Like my colleagues, I would like to thank Mozambique for convening us here today, and I wish to thank the Secretary-General and Commissioner Adeoye for their insightful briefings. I also wish to thank the Peacebuilding Commission for its support of peacebuilding efforts and, in particular, Ambassado…
I too extend my warm thanks to Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Director Edem Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings, in which they repeatedly highlighted the urgency of the situation.
Switzerland reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire a…
I would like to thank Ms. Doughten, Director at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Caitlin Howarth, Director for the Conflict Observatory team of the Yale Humanitarian Research Laboratory, for their briefings. We are pleased that the voices of science are being heard by…
Like my colleagues, I would like to start by thanking Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths for their intervention and above all their commitment to the civilian population in Yemen.
As has been mentioned, it was a context about which we…
Like my colleagues, as this is the first public meeting this month, I would like to assure you, Mr. President,
of our full support during your presidency, and I would also like to congratulate Malta on its successful presidency last month. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix …
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Jenča, and the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also listened attentively to the remarks delivered by Ms. Cvijanović. We also wish to welcome the participation of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and S…
I would like to start by thanking Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, the Director of Coordination of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, and Ms. Hayford from Malteser International for their briefings. They all have highlighted the enormous and long-lasting suf…
Switzerland thanks the Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible
for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 for submitting its latest report (se…
I would like to start by thanking the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Ms. Pétronille Vaweka for their briefings and their efforts. I would also like to thank the Peacebuilding Commission for its written o…
I would like to begin by thanking the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, for her briefing and commitment. Four months have passed since the adoption of resolution 2720 (2023), during which she has made every effort to coordinate the delivery of aid to the c…
We thank President Francis for convening this annual debate on the use of the veto. That right, strongly contested today in our debate, was already far from unanimous among the founding Members when our Organization was created. Yet it was presented as essential” in 1945 in order to create an intern…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate, which asks how to prevent conflict-related sexual violence, one of the most frequent and serious crimes, which almost always goes unpunished, as we heard today. That must change. I also thank the three briefers, and Ms. Ahmadi, in particular, f…
I would like to thank Secretary-General Mr. António Guterres for his briefing, and especially for his repeated calls for de-escalation in the region. Switzerland unequivocally endorses those calls and reiterates its support for the robust commitment of the United Nations in the region.
Switzerland …
Switzerland has abstained in the voting on draft resolution S/2024/312. Without opposing it, we believe that at present, that step is not conducive to easing the situation and finding a peaceful solution, given the great instability and the conflict on the ground. We believe that it would be better …
Like my colleagues, I would like to warmly thank the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, for his briefing and to commend his efforts and those of the Agency to alleviate the suffering of the civil…
Welcome you back to the Chamber, Mr. President.
Allow me to begin with the inspiring story of two young women agents of change.
Ibtihal is Libyan, originally from Tripoli. In the midst of conflict, she organized a training programme to help women and young people gain access to opportunities to ea…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily and Ambassador Yamazaki for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of our dear colleague the representative of Libya in this meeting.
I would like to address three points.
First, with regard to the political situation, we ca…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for their briefings. I would also like to welcome Ms. Wameedh Shakir and salute her resolute commitment to the Yemeni people…
As the Council heard just now, on 30 May, under the Swiss presidency of the Council, Director General Rafael Grossi, whom I thank for his great commitment and for his briefing today, presented five concrete and practical principles for preventing an accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. …
We welcome the swift convening of this meeting of the Security Council, and we thank Secretary-General Guterres for his statement, in which he details the most recent events and underscores our shared responsibility.
Switzerland firmly condemns the coordinated attacks by Iran on targets in Israel l…
