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Haley

lines on the record: 982
first: 2017-02-02
most recent: 2018-12-18
sittings or episodes: 124
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“They argue that what is needed in Burma is time and space. We do not accept this logic. In fact, not only is it wrong, but its backward. Time and space alone will not heal the wounds that have been opened in Burma, and covering up the crimes of the Burmese military and security forces will not allow that country to move forward. Only accountability for the crimes against the Rohingya will serve the cause of peace and Burma. This is not about finger-pointing. It is about accepting the realities of what happened so that healing and accountability can occur. We have all heard the excuses offered by those who have fought this briefing. They argued that the Security Council is not the appropriate place to discuss those atrocities.”
2018-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8381 (2018) · source
“And once again, there are those in this Chamber who have repeatedly attempted to block the Security Council and the world from hearing about what is happening to the Rohingya in Burma. But facts are stubborn things, and, despite the best efforts of the Burmese Government and its allies, the awful facts of the atrocities against the Rohingya cannot be avoided by those who deny them. I want to thank the members of the Security Council that voted for this briefing and this meeting to be transparent. I also want to address the concerns of some members of the Security Council that feel that transparency about the crimes detailed in the report (A/HRC/39/64) will somehow set back the cause of peace in Burma. They argue that being open and honest about the vicious treatment of the Rohingya will increase the Burmese people's resentment of them.”
2018-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8381 (2018) · source
“The last time that the Security Council met to consider the situation in Burma (see S/PV.8333), I discussed the United States State Department's report on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya at the hands of these security forces. The accounts were first-hand and the details were stomach-turning, including women and girls raped, villages razed and babies tossed into fires. Today, the source of the information is the United Nations fact-finding mission. The Government of Burma unfortunately refused to cooperate with the mission. The events reported by the fact-finding mission parallel those of the United States State Department report. Once again, we are hearing about torture, mutilation, repeated massacres, gang rapes and the obliteration of entire villages - all perpetrated against the Rohingya minority by the Burmese security forces.”
2018-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8381 (2018) · source
“I want to especially thank Mr. Darusman, Chairperson of the independent international fact-finding mission on myanmar established by the Human Rights Council. It is critically important that he be with us in the Security Council today for this briefing. One question that I would like to ask him at some point - or when we can get an answer - is: What is the status of the quality of life for the Rohingya who remain in Burma? What is the Government doing to protect them to make sure that this does not happen to them, as well? United States President John Adams famously said that facts are stubborn things. Nowhere is this more true than the facts of the atrocities committed by the Burmese security forces against Rohingya children, women and men.”
2018-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8381 (2018) · source
“The sanctions that the United States is levelling against Iran are broad and deep, and for good reason. Any company or individual that does business with that Iranian network is complicit in sending children to die on the battlefields of Syria and elsewhere. The United States will do all that it can to reverse the flow of international funds into the coffers of the Iranian regime. I thank everyone for listening today and for their attention to this human rights crisis that is occurring in the heart of the Middle East. I urge my colleagues to join with the United States in helping to the protect Iranian children from the Government that is supposed to protect them.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“In this case, Iranian big business and finance are funding the war crime of using child soldiers. That is crony terrorism. The Iranian people are rightly disgusted with it and they are taking to the streets to protest. To add insult to injury, the Basij use the very money that they have stolen from the people to forcibly shut down the protests and arrest the protesters. The designations announced by the United States Treasury Department extend beyond property or interests in the United States or in the possession of United States persons. Anyone who engages in transactions with those designated entities could themselves be designated and any foreign financial institution that knowingly engages in transactions with those entities could themselves be subject to United States sanctions.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Many of the companies do substantial international business across the Middle East and Europe. The United States action targets banks, investment firms and subsidiary mining and manufacturing companies. It includes the largest tractor manufacturing company in the Middle East and North Africa. It also includes Iran's largest steel producer, which funnels millions of dollars each year to the Basij and its financial network. Our Treasury Department has done impressive forensic accounting to uncover the hidden and overlapping networks of businesses and financial institutions that fund the work of the Basij forces. For anyone who cares to look, that is a perfect example of what is fuelling the outrage of the Iranian people today. Iran's economy is increasingly devoted to funding Iranian repression at home and aggression abroad.