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Kimani

lines on the record: 811
first: 2021-05-27
most recent: 2023-10-25
sittings or episodes: 113
sources: un-security-council

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“The push to broaden fertilizer production in Africa will go hand in hand with a just energy transition that allows countries to use their hydrocarbon resources for economic development. Countries that strongly advocate for humanitarian response should regard a just energy transition in the global South as key to meeting their humanitarian advocacy. We also argue that this is the right time for the Security Council to re-engage with its preventive mandate, particularly in regard to the climate crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, to mention only two of the most-affected regions. There is sufficient evidence that the climate crisis aggravates conflict and may even be a direct driver.”
2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source
“While food insecurity may be most acute in the limited areas where violence is occurring, in most conflict-afflicted countries it is a broader phenomenon. We therefore urge the relevant States, regional bodies and United Nations entities to bring a renewed and resourced focus on Sustainable Development Goal 2, which seeks zero-hunger by 2030. Their efforts should be coordinated and collaborative in order to ensure that they are conflict responsive. Pursuing that target requires an immediate focus on increasing agricultural productivity, particularly in supporting access to affordable fertilizers and de-risking investments in fertilizer production, particularly in Africa.”
2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source
“That context is further complicated by the fact that we are presently in the grip of a global food and energy crisis whose causes extend far beyond the national situation and include geopolitical, economic and climate-change drivers. Humanitarian organizations are undertaking heroic efforts all over the world. They are short of the resources they require, and the emergencies are growing by the day. Our humanitarian colleagues should be supported in their urgent calls for adequate funding and, indeed, for rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access. However, we should not focus entirely and exclusively on the emergency responses to human-made conflicts. We know that in most of the countries and regions most affected by violent conflict, its causes include climate change, development shortfalls and the consequent poverty and inequality.”
2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source
“I thank Martin Griffiths, David Beasley and Maximo Torero for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of Ambassador Maurizio Massari. Given that we are discussing specific countries whose people are suffering the distress of food insecurity, we would ideally want to hear from the States concerned in order to have a fuller picture of the situation. After all, if practical solutions are the outcome we seek, every useful insight shared today will need to build on the efforts of those States and their ability and willingness to work with the United Nations and the international community. We welcome the humanitarian briefings and the briefers’ awareness that the emergencies are taking place in a broader political, economic and environmental context.”
2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source
“We also call for the protection of Libya’s oil sector from politicization and manipulation by external influences. We continue to be disturbed by the continuing inhumane treatment of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers both on land and at sea. We demand that those involved, whether directly or indirectly, cease such abuse of human rights. We want to see the United Nations monitor more closely the resources and information channels that enable it and expect the Secretary- General’s report on migrant smuggling to shed more light on the issue. We also call for considering more practical ways of addressing its root causes. Finally, we reaffirm our respect for Libya’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and our support for a truly Libyan-led and -owned peace process.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“We commend the 5+5 Joint Military Commission for its work in helping sustain the ceasefire agreement and urge it to press on with the implementation of the agreement and the reunification of the armed forces. We urge close collaboration between Libya, the United Nations, neighbouring countries and the African Union in monitoring their withdrawal to avoid the transfer of armed conflict into the region, and to ensure the conduct of the corresponding work of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration to the various countries of origin. In preserving Libya’s frozen assets for the country’s future generations, and cognizant of the external interests competing for Libya’s resources and wealth, we urge that any action on those assets be undertaken in consultation with the Libyan authorities.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“We are painfully aware that as we urge Libyans to exert themselves in resolving their differences, they are having to contend with external interests that undermine their push for unity. We call on the political leadership and the people of Libya to make the courageous choice to resist those external influences. Libya has suffered enough. Africa has suffered enough. It is time we collectively resisted being divided by powerful foreign interests that care only for their own advantage and manoeuvres against each other. We demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces, foreign fighters and mercenaries from the territory of Libya. Their continued presence undermines the territorial integrity of Libya and the peace and security of the Libyan people.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“We also invite Libya to take advantage of the African Union’s offer in line with resolution 2647 (2022). That is also in line with the commitment of the African Union Peace and Security Council expressed in its communiqué of 29 June. We look forward to the speedy nomination of an African Special Representative of the Secretary-General. It is time to offer sustained mediation accepted by all sides in order to enable Libya to end its transitional phase and elect an inclusive Government. The elections require a firm constitutional basis, adopted through inclusive dialogue and consensus, if they are to be credible. We call on all the relevant Libyan parties to make every effort to deliver that kind of constitutional framework.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“That can be achieved only by wholly embracing the belief that the destiny of the Libyan people is to be united, and therefore accepting that no one side of the political divide, whether in Tripoli or Benghazi, will ever have a monopoly on force or political domination. These clashes may appear to offer temporary advantage, but that is a dangerous illusion. All they really offer is an opportunity for those who would benefit from a reversal of the path to reconciliation. We therefore call for an end to all inflammatory remarks by political leaders, as well as the corresponding heightened movement and mobilization of armed groups. We recommend to all parties the mediating role of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya and other international support in that regard.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the three African members of the Security Council — Gabon, Ghana and Kenya. We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya, for their briefings. We welcome the participation of Ambassador Elsonni, Permanent Representative of Libya. We are extremely concerned about the clashes that have broken out in Tripoli in the past few days. We offer our deepest condolences to the bereaved families and call for an immediate cessation of the violence. We call for Libya’s leaders to heed their people’s desire for peace and security.”
