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lines on the record: 739
first: 2018-05-17
most recent: 2023-05-03
sittings or episodes: 121
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“For our part, the United States strategy to prevent conflict and promote stability comprises a new whole-of-Government approach, with partner nations, to prevent violence and advance stability in areas that are vulnerable to conflict. Our strategy aims to address the drivers of instability and conflict, with a longer-term view, through partnerships, at all levels, and adaptive learning to inform decision-making as the dynamics change. The 10-year country and region plans, under the United States strategy, represent a meaningful long-term commitment by the United States to making strategic investments in prevention that are critical to lasting peace. As President Biden has said, prevention is hard work, measured not in days and weeks, but in years and generations. I thank you again, Mr. President, for bringing us together on this topic.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source
“Youth engagement serves to enrich conversations around peace, particularly because they have a vested interest in long-term peace. That is why I was so pleased to hear from Ms. Chigwenya this morning. Her message about rebuilding the trust of young people across the world and institutions, especially in the United Nations and in the Council’s work, makes clear that this is an important task for all of us. This moment is particularly ripe for big and some out-of-the-box thinking, and a New Agenda for Peace has the opportunity to respond. The New Agenda for Peace should offer a range of proposals to tackle these challenges. Some of them, like a focus on youth, gender, climate adaptation and resilience, conflict prevention and the intersections among all these issues, will — hopefully — be quickly and broadly embraced.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source
“As others before me have also emphasized, women, youth, local actors, marginalized groups and broader civil society must be actively engaged and sufficiently empowered to have a meaningful impact on the decision-making processes intended to achieve peace. We have said this many times in the Council, but it bears repeating. Peacebuilding efforts are more effective and much more likely to achieve lasting, inclusive outcomes for all of society when women are included. That means the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women in decision-making, conflict prevention and peacebuilding and sustaining-peace processes. Youth in conflict settings also tend to be unheard, even though they are often acutely impacted by violence and have a right to voice their perspectives on establishing peace and security in their communities.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source
“We in the Security Council can contribute to sustaining peace — in part, as many have said, through a more ambitious and structured collaboration with the Peacebuilding Commission. The United States reiterates its strong support for expanding the role of the Peacebuilding Commission in regional settings and on cross-cutting issues, including human rights and climate-related peace and security risks. That includes leveraging the Commission’s convening power, particularly in its advisory role to the Security Council, in order to make peacebuilding activities integrated, coordinated and responsive to current dynamics.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source
“Let me join others in congratulating the Swiss delegation and Government on assuming the presidency at a historic occasion. My delegation looks forward to cooperating closely in order to ensure that this is a productive month for the Council. Let me also thank you, Sir, for chairing this important debate. I also want to thank our briefers for their thoughtful and very informative presentations. I think it is clear from the interventions that have gone before me that there is general agreement among all of us that conflict prevention, preventive diplomacy and peacebuilding efforts are critical to responding to shared security and development challenges around the world if we are to reduce the recurrence of conflict.”
2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source
“Accountability for such heinous acts is the least we can do for the victims of chemical weapons attacks. We have said it too many times in the Council, unfortunately, because we have had to. There must be no impunity for the use of chemical weapons. The Security Council cannot abdicate its responsibility. We must ensure that Syria complies with resolution 2118 (2013), and we call on the Syrian regime to immediately fulfil its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. We urge the Council and all its Members to seek accountability on behalf of the victims of these horrific chemical weapons attacks. The stakes are simply too high for all of us to do otherwise.”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“The United States will continue to support investigative efforts such as the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM), which is building case files on violations and abuses in Syria, including the use of chemical weapons, and sharing that information with prosecutors. The IIIM’s work has already helped lead to convictions of former regime officials in Europe, and we look forward to more investigations and prosecutions, possibly even here in the United States, thanks to the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act that President Biden recently signed into law.”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“The United States has already imposed sanctions and visa ineligibilities against more than 300 individuals and entities linked to Syria’s chemical weapons programme. We commend other countries that have done the same. We call on other countries to impose similar measures, and we urge countries to refrain from normalizing relations with the Syrian regime until there is redress for those and other grave injustices to the people of Syria. In that regard, we welcome a recent joint statement condemning the regime’s use of chemical weapons that was issued by the International Partnership against Impunity for the Use of Chemical Weapons, a group of 40 nations committed to combating the use of chemical weapons anywhere, by anyone.”