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  1. “If not, I fear that the President of the General Assembly in 2100, or even in 2050, will represent fewer than 193 United Nations Member States.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  2. “More than a decade later, I turn the question to everyone here today: are we prepared? Have each of us done our part to uphold the collective responsibility to manage climate-related security risks? Have we learned the lessons of prevention? As Lao Tzu wisely observed, hundreds of years ago: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”. Climate emergencies open new windows for cooperation and inclusion. Let us therefore strengthen our partnerships. Let us encourage local expertise to guide our resolve. We have enough crises on our plate. Our agendas are packed, and they are expanding. It is our time to transform. I will work to support Member States to ensure that the General Assembly plays its part in that. I implore the Council to play its role.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  3. “I heard the urgent calls made for world leaders to take a whole-of- Government, whole-of-society approach to those issues. We have the data. We have the frameworks. What is needed now — as ever — is the political will to act. As President Ramkalawan of Seychelles put it in September (see A/77/PV.5): “We need bold actions, not unfulfilled promises”. Many at this table will remember 2012, when Hurricane Sandy forced the United Nations Headquarters in New York to close for an unprecedented three straight days. Storm surges from the East River came over the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive and rushed into the lower levels of the United Nations. There were fish swimming in the basement next to the United Nations servers. In the aftermath, the United Nations faced sharp criticism over its silence and lack of preparedness.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  4. “We can agree that it makes sense morally and financially, and it can take many forms. We should integrate climate analysis into our planning for conflict prevention and protection efforts, and we should recognize the significance of climate action as a key tool for peacebuilding. Science and data offer impartial evidence to direct our decisions. Science tells us that whether cities or countries disappear depends on whether we as humans counteract the threat. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and its targets for mitigation, adaptation and finance offer our primary defence against that risk. We need to collectively raise our ambitions. The General Assembly is doing its part. Just last week, we heard a briefing by eminent scientists on the links between climate, conflict and cooperation.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  5. “As the Secretary-General has rightly asked, who cares for their displaced populations? How would even the first changes to shorelines influence maritime boundaries? How would that affect exclusive economic zones? I welcome that the International Law Commission and the General Assembly’s Sixth Committee have taken a proactive stance by considering those issues for urgent debate. We know the risks, and we see the uncertainties and instabilities that we are going to face. We cannot doubt that these will open the door for conflicts and disputes, endangering global peace and security. And where that door is open, the Council has a responsibility to act. It is critical to invest in prevention today, rather than address the implications of food scarcity and mass migration tomorrow.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  6. “In the Nile and Mekong Deltas, some of the richest agricultural regions in the world, 10 to 20 per cent of arable land will sink beneath the water. Those and other fertile river deltas are now rice providers and breadbaskets for their own countries and regions. They are also vital pieces in the complex puzzle of world nutrition to feed our growing population. Losing these areas can have knock-on effects around the globe. Climate-induced sea level rise is also raising new legal questions that are at the very core of national and State identity. What happens to a nation’s sovereignty, United Nations membership and its citizens’ voting rights if it sinks beneath the sea? There are rules about the creation of States, but none about their physical disappearance.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  7. “And if we want to tackle it through a whole-of-United Nations approach, as we should, the Security Council has a role to play, too. According to the ancient writer from Syria, Publilius Syrus, “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” But our seas are not calm today. They are rising. As mentioned by the Secretary-General, at the current rate, sea levels will be 1 to 1.6 metres higher by 2100, according to the World Climate Research Programme. That means that in less than 80 years, 250 to 400 million people will likely need new homes in new locations. It goes without saying that the displacement of hundreds of millions of people is a security risk. With a good part of global agriculture concentrated on coastal plains and low-lying islands, sea level rise is also bringing up long-term questions about humankind’s survival.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  8. “Mr. Kőrösi: I thank Minister Ian Borg and the Permanent Mission of Malta for holding this important debate. We are in a new era of history — one of cascading, interlocking, rapid and sweeping crises. We cannot deny that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation. It was the single most raised issue by world leaders during the high-level week in September 2022. It is the single biggest galvanizer of young people marching in the streets, because our inaction is robbing them of their futures. It is an issue that demands focus and coherence across the United Nations system. For the General Assembly, that means accelerating action on climate and water. For the Economic and Social Council, it means addressing the social and economic aspects.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260 (2023) · source

