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Haley

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first: 2017-02-02
most recent: 2018-12-18
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“I also condemn reported violence against other minority communities in Rakhine state. But what has happened since then dwarfs those attacks with its disproportionate, indiscriminate violence. We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese authorities what they appear to be - a brutal sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority, and it should shame senior Burmese leaders who have sacrificed so much for an open democratic Burma. The Burmese Government claims that it is battling terrorists. If this is true, let it allow media and humanitarian access to back up its claims. If terrorists are the problem, let the military explain how killing children and forcing families from their homes will make Burma any safer.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8060 (2017) · source
“I also met with Burma's National Security Advisor during the recent week of high-level meetings at the General Assembly. We have tried to engage the Burmese military at the highest levels. We have supported regional efforts to de-escalate the violence and expand humanitarian access. And still the exodus of terrified, injured people out of Burma continues, while the Government refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. Now hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees remain in Bangladesh as they are in fear of returning to their homes. Burmese leaders must come to terms with the facts on the ground. When we last met to consider the Burmese crisis, I expressed our condemnation of the 25 August attacks against security posts. I reiterate that condemnation today.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8060 (2017) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. For over four weeks, the world has endured images from Burma that we should never have to see. Much more importantly, we have seen images of acts that no person should ever have to endure. We have seen terrified women and children fleeing from their homes with only the clothes on their back. We have watched people drown trying to cross rivers to safety. We have seen bodies floating down rivers and villages burned to the ground. We have heard reports of men, women and children rounded up and detained, and some brutally killed. We saw the haunting image of a young mother and father cradling the body of their infant son, a baby who died fleeing the violence in Rakhine State. Secretary Tillerson has spoken with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8060 (2017) · source
“Abusing human rights actually increases local support for terrorism. Promoting respect for human rights and the rule of law must be a fundamental part of the United Nations work with Member States around the world. Counter-terrorism is a major test of the relevance of the United Nations to the threats we face today. The United States will continue to take action against terrorism, but the United Nations can and must do more to help. We look to it to respond to global threats. Fighting terror is at the top of the list, so we urge the United Nations to step up and help Member States strengthen their efforts against this shared threat.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“We call on the entire United Nations system to support innovative, on-the-ground efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from inspiring, radicalizing, financing or recruiting individuals to commit acts of violence. The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism and CTED must take the lead in making sure that everyone at the United Nations works together in this fight. If it is to expand its impact, the United Nations cannot work alone. It must get out of New York and engage the various players in the field. It can gain from their expertise. As the United Nations strengthens its counter- terrorism efforts, respect for human rights is vital. Counter-terrorism should never be an excuse for ignoring human rights. The fact is that when Governments abuse human rights in the name of counter-terrorism, the tactics backfire.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“For example, as the campaign against ISIS continues, some ISIS fighters will try to slip back into their home countries to plan new attacks. The United Nations should help Member States at risk to stop the flow of foreign terrorist fighters and assess future threats. It should also help Member States to keep their citizens from becoming radicalized in the first place. The United Nations has a lot of tools available for Governments to draw on. There are experts in governance, development, communications, security and, of course, counter-terrorism. The United Nations should bring all of those components together when Governments need help fighting the spread of terrorist ideologies and preventing violent extremism from taking hold.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“Where the Organization's own counter-terrorism architecture is concerned, the United States wants to see an active, strengthened and updated Counter- Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). We want to see a strong CTED that will help Member States understand the gaps in their counter-terrorism efforts and analyse the ways in which terrorist threats are changing. The United States will lead the effort to update the CTED mandate later this year to make the Organization more relevant to today's threats. We also fully support the Secretary-General's effort to reform the way the United Nations addresses counter-terrorism. But to succeed, those reforms must do more than change the boxes on an organizational chart.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“The Security Council itself has adopted important resolutions that oblige all Member States to criminalize acts of terror, stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and end flows of foreign terrorist fighters. Yet those resolutions will be only words on paper if Member States do not step up and implement them. That is where the United Nations can do much more. It can help Member States strengthen their defences and follow through on the tough demands that the Council has made. That is especially true for Member States that may not have the resources or expertise to address all of their vulnerabilities. And when States have not shown the political will to follow through, we must all work together to press them to do so.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“The United States is also committed to holding State sponsors of terror accountable, especially the number-one such country, Iran. But even as we and our partners step up our efforts to defeat terror, the United Nations has remained mostly on the sidelines. However, it does not have to be that way. The United Nations has a strong foundation to enable it to be an effective counter-terrorism partner, and that is the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. It is imperative, however, that we ensure a balanced implementation of the Strategy across all four of its pillars, including by integrating the prevention of violent extremism into pillars one and four.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Mr. Scharia and Mr. Aboulatta for their briefings. All over the world, we are confronting new and dangerous terrorist threats. We see terrorists using trucks to mow down innocent civilians in city centres, home-brewed improvised explosive devices left on trains, aeroplanes brought down by bombs smuggled on board. More than 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, terrorists continue to adapt their tactics and launch barbaric attacks to try to disrupt our modern way of life. The United States is leading the fight against terrorism in all its forms. We head a coalition of States that is successfully liberating territory from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). ISIS is on the run. It is only a matter oftime before it loses what is left of the territory it controls.”
