The day of 7 October 2023 will remain a dark day — not only for the Israelis and its people, but for the entire world. With its monstrous terrorist acts, Hamas has committed the irreparable. Its appalling crimes have traumatized Israelis; they have terribly and profoundly hurt the entire nation; and…
At the outset, I would like to thank Brazil for convening today’s meeting, as well as Special Representative of the Secretary-General Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Ambassador Mohammed and Mr. Dersso for their briefings.
The foundations of the United Nations-African Union (AU) partnership, based on the Un…
Allow me to begin by thanking Special Representative Ruiz Massieu for his informative briefing on the Colombian peace process. I also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, to this important meeting, and I thank the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for his…
Allow me to thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo and Assistant Secretary- General Msuya for their briefings.
Imagine the scene: in a quiet and modest village in Kharkiv oblast, peaceful people are participating in a wake after a funeral, united in their grief at the loss of a son from the village…
The situation in Lebanon remains difficult, and the presence and action of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are of paramount importance for the peace and stability of the country. It is with that imperative in mind that we worked with France, the penholder, whom we thank for its …
Let me thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo for her in-depth briefing. We are also grateful to Ms. Rashevska for her valuable information on developments in Ukraine and look forward to the text of Mr. Kuleba’s remarks.
Today we join Ukrainians everywhere in celebrating their independence day, and…
I thank you, Madam President, and thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for the update.
It is very disheartening to start, as has occurred many other times, by acknowledging that the situation for civilians in the West Bank and Israel in the past three weeks has not improved. The situation on the gr…
Let me start by thanking the United States presidency of the Security Council, and you, personally, Madam President, for organizing today’s important meeting.
I thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk, for his insightful briefing. We fully concur with his assess…
Allow me to thank Ms. Wosornu for her briefing.
Since the last Security Council meeting on this issue in December of last year (see S/PV.9228), there have been new developments, some of them positive and very encouraging. We welcome and applaud the intensification of the Armenia-Azerbaijan normaliz…
Let me thank the Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Gregorian, for his briefing.
Let me also say, from the very start, that our position remains crystal clear: we denounce any and all acts of terror — anywhere, at any time and by anyone. Our actions and policies in that respect speak far lo…
Let me thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
Before the special military aggression, Ukraine, one of the bread baskets of the world, accounted for 12 per cent of the world’s corn exports and approximately 10 per cent of its wheat exports. …
In 2008, in an effort to assert its influence and recover from the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia occupied some parts of the territory of Georgia in a short but brutal war. The world rushed to make amends by using existing mechanisms,
believing that by accommodating Russian grieva…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s important meeting and for bringing the issue to the Security Council for a first-ever debate on the matter.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades as part of the world’s scientific and technological drive. The recent spike in its…
I thank Rosemary DiCarlo for her insightful briefing as always with accurate and indisputable information on this matter. We thank the United Kingdom presidency for convening this high- level meeting on the situation in Ukraine and welcome you, Mr. President, in the chair.
After more than 500 days …
Let me thank the United Kingdom presidency for organizing today’s open debate on such a critical issue.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Patten for her briefing, and we pay tribute to her continuous efforts to advance the conflict- related sexual violence agenda, despite dif…
The quick version of our statement today would have been a reference to our most recent statement on this issue, made a week or so ago, since there is nothing new on the matter. But since we are here, I would like to make the following points.
First, we have said it many times and will reiterate it…
We thank the co-penholders, Brazil and Switzerland, for their tireless efforts during a most constructive process of negotiations. We were happy to work actively with them and other members of the Security Council, but unfortunately these efforts were wasted.
What just happened is a terrible setbac…
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg, Assistant Secretary-General Msuya and Resident Coordinator Gressly for their briefings.
We welcomed the unanimous renewal earlier of the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement and commend the United Kingdom, as penholder, for its dil…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and European Union Ambassador Skoog for their updates, as well as Ambassador Frazier for her work as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015).
The fifteenth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolut…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Nakamitsu for her briefing, and Mr. Radchenko for his insights.
We express our disappointment at the time wasted by having two persons with exactly identical positions, pretendedly to lead the Security Council, mislead it with militant views. Sugar-coating an act of…
