At the outset, we thank Special Coordinator ad interim Sigrid Kaag for her briefing, including on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Israel believes it has found the solution to the Palestinian question, a solution it has often pursued in the past but never so openly, brazenly and viciou…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank Assistant Secretary- General Khaled Khiari for his briefing and to convey, through him, our condolences and solidarity for the United Nations staff members killed or injured while they were in United Nations premises — some sustaining life-altering injuries and amp…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Madam President, for convening this urgent meeting at this critical time, to thank Algeria and Somalia for requesting it on behalf of the Group of Arab States, and to thank China, France, Guyana, Pakistan, Slovenia and the United Kingdom for their support of that…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting at this critical time. We also express our thanks to Special Coordinator ad
Israel’s plan is clear in Gaza, in East Jerusalem and in the rest of the West Bank: get rid of Palestinian demography to seize Palestinian geography. It has a recurren…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting, and I thank Algeria in that regard. Allow me also to thank Commissioner-General Lazzarini for his remarkable and continued service and, through him, to express our deep appreciation to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pales…
I thank the Russian delegation, with the support of Algeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Somalia, for convening this important meeting to discuss the situation of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip and to highlight their plight and the urgent need to provide them with protection and care.
Now th…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate the brotherly Republic of Algeria on its assumption of the presidency for this month. We wish you, Sir, every success. I would like to thank you for your tireless international effort in defence of the Palestinian people and their just cause, especially in…
At the outset, allow me to thank the Council members who will be departing at the end of the year — Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland — for their tireless efforts to uphold international law, including by achieving a ceasefire, which is the necessary prerequisite for everything else …
I thank you very much, Madam President, and I apologize for taking the floor. I challenge the remarks just made by the Ambassador of Israel. I accept the resolutions of the Security Council. I accept the resolutions of the General Assembly. We recognize the State of Israel. His side does not recogni…
I am terribly sorry, Madam President, for taking the floor again, but I do not think that the representative of an occupying Power whose Government and army have killed more than 44,000 Palestinian civilians — possibly 10,000 more under the rubble — and injured more than 100,000 Palestinian civilian…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I also thank Mr. Muhannad Hadi for his presentation, yet again conveying the gravity of the situation at this moment.
We have spoken many times of transforming the Middle East through peace. This war and this genocide are transforming the Mi…
At the outset, I want to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting at the ministerial level and to thank all the Ministers in attendance at this crucial juncture. Allow me also to thank Mr. Wennesland for his sobering briefing. Through him, we express our appreciation for all the efforts …
The State of Palestine thanks Algeria, Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for calling for this very important and timely meeting. We also want to express our appreciation to the three briefers for sharing with us the stunning facts about the horrifying reality of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Str…
There is no international law-based order without the International Court of Justice. The Court is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and one of the main pillars of the post-Second World War order. We rely on the Court, in both its contentious and advisory proceedings, to guide Stat…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for your decision to personally preside over this meeting and to express our appreciation to the Ministers who are taking part in this open debate. I would also like to thank the briefer, Mr. Tor Wennesland, and through him the United Nations, as…
I want to thank Algeria for requesting an urgent meeting on behalf of the Group of Arab States. We also want to thank you, Madam President, and the members of the Security Council for their swift convening of this meeting. I also add my voice to those who have thanked the Acting Under- Secretary-Gen…
I was reluctant to take the floor, but it seems that the Israeli representative keeps pushing for a reaction. In that connection, let me say the following.
I am not asking his Government to condemn the killing of Palestinian civilians. I am telling his Government to stop killing them.
I do not wan…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank Slovenia and Algeria for requesting this meeting. I also thank the briefers, Mr. Lazzarini and Ms. Doughten, for their words but more importantly for the actions undertaken by their agencies — notably the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
Palestine welcomes the Foreign Minister of Slovenia presiding over this meeting of the Security Council, and we thank her for her statement as well. Allow me at the outset to thank the briefers for their presentations. We thank the honourable Ms. Helen Clark for her significant contribution to our d…