2017-09-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8059 (2017) · source
“He must give us proof that they are doing good by their people. Give us proof that Syrians are better off for being back in Syria, and not in Turkey or Jordan - because right now they are better taken care of in Jordan and Turkey than they have ever been in Syria. They deserve to go home. They deserve to feel safe. And they deserve to be in a place where the Government takes care of them.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“Ja'afari was talking about aid. It is actually $697 million that is going to host countries. We are giving that money to host countries because we know they take care of their people. We have seen proof that they take care of their people. We would like to give that money to Syria. We would like to give that money to its Government - ifwe can see proofthat it is taking care of its own people. Trust has to be earned. It has to be taken based on good faith and goodwill. We have not seen that. We are not giving up on seeing that, but there is no way that he can come to the Council and talk about the fact that anyone is doing anything politically in the situation. The truth of the matter is that the only political thing we all want is for Syrians to be able to go home and live under a Government that takes care of its own people.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“Now is not the time to reduce our tools to reach people in need. Syrians have suffered for nearly seven years. In short, cross-border assistance must continue in order to save millions of people from death and destruction. I would also like to say that so many of us want to see an end to the Syrian crisis. We have all watched too many people suffer, we have all met in the Security Council too many times to discuss the situation. But I would like to explain to our Syrian counterpart that the refugees did not leave Syria just because of terrorists. I went there to speak to refugees in Jordan. I spoke to refugees in Turkey. And all of them, whether they were in a camp or not, said that their bigger fear was the regime. The reason they left Syria was out of fear of terrorism, but also out of fear of their very own Government. Mr.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“I want to respond to a couple of points that have been made so that we set the record straight. Russia's assertion that we should see an end to the cross-border assistance due to gains made in access is false. Mr. Lowcock just briefed the Council that in August the United Nations was able to reach only 280,500 people with inter-agency convoys - out of the 1.3 million requested. That is only 21 per cent. Meanwhile, the United Nations reaches more than 1 million people cross-border each month. Those are 1 million people who would be left without anything if we ceased cross-border aid. Meanwhile, the Syrian regime continues to remove medical items from convoys and artificially reduces the beneficiary numbers. Those actions are not demonstrations of goodwill from the Government, nor are they a Government we can trust.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“But the only lasting solution in Syria and the only way to end the violence and defeat terrorism is through a political transition that does not allow Iranian influence to replace ISIS or Al-Assad in power. If the civil war continues, more people will suffer and our gains against ISIS will only open a door to other extremists seeking to exploit the conflict. All of those who have answered the call of human tragedy in Syria have our thanks and our respect, but we must not and we will not forget what is needed in order to truly solve the crisis: a real political process through which the Syrian people gain the ability to ensure their own safety and determine their own future.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“They claim to want to expand humanitarian assistance to certain areas, but it is their ally Al-Assad who is denying humanitarian assistance to many people in need in an ugly new low, even for Al-Assad. His regime is authorizing humanitarian convoys to his supporters while preventing life-saving aid from reaching other Syrians. We take our Russian friends at their word when they say that they will resolve those humanitarian problems if they are going to continue to partner with Iran and Al-Assad. The United States is committed to finding a solution in Syria. We must increase humanitarian access to besieged and suffering communities. We must hold the regime accountable for denying assistance.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“As the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic has reported, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces continue to use chemical weapons against civilians and target hospitals and medical personnel. Just last week, there were reports of airstrikes in Idlib and northern Hama provinces. The strikes killed at least three medical personnel and damaged a number of medical facilities and civil defence centres. Just yesterday, there were reports of an alleged regime attack on a centre for the disabled in Modira. That attack, if true, is reprehensible. The attacks fit an all-too-familiar pattern in which medical facilities and personnel, as well as the civilians they serve, are victims of strikes by the Syrian regime and its Russian allies. The Russians claim to have leverage over the Syrian regime.