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“It is crucial that we seek accountability for the chemical weapons attacks that the Al-Assad regime has conducted against its own people. We all heard last month the unequivocal assessment from the OPCW that the Syrian Arab Air Force carried out the 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma, killing dozens of men, women and children and injuring countless more. As the report noted, Russia controlled the airspace and operated from the same base from which the Syrian Arab Air Force launched the attack. The finding that the Al-Assad regime carried out the attack, unfortunately, was not unique. The OPCW and the United Nations have found that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its people on nine occasions. Such clear violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention demand accountability.”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“It must credibly account for its chemical weapons and chemical weapons production facilities and verifiably complete their destruction. Month after month, however, and year after year, the regime has failed to do so. In order to address these shortfalls, the Al-Assad regime must permit the return to Syria of the full OPCW Declaration Assessment Team without delay so that it can resume the important mission of conducting inspections and accounting for all the many discrepancies and many omissions associated with the Syrian chemical weapons declaration. While we welcome news that a limited team visited Damascus in January, that deployment fell short of Syria’s obligations under resolution 2118 (2013) to accept personnel designated by the OPCW and to provide them immediate and unfettered access to any and all sites.”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing. Last month, we listened carefully to the briefings by the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Coordinator of the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) on the IIT’s latest attribution report on the deadly chemical weapons attack on Douma in 2018 (see S/PV.9255). The Security Council must respond to those findings and take steps to ensure the full implementation of resolution 2118 (2013), as well as seek accountability for the heinous actions perpetrated by the Al-Assad regime. The steps to do so are clear. As we have discussed repeatedly in the Council, the Syrian regime must comply with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and resolution 2118 (2013).”
2023-03-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9275 (2023) · source
“For years we called on Russia to honour its commitments under the Minsk agreements and to negotiate in good faith for the end of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine did, for years. However, Russia has repeatedly demonstrated its disregard for the Minsk agreements and for international law. We join our Ukrainian partners in considering the Minsk agreements nullified by President Putin’s decision to launch this unprovoked, unjustified war. In conclusion, the Council does not need yet another revisionist history lecture from the Russian delegation. What the world needs is for Russia to immediately stop its relentless attacks on Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, withdraw its forces from Ukraine’s territory and end the war now.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“Last February, days before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Putin unilaterally declared that Russia would recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as so-called independent states. That included territory beyond the boundaries that Russia and its proxies actually controlled at the time. President Putin made clear his intentions and his contempt for the Charter of the United Nations, as well as for the Minsk agreements. Last September, President Putin claimed to annex the same Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as the additional Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya. Those claims included areas that Russia’s forces had not even reached. In October 2022, the General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned those actions as unlawful. Political resolutions cannot happen at the end of the barrel of a gun.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“Russia consistently and repeatedly undermined the fundamental purpose of the Minsk agreements, which was to fully reintegrate the conflict area with the rest of Ukraine and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Given what we know now, are we to believe that Russia was serious about honouring that pledge, just as the representative of the Russian Federation urged the Security Council a year ago to believe that Russia had no intention of further invading Ukraine? The other Minsk agreement signatories — France, Germany, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe — sought to implement the agreements in good faith. The United States supported the efforts of the Normandy format and the Trilateral Contact Group while calling for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements by all sides.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“We see those same intentions today — to fully and violently subjugate Ukraine and deny the sovereignty and independence of its neighbour and a fellow United Nations Member State. Russia participated directly in the negotiation of the Minsk agreements. Russia’s representative signed the three documents constituting the agreements in 2014 and 2015. Russia reaffirmed, at the Normandy Four summit in 2019, that all three Minsk agreements remained the basis for the peace process. And yet in the years between the signing of the Minsk agreements and Russia’s full-scale invasion last year, Russia failed to implement a single commitment it had made.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Ambassador Sajdik for their briefings today. Given how often Russia convenes the Council to regurgitate its false narratives of the past, we cannot help wondering whether its aim is to persuade or to distract — that is, distract from its bombs and missiles that are killing Ukrainian civilians and decimating cities in the here and now. The level of cynicism behind today’s meeting of the Council is astounding. Attempts to distort history do not change the fact that Russia is responsible for its brutal and devastating aggression against Ukraine. Despite training and leading forces in eastern Ukraine since 2014, Russia has long sought to disguise and deny its role in the conflict. But we can now clearly see what Russia’s ultimate intentions were in 2014.”
