I thank you, Mr. President, for bringing us together around the topic of leadership, and all the briefers for their important briefings.
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the members of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) Group.
The leadership of the United …
I thank you, Mr. President, for this debate, and the briefers, for their, as always, inspiring thoughts.
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency (ACT) Group, composed of 27 Member States from all regional groups, working to strengthen …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. We commend the Republic of Korea, Denmark and Pakistan for their efforts this year as the trio on peacekeeping. We also thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Zahneisen and Ms. Russo for their insightfu…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of 27 members of the Group of Friends on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
I would also like to start by thanking the briefers for their remarks.
As we have heard today, armed conflicts have continued unabated, with a sharp rise in…
Allow me at the outset to join my colleagues in congratulating you, Mr. President, and your team on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and in thanking our Danish colleague and team for their successful presidency in March. I welcome the holding of this meeting and I thank the President…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in thanking the Secretary-General and Ms. Russo for their briefings. We welcome this debate on the future of peace operations under the Danish presidency.
For the women and men deployed on the ground, this is not an abstract discussion. I would ther…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing and for his cooperation over the past two years. We have also taken good note of Mr. Knights’ statement.
The escalation of violence we have witnessed in recent days must stop. The rate of Houthi drone and missile attacks on I…
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the United Kingdom, as penholder, for its efforts during the negotiations, and to the other members of the Council for their engagement. I also welcome the presence of the representatives of Somalia and Ethiopia at this meeting. Switzerland voted in fa…
Here we are at our last meeting on the agenda for this year, and I am about to make what may be my last official statement on behalf of Switzerland, after two years on the Council. This is also around the seventieth meeting dedicated to Ukraine. As in every previous meeting on this subject, I will r…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, not only for his briefing but for his and his Office’s cooperation throughout our term as co-penholder on this file. I also thank Ms. Addae-Mensah for her briefing.
As we heard once aga…
I too would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his presentation. We listened attentively to Ms. Efron’s presentation and Mr. Levy’s poignant story. Since 7 October 2023, Switzerland has strongly condemned the acts of terror and hostage-taking by Hamas and other affiliated gr…
I would like to begin by thanking the Under-Secretary- General and Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Tom Fletcher, and Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, not only for their briefings but also for their invaluable work over the past few days, includin…
I would like to thank Ms. Lisa Doughten of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for her briefing.
Over the past two years, Switzerland has repeatedly expressed its views on Ukraine in the Council. The Ukrainian people have always been at the centre of our concerns and today is no…
I would like to thank Deputy Special Representative and Officer-in-Charge Stephanie Koury for her briefing and her work, Ambassador Yamazaki and his team for their work over the past two years and Mr. Ali Omar, founder and director of Libya Crimes Watch, for his briefing. I welcome the participation…
I too would like to thank Special Representative Otunbayeva, Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) for their briefings, and Ms. Mahboob for her courageous wor…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Envoy Hans Grundberg for his briefing, as well as him and his team for all their invaluable work and collaborative efforts over the past two years. I would also like to warmly welcome Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergen…
I too would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing, as well as for her deep commitment, which we have witnessed over the past two years. I welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the …
Switzerland is honoured to introduce today, in partnership with the United States, this draft resolution (S/2024/879) aimed at facilitating humanitarian assistance and saving lives. We thank the United States for its valuable collaboration and all members of the Council for their constructive engage…
I too would also like to begin by thanking the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine Russell, and the two civil society representatives, Mr. Raymond and Ms. Rashevska, for their briefings.
We just heard today, as we have so many times before, that the difference between a childhood experience…
Allow me, like my colleagues, to thank the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom and her team for their excellent work in November. I would also like to congratulate you, Madam President, on taking the helm once again for the month of December. We will have seen three women-led presidencies…
