Today Security Council made history in authorizing the Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti. We have stepped up to create a new way of preserving global peace and security, answering the repeated calls of a Member State facing a multidimensional crisis amid alarming, spiralling gang viole…
The United States welcomes the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) for another year. I would like specifically to thank the United Kingdom for its tireless efforts to…
As resolution 76/262 promotes transparency and accountability in the use of the veto in the Security Council, the United States of America continues to support its full implementation. This resolution was co-sponsored by more than 80 delegations, including my own. And now we find ourselves again in …
I thank the United Kingdom for convening this discussion, and I also thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Clark and Mr. Yi Zeng for their valuable insights.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers incredible promise for addressing global challenges such as those related to food security, education and medi…
We would like to express our appreciation to Ukraine for organizing this important debate every year since 2014, when Russia brazenly seized and attempted to annex Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. It was a violation of international law then and remains so today. Nine years later, Russia has moved its a…
I thank Prosecutor Khan for his report and his briefing today on the ongoing investigations and prosecutions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) concerning the situation in Darfur. We appreciate the unwavering commitment of the Court’s judges, attorneys and staff to the pursuit of justice for …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing.
The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the 12 July intercontinental ballistic-missile (ICBM) launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea. It is alarming, if hardly surprising, that we find ourselves back in th…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and his presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2023/477). We appreciate the vital role that the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia continues to play in supporting peace in Colombia. …
As others have noted, this is the third time in less than a month that Russia has called for the Council to discuss the Nord Stream pipeline issue. Russia’s efforts to try to use the Council as a platform for its disinformation are as cynical as they are transparent. Bludgeoning the Council with rep…
I thank Mr. Ebo for his briefing this morning and for the continuing efforts of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on this important issue.
As we meet again to discuss serious, numerous brazen violations of the Chemi…
I would like to thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing. I also thank Ambassador Biang for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022), concerning Haiti. I would also…
I would like to first thank France, as the penholder, for its work on this resolution (resolution 2690 (2023)).
While we deeply regret the transition Govern ment’s decision to abandon the United Nations Multi dimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the harm that that wi…
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi and Under- Secretary-General Griffiths for their briefings.
As the Under-Secretary-General underscored, the authorization for United Nations cross-border deliveries of humanitarian assistance through Bab Al-Hawa expires in just 11 days. Last month in this Chamber…
I thank Mr. Souef, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia, and Ms. McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, for their excellent briefings. We extend a warm welcome to Ms. Catriona Laing as she assumes her position as Special Representativ…
We welcome the adoption by consensus of the eighth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) (resolution 77/298). We also thank Ambassadors Rae of Canada and Ladeb of Tunisia and their teams for co-facilitating this difficult but important negotiation process.
When the S…
I thank the briefers for their excellent and informative briefings.
We congratulate Member States on progress made towards implementation of the Yaoundé Architecture during the 10 years since its creation. As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Yaoundé Code of Conduct, we look to the Yaoundé …
I thank Special Representative Bathily and Ambassador Ishikane for their briefings. We also thank Ms. Imneina for her contribution.
The United States takes note of the progress reported by the 6+6 joint committee in reaching agreement on a package of electoral laws and thanks Morocco for hosting th…
I thank Special Representative Wane for his briefing and welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Diop in today’s meeting.
We are pleased to see that the Secretary-General has continued to monitor the Malian transitional Government’s progress towards full compliance with the four benchmarks in…
I want to thank today’s briefers, His Eminence Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, His Excellency Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher and Ms. Latifa Ibn Ziaten. I would also like to thank you, Madam Minister, for convening this meeting to further the protection of universal human rights, religious coexistence and …
Standing for the freedoms of expression and religion or belief, it is United States policy to support the protection of human rights as a central tenet of international peace and security, and we view efforts to that end as foundational to the mission of the United Nations and to our work together h…