2023-02-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9262 (2023) · source
“The United States also condemns the 24 December 2022 edict barring women from working for non-governmental organizations, which will disproportionately harm women and children as recipients of humanitarian assistance, including medical services. In conclusion, it is important, as I think we all agree, that the Council speak with one voice for increased compliance with international humanitarian law, respect for human rights and strengthened accountability for all violations and abuses against children. The Council can and should do more to protect children worldwide, and we can start by strengthening existing accountability mechanisms and dedicating more resources to United Nations child-protection specialists.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“We also underscore that any lasting solution to the conflict must involve comprehensive solutions, including transitional justice for victims and survivors and accountability for those responsible for atrocities. In Afghanistan, patterns of child, early and forced marriage and recruitment have been crippling to the physical and emotional well-being of children and youth. Girls have been particularly affected, as there have been instances amounting to early and unsafe pregnancies. Survivors of gender-based violence and demobilized child soldiers, including those who are trafficking survivors, need access to shelter and long- term care. The United States condemns and calls on the Taliban to eliminate the harmful practice of bacha bazi and expand protection and rehabilitative services for the children affected.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“We are encouraged by the positive outcomes of efforts to engage with parties to conflicts, which did result in the release of 12,214 children from armed groups and armed forces. Still, more should be done to promote justice and accountability for those child survivors and to urgently address the long-term effects on their mental and physical health. Children in conflict zones face acute protection challenges. In Ethiopia, thousands of children have been forced from their homes, separated from their families and subjected to sexual violence. We are encouraged by the cessation of hostilities agreement in northern Ethiopia and hope that the Government and the Tigrayan authorities will build on that momentum.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“Without their tireless efforts and vital work, countless more children would suffer. And it is our responsibility as Member States to help ensure that adequate resources and dedicated child-protection personnel are deployed where needed in United Nations peace operations, special political missions, and country teams to deliver on their mandates. When we leave those positions vacant or understaffed, we leave children at risk. Children, especially girls, have been subjected to alarming rates of gender-based violence. We are especially distressed by the 41 per cent increase worldwide in the abduction of girls, who are then commonly subjected to gender-based violence, such as forced marriages, rape and other forms of sexual violence.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“Grandi, highlighted a tragic aspect of Russia’s war — the impact on children and in particular the issuance of Russian Federation passports to unaccompanied children from Ukraine during wartime. It has been widely reported that Russia is engaged in the extensive relocation of Ukraine’s children within Russian-controlled and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as the transfer of children to Russia itself, and in some cases the deportation of children from Ukraine for the purposes of Russification and adoption by or placement with families in Russia. Another indispensable tool in preventing those kinds of violations is the expertise provided by the United Nations country task forces on monitoring and reporting, and by other United Nations missions’ child protection specialists around the world.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“When we take preventive steps to protect children, we protect and safeguard our collective future. To prevent future violations and abuses against children, we must make clear to those who commit those acts that they will be held accountable. The Russian delegation attempted to spin its war in Ukraine as somehow a positive for the children of Ukraine. Let me be clear. In Ukraine, Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion is having a devastating impact on children. We commend the Secretary-General for including Ukraine as a country of concern in his recent report, which highlights the ongoing unconscionable violations and abuses by Russia against Ukrainian children. During his recent visit to Ukraine, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“I want to thank very much Special Representative Gamba de Potgieter, Special Representative Maalla M’jid and Ms. Davina for their thoughtful and useful briefings today. I thank you, Madam President, for hosting today’s important briefing. We look forward to Malta’s tenure as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. The most recent report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (S/2022/493) provided a sobering snapshot of how conflict continues to affect children. For all of us, it was surely heartbreaking to read of the nearly 24,000 verified violations in the report. The United States remains firmly committed to the children and armed conflict agenda item and is keen to see it integrated into all the work of the Security Council.”
