I would like to welcome High Representative Inzko back to the Security Council and to thank him for his comprehensive briefing and his service to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the interests of preserving peace and promoting stability in the region.
I have three main points to make in reac…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month, and to assure you of my delegation’s full cooperation. I would also like to express sincere appreciation to Ambassador Rosenthal and the delegation of Guatemala for their excellent …
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Farid Zarif for his briefing. I would also like to welcome to the Security Council today Prime Minister Ivica Dačić of Serbia and Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi of Kosovo. I thank them both for their comments. I would like to make f…
I also thank Ambassador Osorio for his briefing today. Over the past three months, we have had new reminders that Iran’s illicit nuclear programme remains one of the gravest threats to international peace and security before the Council.
Since we last met (see S/PV.6737), the Director General of th…
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic and 10 years after the landmark special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, we came together last June at the High-level Meeting and agreed on a bold new goal of treating 15 million people by the year 2015.
The United States is committed to achieving the…
Let me begin by welcoming High Representative Inzko back to the Security Council. I also thank him for his comprehensive briefing and his service and support of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
The United States remains committed to the success of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where we and our
European Union…
The United States would like to commend the work of the Committee Chairs, Ambassadors Wittig, Puri and Sangqu, for their exceptional efforts and strong leadership.
As we look back on the past decade, the Council’s sustained commitment to promoting the implementation of resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373…
We are grateful for the opportunity to participate in this commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The United States joins others in paying tribute to the millions of victims who were taken from their homes in Africa and sol…
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his report.
Iran’s illicit nuclear programme presents a grave threat to international peace and security. Today we are confronted with an unsustainable and dangerous status quo. Without swift and serious progress to resolve the international community’s d…
I welcome Special Representative of the Secretary- General Kubiš to the Council and thank him for his comments. He has our support in carrying out his challenging assignment.
I also thank the staff of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for the important work they do each d…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your presence here today and for organizing this open debate. I would also like to thank Special Representative Wallström and Under-Secretary- General Ladsous for their comprehensive briefings. Of course, I would like to thank Ms. Megheirbi for her remar…
I thank United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay both for her briefing and for all the work she and her Office are doing to highlight the plight of the Syrian people during this most difficult time.
The information that High Commissioner Pillay has just provided us is deeply disturb…
I would like to welcome Deputy Prime Minister Gilmore to the Security Council and congratulate both him and Ireland on having assumed the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I also thank him for his comprehensive briefing today.
The Organization for Security and…
I want to thank Assistant Secretary-General Mulet for his briefing and Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zarif for participating today. I also welcome Foreign Minister Hoxhaj and Foreign Minister Jeremić
back to the Council, and I thank them for sharing their perspectives with us.
I…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing. The United States would also like to thank Special Representative Djinnit for his continued leadership in the United Nations Office for West Africa and in the Sahel region. We greatly appreciate the work that went into the United Nations inter…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comments today and for his comprehensive report (S/2011/634*). We welcome this opportunity to join the discussion on justice and the rule of law. As the Secretary-General’s report, of October 2011, makes clear, the rule of law and transitional just…
I would like to welcome Deputy Foreign Minister Ludin to the Council today and to thank him for sharing his views with us. I would also like to thank Under- Secretary-General Ladsous for his briefing this morning.
Let me take a moment to express our deep gratitude to outgoing Special Representative…
The United States would like to thank last year’s co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Lithuania and Saint Vincent and Grenadines, for their excellent work. Their efforts and leadership culminated in the res…
I thank Mr. Zarif for his briefing. We welcome him in his new role as the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I thank Foreign Minister Hoxhaj and Foreign Minister Jeremić for their presence here today and f…
The United States is pleased to join other Member States in sponsoring the draft resolution on the situation in Afghanistan (A/66/L.10). The draft resolution recognizes the progress made by the Afghan people in building a stronger Afghanistan and acknowledges that much important work remains.
We co…
