking, as others have, Under-Secretary- General Lacroix and my friend His Excellency President Santos Calderón. I also thank Ms. Salma Kadry very much for setting the stage for this important discussion. And I thank you, Madam President, for the leadership of the United Arab Emira…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton entered the General Assembly with a pen in hand, the pen that he had used to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), the same pen used by President John F. Kennedy decades earlier to bring…
I want to thank my colleague from New Zealand in particular for convening this very important meeting on the crisis in Syria. I believe that it is appropriate that we are gathering here a couple of rooms over from where yesterday so many Heads of State came together in what I thought was a remarkabl…
I thank you, Mr. President, for this chance to address my colleagues on the Security Council. I appreciate the fact that Russia’s presidency has chosen to focus on this issue. I welcome the opportunity to talk about the urgent challenge of countering terrorism in the Middle East, North Africa and el…
Five weeks ago, the world saw rows upon rows of murdered children lying on a hospital floor alone or beside their slain parents, all wrapped in unbloodied burial shrouds, and the world’s conscience was shocked. But our collective resolve hardened. Tonight, with a strong and forcible precedent-settin…