2022-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9120 (2022) · source
“Our delegation underscores that the actualization of the long-held goal — a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace and within secure and recognized borders, based on the 1967 lines — will require a meaningful commitment to the peace process by all parties in alignment with international law, the Charter of the United Nations, the Council’s resolutions, including the comprehensive pillars of resolution 2334 (2016), and the existing regional peace initiatives and frameworks. A commitment to an independent, sovereign, viable and contiguous Palestinian State also means the immediate and complete cessation of Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, as demanded in resolution 2334 (2016).”
2022-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9116 (2022) · source
“We note, however, that its fiscal situation remains dire. In that regard, in addition to fulfilling pledges to ensure adequate and predictable funding for UNRWA, we urge strengthened efforts to identify areas of cooperation and collaboration between the Agency and other peacebuilding and development entities. We believe that those services, alongside confidence-building measures in the area of commerce and security between Israeli and Palestinian authorities, speak to what is immediately practical in the context of an elusive peace process. Nevertheless, they are not a substitute for the resumption of the political process and dialogue between the parties for long-term stability and peace.”
2022-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9116 (2022) · source
“Such steps contribute to the implementation of resolution 1860 (2009), which, among other things, emphasizes the safety and well-being of all civilians, as well as the need to ensure a sustained and regular flow of goods and people through the Gaza crossings. Kenya reiterates that peace efforts, both at the official and grass-roots levels, that comprehensively integrate the socioeconomic development of all sectors of society will always be critical to the stability and peace of the region in the interim and in the long term. In particular, a grass-roots approach will contribute to harmonious coexistence and conditions conducive to official negotiations. As we heard this morning, UNRWA continues to play a key role in facilitating critical health, education, social protection, microfinance and other services to the Palestinian population.”
2022-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9116 (2022) · source
“By the same token, we note that, in the already delicate economic conditions, as depicted in Gaza, every escalation worsens the humanitarian situation, heightens existing tensions and makes full recovery ever-more elusive. As such, it is critical that the Security Council strongly condemn the terrorist attacks of such groups as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and their affiliates. Addressing Gaza’s economic isolation from the wider regional and the global economy will be critical to the peace, security and stability of the broader Middle East region. In that regard, the Government of Israel’s recent assessment and decision to increase the work- permit quota for Palestinians in Gaza and to reopen the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings is welcome.”
2022-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9116 (2022) · source
“I thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing, particularly regarding the aftermath of the recent escalation of violence in Gaza. The briefings delivered by Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Mr. Daniel Levy, President of the US/Middle East Project, once again remind us that, as long as the underlying political, social and development factors of this protracted conflict remain unaddressed, the cyclical trends, including the eruption and resurgence of conflict in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, will persist. We welcome the fact that the 8 August ceasefire agreement in Gaza continues to hold. We commend all parties that have been instrumental in ensuring that, including neighbouring countries, for their efforts.”