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“The United States has followed the money that funds the recruitment, training and coerced deployment of child soldiers in Iran. Earlier this week, we identified the sources of the Basij funding and took action to cut them off from the global economy and financial system. Two days ago, the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on a network of 20 Iranian corporations and financial institutions that provide funding for the Basij Resistance Force. That network is deeply entrenched in the Iranian economy. It is comprised of multibillion-dollar business interests that operate in Iran's automotive, mining, metals and banking industries. The network uses shell companies to hide the ownership of those interests.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“It continues to use that memory of its past barbarism to promote more barbarism. The use of child soldiers is a moral outrage that every civilized nation rejects, while Iran celebrates it. The Basij Resistance Force is a paramilitary force operating under Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In addition to cracking down on dissidents and enforcing internal security in Iran, the Basij indoctrinate schoolchildren and provide combat training to children as young as 12 years old. Those children are then coerced into fighting abroad for the IRGC. Since at least early 2015, the Iranian regime has used the Basij to recruit and train Iranian children to fight in Syria in support of the brutal Al-Assad regime. The Basij also targets Afghan immigrants in Iran - some as young as 14 years old - to fight in Syria.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“According to the Iranians themselves, 36,000 school-age children were killed and just under 3,000 were wounded in the Iran-Iraq war. So why does that history matter today? Some in the international community still labour under the misimpression that the Iranian regime might be a responsible international actor or might abide by the laws ofa civilized society. Some think that Tehran might care more about a better life for the people of Iran than about the forcible spread of the regime's power and influence. Many things about the Iranian regime contradict that premise. One of the most glaring contradictions is the continued use of children to fight and die in Iranian aggression abroad. The Government in Tehran long ago turned Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh's death into a propaganda tool to recruit and train children for war.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“First, by way of a little background, in less than two weeks, on 30 October, Iran will celebrate Student Basij Day. What does Basij Day celebrate? It is the day on which, during the Iran-Iraq war, a 13-year-old boy strapped a live grenade to his body and leapt under an oncoming Iraqi tank. His name was Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh. Child soldiers like Hossein were a horrifying feature of the Iran-Iraq war. Children were sent into battle with a plastic key to paradise hung around their necks. They were untrained and considered expendable. In wars between trained adult military forces, the numbers of the wounded typically outnumber the dead. But the child soldiers of Iran were used as cannon fodder and as a human minesweeper. The dead far outnumbered the wounded.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing. Special Coordinator Mladenov's briefing was informative and it is appreciated. Mr. El-Ad's briefing, by contrast, was the sort of distorted and one-sided account that is provided all too often at the United Nations when it comes to Israel and the Palestinian issue. It is why I have so often attempted to bring some diversity to our discussions of the challenges facing the Middle East. Rather than repeating the same tired points at this monthly meeting, I will take the opportunity to focus on a matter of great significance that is taking place today in the Middle East - a matter that has received far less attention than it deserves. I urge my colleagues to listen, as their countries might unknowingly be affected by it.”
2018-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8375 (2018) · source
“Everyone - the Security Council, the warring parties in Yemen and their partners - should be focused on negotiating an end to this war, not making the suffering of Yemeni children worse. I resume my functions as President of the Council. I now give the floor to the representative of Yemen.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“Recent fighting is making the main road from the port much harder to use and the parties should work with the United Nations to get aid moving around without interference. Finally, the parties must avoid moving ahead with any new restrictions on imports of foods, fuel and other lifesaving goods bound for Yemen. Those are things that the parties can do immediately. In the longer term, everyone around the table today knows what must be done. All of us support the efforts of Special Envoy Martin Griffiths to find ways to reduce the Violence and return to talks. The tragedy that is building in Yemen is almost beyond comprehension, but we are not helpless in the face of it.