Myriam Riva, Emmanuel Riva, Dominique Sabrier, Alexandre Strens — these are the names of the four people brutally murdered on 24 May in Brussels. Four people were killed just because they were in a Jewish
museum, an institution dedicated to culture, knowledge and intelligence. I named these four vi…
At the outset, I would like to thank President Obama and all the members of the Security Council.
My country, Belgium, grasped very early on the scope of the threat posed by the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and the need to have a collective response to it. That is why my Government bega…
It was in my country, in Ypres, during the First World War, that chemical weapons were used in a conflict for the first time. We can all recall the dreadful suffering of thousands of those soldiers. Almost 100 years later, that same suffering is being inflicted on thousands of Syrians. Despite the i…
First of all, on behalf of my country, I would like to welcome the broad vision and the pertinence of the ideas put forward by the Secretary-General.
I come from Belgium, one of the six founding countries of the European Union (EU), a multicultural union of 500 million people who, as President Obam…