2022-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9116 (2022) · source
“We also pay tribute to the determined efforts by United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to provide humanitarian aid and comfort to Ukraine’s most vulnerable. Their impact is evidence of a depth of competence that we hope can be resourced and deployed with equal ambition in other conflict areas. We know that even with a multilateralism that is under grave threat, as this downcast Security Council reflects, a spirit of urgency and imagination can still enable us to forge a just peace for Ukraine. I wish for continued independence for all Ukrainians, as I reaffirm Kenya’s respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Those should be part of a road map to achieve a comprehensive agreement that secures the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Such an end, given the emerging escalation between the great Powers, would ideally be linked to a broader negotiation that produces a stable European security order. The principles underlying such an order should adhere to the United Nations Charter and be utilized to stabilize other parts of the world. In the meantime, Kenya, while in the Security Council and in all relevant forums, will offer every support to positive efforts seeking those aims. We will continue to champion the cause of the Secretary-General and his team, who should be commended for their tireless efforts. In that regard, we applaud the Secretary-General’s recent visit to Lviv.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“The willingness of the parties to negotiate and the alertness, subtle skill and moral persuasion of the facilitators demonstrate that diplomacy is still able to deliver if given a chance. We cannot leave our fate to the most powerful. Some of them may be bent on domination, but we cannot allow it to be at the expense of our common peace. They may project certainty and great power, but none can know or control the future. It is time for intuitive, bold leadership from any and every country that has influence or leverage to push them to dialogue, rather than confrontation. The immediate aim should be the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine; the opening of safe humanitarian corridors and unhindered humanitarian access and the security of all nuclear installations, especially the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Africa and the rest of the world would be thrown into a mirror of the Cold War, which shattered our democracies, overthrew and killed our leaders and robbed us of decades of economic progress. Stopping this war, in a manner that adheres to the principles of the United Nations Charter, is what will keep other old grievances from boiling over. Not all is lost. Even in such dark times, we must remember that in the past serious threats to international peace and security were successfully resolved. There is yet a chance to build on the slim, but important, success represented by the agreement between the parties for the secure export of Ukraine’s food products through the Black Sea, as well as food and fertilizer exports from Russia. We commend the Secretary-General and the Government of Türkiye for their crucial facilitation.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Ukraine deserves the same freedom and independence that we enjoy. It is a Member of our United Nations in good standing. Its sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence should be respected. Its people do not deserve to have their lives and livelihoods destroyed. Unless the war in Ukraine is stopped through dialogue and negotiation, it could be the first of a series of conflicts that future historians will name the Third World War. Such a disaster would be different from the last world wars and all the wars before them. The dangers of direct conflict between nuclear-armed Powers mean that most of their confrontations would be undertaken by proxy.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“We are forced by this moment to recall how its failed predecessor, the League of Nations, was unable to stop the conflicts that led to the great fire of the Second World War. Multilateralism, as expressed in the United Nations, including in the Chamber, with all its flaws, is our last hope against a new world war. The wars we choose to fight, as Kenya and Africa, as I believe is the case for most of the world, are for independence from poverty, ignorance and disease. We have no desire to be drawn into a worldwide conflict, or for our grievances and disagreements to be the soil in which wars by proxy take root. We see in Ukraine’s war a grim warning that we too may be engulfed by the competitions and confrontations that contribute to its ferocity. That is why we believe that Ukraine’s immediate fate is so important to all of us.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“We joined the United Nations within days of becoming independent. We signed up to its principles because, as a young nation, we needed assurance that our sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence would be respected. We valued its mission to outlaw aggression and sought to use its instruments to help us turn swords into ploughshares so that we could enjoy the fruits of our freedom. We remain thankful that the United Nations stood for decolonization and that it gave voice to the smallest countries in the world, without regard to their military might or wealth. What a precious heritage we have, and how intolerable that it should be as endangered as it is today.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“I thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for their updates on the situation in Ukraine. Kenya takes this opportunity to convey its best wishes to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on their Independence Day. We regret that what should be a day of celebration is impaired by a war that has breached Ukraine’s territorial integrity, contrary to the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The people of Ukraine have suffered greatly over the past six months. We offer them, and particularly the bereaved families, our deepest condolences. Ukraine’s Independence Day gives us an opportunity to appreciate our own independence, as I am sure is the case for every member of the Council. We will forever be thankful for the brave men and women who fought for our freedom.”