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“We just have to have the will to do them. The last time the Council met on Yemen (see S/PV.8348), we all urged the parties to de-escalate and go back to talks. But as we heard today, the opposite has happened. So the United States calls on all parties to take precautions to protect the grain mills and food storage facilities around Al-Hudaydah. Yemen cannot afford any more close calls with fighting around these warehouses. Fighters must not enter United Nations facilities, which must be protected from attack. This is not rocket science. The minimum that the Security Council can demand of the fighters from all sides is to allow humanitarian relief to reach the starving people of Yemen.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“Their parents cannot even afford the cost of transporting their kids to clinics for help. Families in Yemen rely on outside aid to survive. Yet the needs are so vast and the obstacles so tough that it is hard to figure out who needs help and actually get it there. That is despite the best efforts of so many brave aid workers, who struggle to deal with officials on the ground blocking access and interfering with relief efforts. In the end, we may never know how many kids are dying in these remote villages. Parents rarely report their deaths and they never get counted in the already dire statistics of the United Nations. Stories like those are overwhelming, but the Security Council is not helpless in the face ofthis crisis. There are things that the international community can do to help these starving children and their mothers.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“I will now make a statement in my national capacity as the representative of the United States. I thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing. What we know about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is horrifying, but truthfully what is even scarier is what we do not know. Recently, journalists visited a remote village in northern Yemen. They found families wasting away, surviving - if you can call it that - on a diet of sour green paste made of leaves from a local plant. One mother of a seven-month-old was so malnourished that she often could not feed her baby, and she had no other means. She told the journalists, "Since the day she was born, I have not had the money to buy her milk or buy her medicine". The pictures of the village's starving babies captured by the journalists are almost too much to take. These kids were wasting away off the grid.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“I thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of Yemen to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I now give the floor to Mr. Lowcock.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8361 (2018) · source
“The Secretary-General has challenged all of us to step up and strengthen peacekeeping, and today the Security Council responded to the call. The United States is grateful for the Council's leadership. The actions we take today will make the United Nations a better, more effective instrument of peace and security and a more trusted caretaker of the people we are pledged to protect. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the voting.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8360 (2018) · source
“It creates real accountability measures for when those failures occur and applies objective criteria - data, not politics - to match the right police and troops with the right peacekeeping roles. Our team rejected business as usual for this resolution. We focused on engaging major troop- and police-contributing countries that are not on the Security Council but are at the forefront of United Nations peacekeeping. For our non-Council friends who helped shaped this draft - which is their resolution too - their experiences, ideas and even criticisms are reflected throughout the text. We are proud of this transparent and inclusive approach, not for its own sake but because it produced a strong final draft.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8360 (2018) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. One of the themes of the United States Security Council presidency is transparency. The focus on outreach, inclusion and speaking the hard truths was also the approach we brought to the development of resolution 2436 (2018). If we were ambitious in our goals for the resolution, it is because defenceless people in some of the most dangerous places on Earth are counting on us. That is hard work. It demands high standards. We cannot be afraid to ask for and expect the very best of our peacekeepers. Therefore, resolution 2436 (2018) mandates a timely and transparent reporting process for performance failures.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8360 (2018) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2018/853, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands. In favour: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2436 (2018).”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8360 (2018) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Council has before it the text of a statement by the President on behalf of the Council on the subject of today's meeting. I thank Council members for their valuable contributions to the statement. In accordance with the understanding reached among the members of the Council, I shall take it that the members of the Security Council agree to the statement, which will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2018/18. The meeting rose at 3.10pm.”
