I would like to begin by thanking the co-penholders for their facilitation and consensus-building efforts. We also acknowledge the commitment of the members of the Security Council.
Switzerland voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2023/638) because, like the vast majority of other members, we…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate.
I would like to begin by thanking the Deputy Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Lacroix, and the three Force Commanders, Generals Subramanian, Rodrigues de Miranda Filho and Lázaro Sáenz, for their briefings. In addition to t…
I would like to welcome Mr. Leonardo Santos Simão, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. I wish him every success in his new role and look forward to continuing our productive cooperation with him. I also thank the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African …
I associate myself with the statement made by our colleague, the Permanent Representative of Brazil, and our co-penholder on the humanitarian issue.
I would like to add a few points in my national capacity on the political situation in Syria.
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Envoy Pede…
I would like to begin not only by thanking Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Under- Secretary-General Martin Griffiths for their briefings, but also, on behalf of my country, Switzerland, but also by expressing our deep appreciation for their tireless work to alleviate the suffering of t…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing today’s debate, which reinforces the transparency and accountability of the Security Council to the General Assembly. We welcome the transmission of the Council’s special report on the exercise of the veto in that regard. Having been elec…
We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for his participation in this important debate. My thanks also go to Mr. Clark and Mr. Yi Zeng for their valuable and impressive contributions.
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“I believe it is only a matter of time before we see thousands of robots like me …
We last held a debate on this agenda item on 23 February 2022, on the eve of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine (see A/76/PV.58 and A/76/PV.59). Our debate began with the annexation of Crimea, in breach of international law, more than nine years ago. Over the years, various initiatives hav…
At the outset, I would like to thank the United Kingdom for paying special attention to the situation in Ukraine. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing, as grim as it may be. And I welcome
the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of U…
I welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, His Excellency Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, in this meeting, and I thank the Special Representative, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his briefing. My thanks also go to Ms. Salcedo López.
Switzerland has a long-standing commitment …
Brazil and Switzerland are very disappointed that the Security Council did not adopt the draft resolution on cross- border humanitarian aid into Syria, on which we have just voted (S/2023/506).
Over recent weeks, we engaged with all Council members, as well as partners in the region, and did not sp…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Ambassador Frazier and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings.
Eight years ago, we were pleased to welcome the news of the agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme. The conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was rightly seen as an a…
We are grateful that this meeting is dedicated specifically to the annual report of the Security Council for 2022 (A/77/2), thereby enabling us to focus fully on the important and — as the President of the General Assembly said earlier — complementary institutional link between that organ and the G…
I wish Eid Mubarak to all those who have been celebrating.
I deliver this statement on behalf of Brazil and Switzerland, as co-penholders on the Syrian humanitarian file.
Let me first thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under- Secretary-General and Eme…
I would like to join others in thanking Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his detailed briefing. I also took careful note of the briefing by Mr. James Zogby.
As we have just heard, June was once again marked by a very high level of violence in the oc…
I would like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, for her briefing. I also welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in tod…
I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing and for all her efforts.
A few weeks ago, the Secretary-General reminded us that international humanitarian law makes all the difference between life and death, between restraint and anarchy. I regret that, since th…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Otunbayeva for her briefing and, above all, for her invaluable work under very difficult circumstances. I also thank Ms. Shabana Basij-Rasikh for her briefing, which cannot leave anyone here indifferent. As she said, she lived as
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I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Haysom and the interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. Gituai, for their briefings. We also thank our partner, the Community of Sant’Egidio, and appreciate its efforts towards facilitating an in…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her statement and her valuable daily work on the ground. I also would like to take the opportunity to thank the Executive Director of UN-Women; the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Se…
