The United States delegation wishes to address the oral
amendment circulated last week on operative paragraph 9 (A/75/L.121). While the United States supports necessary funding to make the Permanent Forum successful, the last-minute amendment to operative paragraph 9 distorts the agreement that was…
I would actually like to hear the answer to the question that was posed by the United Kingdom delegation to the Secretariat. After that, I would request the floor to clarify what the United States delegation is actually proposing, which is not a substantive amendment to the draft text itself. It is …
I apologize for taking the floor again this afternoon given the lateness of the hour. I will be brief.
We would like to make a simple and straightforward request: to reallocate the consideration of draft resolution A/75/L.119 to sub-item (a) agenda item 70, entitled “Elimination of racism, racial d…
I would like to just point out that there were two oral amendments circulated this morning by the President of the General Assembly. There was also, we understand, an amendment (A/75/L.121/Rev.1) to the amendment (A/75/L.121) that had already been submitted in writing. It is not clear that Member St…
The United States wishes to thank Georgia and the Philippines for draft resolution A/75/L.93 on the modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. We place importance…
The United States does not support draft resolution A/75/L.87/Rev.1, which is before us today, and will vote against it as currently proposed.
The United States also wishes to thank all delegations that have proposed amendments for consideration by the General Assembly. Whatever the outcome of the …
I am sorry to have to take the floor again, but we would also ask our colleague from Haiti to withdraw his motion. I think that there are differences of opinion over which amendment is furthest from the text in accordance with rule 90, and the Secretariat had already put the
amendments in order, ha…
It is a pleasure to see you, Mr. Vice-President, up on the podium today.
I would like to seek clarification because the way we read that rule is that if two, three or however many proposals submitted on the same question, it is the one that was submitted first that is acted upon first. However, in …
We would like to thank the facilitator for his leadership on resolution 75/260. The United States of America was pleased to vote in favour of the resolution, although we would have preferred that it would have been adopted by consensus today. We would like to make several points on the final text.
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I do not know where to begin with this particular draft oral amendment. There is a footnote. There is so much to unpack from the substantive, political and technical perspective in it. We believe that it is inappropriate to try and introduce that kind of amendment on the floor given the importance o…
I will be brief. The United States also does not support draft amendment A/75/L.61 proposed by the Russian Federation, which would remove the term “key populations” from the text of draft resolution A/75/L.59.
We completely agree with the arguments put forward by our colleague, the representative o…
I wish to thank Azerbaijan and Canada for their able leadership in co-facilitating the intergovernmental negotiations on the modalities for the special session of the General Assembly in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
As we strive to defeat COVID-19 around the world, the U…
The delegation of the United States would like to propose an oral amendment to draft resolution A/75/L.8 as follows. In the fourth preambular paragraph, we propose to delete the language that reads “including the crucial role played by the World Health Organization”, so that the fourth preambular pa…
The United States joins consensus on these resolutions and co-sponsors resolution 74/116 on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel, but it had no alternative but to call for votes on paragraphs in the humanitarian omnibus and natural disasters re…
Two weeks ago, the United Nations released the Global Humanitarian Overview: 2020, which paints is sobering picture of the challenges and human suffering we need to address in the year ahead. Humanitarian needs are increasing amid disturbing trends, such as prolonged and intensifying conflicts, exem…
The United States is taking the floor to speak on resolution 74/20, on global health and foreign policy, and this year’s theme of an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems. We appreciate a number of concepts in the resolution on which Governments, regardless of their level of development…
The United States applauds the efforts of the African Union (AU) to realize the goals and aspirations of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). We support NEPAD’s overall mission to address the critical challenges that Africa faces, and the United States shares the AU’s goal of a stab…
My delegation wishes to thank the co-facilitators, the Ambassadors of the Bahamas and Sweden, for their leadership on this High-level Political Forum resolution (resolution 74/4). Today the United States of America is pleased to join the consensus on this important outcome document.
All countries h…
On behalf of the United States Government, I would like to extend our thanks to the co-facilitators, Ambassadors Prasad and Byrne Nason, the Permanent Representatives of Fiji and Ireland, for their excellent facilitation of the Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) …
