As we are approaching the end of the month, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and commend you, Sir, for your able stewardship of the Security Council this month.
All around the world, the lives and well-being of millions of women and girls are threatened by conflict and strife. They are oft…
Seventy years ago, when representatives of 50 nations met to establish the founding vision for the newly formed United Nations, they were not engaging in a merely academic exercise. The purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations emerged from a painful confrontation with the horrors…
Like others, I would like to thank Angola for its able chairmanship in 2015 and wish the United Arab Emirates great success in assuming the chairmanship this year.
All too often, we meet here in this Hall to discuss intractable challenges and missed opportunities. Today I am very pleased to say tha…
Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate Uruguay on joining the Security Council and on acceding to the presidency this month. We are quite aware of how difficult it is to be a President of the Security Council, but even more so in one’s first month of membership. We wish you good luck, Sir…
I would like to congratulate the co-facilitators and all those who contributed to the successful conclusion of the negotiations on the draft outcome document of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (A/70/L.33). We believe it faithfully reflects the vision of the WSIS process and is a t…
Israel fully supports the noble vision of calling for the world to unite against violence and violent extremism. The content of resolution 70/109 is commendable and praiseworthy.
The problem with today’s vote is not with the message, but with the messenger. For the second time, one of the world’s m…
Providing aid to others in their time of need is at the core of our shared humanity, and at the centre of the mission of this institution.
As the world continues to become smaller and more interconnected, supplying relief and resources to where they can offer the most benefit is increasingly the be…
At the outset, I would like to express our sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to the French Republic and to the French people in the wake of the horrific attacks on Paris, the city of light, over the weekend. We are similarly horrified by the bombing of a Russian plane in Sinai, the bombing …
In just the last two weeks we have witnessed outrageous acts of terror around the world. Terror is terror and should be condemned loudly wherever it happens and whoever the victims are. I would like to express my sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to the French Republic and to the French peopl…
Africa has transformed immensely since the 1950s and 1960s, when it began the difficult journey from poverty towards greater economic stability. Over the past decade, the number of Africans living in extreme poverty has continued to decline, more African boys and girls have completed elementary educ…
As we sit here today, Israel is facing an onslaught of terrorism; men, women and
children are being stabbed to death on the streets on a daily basis. Yet for them there has been no demand for an emergency session of the Security Council; no call for the Palestinian leadership to stop their inciteme…
Israel welcomes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and believes that it ushers in a new era of sustainable development that is unprecedented both in scope and ambition. Israel reiterates its full commitment to the 2030 Agenda and stands ready to actively contribute to the successful impleme…
The girls and boys of today represent the hope for a better tomorrow. When a child is a victim of war, his world, his family and his community lose their most precious possession: their hope for a brighter future. The loss of any child is an incomparable tragedy. The deliberate infliction of harm on…
Let me begin by thanking you, Madam President, for Lithuania’s able stewardship of the Security Council this month and for holding this very important debate, as more than half a million people die every year as a result of the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons.
Last year, Israel …
I would like to thank the Foreign Minister of Chad for presiding over today’s debate.
Before I begin, I would like to say a few words about the recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Australia. The cowardly attacks on children in a school and on innocent civilians in a coffee shop are a painful r…
Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to the People’s Republic of China for its chairmanship and able stewardship of the Kimberley Process in 2014, including the important contribution it made to curb the trade in conflict diamonds.
This year has seen many achievements, including the strengtheni…
Israel has the honour to sponsor both the humanitarian omnibus draft resolution on strengthening the coordination of humanitarian and disaster-relief assistance, and the draft resolution on the
safety and security of humanitarian personnel and on the protection of United Nations personnel (A/69/L.…
Israel is proud to support and sponsor today’s global health and foreign policy initiative, as well as the International Day of Yoga. As the international community prepares to lay out the development agenda beyond 2015, we are witnessing an emerging consensus on the major paradigm shifts that will …
This debate marks the fourteenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) and provides an important opportunity to address the persistent and emerging gaps to the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda.
Last week, I read a story about Amsha, a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who was…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on the Argentine presidency of the Security Council this month and thank you for presiding over today’s important debate and for your country’s almost two years of service to the Security Council. I also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing, which…