2018-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8359 (2018) · source
“That is the very same conflict and division that Iran promotes in Syria, Yemen and Lebanon and across the Middle East. All members of the Security Council that respect the principle of national sovereignty should be concerned, and all that respect the right to self-determination of the Iraqi people should come to their defence. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. There are no further speakers inscribed on my list. The meeting rose at 5pm.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“No less than any nation, Iraq has that right. And yet, at a critical time in its history, as Iraqis build their Government, Iran is acting in shameless disregard of Iraqi sovereignty. It is threatening populations to promote its own political leaders. It is undermining a key feature of sovereignty - a State monopoly on the use of force - by promoting its own militias. The United States is committed to working with Iraq to help it create an inclusive and independent Government. Iraq is working to recover from years of conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, and still to overcome the legacy of Saddam Hussein's tyranny. Not only is Iranian interference preventing forward progress for the Iraqi people; it is pulling them backward to the conflict and division they are striving to put behind them.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“Two weeks ago, two Iranian proxy groups launched rocket attacks on the American Embassy in Baghdad and the United States Consulate in Basra. Using proxy forces in Iraq does not give the Iranian regime plausible deniability when attacks like this occur. The Trump Administration does not and will not buy that. Iran could have stopped its proxies' attacks. It chose not to, so the White House responded by putting Tehran firmly on notice. We hold the Iranian regime fully accountable for its proxies' attacks on United States facilities and personnel in Iraq, and we will not hesitate to vigorously defend American lives. The sovereignty of Member States is an issue that comes up a lot in the Security Council - for good reason. Every nation has the sovereign right to govern itself, protect its people and defend its borders.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“That fact was noted by the Secretary-General in his most recent report on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2018/602). And let us be clear about what Soleimani is up to in Iraq. He is not there to help create a Government in Baghdad that is responsive to the Iraqi people. He is there to build an Iraqi Government that is under the control of the Iranian regime. Iran treats Iraq as if it were not an independent nation. Iran sees Iraq as merely a transit point for Iranian weapons and a training ground for Iranian proxies. Iran seeks to keep Iraq economically weak and dependent on its exports, even though Iraq has plenty of its own resources. Why? Because Iran wants to use a weak Iraq to illicitly fund its terrorist activities. There is one more recent Iranian escalation that bears special consequence to Americans.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“It was Iran's first direct military strike into Iraqi territory in over a decade. That Iranian interference in the sovereignty of Iraq should be of great interest to the Security Council for many reasons, not least of which is because it occurs in clear defiance of Security Council resolutions. Iranian General and Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Qasem Soleimani is leading an effort to influence the composition of a new Iraqi Government. I remind my colleagues that Soleimani was banned from travelling outside of Iran by the Security Council in 2007. That ban was reaffirmed in 2015 with the adoption of resolution 2231 (2015). Despite that unambiguous travel ban, Soleimani has practically taken up residence in Iraq since the May elections.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“In the case of Iraq, their goal is to exploit uncertainty in order to create an Iranian- controlled corridor for weapons and fighters from Tehran to the Mediterranean. In recent months, Iran's aggression has escalated. Iranian proxies in Iraq operate openly, with funding, training, and weapons supplied by Tehran. The Iranian regime has reportedly begun over the past few months to transfer ballistic missiles to those proxies in Iraq. It is reportedly developing the capability for its proxy militias to produce their own missiles inside of Iraq. In a blatant violation of Iraqi sovereignty, the Iranian regime recently fired a barrage of missiles from Iran into Iraq. Iran attacked the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, killing 11 people. This was an act not of Iranian proxies but of the Tehran regime itself.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“The Iranian regime has backed dictators who gas their own people. It stokes conflict. It funds foreign fighters and terrorists. It transfers missiles to militants. It acts against the interests and policies of the Security Council time and time again. Across the Middle East, Iran has trampled on the sovereignty of its neighbours in Lebanon, in Syria and in Yemen, and the Iranian regime has shown a total disregard of the sovereignty of a country that is at a critical stage in its political development - Iraq. Iran's leaders pretend that their interference in the sovereignty of other nations is done in the name of religious affiliation. They like to claim that they have been invited into the affairs of other countries. In fact, the motives of the mullahs are much less elevated. They are interested in power.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my national capacity. I thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing. I have listened to my colleagues' statements this afternoon with great interest. I have always been open about my belief that this Middle East debate has been excessively and unfairly focused on Israel. Today, I will go one step further. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is serious and worthy of the Council's attention, but if there is one country that is the source of conflict and instability in the Middle East - one country that merits a quarterly debate in the Security Council - that country is not Israel. It is Iran. For almost 40 years, the Iranian regime has existed outside the community of law-abiding nations. It is difficult to name a conflict in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints on it.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“I thank Mr. Mladenov for his statement. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I now welcome and give the floor to Mr. Mladenov.”