2023-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9258 (2023) · source
“It is critical that the international community deny safe haven for ISIS-Khorasan and Al-Qaida and its affiliates in Afghanistan. Finally, we continue to press the Taliban to adhere to its counter-terrorism commitments. We are also gravely concerned about the Taliban’s edicts restricting women and girls from working for non-governmental organizations and attending school. They are putting the lives of millions of innocent Afghans at risk as Afghanistan endures one of its coldest winters and grapples with emergency levels of food insecurity. The United States stands with the Afghan people in rejecting those edicts. We stand ready to help forge a united international response that reflects a collective commitment to the rights of Afghan women and girls and safe access to vital aid.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“The United States therefore continues to provide its African partners with critical counter-terrorism assistance designed to help them disrupt and degrade ISIS and Al-Qaida affiliates in a manner that is consistent with international law, underscoring that capable law enforcement and broader security-service responses are essential to preventing and countering terrorism. We look forward to engaging in March with the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Africa Focus Group on ways to confront and defeat ISIS on the continent. We share the Secretary-General’s assessment of ISIS- Khorasan. That group remains a significant terrorist threat in Central and South Asia. It continues to harbour ambitions and build capabilities to conduct external operations.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“We are pleased to have seen an increase in repatriations over the past six months, which we hope is a sign of greater efforts to come. The United States stands ready to help Member States bring their nationals home. The United States remains particularly concerned about the increasing terrorism threat across Africa, which is outlined in the Secretary-General’s assessment. We share his concern about the increased terrorist violence and confrontations between Government forces and non-State armed groups in the Sahel.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“Such efforts strengthen the capacity of those communities to reintegrate returnees, who will then work to help defeat ISIS. We also thank the Secretary-General for the report’s accurate account of the tragic aftermath of the so-called ISIS caliphate, which primarily includes the fact that tens of thousands of foreign nationals, most of them women and children, still reside in displaced persons camps. As we heard from our briefers today, those camps constitute a humanitarian, human rights and security crisis. The repatriation, rehabilitation and reintegration, as appropriate, of foreign terrorist fighters and their associated family members is a top priority for the United States and is in our view the most durable solution to ensure that ISIS does not re-emerge in north-east Syria.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“First, thereporthighlights that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) continues to take advantage of conflict, corruption and inequality to attract followers and organize its terrorist attacks. Secondly, it also acknowledges that security responses alone are not sufficient. And thirdly, it makes clear that the international community must strengthen the capacity of vulnerable populations to counter misguided ideologies and reject violent extremism. The annual stabilization pledge drive of the Global Coalition against Da’esh is in my delegation’s view a particularly important pathway for the international community to fund stabilization programmes that can build resilient communities in the liberated areas of Iraq and Syria.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Chen Weixiong for the combined efforts of the various United Nations entities and international organizations that helped prepare the sixteenth report of the Secretary-General (S/2023/76) on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat, which contributed to today’s briefing. I also want to thank Ms. Praxl for her informed and thoughtful remarks on gender mainstreaming in our counter-terrorism efforts. My delegation took away three key highlights from the Secretary-General’sreport.”
2023-02-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9257 (2023) · source
“Anyone serious about peace in Ukraine should call on Russia to abide by the United Nations Charter, stop its relentless bombardments and withdraw its forces from Ukraine’s territory.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“That might be easier for Russia, but caving to Russia’s aggression against a sovereign country, enabling Russia’s unconscionable killing and injuring of civilians and accepting its brazen attempts to redraw borders by force would tear up the rulebook that has made all of us more secure and lead to dangerous repercussions around the world. In conclusion, the United States hopes for a just and secure peace in Ukraine. True peace must be durable, and it cannot and will not come at the expense of Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence. It is preposterous beyond words to try to equate the violence that Russia has inflicted on Ukraine with Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“As I have said before in the Council, President Putin’s playbook is transparent — wreak death and destruction, target civilian infrastructure, freeze and brutalize Ukrainian civilians, force them from their homes and drive up energy and food costs across Europe and around the world. Russia is doing this not only to wear down Ukraine, but to convince the rest of the world that it would be so much easier and more peaceful to turn our backs on Ukraine and ignore the most basic principles of the Charter — respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of States.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“If Russia wants to talk about dangerous arms transfers in the Council, what does it have to say about the rockets and missiles that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea delivered to Russia in November for use by the vicious Russia-backed Wagner Group, which has deployed thousands of fighters in Ukraine, including convicts recruited straight from Russia’s prisons? Procuring weapons from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as Ambassador Woodward pointed out, also constitutes a violation of Security Council resolutions, and Russia is giving us every reason to expect that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s supply of weapons for the Wagner Group will continue.