I thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s briefing.
I thank Ambassador Osama Abdelkhalek for Egypt’s able leadership of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2021 and for his continued championing of peacebuilding, including in furthering the critical conversation on financing for peacebuil…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and Kenya (A3).
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing and welcome the participation of Ambassador Taher Elsonni, Permanent Representative of Libya.
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I commend you, Mr. President, for convening today’s important debate. I also thank Mrs. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, and Mr. Patrick Kumi for their briefings. Kenya …
Kenya thanks Mexico and the United States of America for their dedicated efforts to prepare and present resolution 2645 (2022) to renew the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) for 12 months. Kenya voted in favour of the resolution, and we are glad that it enjoyed unanimo…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya.
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Carlos Ruiz Massieu and Ms. Jineth Casso Piamba for their briefings, and we welcome the powerful…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important open debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his remarks, as well as the Force Commander of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lieutenant General Affonso da Costa, and Ms. Jenn…
I make this explanation of vote before the voting on behalf of the 10 elected members of the Security Council (E-10), in Kenya’s capacity as coordinator for the month of July.
The E-10 appreciates the manner in which delegations rallied to put foremost the humanitarian needs of the Syrian people. I…
Today is a costly day for the Security Council and even more so for the people of Syria. Our lack of unity will have real-life dire humanitarian consequences.
We commend and thank the co-penholders, Ireland and Norway, for their immense efforts to have the cross-border humanitarian aid mechanism re…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor. I am explaining our vote on behalf of the current 10 elected members (E-10) of the Security Council in Kenya’s capacity as coordinator for the month of July.
The E-10 has been in consultations this morning. We appreciate the co-penh…
We commend the President of the General Assembly for initiating this historic debate, in line with resolution 76/262. We also commend all the delegations that have taken and will take the rostrum. The cause of international peace and security belongs to every nation. None of us are safe from the sco…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten, Ms. Natalia Karbowska and Ms. Sherrie Rollins Westin for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine and the Permanent Representatives of the countries affected in the region.
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I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor. I also thank you for gracing us with your presence at this open debate of the Security Council. I congratulate Albania on its historic assumption of the presidency of the Council this month. Kenya also thanks the delegation of the United States fo…
I have the pleasure to deliver this statement on behalf of the African members of the Security Council (A3), Kenya, Gabon and Ghana.
We welcome His Excellency Mr. Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’apala, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to…
Kenya voted in favour of adopting draft resolution S/2022/431. The Security Council’s resolutions have been clear, but unfortunately the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has chosen not to comply with them. Instead, its missile launches, particularly in the past five months, have undermined the …
It is my honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Ambassador Tirumurti, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), for their…
We offer our deepest condolences to the United States and the families of the victims of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
I thank the briefers for their contribution to this debate.
The principal reason war offends us sufficiently to form the United Nations is its destruction of human life, saf…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and my own country, Kenya (A3).
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Volker Perthes, for his briefing and welcome the participation of the represent…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month.
I thank the Secretary-General for his remarks and welcome him back to New York after his extensive and important travels. I also thank the other briefers for their briefings and t…
I have the pleasure to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council (A3), namely, Gabon, Ghana and Kenya. We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, the Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lake…
I thank Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements and Director General António Vitorino for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representatives of Ukraine, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Estonia and Slovakia in this meeting.
The scale of the Ukrainian exodus to escape the war i…