2022-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9115 (2022) · source
“Kenya will continue playing its part in promoting dialogue and cooperation for the sake of common security. We have played an essential part in the forging of political solutions to multiple conflicts, and even to head off State collapse in our region. At the moment we are undertaking every diplomatic and political effort to facilitate and assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo to solve the crisis in its eastern region through the Nairobi Conclave and the inter-Congolese dialogue. We make those efforts alongside our neighbours and partners in the firm belief that dialogue and cooperation, not confrontation and conflict, are key to ensuring that our citizens and all people live in peace, security and shared prosperity.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“The United Nations and regional organizations must have a stronger voice in ensuring that this technology is developed ethically and in line with the principles of the United Nations Charter. Fourthly, common security is not attainable without development. In particular, there must be renewed energy shown by industrialized countries to meet and exceed commitments for climate-change adaptation and mitigation. The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Egypt, will be a key test in that regard. Finally, militant non-State actors and, in particular, terrorists, can fatally undermine our common security. We call for stronger efforts by the Council to predictably and consistently use its full range of tools against all terrorist entities and their collaborators.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Secondly, the United Nations needs to assume greater responsibility for all peace operations against threats to international peace and security. In particular, adequate and predictable financing, including through assessed contributions for Security Council-mandated African Union-led peace operations, needs to be provided. There must also be adequate predictable and sustained financing for peacebuilding. In this regard, we urge members to agree on an ambitious draft resolution on financing for peacebuilding by the end of the seventy-sixth session. Thirdly, it is an unfortunate legacy that the regions leading in the development of nuclear weapons are also the most advanced in the development of militarized artificial intelligence.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Without stronger contributions to our common security by all regions and our multilateral instruments, destructive cold and hot wars and other major harms lie in our immediate future. Many efforts are required, but I will mention only a few that I urge Council members to prioritize in their analysis. First, we need to renew our ambition to undertake overdue reforms of the United Nations, and particularly the Security Council. African seats, in line with the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration, offer the greatest hope for a balanced Council. The African Union and other regional organizations also need to undertake every effort to strengthen their peace and security architecture so as to reinforce the impact of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Our argument today is that regions, and specifically Africa, have an important role to play. The future map of survival, as The New York Times dubbed the Palme Commission, will need to have Africa as both its subject and as a critical actor for its success. The world needs a prosperous, secure and united Africa to successfully navigate today’s major challenges, such as global insecurity and climate change. Africa’s Agenda 2063 can therefore be a cornerstone for the emergence of a balancing pillar for international peace and security. We propose to our friends and partners today that aiding this ambition or, at a minimum, not impeding it, is in their fundamental interest.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“Unless dialogue is started to halt the war in Ukraine, the continuation of the logic that led to it will lead to ruin for all of us. We are at a fork in the road. Will the world’s Powers choose to embrace the guiding vision of the United Nations, or will they turn it into one more arena of their conflict and sap its will and means to protect international peace and security? The rest of the world, and Africa specifically, must not wait passively to be swept into the centre of the storms that are being generated by this historic confrontation. It must not lead to us suffering the agony of proxy wars or out-of-control climate change and pandemics. The 1982 Palme Commission held out the hope that citizens and civil society would take a more active role in advocating disarmament and security.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“We do so again, knowing that, without it, humankind will suffer grievously, as our greatest hopes are crushed by multiple interlocking crises. As you know, Mr. President, we have an agreement that, if embraced in deed as much as in word, offers us a hopeful basis for collective security. That agreement is the Charter of the United Nations, which we must not allow to go the way of the failed Covenant of the League of Nations. However, present trends holding, it may well meet this unfortunate end due to the paralysis caused by the increasing conflict between defensive and offensive alliances of major Powers. The effects are already devastating when it comes to the ongoing war in Europe and its worldwide consequences.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“I thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Mr. Gustavo Zlauvinen, President of the tenth Review of the Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, for their briefings. I commend you and your delegation, Mr. President, for the choice of topic for today’s briefing. We embrace the discussion, believing that the survival of our species is dependent on the establishment of security based on dialogue and cooperation, not the combative threat of mutual and worldwide nuclear annihilation. Unfortunately, the international community is facing an increasingly dangerous confrontation between the great Powers. In the past, we have regretted the increasing irrelevance of multilateralism.”
