I thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing. I am also grateful to Ambassador Sajdik for his briefing, as well as for his efforts to bring peace to Ukraine during his time as Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the Minsk negotiations.…
I would like to thank Malta for organizing this meeting on this important topic and you, Mr. Minister, for presiding over it. I thank you for bringing the inherent link between climate
and security back to the Security Council. I also thank the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assemb…
Let me also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de
Potgieter and Special Representative of the Secretary- General Maalla M’jid, as well as the civil society organization briefer, for their insightful information.
Major progress has been made in the course of the past 25 yea…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Nakamitsu for her briefing.
We listened carefully to the remarks of Mr. Roger Waters, and there is a lot to take in there. He is lucky to be in New York, in a free country and to speak his mind and say whatever he likes, including about the Russian aggression and ho…
I join my colleagues today in once again expressing our most sincere condolences to all affected by the terrible losses and destruction caused by the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Our first search-and-rescue team is already in Türkiye in Malatya, working with others in a race against…
I would like to join my colleagues in expressing our most sincere condolences to all affected by the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for the updated information and for the excellent work being done to meet the humanitarian needs of the people …
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, and your team on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Council this month, and to assure you of our full cooperation. We reiterate our thanks to Japan for steering the work of the Council very successfully in January. I thank Special Re…
I thank Japan for this opportunity to address the question of resilience in peacebuilding. We also thank the Deputy Secretary- General, the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and Ms. Ndiaye for their valuable insights.
We share the assessment on the need to strengthen resilience through ownershi…
Let me join others in thanking Special Envoy Pedersen and Ms. Mudawi for their briefings.
Another year has passed, and we are approaching the twelfth year of the horrific war that has devastated Syria and its people. For anyone who is 12 years old in Syria, all they have seen since the very first d…
I join other colleagues in reiterating our deepest sympathies to Gabon following the premature loss of its Foreign Minister.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General La Lime for her briefing and welcome her back to the Council.
We reiterate our deep concern at the persistent lawles…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
Albania remains troubled by the continued deterioration of the security situation — a trend that has, unfortunately, continued during this month. The continued casualties in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as in Israel, are extreme…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Brands Kehris for her update. I also thank the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for its work in protecting and promoting human rights worldwide.
For us, there is no doubt that there is a direct link between human rights and securit…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for yet another in-depth briefing on the situation in Ukraine.
A year has passed, and the situation in Ukraine is no different. Three hundred and twenty-three days of an ongoing unjust and unjustified war have resulted in
devastating damage to the populatio…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on such an important topic, and we welcome you as you preside over this open debate. I also thank the Secretary-General, the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Donoghue, and Mr. Akande, for their valuable insights.
As of …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his efforts and the update on the developments in the country. I also thank Mr. Wouriyu Valbuena for his important insights. We welcome the presen…
We have left behind a year that has marked a notorious record. It goes down as one with the highest cost of life for Palestinians and the second for Israelis in the past several years. That is a terrible mark, which only shows how desperate the situation is and how much it needs an immediate remedy.…
I thank Deputy Secretary- General Amina Mohammed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General La Lime and the Ambassador of Gabon, in his capacity as the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022),
concerning Haiti, for the information shared. We welcome the participa…
Albania voted in favour of resolution 2669 (2022). We welcome its adoption and believe that this milestone text will go a long way to support the basic aspirations of the people of Myanmar, which have been denied by the brutal military coup. It was about time that the Security Council did its part.
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I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva and Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for their update and detailed information. It is always of particular value to listen to the voices of civil society in the Security Council, and we thank Ms. Seraj, a powerful voice for Afghan w…
I thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing.
We have taken note of the letters from Armenia to the President of the Security Council (S/2022/688) and from Azerbaijan to the Secretary-General (S/2022/885). Although with contrasting perspectives, the information provided helps us unde…
