Switzerland thanks the United States for facilitating the process of negotiations and for its efforts to reach a consensus. We also recognize the engagement of the other members of the Council.
Switzerland voted in favour of draft resolution S/2024/255 because, like the large majority of the Counci…
I too would like to start by thanking Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing.
I would first like to welcome the adoption yesterday, Monday, 25 March, of resolution 2728 (2024), which “[d]emands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lastin…
Switzerland voted in favour of resolution 2728 (2024) and welcomes its adoption by the Security Council. Finally, there is cause for hope.
This vote should mark a return to greater humanity in the Middle East conflict. “Human dignity and decency must define us as a global community”. That is how th…
Switzerland voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted by the United States of America (S/2024/239) and regrets that it was not adopted owing to the veto of two permanent members of the Security Council.
In the light of the unbearable suffering on the ground, the Council should have achieved…
I would like to thank the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme for their briefings
and proposals. Switzerland is grateful for the ongoing and courageous commitment o…
I would like to join my colleagues in thanking Japan for putting this issue on the Council’s agenda. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, Ms. Mukhatzhanova and Mr. Floyd for their interventions and participation.
The suffering of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the atomic bombi…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
The Charter of the United Nations calls on us all to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States. It also establishes the imperative of refraining from the use of force. Those principles are indispensable pillars of …
I would like to begin by thanking our two speakers for their briefings and their work. I also welcome the participation of the representative of Yemen and wish him Ramadan kareem, a generous Ramadan.
As my colleagues from Malta and Slovenia mentioned, in parallel with the work of the Council, the s…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate on a subject that we believe is key. I also thank the briefers for their valuable contributions and enlightening insights.
A month ago, the Council followed the path of a sustainable peace cycle in Colombia. From prevention to mediation to peac…
I would like, similarly to my colleagues, to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and to thank all the United Nations staff on the ground and in the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan, which is in the process of withdrawing. I also welcome the presence and e…
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Otunbayeva and Ms. Gailani for their briefings. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for convening the Doha meeting of Special Envoys and to mention what we discussed in the Cou…
Like my colleagues, I would like to thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Chris Lockyear for their briefings, which cannot leave us indifferent. We are appalled by the recent attacks in Al-Mawasi where family members of Médecins sans frontières personnel were killed. Those casualties add to t…
In 2016, as we have heard, Colombia put an end to decades of conflict by signing one of the world’s most innovative peace agreements, the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace. The fact that it is now in its eighth year of implementation is the result of the…
Switzerland voted in favour of draft resolution S/2024/173 and regrets that it was not adopted despite the very broad support it enjoys among Council members.
I would like to thank the Algerian delegation for its efforts in building consensus around the text, which calls in particular for an immedi…
I would like to thank our two briefers for their briefings and their tireless efforts, including the recent efforts of the Special Envoy, to promote peace and protect civilians in Yemen. I would also like to welcome the representative of Yemen to this Security Council meeting.
As we have heard, thi…
Like my colleagues, I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her briefing and, above all, for her five years of intense work, expressed through her commitment to the country in and for which she served. I think “powerful and hopeful words” was a beautiful description. …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I would also like to join my colleagues in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths, both for his briefing and for his work and that of his team.
In view of the devastating human toll of this confli…
I thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for his briefing.
In 1956, the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the time, Dag Hammarskjöld, reminded us here in this Chamber that:
“The principles of the Charter are, by far, greater than the Organization…
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his invaluable work and his briefing and Ms. Yolanda Perea Mosquera for her statement and her bravery. I also welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, His Excelle…
I would like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, for his briefing and the valuable work of his Office. I also thank Ms. Lori-Anne Théroux-Bénoni for her briefing and valuable information.
I am encouraged by the signs of continued strengthening …