2022-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9112 (2022) · source
“In the meantime, we encourage the Government of the Central African Republic and all parties in the country to redouble their efforts to implement the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic through the Luanda road map. They should also stay on course to expedite security-sector reform. Kenya will continue supporting the people of the Central African Republic in their quest for peace, while always respecting their political independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“We reiterate our assertion during the renewal of the sanctions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month (see S/PV.9084) that the notification requirement is unnecessary. It is an ineffective tool for addressing the illicit proliferation and supply of weapons to armed groups. If anything, it serves only to reveal information that should otherwise remain privileged to a sovereign State. Meanwhile, armed groups have been acquiring superior arms through illicit trafficking networks, financed by the illegal exploitation of the country’s natural resources. That has given them an advantage over Government forces. In that regard, we hope that the Council will listen to the voices of Central Africans and the relevant regional organizations and take the remaining step of removing the notification requirement as soon as possible.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“However, Kenya abstained in the voting because in our view, the resolution still falls short of the full lifting of the arms embargo on the Government of the Central African Republic, as advocated by the Government itself, the African Union, the Economic Community of Central African States and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. All of those bodies have a clear analysis of what is going on in the Central African Republic and are united in calling for the embargo on its Government to be fully lifted. In line with the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, the least the Council should do is to give those regional organizations a more respectful hearing.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“I welcome the participation of Her Excellency Ms. Sylvie Baipo Temon in today’s deliberations following the voting and congratulate the Foreign Minister for the significant victory she has won for her country today. Her persistence and determination are a vivid demonstration of the great wins that countries can enjoy if they embrace the women and peace and security agenda in ensuring the equality and inclusion of women in key decision-making positions. The Kenyan delegation thanks France for facilitating the negotiations on resolution 2648 (2022), leading to its adoption. We appreciate the fact that some of the proposals made by Kenya and Gabon are in the text. Indeed, the new resolution has taken a positive step towards a full lifting of the arms embargo.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9105 (2022) · source
“Its recommendations and solutions should receive sufficient financial and operational support and be a bridge to longer-term ambitious reforms and initiatives if we are to save multilateralism and protect our common peace. I thank you, Mr. President, and congratulate you for Brazil’s responsible, professional and skilled presidency for the month of July.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The Bank’s development knowledge and resources, coordinated with United Nations humanitarian aid, peacebuilding and peacekeeping knowledge, plus its ground presence, can make real inroads in delivering peace and resilience. Fifthly, and finally, it is an outcome of a great war that the most powerful States in the United Nations should also be among the greatest shareholders in the Bretton Woods institutions. Even while needing substantial reforms for inclusion, those institutions can still offer ambitious solutions to the major challenges we face. We believe that the Secretary-General’s Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance offers a valuable platform for action in the short term.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“In addition, climate adaptation and mitigation should be a core operating system in the international financial institutions and every Government, to the point that there are fundamental changes to the global financial system and its treatment of debt and investment in the developing world. It should respond robustly to regions suffering extreme climate change effects and that are in need of strong and shared development. Fourthly, we believe that the useful work that the World Bank has done in situations of fragility, conflict and violence is a promising foundation for action. That work should be strongly coordinated with climate change action, as I have described briefly, and with the peacebuilding agenda of the United Nations.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The conflict in Ukraine, like the coronavirus pandemic, has proved that distributed production, particularly in Africa, and the developing world, is a key safety net. If the great Powers want to make their case to Africa, they should start by partnering with us to deliver fertilizer independence and gains in our agricultural productivity. Thirdly, agreeing to meet, and even exceed, the Paris climate commitments at the upcoming twenty- seventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Egypt ,is a minimum deliverable by the industrialized countries.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“First, the world will believe in the mandate of the Security Council if it can assist in delivering a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and support a lasting settlement that stabilizes the European security order. The Council should do that while respecting the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine. As difficult as it is to achieve those goals, they are the minimum required if the Security Council is to be credible and able to take on the other challenges I have outlined. Secondly, the Security Council must stop being the echo chamber for growing appeals for humanitarian aid as millions of lives around the world are threatened by extreme food insecurity.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“Meanwhile, a future of extreme political and economic instability, leading to the impoverishment and deaths of millions from the effects of climate change, looms. Sitting here in the Security Council, it is difficult to argue that our briefings, debates and decisions meaningfully respond to those profound threats to international peace and security. That needs to change so that the world does not turn its back on this hallowed Chamber, which still has useful tools to help relieve, and even solve, some of the challenges I have described. It is not enough for Kenya to only sound the alarm. We must use the urgency of this moment to take more ambitious and courageous actions to rescue multilateralism and our common peace. To that end, allow me to make five recommendations.