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“Today’s Security Council meeting is taking place amid reports that we have all seen that Russia is preparing for a further large-scale offensive action against Ukraine. If Russia wants to talk about dangerous arms transfers in the Council, let it come clean about the hundreds of Iranian drones that Tehran has transferred to Russia, in violation of resolution 2231 (2015). Russia is using those drones to attack Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, depriving the people of Ukraine of access to light, heat and water in the dead of winter.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“We unequivocally reject the victim-blaming notion that Ukraine’s self-defence is the obstacle to ending the war. No one wants peace in Ukraine more than Ukrainians themselves. It is Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity that have been violated, not Russia’s. The Kremlin and its mouthpieces are using the terms “peace settlement” and “peace negotiations”. But actions speak louder than words, and Russia has consistently failed to take any action that would give substance to its vaunted talk of peace, such as silencing its guns or withdrawing its forces from Ukraine. Russia has tried again and again to use the Security Council to distract the international community from the fact of its own armed aggression against a State Member of the United Nations.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“As others have said, the inherent right to individual and collective self-defence is reflected in Article 51 of the Charter. Those are inconvenient realities for Russia, desperate to find a narrative, any narrative, other than the one that it is stuck in. The security assistance, including weapons, that the United States and more than 50 other countries are providing, and will continue to provide, is for Ukraine’s self-defence. That distinction could not be more important. Ukraine is using those weapons to repel the invading Russian forces that are committing war crimes on Ukraine’s territory. They are designed to stop Russia’s relentless shelling of cities and destroy incoming missiles aimed at the electrical grid and other targets of no military value.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“The key fact, which many of my colleagues around the table have pointed out, is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is illegal. It is a flagrant violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and of the Charter of the United Nations. As Ambassador Woodward mentioned, that fact has been underscored repeatedly by members of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the International Court of Justice and across the United Nations system. Defending the Charter is not just about words written on paper, but about the principles at the heart of the Charter and actions to back them up. For some, that has meant standing up for Ukraine diplomatically during votes in the General Assembly. For others it has meant supporting Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself against a brutal, unprovoked war of aggression.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“It is a world in which the goal of the Cold War, which we achieved — where every country could choose its own orientation and foreign-policy direction and spheres of influence were a thing of the past — is our goal. Looking at what is happening in Ukraine, I think that members can draw their own conclusions as to what Russia’s goal is for the end of it. We have been brought together today once again to hear another version of why Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is actually the fault of Ukraine and Ukraine’s partners, or, in the words of Mr. Waters, friends who are provocateurs. Of course, in the past we have even had weaponized bats brought up as a reason for this war. The reality is that the disinformation is intense, but we cannot let it distract our focus.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“I thank the High Representative for an informative and thoughtful briefing for us today. As for our other briefer, Mr. Waters, while I certainly acknowledge his impressive credentials as a recording artist, his qualifications to speak to us as an expert briefer on arms control or European security issues are less evident to me. I will leave it to my Ukrainian colleague to address Mr. Waters’ credibility in speaking on behalf of his so- called brothers and sisters in Ukraine. If I may, I will just say that Mr. Waters asked about our vision, and I can say what it is quite quickly. The vision of the United States is of a world in which Europe is whole, at peace and free.”
2023-02-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9256 (2023) · source
“There is still much work to be done, as the Council knows, but we are confident that Iraq can continue to build on its success, and the people of Iraq can count on UNAMI and the United States to continue to assist them in this process.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“The United States remains committed to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS and working with our Iraqi partners to eliminate the terrorist group. We urge Prime Minister Al-Sudani to follow through on his commitment to bring weapons under the control of official and legitimate State institutions in order to preserve stability and security. Before I conclude my remarks, I want to join the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in congratulating the Government and the people of Iraq on hosting and winning the twenty-fifth Arabian Gulf Cup. Like the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, I agree that the fact that Iraq was able to host the tournament — the first major international tournament that the country has hosted in 43 years — speaks to the significant improvements that Iraq has achievement over the years.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“We also urge States to support the Global Framework on United Nations Support to Member States on Individuals returning from the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq, a multi-partner trust fund, to provide Member States with all-of-United Nations assistance for returning individuals. As highlighted by the Secretary- General at the Framework’s launch, the current untenable situation poses humanitarian, security and human rights concerns. Thanks to the bravery of the Iraqi security forces, attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) in 2022 were significantly fewer than the year before. Nonetheless, the threat remains. The attacks near Kirkuk and Albu Bali in December 2022 provide a stark reminder that ISIS remains bent on death and destruction, and it must be confronted.