2018-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8358 (2018) · source
“I shall now make a further statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. "Deny, distract and lie." We have heard that same song many times before - whether it was aiding the Al-Assad regime with chemical weapons, the attempted murder of the Skripals with a dangerous nerve agent in the United Kingdom, election-meddling in the United States - which, by the way, did not work - or now cheating on sanctions agreements and getting caught. Lying, Cheating and rogue behaviour have become the new norm of the Russian culture. The Russian Ambassador said "no one is denying the Panel of Experts". I take that to assume that he will allow the original report of the Panel of Experts to be released. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I give the floor to the representative of the Republic of Korea.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“The United States calls on all members of the Security Council to join us in demanding that the Panel of Experts submit its original report to the Security Council. Every member of the Council should go on the record on that request. Nothing less than the integrity of the United Nations and our unified approach to North Korea hang in the balance. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. I now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“The evidence we have presented today leaves Russia with a choice; it is binary - either it wants sanctions to succeed or it does not, and either it wants to deprive the Pyongyang Government of the means to finance its illegal nuclear weapons system or it does not. Unfortunately, I think that we know the answers to those questions. Either way, the Security Council can no longer be indifferent to Russia's actions. Russia must cease its violations of North Korean sanctions. It must end its concerted effort to cover up evidence of sanctions violations. The final and fully verified denuclearization of North Korea is the international community's overriding objective. The evidence no longer allows us to take Russia's word that it shares that objective. Russia must now demonstrate by its deeds that it shares our objective in North Korea.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“It wants sanctions relief so that it can connect its Trans-Siberian Railway to North Korea to ultimately reach a global port in South Korea. The problem is that it is not time yet to relieve the pressure on North Korea - no matter how lucrative it is for Russia. As we have all agreed, that time comes with denuclearization, and not before. Now is the wrong time to undo all the good work that we have done in the Security Council. Now is the wrong time to ease sanctions pressure on the North Korean regime by repealing sanctions, and it is never the right time to allow cheating to go unpunished. Every time the Security Council overlooks sanctions violations, and every time we allow the Russians to bury evidence of violations, we remove incentives for Pyongyang to end its nuclear programme.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“It has now spread to the sanctions reporting process. If we are not careful, the sickness will make its way into the integrity and effectiveness of the Security Council itself. Finally, let us look at why Russia is so focused on developing railways with North Korea - so focused that it will tell us today that we should remove sanctions. Russia's far-eastern region has few economic opportunities, but coal is one of them. Exporting coal has not been easy without a warm-water seaport. Russians have therefore been leasing the North Korean port of Rason. It poured a lot of money into building that port. We knew it was important for Russia, so we have exempted it five times since 2016. But that is not enough for Russia.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“It gives the Security Council and the world an impartial and independent means of ensuring accountability for violators, and a warning to anyone who is considering violation sanctions in the future. We have seen the Russian tendency to kill the messengers of inconvenient truths before. They did not like it when the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) concluded that Russia's client, the Al-Assad regime, used chemical weapons against its own people in Syria, so theyjust killed the Mechanism. Now, Russia has succeeded in discrediting the United Nations independent panel reporting process because it called out its violations. Russian corruption is like a virus. It is impeding our ability to achieve complete denuclearization in North Korea.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“We have seen and read the report, but when the Panel submitted the report to the Security Council last week, we noticed something deeply troubling. The evidence of Russian violations that was detailed in the earlier report was missing. It has been removed from the open section of the report. Apparently, Russia threatened to prevent the release of the report unless its demands to hide the evidence of its violations were met. To our deep regret, the Panel agreed. That Russian interference was so egregious that the United States had no choice but to prevent the publication of the tainted report. The United Nations panel of experts reporting process is our most valuable tool for ensuring that sanctions are implemented fully and effectively.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“Russia agreed with the rest of the Security Council one year ago to sanction a North Korean operative in Moscow who was raising money for weapons programmes, but it never expelled that operative. And when it came time to act, not only did Russia fight to allow the operative to remain in its country, but it is also fighting for him to retain access to his Moscow bank account. For what? Is it to finance his illegal operations in Russia, in violation of the United Nations sanctions? Step by step, sanction by sanction and time and again, Russia works across the board to undermine the sanctions regime. Last month, the independent Panel of Experts on the implementation of North Korean sanctions submitted its biannual report to the sanctions committee. The report contained evidence of multiple Russian sanctions violations.