We welcome your presiding over the Council today, Sir, which demonstrates the importance that Switzerland attaches to the responsibility of the Council in the current tragic crisis in the Middle East. I also want to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his commitment and for his briefing today.
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I thank the Secretary- General for his briefing and for his steadfast efforts to bring peace to the Sudan. I also thank Ms. Hanaa Eltigani for her briefing and for her recommendations today.
We have three messages today. They pertain to the cessation of hostilities, the coordination of peace effort…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing.
In a crisis of vengeance and retaliations, only a search for a common interest can prevail over war. That common interest can only be peace. Every provocation, strike and reaction lead us further away from peace. In our meet…
We also want to thank Switzerland for putting this important topic on our agenda. I would also like to thank our briefers, Mr. Geiss, Dr. Bloch, Dr. Courtine and Mr. Awad, for their insightful briefings.
Rapidly advancing and converging technologies are undoubtedly revolutionizing conflict dynamics…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his contribution, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Finland and the European Union in this meeting.
In the past months, we have been witnessing spiralling violence in the war in Ukraine. Ru…
I want to thank Acting Under-Secretary-General Msuya for her briefing today.
Slovenia is a country established on the principle of self-determination. Despite our celebration of independence, “siege” is not a foreign word to us. Our capital was under siege for three years during the Second World Wa…
Slovenia associates itself with the statement made by the representative of the European Union. The following remarks are made in our national capacity.
Slovenia co-sponsored draft resolution A/79/L.7 on the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (see A/79/266). As one of the 32 St…
I too would like to welcome Ministers Murillo and Cristo to today’s meeting, and I would also like to thank Special Representative Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and commend his leadership of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, which plays an indispensable role in supporting efforts …
I want to thank Special Envoy Grundberg, Acting Under-Secretary-General Msuya and Ms. Jumaan for their briefings today, and I welcome the Ambassador of Yemen to the Chamber.
Regrettably, recent weeks have seen a dangerous escalation in the region from which Yemen is not immune. We condemn the lates…
I too want to thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary- General Lacroix for their briefings.
It has been a year of escalating exchanges of fire across the Blue Line. Again, civilians — the majority of them women and children — are paying the highest price. The spiral of retaliatio…
I also want to thank Commissioner-General Lazzarini and Director Doughten for their briefings, sobering as always, as was to be expected.
A year ago, we woke up to shocking news from Israel. The events left us confused, and it took days for us to understand them. I take this opportunity to once aga…
I also want to thank the briefers, Ms. Msuya and Dr. Ryan.
A long time ago, we exhausted our vocabulary for describing the tragedy of Palestinians in Gaza. It is difficult to comprehend and accept that such suffering
of civilians, especially children, has, before our eyes, been met with impunity f…
I thank you very much for organizing today’s meeting, Mr. President. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing. I believe it is useful for the Council to hear the latest on the most extensive conventional war that the world has seen in decades.
In the past two da…
I want to thank the briefers, Special Coordinator Wennesland and, especially, Dr. Baxter from Save the Children for her very chilling briefing. I think that we are not human if such briefings do not touch us.
An ancient saying confirms that the first victim of war is the truth. But the biggest vict…
I want to thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Director Doughten for their briefings. I also want to welcome the Yemeni Ambassador present today in this Chamber.
What we witnessed last month with the Houthi- claimed drone attack in Tel Aviv and subsequent Israeli strikes on Al-Hudaydah was an extremel…
I too want to thank the three briefers — Special Representative Haysom, Director Wosornu and Major General Gituai — for their briefings and their continuous commitment to supporting South Sudan under increasingly challenging conditions. I also want to welcome the representative of South Sudan to t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this urgent meeting, as requested by Algeria. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo as well as Director Doughten for their briefings today.
This Saturday, the world was once again shell-shocked by another devastating air strike in Gaz…
I want to welcome you to the Chamber, Mr. President, and to thank you for your country’s leadership this month. I would also like to begin by thanking Mr. Dennis Francis, President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres and Ms. Sithembile Mbete for their insights and briefings t…
I would like to thank Sierra Leone for organizing today’s briefing. I also want to thank today’s briefers — Ms. Bahous, Ms. Pobee and Ms. Khair — for their insights and for their recommendations to the Council.
In recent years, we have seen a drawdown of peacekeeping operations and special politi…
I would like to thank Ms. Wosornu from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Mr. Omollo from
the World Food Programme (WPF) for their sobering remarks and for their very clear appeal to the Council. We commend and appreciate their tireless efforts to help the people of …