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“If the Syrian people do not see a political process working in parallel with our de-escalation efforts, the Violence will resume. Any gains against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) will only be temporary. Any agreements on paper in Astana will not succeed. The Syrian people will remain vulnerable and at odds with each other without a political process in which they and the regime can participate in good faith. Yet, the Syrian regime refuses to come to the table in good faith. Instead, the regime continues to deny humanitarian access to those in need. Monthly United Nations operation plans, including this month's, have been met with "constraints". No cross-line convoys have been able to move in recent weeks, despite having received approval from the Syrian Government at the outset.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“I would like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings and to take a moment to welcome Mr. Lowcock to the Security Council. His dedication to addressing the humanitarian crisis in Syria is inspiring. I would be grateful if at some point he could tell us if the Syrian regime has given him a visa yet. Last week's high-level meeting to address humanitarian needs in Syria was very productive. We thank the European Union for convening it to focus attention on the ongoing crisis that has resulted from the Syrian conflict. The United States was able to announce $697 million in new humanitarian assistance for victims and the host communities that support Syrian refugees. Other nations also made much-needed commitments. Although there has been some lessening ofviolence in Syria, this is no time to become complacent.”
2017-09-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8058 (2017) · source
“The Intergovernmental Authority on Development has presented them with a way to quickly resuscitate the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, but time is running out. It is the last chance at salvaging the peace agreement in South Sudan. The different parties to the conflict must use the next several weeks to commit themselves to the process and conclude it. Our hope is that South Sudan's leaders will seize the opportunity. If they do not, we must resolve now, both individually and collectively, to do more to end the conflict. As for the people of South Sudan, we look forward to delivering the message in person very soon that we have not forgotten or given up on them. The people of South Sudan have a friend and advocate in the United States of America.”
2017-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8056 (2017) · source
“It tries to reach more, but its operations are continually frustrated. We call on the Government of South Sudan to welcome the assistance of the Mission and cooperate with it fulfilling its mandate for the South Sudanese people. The United States is not waiting to act. Earlier in September, we imposed economic and financial sanctions against individuals who have obstructed the peace process, denied access to humanitarian assistance and interfered with the peacekeeping mission. The United States will do what it can to reduce the suffering in South Sudan and the Security Council and regional actors must do more, but our ultimate message to the South Sudanese leaders will be that they must seize the opportunity to take the initiative. They have a way to stop the violence.”
2017-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8056 (2017) · source
“The violence and destruction have left 2 million South Sudanese displaced, 2 million refugees, 6 million facing near-famine conditions and countless dead. The impact on children has been especially severe. Seventeen thousand children have been abducted or recruited into armed groups. More than 15,000 children have been pulled apart from their families and other loved ones. More than 1.1 million children face acute malnutrition and barely half of school-age children are in the classrooms. Those are sobering statistics with dire implications for the safety, well-being and future of an entire generation. The United Nations Mission is in South Sudan to respond to the crisis, help protect civilians and ease their suffering. UNMISS shelters more than 200,000 civilians at sites across the country.”
2017-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8056 (2017) · source
“Each month, we have urged the parties to stop fighting. We have called on them to stop obstructing the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). We have watched in dismay as hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes every day and as hunger has set in. Each month, we have watched the situation in South Sudan become worse, not better, and we issue still more calls to action. We are disappointed that the Council refuses to stem the flow of arms to South Sudan or punish those who victimize their own people. Still, we know that the real responsibility and power for change lies with South Sudan's leaders, but so far, the Government of South Sudan has not responded to the pleas of the Council to create an inclusive Government and put an end to the fighting. There is a great deal of work left to do.”
