I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui, Under-Secretary- General Ladsous, Executive Director Lake and Mr. Tolbert, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, for their briefings.…
On behalf of the host country and the American people, I express our deepest sympathies on the passing of President John Evans Atta Mills of Ghana.
President Mills led Ghana through a period of remarkable growth and development. As President Obama said in his message of condolence,
“President Mill…
I would like to thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process for his briefing.
Last week the world witnessed, and the Security Council appropriately condemned, a heinous terrorist attack in Bulgaria. The target was innocent Israeli tourists on vacation on the Black Sea. Five Isra…
I thank Special Representative Moussa and African Union Special Envoy Madeira for their statements this morning.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has plagued Central Africa for far too long. The United States commends Special Representative Moussa and the United Nations for the comprehensive region…
As we gather here today to renew once again our commitment to
the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, the incidents of terrorism this month alone — in Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Israel and elsewhere — remind us that no country is immune from the threat of te…
I would like to thank Tribunal Presidents Meron and Joensen, as well as Prosecutors Brammertz and Jallow, for their briefings today and their continued service. I congratulate President Joensen on his recent election as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). We wish him …
Let me start by thanking the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for his informative briefing today on the situation in Darfur, as well as for his contributions over the past nine years to the cause of ending impunity for the most serious crimes of concern t…
I thank Special Representative Zarif for his briefing. I would like to welcome both Foreign Minister Hoxhaj and Foreign Minister Jeremić back to the Council, and thank them for sharing their perspectives with us.
I would like to make four main points today. First, the United States welcomes the pea…
I would like welcome you, Mr. Minister. We extend our congratulations to the United Kingdom on assuming the Council’s presidency and thank the delegation of Togo for its leadership of the Council last month. We thank the Secretary-General for his statement this morning and Special Representative Mah…
I would like to welcome President José Ramos-Horta to the Council. The United States deeply appreciates his passionate advocacy of human rights and democracy around the world and thanks him for his presence and assessments on the progress Timor-Leste has made.
We also wish to congratulate Timor-Les…
We thank the Secretary-General for producing his informative report (S/2012/50), and Under-Secretary- General O’Brien and Executive Director Fedotov for their briefings today. We believe that the report, prepared in conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United…
The United States is honoured and grateful for the opportunity to serve as the Kimberley Process Chair for 2012. We look forward to working closely with the Vice-Chair, the Republic of South Africa, in the year ahead to advance the credibility of the Process and the efficacy of its work. We thank th…
We welcome you to the Council today, Madam, as well as the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, and we thank you both for your statements.
I would like to thank African Union (AU) Peace and Security Commissioner Lamamra and Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for their briefings. I would also like to thank …
The United States joins others gathered here today to recognize the twentieth anniversary of resolution 46/182, a pivotal instrument in shaping the framework for the coordination of United Nations emergency humanitarian assistance. As a foundational document, resolution 46/182 laid out the guiding p…
We wish to thank Tribunal Presidents Khan and Meron and Prosecutors Jallow and Brammertz for their briefings today. We also wish to congratulate President Meron on his recent re-election as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and wish him much success. I…
Let me start by thanking you, Mr. President, for bring us together to discuss these new challenges to peace and security. Many thanks also to Executive Director Fedotov, High Commissioner Guterres and Director- General Chan for their briefings today. I also welcome the Ministers from Bosnia and Herz…
Mr. President, I wish to welcome you to the Council. I wish also to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste and the Vice-Minister of Brazil. I extend my thanks to Special Representative Haq for her briefing this morning and for her dedicated leadership and commitment to solidifying p…
We welcome Libya back to the Human Rights Council. Muammar Al-Qadhafi’s Libya was the only member of the Council that has ever been suspended for gross and systematic violations of human rights, as called for in resolution 60/251, which created the Council. We commend the new Libyan Government for t…
I will begin by thanking the Secretary-General and the Department of Political Affairs for their reports (S/2011/693 and S/2011/704, respectively). I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Abou Moussa, for his briefing.
I would like to welcome the Secretary-General of the E…
I wish at the outset to thank Ambassadors Puri, Wittig and Sangqu for their briefings.
In September, the Secretary-General hosted an extremely productive high-level symposium on counter-terrorism, marking the tenth anniversary of the events of 11 September 2001. That event allowed Member States to …