  9. “Deadlock translates to a dead end for the millions of children, women, men and families who are all suffering the consequences. They are putting their trust in us to step beyond power dynamics. I am imploring the Security Council to respond by prioritizing dialogue and diplomacy, trade political differences for genuine political will to find solutions, go beyond the calculations of distrust and old rivalries and focus on what unites us all. Together with my Office, I stand ready to support Member States to that end in any way possible.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  10. “As we embark on our discussion, I urge Council members to think about those who rely on them and their ability to come to agreement to ensure their safety and well-being; to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid that will save their lives; to support inclusive peace processes with full, equal, and meaningful participation of women and marginalized groups, which will end the fighting and suffering in their communities; to support the demobilization of former combatants and child soldiers that will reunite their families; and to ensure protection from conflict-related sexual violence that no one should ever have to endure. As the adage goes, there is nothing more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For us today, I would add that there is nothing more necessary.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  11. “During the high-level week in September, more than a third of world leaders highlighted the need for Security Council reform. I fully support today’s focus on tangible steps that Members States can take. I ask each Council member, as members of the General Assembly, to take up this challenge, to move from a position of “no” or “later” to a position of “yes” and “now”.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  12. “This will allow them to reflect on the initiative, and on how to bring our two organs to working more closely together in discharging their functions in support of both peace and prosperity. Outside this Chamber, Member States are participating in 15 negotiating processes on a range of issues, from counter-terrorism and health to sustainable development and digital governance. Several of the facilitators are sitting at the Council table today. One of those processes is the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform, with the participation of all 193 States Members of the United Nations. It has been a mandated duty of the General Assembly for many years, but the outcome is still less than what was expected.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  13. “The people we serve do not neatly organize their lives into boxes labelled “human rights”, “development” and “peace”. It is our responsibility, individually and collectively, to respond to that complexity. It makes sense that we collaborate across bodies, organs and processes and build on efforts already under way. The so-called veto initiative has opened an important door for a new form of collaboration and accountability. The Assembly has been obliged to step up when decisions by the Council are blocked. Following the mandate given by the Member States, I will convene a formal debate during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly on the use of veto.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  14. “They expect each Council member to act for the good of all, to uphold the Charter. Council members have done so on countless occasions and, in doing so, they have saved countless lives. Just last week, the Council decided to establish a humanitarian exemption across United Nations sanctions regimes. That will have a direct impact on so many people living under dire conditions— yet there are also examples of failed collective action. Let me mention just one. After nearly 10 months of war in Ukraine, not a single Council resolution has been adopted to mitigate the exact type of crisis the United Nations was created to prevent. For the United Nations to reinforce its relevance — its raison d’être — and for the Organization to survive, it must deliver solutions for end-users, all 8 billion of them.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  15. “Too often, sharp geopolitical divides have prevented responses and progress in the Council. The question I have for the members of the Council is simple: will those rifts continue to upstage their collective ability to maintain international peace and security? A reminder of their mission hangs above them daily — will they choose Per Krohg’s phoenix rising from the ashes of war or the pain and destruction depicted in Picasso’s Guernica just beyond these doors? Multilateralism can work, but it must work better. The 193 Member States of the General Assembly have placed their trust in the 15 Security Council members. As members of the General Assembly and of the Security Council, they elected the majority of the States here represented and trusted the rest though the Charter.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  16. “But as we emerge from the coronavirus disease pandemic, grappling simultaneously with the climate crisis and protracted debt, food and energy emergencies, one thing is clear: these global challenges are far too great for any one nation to handle alone. Our best hope, our only hope, is always to find a multilateral solution, designed in line with the Charter of the United Nations and international law. Let us recall that the actions taken here in the United Nations have an impact on the 8 billion people out there. We must improve the lives of the people who count on us, and we must do so at a time of profound global change and polarization. But just as our actions have profound effects across the globe, so too does our inaction — in the General Assembly or, more frequently, in the Security Council.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source

  17. “Mr. Kőrösi: I thank Minister Jaishankar and the Indian Mission for organizing this critically important debate. I also commend India and the four other outgoing Security Council members — Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway — for their important contributions to international peace and security over the past two years. Weareatawatershedmomentformultilateralism— at a historic crossroads. The international rules, norms, instruments and institutions that have guided inter-State relations for over 75 years are facing deep — and some would say existential — questions of relevance at a time when the world needs them most.”

    2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source