2017-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8056 (2017) · source
“I would like to thank Mr. Shearer for his briefing. I also thank President Mogae for his briefing and his tireless efforts to bring peace to South Sudan. The people of South Sudan are suffering and the promise of their hard-fought independence is slipping away. In fact, we are so concerned about the deteriorating situation in South Sudan and elsewhere in Central and East Africa that President Trump has asked me to go to Africa in October. While there, I will go to Juba as a representative of my Government, but also as a representative of the Security Council. Six months have passed since the Security Council demanded that the warring parties in South Sudan cease fighting and return to the negotiation table. In each month since then, we have gathered here to lament the terrible situation in South Sudan.”
2017-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8056 (2017) · source
“The United States was honoured to work alongside its Iraqi and British partners over the past year to make resolution 2379 (2017) a reality. We thank them for their dedication in seeing it through. While today's resolution is specifically about the transnational threat that ISIS represents, we support accountability for all violations of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations and abuses. Above all, we thank the Iraqi Government and Prime Minister Al-Abadi for taking an important first step towards demonstrating that justice is never beyond reach, no victim is voiceless and no perpetrator is above the law.”
2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8052 (2017) · source
“The investigative team created by today's resolution is part of a comprehensive approach to holding ISIL accountable for its atrocities against the Iraqi people. Working with Iraq and other partners, it will expose the depravity of ISIS and provide an indispensable record of the scope and scale of its criminality. With victory over ISIS in Iraq on the horizon, that record will play an important role as Iraqis attempt to reconcile this painful period in their national life. The team will help to identify victims and perpetrators and ensure that the perpetrators face the justice they so richly deserve, while giving victims their day in court. Through that, we hope and pray that the Iraqi people can begin the process ofreturning to peaceful, normal, everyday lives.”
2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8052 (2017) · source
“It may have taken a long time to get here, but today's resolution 2379 (2017) is a landmark. It is a major first step towards addressing the death, suffering and injury ofthe victims of crimes committed by ISIL in Iraq. The crimes include genocide. The victims had been Yazidis, Christians, Shia and Sunni Muslims and many, many more. In the long history of human beings committing atrocities against their fellow human beings, the crimes of ISIL stand out, especially the brutality they have inflicted on girls and women. Thousands of Yazidi women and girls have been kidnapped by ISIL and then bought and sold like animals. I have met with some of those women. The victims of rape and sexual slavery are understandably reluctant to speak out publicly, but thanks to what we do here today, the world will still hear about their suffering.”
2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8052 (2017) · source
“I would like to thank you, Sir, for your leadership at this meeting. The idea of seeking justice for victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and other atrocity crimes had its beginning in the years following the Second World War. Nothing could replace the lives lost or make families whole again, but by holding perpetrators to account for their crimes, a measure ofjustice was provided to the victims and the loved ones they left behind. By acting here today, we cannot restore the lives, the dignity or the innocence of the victims of crimes committed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but by taking such an important step towards holding ISIL accountable for its many unspeakable crimes we can achieve justice. In time, that will hopefully begin a process of healing.”