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“When North Korea assassinated Kim Jong-nam with VX, a deadly nerve agent, the United States moved to strengthen United Nations controls on the flow of North Korean chemical and biological weapons technology. Russia agreed with us in the Security Council but turned around and again blocked the sanctions committee from updating its 12-year-old sanctions list, which is critical to preventing the flow of dangerous weapons of mass destruction-related materials to North Korea. When North Korea began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to target the United States and other nations with nuclear weapons, we tried to stop it, but even when it came to denying North Korea the means to deliver nuclear weapons, the Russians resisted the enforcement of the sanctions. The list goes on.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“We presented evidence of those violations to the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), which tracks sanctions implementation, but Russia prevented the Committee from declaring that North Korea had exceeded its oil quota. Today, North Korea continues to illegally procure refined petroleum products with the help of Russia. Not only that, when we have pursued United Nations designation of the Patriot and other North Korean, Russian and other country flag ships that have been found to be illegally transferring oil, Russia has consistently blocked those designations in the sanctions committee. It is not just on the high seas that Russia is aiding sanctions evasion.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“With our allies and partners, the United States has evidence of many more ships we have uncovered providing oil illegally through ship-to-ship transfers. Just this year, the United States tracked at least 148 instances of oil tankers delivering refined petroleum products obtained through illegal ship-to-ship transfers. We estimate that North Korea obtained at least more than 800,000 barrels of refined petroleum products in the first eight months of the year. That is 160 per cent of the 2018 annual cap of 500,000. In reality, we think it obtained four times the annual quota in the first eight months of the year.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“One of the main ways North Korea cheats is through ship-to-ship transfers of banned items, mainly oil but increasingly coal and other goods. To evade port inspections, oil tankers come together on the high seas. North Koreans use hoses to transfer refined petroleum products to their ships to bring back home. Many tankers are willing to provide oil to make a quick buck. One Russian vessel - the Patriot - was captured on film transferring refined petroleum in April this year to a North Korean-controlled vessel that is United Nations- listed. The Patriot helped the North Koreans evade sanctions by allowing them to obtain oil on the high seas without having to dock in a port, since the North Korean boat was subject to a global port entry ban.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“Despite its repeated support for United Nations sanctions, Russia is actively working to undermine the enforcement of the Security Council's sanctions on North Korea. Its violations are not one-offs. They are systematic. Russia has not simply looked the other way as its nationals and entities engage in activities explicitly prohibited by United Nations sanctions; Russia has engaged in a concerted campaign in the Security Council to cover up violations of sanctions, whether committed by Russia or citizens of other States. The United States has evidence of consistent and wide-ranging Russian violations, which should offend every current and former member of the Security Council that knows how difficult it was to gain passage of those sanctions. It should offend every country that has felt the looming threat of North Korean nuclear weapons.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“It is important to note that, like the rest ofthe Security Council, Russia voted in favour of all of the sanctions Ijust described. Despite that, and despite not having yet come close to the achievement of denuclearization, Russia is now asking to ease the sanctions. Russia originally requested today's meeting for the purpose of criticizing the United States for blocking rail projects it wants to pursue with North Korea. Russia had planned on asking the Security Council to begin to remove sanctions on North Korea so it could pursue a project for its own economic benefit. The question one should ask is: Why? Why after voting in favour of sanctions 11 different times is Russia now backing away from them? We know the answer. It is because Russia has been cheating and has now been caught.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“We all promised to expel North Korean overseas financial representatives. We agreed that North Korea should not be able to obtain chemical and biological weapons- related materials, and we all agreed to stop international scientific engagement with North Korea. Such sanctions were put in place for a very specific reason - to cut off funding and materials for North Korea's nuclear- and ballistic-missile programmes - because we know that the cash revenue going to North Korea is used to build its weapons programmes, not to help the North Korean people. The difficult and very sensitive talks with North Korea are ongoing. The Trump-Kim summit has set us on a path to complete denuclearization. But we are not there yet and, until we get there, we must not ease the powerful worldwide sanctions that are in place.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source
“The measures we adopted last year are something the Security Council should be very proud of. We achieved historic unity by implementing historic sanctions. The Security Council unanimously adopted three major sanctions packages, thereby creating one of the most restrictive sanctions regimes in history. Together, we have also implemented sanctions against dozens of specific North Korean individuals and entities supporting the regime's nuclear- and ballistic-missile programmes. All of us pledged a ban on North Korea's exports and 30 per cent ofits imports. All ofus promised to uphold the expulsion of all North Korean overseas labourers and stop all joint ventures. We supported a cap on North Korea's imports of oil and other refined petroleum products at 500,000 barrels a year, and a total ban on the export of North Korean coal.”
2018-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8353 (2018) · source