I wish to thank the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary- General and their teams for their extraordinary leadership in confronting the Ebola virus and for mobilizing all the determination and the resources of the United Nations system behind that. We are taking the floor to strongly support the …
We welcome the adoption today of resolution 68/309, as amended, on the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (A/68/970), which represents an important way station on the road to 2015.
We would first like to express our sincere appreciation for your leadership on this iss…
Today we pay tribute to the men, women and children robbed of their freedom and their lives by slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. We honour the memory of the millions who died, who were stolen from their families, who suffered from disease and deprivation and who experienced other untold hor…
On behalf of the United States, I am taking the floor first to inform colleagues that we are withdrawing our sponsorship of amendment A/68/L.33 in order to make an explanation of vote before the voting to urge Member States to support this amendment.
The amendment is crucial to preserving the integ…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor the draft resolution entitled “Sport for peace and development: building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal” (A/68/L.8). We especially want to draw attention to the language in the draft resolution “calling upon host countries t…
On 22 September, the United States commemorated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln boldly declared that, on 1 January 1863, all people held as slaves would thenceforward be forever free. The Emancipation Proclamat…
The United States welcomes the most recent report of the Secretary-General on civilian capacity in the aftermath of conflict (A/67/312) and appreciates the opportunity to discuss those issues in the General Assembly today.
As we know all too well, societies emerging from conflict or managing post-c…
The United States wishes to extend its deepest condolences to the family of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika and to the people and Government of the Republic of Malawi for their loss. Our thoughts are with the people of Malawi during this time of sorrow.
As President of Malawi since 2004, Pres…
One of the most impressive achievements of the United Nations system in the past generation has been its contribution to reducing the devastating toll of war around the world through its mediators, peacekeepers and humanitarian and development agencies.
Ensuring that peace endures, in turn, require…