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“Turning to the critical issue of displaced persons, the United States encourages continued cooperation between the Government and UNAMI in seeking durable solutions for all displaced Iraqis by providing families and orphans with essential legal documents and supporting their safe, voluntary and dignified reintegration into communities in accordance with their wishes. To that end, it is also important to commit to the implementation of the 2020 Sinjar Agreement, in close consultation with the Yazidi community. The United States calls on all Member States to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate and, where appropriate, prosecute their foreign terrorist fighters and associated family members from Iraq and Syria.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“We applaud the establishment by the United Nations of the post of Adviser to Iraq on climate change and climate security. We encourage the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to continue its support to Iraq in that area. Addressing climate change will have a positive economic impact in Iraq. The new Government of Iraq must respond to the call from its constituents to improve its respect for human rights. To demonstrate its human rights commitment, the new Government should hold accountable those responsible for the brutal repression of protesters by Iran-affiliated militias in October 2019, which left hundreds dead and thousands wounded.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“We therefore seek to support Prime Minister Al-Sudani’s efforts to achieve his stated goals of rooting out corruption and improving public services, particularly the provision of electricity. We also encourage the Government to promote private-sector development and job growth, with a focus on increasing women’s participation in the workforce. We welcome the reports of progress towards an agreement between the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government on budgetary arrangements and the management of Iraq’s oil and gas resources. We are eager to work with the Government of Iraq to address the negative effects of climate change, including through sustainable development, water management, the use of renewable energy, natural-gas capture and gas-flaring reduction.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“Let me first thank the delegation of Japan for its effective stewardship of our work last month. I also welcome you, Madam President, and your delegation to the presidency, and we look forward to working with you on a busy and important programme of work this month. I would like to thank Special Representative Hennis- Plasschaert for her thoughtful and frank briefing, and Mr. Ahmed for his extensive briefing on the worrying situation regarding unexploded ordnance in Iraq. Let me start by offering the United States’ congratulations to Iraq and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia‘ al-Sudani on forming a Government in October. We encourage the new Government to act with urgency to address the many challenges facing the country. The Iraqi people deserve economic opportunity and effective governance.”
2023-02-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9253 (2023) · source
“We extend our full support to MINUSMA, Special Representative Wane and Algeria’s Government in their efforts to reinvigorate the mediation process. We call on the transition authorities, the signatory armed groups and other actors in the region to demonstrate renewed political will by taking immediate steps to restart the monitoring committee’s activities. In closing, I want to once again echo the Secretary- General in saying that given the current context in Mali, business as usual is not an option. While the Council must ultimately vote on the Mission’s mandate, the future of MINUSMA also rests in the hands of the Malian authorities, the parties to the Algiers accords and actors in the region, whose actions we will monitor closely in the months to come.”
2023-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9251 (2023) · source
“The United States continues to offer its full support and encouragement to the Mission and to those within the transition Government who are endeavouring to restore democracy, civilian rule and constitutional order. After welcoming the resumed functioning of the Algiers accords monitoring committee last fall (see S/PV.9154), we have been deeply discouraged to see that progress being undone in recent months. The unwillingness of the transition Government to engage at the appropriate levels has led to a splintering of the mediation process, whereby signatory armed groups must negotiate with the international mediation group without participation from the transition authorities. The recent suspension of participation by signatory armed groups in the monitoring committee is cause for serious concern.”
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“We want to reiterate the call in resolution 2374 (2017), on the existing sanctions on Mali, for all Member States to facilitate the work of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2374 (2017), including the timely issuance of visas. Turning to the political situation, we commend the progress made by the transition authorities on electoral reform. MINUSMA’s support to that effort is indispensable and demonstrates that the Mission remains vital to overcoming the many complex challenges related to electoral capacity-building, awareness, registration, mobilization and security across Mali’s vast territory.”
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“The United States welcomed the acknowledgement by the United Nations of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group’s presence through an explicit reference in the strategic internal review. We hope that future United Nations reporting on Mali will be similarly candid about the threat posed by Wagner Group forces to Malian civilians. As we made clear last week, the Wagner Group is a criminal organization that is committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses in Mali and elsewhere. The United Nations must be able to provide an honest and transparent analysis of the destabilizing role of such criminal organizations in places where United Nations field missions operate. Reporting by expert panels remains a key source of information on the situation in Mali.”
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