Speeches and statements

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to brief on this important topic. I would like to start by expressing my sincere condolences to the loved ones of the victims of Wednesday’s…

Mr. President, members of the Security Council, On the night of 8 February, ISIS and its affiliates in the Sinai launched a series of rockets towards the Israeli coastal resort of Eilat. Thankfully, no one was killed or…

I am delighted to be with you to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Children and Armed Conflict mandate and I thank the President of the General Assembly, His Excellency Peter Thomson, for convening this event. The mandate…

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the fourth “Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and…

Mr. President, Distinguished members of the Council, The conflict in Ukraine will soon enter its fourth year. Since the Department of Political Affairs last briefed the Council on the situation in eastern Ukraine on 28 April…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Ladies and Gentlemen, On 16 January, the United Nations welcomed the first anniversary of “Implementation Day” of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was…

Mr. President, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region, a region which continues to suffer from the combined effects of violent extremism, and a serious…

Mr. President, Excellences, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank Senegal for organizing this briefing on the cooperation between the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The holding of this meeting…

Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to update the Council on the latest developments in Yemen and challenges facing efforts to ensure the country’s return to peace and stability. What Yemen is witnessing today…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, I would like to begin today by thanking the Council for your support, expressed during the previous briefing for the work of UNSCO on the ground under challenging circumstances…

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the third “Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and…

Madam President, Members of the Security Council, These are indeed chilling days, as the Secretary-General said, for Syria and for the people of Aleppo in particular. The past week has been one of the worst ones in Syria…