2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8052 (2017) · source
“But today the threat to the United States and the world is not coming out of the blue. The North Korean regime has demonstrated that it will not act on its own to end its nuclear programme. The civilized world must do what the regime refuses to do. We must stop its march towards a nuclear arsenal with the ability to deliver it anywhere in the world. We must do that by cutting off the fuel and the funding that support it. We do not take pleasure in further strengthening sanctions today. We are not looking for war. The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return. Ifit agrees to stop its nuclear programme, it can reclaim its future. If it proves that it can live in peace, the world will live in peace with it. On the other hand, if North Korea continues its dangerous path, we will continue with further pressure.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“Mexico recently declared the North Korean Ambassador to its country persona non grata. Along with the strict enforcement of sanctions, those are important steps towards complete international unity. They make it clear that all nations can act to deny North Korea the funds to build its nuclear arsenal. Today is a solemn day in the United States. It is the sixteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, most of them in this very city. It hurts as much today as it did 16 years ago. We will never forget the victims of 11 September. And we will never forget the lesson that people who have evil intentions must be confronted. That day, the United States saw that mass murder could come from a clear blue sky, on a beautiful Tuesday morning.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“In short, these are by far the strongest measures ever imposed on North Korea. They give us a much better chance ofhalting the regime's ability to fuel and finance its nuclear and missile programmes. But we all know that those steps will work only if all nations implement them completely and aggressively. Today's resolution would not have happened without the strong relationship that has developed between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and we greatly appreciate the fact that both teams are working with us. We have seen additional encouraging signs that other nations in Asia have stepped up to the plate. The Philippines has cut off all trade with Pyongyang. Thailand has drastically cut its economic ties to North Korea. And States much farther away are also doing their part.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“This ban will eventually starve the regime of an additional $500 million or more in annual revenues. And beyond the $1.3 billion in annual revenues that we will cut from North Korea, new maritime authorities will help us stop it from obtaining funds by using ships to smuggle coal and other prohibited materials around the world. Furthermore, the resolution prohibits all joint ventures with the regime, resulting in a significant amount of lost revenue. But more important, the regime can no longer obtain the foreign investments, technology and know-how that are critically needed for its commercial industries. Finally, today's resolution imposes asset freezes on the most crucial entities of the North Korean regime, affecting both the military and the Government itself.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“Furthermore, today's resolution completely bans supplies to North Korea of natural gas and other oil by-products that could be used as substitutes for the reduced petroleum. That will cut deep. Moreover, a large portion of North Korea's revenues comes from exports - revenues that it uses to fund its nuclear programme. Last month, we adopted resolution 2371 (2017), which bans its coal and iron exports. Today's resolution bans all of its textile exports. That is an almost $800 million hit to its revenues. With these new, stronger sanctions added to those adopted last month, more than 90 per cent of North Korea's publicly reported exports are now fully banned. Moreover, the resolution also puts an end to the regime's ability to make money from the 93,000 North Korean citizens it sends to work overseas and whom it taxes heavily.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“Previous efforts to bring North Korea to the negotiating table have failed. It has repeatedly walked back every commitment it has made. Today the Security Council has acted in a different way. Today we are attempting to take the future of the North Korean nuclear programme out of the hands of its outlaw regime. We are done trying to prod the regime to do the right thing. We are now acting to stop it from having the ability to continue to do the wrong thing. We are doing that by hitting North Korea's ability to fuel and fund its weapons programme. Oil is the lifeblood of North Korea's effort to build and deliver a nuclear weapon. Today's resolution reduces the oil provided to North Korea by almost 30 per cent, by cutting off more than 55 per cent of the supply of its gas, diesel and heavy fuel oil.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“We are acting in response to a dangerous new development - North Korea's test on 3 September of what it claims was a hydrogen bomb. Today we are saying that the world will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. And today the Security Council is saying that if the North Korean regime does not halt its nuclear programme, we will act to stop it ourselves. Over the years, we have learned many things about the North Korean regime. We have learned that it does not care about being a part of the community of decent, law-abiding nations. It has violated every United Nations resolution against it. We have learned that the North Korean regime does not care about its own people. It has denied them the most basic necessities in order to finance its weapons programme. And we have learned that half-measures against the regime have not worked.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting and allowing us to take this vote. The images from space of North-East Asia at night Show brightness and prosperity surrounding a dark, lonely space that is North Korea. Those images are a good illustration of where the North Korean regime is today. It is alone. It is dark. And it is getting darker. North Korea's neighbours, its trading partners and the entire international community are united against its dangerous and illegal actions. Today's resolution 2375 (2017) builds on what were already the deepest-cutting sanctions ever imposed on North Korea. We have been down this road before. The Security Council has expressed its condemnation and has imposed sanctions. But today is different.”
