I thank Special Representative Ján Kubiš for his briefing this morning and recognise his instrumental and indispensable contribution to Afghanistan’s transition, as well as the important role played by the entire United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) team and the wider United Nati…
I have the honour to present the report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of the same resolution, which is of course on the Iran sanctions regime. The present report covers the period from 25 June to 12 September, during which time t…
I thank Special Representative Leila Zerrougui, UNICEF and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for their indispensable efforts. I also thank Forest Whitaker, UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation. We are all in debt to his commitment and empathy. We welcome, as always, the presence…
I thank the United Kingdom for its strong leadership in putting resolution 2170 (2014) forward for adoption today.
The resolution is a decisive step by the Council. It is an unambiguous condemnation of the brutal and savage acts of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Nusra Front…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for his briefing.
Today’s meeting of the Security Council follows a national day of mourning in Australia yesterday, when all Australians remembered those who died when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over separatist-held terr…
I thank Mr. John Ging for his briefing this afternoon. I would also like to thank the United Nations agencies that are already working on the ground in Ukraine for their efforts.
The continuing conflict in eastern Ukraine has inevitably produced a humanitarian situation that is worsening. There has…
This month has been a hard one. On 17 July, we learned of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 over Ukrainian territory controlled by separatists, killing all 298 passengers and crew. Eighty of the victims were children. The victims were citizens of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Indo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for Rwanda’s strong leadership of the Security Council this month and for your country’s significant contribution to peacekeeping, a task to which Rwanda’s own history brings both deep empathy and an operational determination. I also wish to thank the Secretary- General f…
Obviously, we welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2165 (2014) by the Council today, and thank our co-authors, Jordan and Luxembourg, for the work done in bringing it to fruition. Decisively, the Council has been united today in recognizing that the humanitarian situation in Syria — already …
I thank Special Representative Ján Kubiš for his briefing and commend him and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for critical support for Afghanistan’s presidential election. I also thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Yu…
I have the honour to present the report of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of that resolution. The present report covers the period from 20 March to 24 June, during which time the Conunittee held one informal meeting and two informal …
I would like to thank Assistant Secretaries-General Zerihoun and Šimonović for their briefings this morning.
Australia welcomes President Poroshenko’s peace plan as a major opportunity for de-escalating the situation in Ukraine. We also welcome Ukraine’s declaration of a unilateral ceasefire and th…
Like others, we welcome Ms. Guebre Sellassie to her first Council briefing as Special Envoy.
Today’s meeting is important in maintaining the spotlight on the ongoing humanitarian, governance and security challenges in the Sahel region and on the United Nations response. As we have been warned time …
I would like to acknowledge from the very beginning the leadership of Michel Sidibé and all his dedicated colleagues at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), who are very instrumental to all our efforts.
I had the great honour to work with my colleague Ambassador Charles Ntwaagae…
In my last briefing to the Council, I spoke of Al-Qaida’s structural changes, noting that the movement no longer follows a centralized command structure. I also emphasized that the threat to international peace and security posed by Al-Qaida emanates from a range of increasingly heterogeneous groups…
Today the Security Council has again failed the people of Syria. The
war there is now in its fourth year. The country has been broken apart, possibly irretrievably. Almost half its population of more than 20 million people have fled or been displaced. One family flees Syria every 60 seconds. We fac…
I thank the Republic of Korea and you personally, Mr. President, for holding
this high-level debate, and for the Republic of Korea’s leadership on resolution 1540 (2004) and efforts to promote global non-proliferation. I also thank the Deputy Secretary-General.
As we all know only too starkly, the…
When we met on 29 April on the situation in Ukraine (see S/PV.7165), we urged Russia to abide by the commitments it made in Geneva on 17 April, including to refrain from violence, intimidation and provocative actions. Since then, as Under-Secretary-General Feltman has just told us, the situation has…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important briefing in the open Chamber. I would also like to thank High Commissioner Pillay and Special Adviser Dieng for their forthright and very disturbing briefings. Their visit was an essential one, and the Council itself must ensure that their immed…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman for his briefing and his warning to the Council. Australia strongly supported calls for the holding of tonight’s briefing to give the Council an up-to-date sense of the continuing destabilization and increased tensions in eastern Ukraine, much of which has ev…
