The United States was pleased to participate in the third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, earlier this year. We are deeply grateful to the Government of Japan for hosting the Conference and providing invaluable leadership in efforts to address disas…
The United States is disappointed that a vote was forced on resolution 69/239. We did not want to vote on this resolution and did so reluctantly. It is highly unfortunate that we were forced to vote when, in our view, consensus
was possible and we had even this week made efforts to reach it. In tha…
The United States is profoundly disappointed that resolution 69/238, on operational activities for development, has been voted on. The operational activities of the United Nations development system are critical to the ability of the United Nations to deliver development assistance to the people who…
The United States wishes to reaffirm its strong support for the international humanitarian system. We remain deeply committed to working with the United Nations, its Member States and other humanitarian actors to protect and assist vulnerable individuals and communities caught up in conflict or impa…
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor both draft resolutions before the Assembly today under agenda item 124: the draft resolution for an international day of yoga (A/69/L.17) and the annual draft resolution on global health and foreign policy (A/69/L.35). We appreciate the flexibility and dedi…
I thank you, Sir, for the opportunity to speak on the report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (A/69/315).
We are pleased to see that the Intergovernmental Committee grappled ably and ambitiously with the complex issues at the core of its mandate, wh…
The United States would like once again to thank the Government and people of Samoa, and the United Nations offices and agencies and the intergovernmental organizations that have worked in partnership with Samoa to host a very successful conference. We were very pleased to be closely involved in the…
The four structured dialogues on possible arrangements for a facilitation mechanism to promote the development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies have reconfirmed the importance of technology to development solutions and generated ideas about possible next st…
The United States was pleased to join the consensus on resolution 68/302 and looks forward to working with the General Assembly and the multi-stakeholder community during
the high-level meeting to be held in December 2015. We very much appreciate the excellent leadership of the Permanent Representa…
The United States remains fully and firmly committed to upholding the human rights of all people and to combating racism and racial discrimination. We are pleased to join the consensus on resolution 68/237, and look forward to helping to formulate what we hope will be an appropriate and successful p…
This sixth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development is being convened at a time of significant change and dynamism in the global development environment. We have fresh opportunities to think about the best ways to
mobilize knowledge, innovation and resources to move people out of extreme po…
Ten years ago, AIDS was wiping out a generation of individuals across the world and reversing important health and development gains, especially in Africa. Hospitals were overwhelmed and patients were not getting the antiretroviral treatment that was available. AIDS created millions of orphans, many…
We would first like to add our thanks to our colleagues Ambassador Martin Sajdik of Austria and Ambassador Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima of Cape Verde for their facilitation of discussions of the modalities of the high- level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Globa…