2017-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8042 (2017) · source
“Due to the urgency of the situation concerning the nuclear test, as well as the announcement by North Korea that it is planning another intercontinental ballistic missile test, we urge the Security Council to move very quickly on this. I think that North Korea basically has slapped everyone in the face in the international community that has asked it to stop. The United States delegation therefore will circulate a draft resolution that it would like to negotiate this week and vote on on Monday. Ijust wanted to let the members of the Council know. I know that some are going on mission to Addis Ababa, but we wanted to make sure that we will do that on Monday when we will be able to finalize those negotiations. The meeting rose at11.30 a.m.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“No one would do that. We certainly will not. The time has come to exhaust all diplomatic means to end this crisis, and that means quickly enacting the strongest possible measures here in the Security Council. Only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. We have kicked the can down the road long enough. There is no more road left. This crisis goes well beyond the United Nations. The United States will look at every country that does business with North Korea as a country that is giving aid to its reckless and dangerous nuclear intentions. What we do in connection with North Korea will have a real impact on how other outlaw nations that seek nuclear weapons choose to conduct themselves in the future. The stakes could not be higher. The urgency is now.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“The time has come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it is too late. We must now adopt the strongest possible measures. Kim Jong Un's action cannot be seen as defensive. He wants to be acknowledged as a nuclear Power, but being a nuclear Power is not about using those terrible weapons to threaten others. Nuclear Powers understand their responsibilities. Kim Jong Un shows no such understanding. His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. War is never something the United States wants. We do not want it now, but our country's patience is not unlimited. We will defend our allies and our territory. The idea that some have suggested of a so-called freeze-for-freeze is insulting. When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an ICBM. pointed at you, you do not take steps to lower your guard.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“Despite our efforts over the past 24 years, the North Korean nuclear programme is more advanced and more dangerous than ever. It now fires missiles over Japanese air space. It now has ICBM capabilities. it now claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb. And just this morning, there are reports that the regime is preparing for yet another ICBM. launch. To the members of the Security Council, I must say, "enough is enough". We have taken an incremental approach and, despite the best of intentions, it has not worked. Members of the Council will no doubt urge negotiations and a return to talks. But as I have just outlined, we have engaged in numerous direct and multilateral talks with the North Korean regime, and time after time they have not worked. The time for half measures in the Security Council is over.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“Then, just last month, after the regime's first two intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches, we adopted resolution 2371 (2017) - the strongest sanctions we have ever imposed on North Korea. That resolution banned North Korean exports of coal, iron and seafood, and imposed several other measures that will significantly cut off the revenues needed to fund its nuclear programme. Why did I take the time to go through this history? I did so to make this point. The Security Council has spoken with unusual unity and consistency on North Korea. That is a good thing. Along the way, there have been problems with implementation, and the Council has at times been too slow and too weak, but this is not a situation in which we have allowed divisions among us to stop any action. Still, here we are.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“Following North Korea's third nuclear test in 2013, the Council adopted resolution 2094 (2013), expanding sanctions to restrict financial, maritime, aviation and diplomatic activities. By 2016, North Korea had conducted its fourth nuclear test and another space launch. It followed that with more missile launches. In response, the Council adopted multiple resolutions expanding sanctions even further, targeting whole sectors of North Korea's economy. Finally, this year, the Council got even more serious. First, we adopted resolution 2356 (2017), designating high-ranking North Korean Government officials and the military's Strategic Rocket Forces Command for individual sanctions.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“That led to resolution 1695 (2006), condemning them. The same year, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. That led to resolution 1718 (2006), establishing a United Nations sanctions regime aiming to stop all nuclear, ballistic missile and other weapons of mass destruction programmes. After the Six-Party Talks fell apart again in 2009, North Korea conducted additional missile launches and its second nuclear test. That led to resolution 1874 (2009), which expanded sanctions, including an arms embargo and cargo inspection obligations. In 2012, the leap day deal failed, and North Korea conducted two new space launches. The Security Council responded with the adoption of resolution 2087 (2013).”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“We want to thank you, Sir, for allowing us to have this meeting so promptly, as it is very urgent. We also want to thank the Ambassador of Egypt and his team for the steady hand and the calm way in which they led the Council last month. For more than 20 years, the Security Council has taken actions againstNorth Korea's nuclear programme, and for more than 20 years North Korea has defied our collective voice. It is worth taking a few moments to recount some of the history. In 1993, the Council adopted resolution 825 (1993), calling on North Korea to remain in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. That did not work. North Korea withdrew from the Treaty and continued its nuclear pursuit. In 2006, the Six-Party Talks faltered, and North Korea conducted several ballistic missile launches.”