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“At a minimum, it will mean that the sea lanes vital for the transportation of goods in our globalized economy will not be open and secure, and that globalization itself, which has been a great engine for development, will grind to a halt or even be reversed. The race for technological development is more weaponized than ever and part of an emerging contest between great Powers. There is now a great, if not greater, chance of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence leading to even more destructive wars than being engines for shared prosperity. Their production and procurement, rather than responding to the governance reforms that developing countries have been asked to make for a generation, will now be allocated along geopolitical lines.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The European security order is in ruins. It has been replaced by military-political alliances preparing for war and trying to deter and contain one another. The situation in Europe today is a dire threat to international peace and security. Its great-Power alliances and their projections of power are endangering the stability of the Korean peninsula and the South China Sea, to mention just two potential flashpoints. The escalation of the present competition and rivalry can easily escalate into conflict that will lay waste to the world economy and lead to the proxy wars of the Cold War.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“We mourn the terrible suffering it is causing to Ukrainians, and few countries, including Kenya, have escaped its baleful effects. Unfortunately, we must now additionally contend with the increasingly clear fact that the militaristic energies loosed by the war in Ukraine threaten a new era of major global conflicts. It is right that we should use this briefing and every available platform to sound this warning to the Members of the United Nations, in the hope that it will spur a united resistance to the present course we are on. If we fail to inspire or pressure the warring parties and their allies to the table, then I hope that we shall use the regional and global instruments available to us to find some degree of security. It is time we also deliberated on responses to the global threats of the situation in Ukraine.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“I am sure the entire membership appreciates President Recep Erdoğan and the Government of Türkiye for the key role they played in the negotiations and as a guarantor. Increased exports of food products and fertilizer will bring some relief to the suffering millions across the world. It is also a much-needed victory for the United Nations, at a time when our collective faith in multilateralism is at such a low ebb. At the start of what we were told was a special military operation in Ukraine, we believed that there was still time for diplomacy to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. More than five months have passed since then, and we are now witness to a brutal war of attrition that shows little inclination to a ceasefire in favour of negotiations.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“The delegation of Kenya wishes Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason great success in her next assignment as Ireland’s chief representative to the United States. Ms. Byrne Nason’s determination and persistence in pursuit of the security of the most vulnerable will be missed in the Security Council. I thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for sharing her assessment of the dire situation in Ukraine and for the efforts that are under way to relieve the humanitarian crisis. Kenya applauds the leadership of the Secretary- General in facilitating an agreement between Ukraine and Russia to safely export Ukraine’s food products using the Black Sea, and also in enabling food and fertilizer exports from Russia.”
2022-07-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9104 (2022) · source
“We appreciate some substantial changes in the resolution, but Kenya believes it is no longer tenable for UNSMIL to operate with such a brief and, therefore, uncertain mandate. Indeed, the new provisions in the resolution can be properly implemented only with a mandate closer to 12 months. For that reason, we voted to abstain to signal our dissatisfaction with what is fast becoming a damaging status quo. We hope that our vote will encourage all Council members to reconsider their positions and agree to a longer mandate when the present three-month mandate expires in October. We also hope that a Special Envoy from Africa will be selected and appointed during this period so that the longer-lasting mandate is implemented properly.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“Since September last year, the Security Council has been repeatedly briefed on the crippling effects that the short mandates have on the ability of UNSMIL to effectively execute its mandate. We heard that from the Secretariat and from the representative of Libya. As recently as last Monday, Ambassador Taher Elsonni lamented the Council’s inability to find common purpose in its engagement with Libya (see S/PV.9098). He observed the frequency of meetings, the lack of follow-up and how much our frequent conviction that only Libyan-led and -owned solutions will work still require a Security Council that is supportive of progress since the country is under Chapter VII. Resolution 2647 (2022), which we just adopted, and its three-month mandate for UNSMIL constitute yet another disappointment to the people of Libya.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“On four occasions — 15 September last year, 30 September last year, 31 January and 29 April, the Security Council technically rolled over the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) for not longer than three-month periods. The same happened today, for the fifth time. On each of the four previous occasions, we expressed our deep disappointment at such brief renewals. Nevertheless, we voted in favour, with the earnest expectation that even in such a diminished form, UNSMIL could still provide support to Libya. What is really required is for the Mission to have a substantial mandate for a period of 12 months, plus the appointment of an appropriate African Special Envoy.”
2022-07-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9103 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, Kenya assures the upcoming presidencies, the PBC Chair and Vice-Chairs and the Peacebuilding Support Office that we shall continue working closely with them to strengthen the linkage with the Security Council.”
2022-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9101 (2022) · source