Switzerland voted in favour of resolution 2722 (2024) and welcomes its adoption.
As we begin 2024, the Security Council is sending a strong signal reaffirming the importance of strict
compliance with the rights and freedoms of navigation in the Red Sea in accordance with international law. We woul…
Switzerland voted in favour of resolution 2720 (2023) and welcomes its adoption.
I would like to thank the delegation of the United Arab Emirates and all colleagues — Council members, as well as colleagues from the region — for their tireless efforts to find a compromise in order to alleviate the d…
We welcome the unanimous adoption of
resolution 2719 (2023).
Switzerland thanks the three African members (A3) of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and Mozambique — for their efforts during the negotiation process on the resolution on funding for African Union-led peace support operations. The …
I speak on behalf of Switzerland and Brazil, co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file. We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and the Director of the Humanitarian
Financing and Resource Mobilization Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lisa Doughten, for their bri…
I would also like to begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva, our colleague from the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Rajasingham, and Ms. Akbar for their briefings.
The New Agenda for Peace highlights education as one of the proven deve…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing, and we welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea in our deliberations.
Once again, the Council is meeting because of a ballistic missile launch by the Democrat…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Major General Patrick Gauchat for their participation in this meeting. We thank them for
their great efforts to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights and to liaise with all regional actors so as…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily and Deputy Permanent Representative Yamanaka for their briefings.
Before elaborating on three points, allow me to refer to the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya last Saturday. Sixty-one migrants drowned. Thousands of
people die a…
I thank the briefers for their presentations.
The modest sum of $130 is enough to buy an AK- 47 assault rifle in Afghanistan, as Lynne O’Donnell reports in Foreign Policy. That amount attests to the current widespread availability of small arms and light weapons that are fuelling the ravages caused…
I too would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita and Ms. Sandrine
Lusamba for their briefings and their efforts. I also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of representatives of States in the region.
During a recent visit to the Democratic Republic of…
I thank Mr. Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, for his briefing, and I have also taken note of Ms. Wright’s remarks.
Today’s meeting is yet another attempt by Russia to deflect from its responsibility for the war against Ukraine and its cons…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate in response to the call of the Secretary-General, whose presence in the Council today Switzerland welcomes.
The fact that Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations has been invoked for the first time under his mandate is a testament to …
We all had the opportunity to express our full positions
this morning (see S/PV.9498), so allow me to just add the following.
Switzerland voted in favour of the draft resolution presented by the United Arab Emirates (S/2023/970) in the knowledge that a humanitarian ceasefire is understood as a tim…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting. I also thank Secretary-General Guterres, Executive Director Waly, Professor Cammett and Ms. Nyanjura for their remarks.
As we heard, organized crime feeds on violence. It is a harmful cycle that often transcends borders. It
undermines the ef…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting, devoted in particular to the situation of women and children in the context of the Middle East conflict.
We are today accompanied by a glimmer of hope. Switzerland welcomes the agreement enabling the release of 50 hostages and the establishme…
I join my colleagues in thanking Assistant Secretary- General Jenča and the World Food Programme representative and country director in Ukraine, Mr. Matthew Hollingworth, for their briefings.
On the ninetieth anniversary of the Holodomor, I too would first like to pay tribute to the millions of vic…
Switzerland has been a member of the Security Council for almost a year and is conscious of its responsibility towards the General Assembly, which elected it to the Council. Unfortunately, we have observed that all too often there is a lack of willingness to compromise and a lack of trust within the…
I would like to begin by thanking Assistant Secretary- General Martha Pobee for her briefing. As she indicated in her sobering remarks, fighting continues to rage in the Sudan, with no sign of abatement. Far from media attention, the conflict is taking a catastrophic toll on the civilian population,…
Switzerland welcomes the Council’s adoption of resolution 2712 (2023). That first step comes belatedly, however, as we deplore the victims of Hamas’s terrorist acts and the deaths of thousands of civilians in Israel and throughout the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October, including a huge …
I thank you, Sir, for convening this open meeting and the moment of silence that we were able to dedicate to all the victims. I would also like to thank the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Mr. Ghebreyesus, and Mr. Marwan Jilani, Director General of the Palestine Red Crescent Socie…