2017-09-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8039 (2017) · source
“The purpose of UNIFIL is not to go to war with Hizbullah. It is to keep its area free ofterrorist personnel and weapons, and to report on any denial of its ability to do so. If UNIFIL does that, it will contribute greatly to the area's peace and stability. Our action today will help to ensure that this peacekeeping mission has the power and the will to do its job. For the United States, this is a time for strength, resolve and accountability at the United Nations. Our actions today go to the heart of our new approach. The United States will not sit by and watch Hizbullah strengthen itself for the next war. We will not be passive as Iran makes a mockery of the Council's work. Today we took a very good step forward. Together, our next job is to make sure that UNIFIL does what we have instructed it to do here today.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source
“We do not learn what is going on behind those roadblocks. It does not require an active imagination to know that what Hizbullah wants to keep secret is its illegal weapons. UNIFIL must now tell us the details of where, when and why it gets stopped. Those are all big steps forward. Today's resolution demands that UNIFIL step up its efforts at a moment when Hizbullah is stepping up its own. Hizbullah's past actions tell us what it will do in the future. It has terrorized the people of Lebanon. It has terrorized the people of Syria, standing on the front lines of the AI-Assad regime's criminal activity. It has engaged in terrorist action far beyond the Middle East. Any nation that has experienced the pain of terrorist attacks in its own country should consider the fact that it might be next.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source
“The status quo for UNIFIL was not acceptable, and we did not accept it. The renewal we adopted today does several important things. It expressly highlights the fact that UNIFIL has a mandate to take all the necessary action to prevent its area of operations from being used for hostile activities. It calls on UNIFIL to establish a more visible presence and step up its patrols and inspections so as to disrupt Hizbullah's illicit activities. For the first time since 2006, the resolution emphasizes that UNIFIL can assist the Lebanese Government in securing its borders in order to stop the flow of illegal weapons into the country. And very critically, it tells UNIFIL to give us clear reports on what it is being prevented from seeing. For too long, when UNIFIL has hit a Hizbullah roadblock, it has turned away.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source
“Hizbullah is not seeking to prevent war; it is preparing for war. Hizbullah has used the relative quiet since 2006 to rearm itself, in violation of resolutions 1701 (2006) and 1559 (2004). That is no secret. Hizbullah admits it and brags about it. It parades in front of television cameras. UNIFIL has a difficult mandate and operations in a difficult part of the world. Its troops, including some from members of the Council, have served with dignity and courage. That is why the United States has strongly supported the mission and will continue to do so. Today's resolution gives UNIF IL robust authority to help Lebanon and keep the south safe. What we sought in the renewal was to make sure that UNIFIL is doing itsjob to the fullest possible extent, and I am very pleased with what we have accomplished here today.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source
“It is supposed to do that, in part by helping the Lebanese Government to ensure that there are no weapons outside of State control in UNIFIL's area of operations. We have to be honest: for too long UNIFIL's leadership has failed to make sure that goal is realized. In particular, UNIFIL Force Commander Beary's lack of understanding of the threat Hizbullah poses to the region is baffling. At the direction of its patron, Iran, the terrorist organization Hizbullah is stockpiling an offensive arsenal in southern Lebanon. It has thousands of missiles and trained fighters, all beyond the control of the Lebanese Government. That is apparent to everyone who cares to see it. Some have observed that there have been no major hostilities in the area since 2006. They say that is proof that the mission is successful. It is proof of no such thing.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source
“The United States is very pleased to have supported this renewal of the the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Iwant to thank all Security Council members, but especially France for its leadership on this vitally important peacekeeping mission. France, of course, has a historic relationship with Lebanon. It has many troops in UNIFIL, and we appreciate their sacrifices and the sacrifices made by all troop-contributing countries. We appreciate France's willingness to work with us to make significant improvements in this renewal. Conditions in south Lebanon are very dangerous today. The clouds of war are gathering. UNIFIL exists to help prevent war from happening again in south Lebanon.”
2017-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8037 (2017) · source