I thank you, Mr. President, and the Slovenian presidency of the Security Council, for your swift response to Algeria’s request for convening this meeting in the light of the further deterioration of the grave situation and increasing civilian casualties in occupied Palestine — both the Gaza Strip an…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank the briefers for their presentations, and in particular Dr. Louisa Baxter for her poignant testimony. Through her, I would like to pay tribute to all humanitarians working in impossible conditions, notably Palestinian humanitarian workers. Instead of being offered t…
As we gather here, for the tenth month in a row, to advance a ceasefire to save human lives, Israel continues taking human lives and every action possible to spread a wildfire across the Middle East. As we sit here on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, which were
birthed in th…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank Russia, Algeria and China for convening this meeting. Allow me also to thank the briefers and, through them, the humanitarian community.
Humanitarians in Palestine are trying to deliver on their noble mission under impossible circumstances and at the peril of their…
At the outset, Sir, allow me to express our appreciation for your decision to take part in and preside over this ministerial-level meeting and to thank the Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary- General for his briefing.
There is an old Greek proverb that says, “A society grows great when old men plant …
I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s quarterly report (S/2024/480) on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The report of the Secretary-General tells a story — a story members know only too well, but to which they should never grow accus…
Gaza will haunt the conscience of the world long after this genocide stops, and stop it must — now. We have spoken too many times and our people are still being murdered every single day. Let me therefore just say the following today.
Two million people have lost loved ones in the past seven months…
I stand before the Assembly today as the massacres against the Palestinian people continue unabated. The atrocities and discovery of mass graves in the vicinity of hospitals that were besieged and attacked by Israel is a new, dark chapter in that never-ending tragedy.
As we meet here today, Israel …
Our right to self-determination has never once been subject to bargaining or negotiation. Our right to self- determination is a natural right, a historic right, a legal right, a right to live in our homeland, Palestine, as an independent State that is free and sovereign.
Our right to self-determina…
The General Assembly called for a cessation of hostilities 20 days after the start of the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, six months ago today. By an overwhelming majority, the Assembly demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire a month later, stressing the need to protect the Palestinian civil…
We want to express our appreciation to Algeria, Guyana and Slovenia for calling for the convening today’s important meeting, and I also want to express our appreciation for the unanimous decision taken by the Group of Arab States yesterday, through our representative, the Ambassador of Algeria, to a…
I wish to begin my statement by conveying my deepest condolences to the people and Government of the Russian Federation, and
my good friend Vassily Nebenzia, following the horrific terrorist attack in Moscow. We express our sympathy to the bereaved families and stand in solidarity with our Russian …
We are meeting as Muslims around the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.
In Gaza, death and suffering can be found everywhere; food and hope can be found nowhere. The massacres of Palestinian civilians continue as we speak. And many of the people fasting had nothing to eat for suhur — …
There is no greater threat to international peace and security than the commission of atrocities. And yet, for five months now, Israel has been committing atrocities against the Palestinian people, unchecked and unhinged, and the Security Council has been prevented repeatedly from calling for an imm…
We thank you, Madam President, for responding to Algeria’s request to convene this urgent meeting, and we also thank Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for supporting that request in follow-up to the white note on the food insecurity crisis in the Gaza Strip, issued by the Secretary-General, pursuant …
We thank you, Madam President, and your friendly country of Guyana for your leadership of the Security Council.
We also thank Algeria for all its efforts and for the statement delivered a few minutes ago by my brother Ambassador Bendjama, bringing forth a draft resolution on behalf of the Group of …
We thank Algeria for requesting today’s meeting as a follow-up to the order of the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). I also want to reiterate ou…
At the outset, I would like to thank the brotherly country of Algeria for requesting this meeting.
(spoke in English)
Allow me to thank the briefers, Under-Secretary- General Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General Brands Kehris, for their statements, but more importantly for the relentless effo…
I stand here representing a people being slaughtered, with families killed in their entirety, men and women shot in the streets; thousands abducted, tortured and humiliated; children killed, amputated, orphaned and scarred for life. No people should endure that. It must stop.
No one can understand …
The Security Council first met (see S/PV.9439) to address this grave crisis when hundreds of Palestinians had been killed by Israel, the occupying Power, in its siege of, and aggression against, the Gaza Strip. The Council is now meeting after more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed — almost …
