I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for his briefing and leadership. We also welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Diop.
Since this is the last regular briefing on Mali and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) during…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General La Lime for her briefing. I also welcome the Foreign Ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as the representatives of Belize and the International Organization of the Francophonie, to this meeting.
Norway welcomes the convening…
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Assistant Secretary-General Msuya for their briefings, as well as for all their hard work and efforts in the past weeks and months to bring the parties together on a path towards peace.
It is not too late to reach an agreement. France reiterates its call for a la…
We thank the Secretary- General and Chairperson Faki Mahamat for their valuable insights. The global challenges we face are disproportionately affecting Africa. We thank Gabon, as well as Ghana and Kenya, for their efforts to ensure that the effects on Africa are placed higher on the Security Counci…
I thank you, Mr. President, for putting this important topic on the agenda, and Ms. Waly, Mr. Adeoye and Mr. Handy for their insightful briefings.
Conflict over the management of natural resources is one of the key drivers of violence against civilians, and crimes related to such resources have giv…
First, let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing. We also welcome the participation of the representatives of Japan and the Republic of Korea at this meeting.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has performed a record number of ballistic missile tests since the b…
We voted in favour of draft resolution S/2022/720. The Security Council has a responsibility to act to prevent and end acts of aggression and atrocities, and certainly where breaches of territorial integrity are concerned. We deeply regret that the draft resolution was not adopted owing to a veto ca…
We thank the briefers for their updates.
The damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in international waters within the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark is deeply worrying and has created a very serious situation in terms of climate and environmental consequences and risks to shipping. We r…
I too would like to thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
Last week, Norway chaired the annual ministerial meeting of the donor group for Palestine — the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee — here in New York. The Committee urged Israelis, Palestinians and international partners to take steps…
We thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing.
In recent days, we have all seen images of armed Russian soldiers going door to door in occupied parts of Ukraine to collect votes for a so-called referendum on joining Russia. This is a phony pretext from the aggressor, Russia, to try to …
I thank Mr. Potzel, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and Ms. Waly, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for their briefings. I also thank Ms. Fawzia Koofi for her powerful remarks.
One year after the Taliban takeover in Afghanist…
I thank Special Representative La Lime and the representatives of the World Food Programme and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the Foreign Ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Permanent Representative of C…
Let me begin by expressing our deep appreciation to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme for sharing their very important insights.
We listened with great concern to OCHA’s update on food insecurity due to…
I too thank Assistant Secretary- General Jenča for his briefing. I also welcome the presence here today of the representatives for Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Tensions have been on the rise again in recent weeks and we are deeply concerned about the ongoing military hostilities along the Armenia-Azerba…
I make this statement on the political situation in Syria in my national capacity as the representative of Norway. I once again thank the Deputy Special Envoy and Mr. Darwish for their remarks.
The issue of missing and arbitrarily detained persons in Syria is vitally important, and Norway welcomes …
I deliever this statement on behalf of Ireland and Norway, the co-penholders on the Syria humanitarian file. Let me first thank the briefers for their presentations.
As we have heard so many times, the humanitarian situation in Syria remains alarming. Conflict, food insecurity, drought, the coronav…
We thank today’s briefers for their insights and thank, in particular, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his tireless efforts.
Almost 11 months after the military takeover, our main message remains the same — only a civilian- led transitional Government and a clear, but reali…
Let me first thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary- General Brands Kehris and the civil-society representative, Ms. Drik, for their briefings.
There can be no doubt about the significant and tragic humanitarian consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s illegal inv…
I thank the briefers for their insights.
Let me first express Norway’s sympathies to those bereaved and those harmed in recent attacks by Al-Shabaab, including at the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, where two Norwegian-Somali nationals were among the casualties.
Political stability and unity are the key…
I would like to start by thanking the Brazilian presidency for organizing this briefing. I would also like to thank the current and former Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for their briefings.
Under the leadership of Egypt and Bangladesh, the Peacebuilding Commission has continued to ho…
