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first: 2018-05-17
most recent: 2023-05-03
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“The United States looks forward to discussions with our colleagues in the Security Council to renew the mandate for MINUSMA, which protects civilians, makes a difference in the lives of the Malian people and advances the international community’s goal for a peaceful, stable and secure Mali and Sahel region. As we discuss MINUSMA’s support to the people of Mali, I have three key messages today. First, the success of any peacekeeping mission hinges on the commitment of the parties to advance and pursue sustainable political solutions. As the Council has stated previously, it is urgent that the Malian authorities demonstrate their commitment to implement the Algiers accords. We regret to note that the Comité de suivi de l’accord has not met since October.”
2022-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9061 (2022) · source
“We also condemn the misinformation and disinformation campaigns that threaten the safety and security of peacekeepers and hinder the ability of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to fully carry out its mandate to support the people of Mali. We reiterate the decision of the Security Council that those involved in planning, directing, sponsoring or conducting attacks against MINUSMA peacekeepers, as well as those planning, directing or committing acts in Mali that constitute human rights abuses or violations, including those involving the targeting of civilians, may be subject to sanctions. MINUSMA’s nearly decade-long presence in support of peace is an expression of international solidarity with Malians.”
2022-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9061 (2022) · source
“I thank Special Representative Wane for his briefing today. I would especially like to thank Ms. Touré for her important yet troubling observations about the serious challenges facing the people of Mali, in particular women and young people, as well as the dire need for the Government to more effectively provide basic services to its people. I also welcome Foreign Minister Diop to today’s briefing. My delegation appreciates his attendance, given the importance of the mandate renewal. Let me begin, as others have, by expressing our deepest condolences and sympathy to the families and friends of the Egyptian and Jordanian peacekeepers and International Committee of the Red Cross workers who were killed and wounded in attacks two weeks ago. The United States condemns, in the strongest terms, all attacks against civilians and peacekeepers.”
2022-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9061 (2022) · source
“Through UNITAD’s expert support of Iraqi efforts to hold ISIS members accountable, combined with the counter- terrorism operations of Iraqi forces and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, it will be increasingly clear to ISIS members and recruits that there is no future for ISIS.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9059 (2022) · source
“We welcome UNITAD’s support for the Swedish Prosecution Authority during the trial of a Swedish national for war crimes committed during her time with ISIS, as we heard from the Special Adviser. In the context of UNITAD’s increasing ability to support prosecutions, the United States urges Member States to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate and prosecute, as appropriate, their nationals who are foreign terrorist fighters or ISIS-associated family members in Iraq and Syria. UNITAD’s work is core to reconciliation in Iraq. Transparent prosecutions that meet minimum fair-trial guarantees and legal protections will ensure accountability. The identification and return of remains to family members can provide dignified closure and community healing. In conclusion, although diminished, ISIS remains intent on achieving its abhorrent goals.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9059 (2022) · source
“We are pleased to hear about UNITAD’s successes in developing innovative data-harvesting and storage solutions to the challenges posed by the millions of pages of documents and the vast digital content that the Special Adviser is working with. We also welcome the reports of strong cooperation between UNITAD and the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and the courts, as well as provincial authorities and the Kurdistan Regional Government, particularly as UNITAD transitions to developing case files to document the crimes committed by specific individuals for use in prosecutions. We also welcome news of the growing UNITAD collaboration with law enforcement authorities from outside Iraq as those States seek to prosecute their nationals who have committed crimes as foreign fighters.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9059 (2022) · source
“The United States also welcomes that UNITAD is reconstructing its chain of command down to the local level in order to establish individual responsibility by perpetrators involved in specific crimes. We also note that the evidence uncovered by UNITAD, including direct communications among senior leaders, reveals the methods ISIS used to develop chemical weapons. ISIS was intentional and thorough, conducting experiments on humans to optimize lethality; then the group incentivized the deployment of those deadly weapons by providing specific financial rewards for ISIS forces that deployed those weapons. The United States joins others in commending the remarkable work of UNITAD’s dedicated members in collecting, preserving, archiving and analysing the evidence of crimes by ISIS members.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9059 (2022) · source
“I thank the Special Adviser for his briefing and his leadership of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD), as it carries out its challenging but critical mandate. The United States welcomes the news that, as we heard from the Special Adviser, UNITAD is beginning to uncover how leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) used the group’s ill-gotten funds to finance its crimes, in particular to carry out genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims in the areas that it controlled, and crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing against those same groups, as well as against Sunni Muslims, Kurds and other minorities.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9059 (2022) · source
“We call on the Government to hold perpetrators accountable and cooperate with international human rights mechanisms. Finally, the victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army, past and present, still deserve justice. The United States offers a reward of up to $5 million for information that leads to the arrest, transfer or conviction of Joseph Kony, who is wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. We urge anyone with knowledge of Kony’s whereabouts to contact our War Crimes Rewards Programme and help bring him to justice.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“The United States supports the regional coordination and efforts by neighbours and the Multinational Joint Task Force to combat the actions of those terrorist groups and to implement holistic strategies that address the underlying drivers of terrorism. The United States is also concerned about the destabilizing activities of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group, whose forces are reported to have committed egregious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law. Make no mistake: the Wagner Group threatens the safety and security of United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic and Mali and prevents United Nations missions there from protecting civilians. The ongoing reports of human rights violations and abuses by Government security forces in Burundi are also alarming.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“We continue to urge the Government of the Central African Republic and all security actors in that country to deconflict their operations with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, in line with existing United Nations resolutions, and to ensure that their activities do not harm civilians. Turning to Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province, we join others in condemning their attacks against civilians. Those terrorist organizations continue to threaten the region’s peace and development. The displacement of millions of civilians, compounded by the drought, is a terrible situation that requires significant humanitarian assistance.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“A broader dialogue without preconditions is needed for a peaceful and durable resolution, and the United States supports UNOCA’s role in promoting inclusive political dialogue in Cameroon. We strongly encourage transparency in efforts to investigate allegations of human rights violations and abuses. With regard to the Central African Republic, we note the dialogue that was held in March but urge tangible progress towards the implementation of the road map of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region and the revitalization of the country’s 2019 Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“The United States reaffirms the importance of a peaceful, timely transition to a democratically elected and civilian-led Government in Chad. We urge the Chadian transitional Government to signal its commitment to the political transition by reaching a thorough and swift resolution to the political military negotiations under way in Doha. To achieve durable stability and prosperity in Chad, an inclusive national dialogue should begin as soon as feasible and pave the way for a constitutional referendum and free and fair elections. We share the concern of others about the continued violence in Cameroon, including in the Far North, North-West and South-West regions of the country. We continue to urge all participants to end the violence.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“Approximately 2.2 million people in the Central African Republic are projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in crisis or worse, between April and August due to conflict, population displacement and high food prices. Unfortunately, people throughout Central Africa have suffered from significant food, fertilizer and fuel shortages, which have exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s illegal invasion has affected the entire global food supply chain, increasing suffering and hardship for millions of people across the globe, but has caused particular harm in Africa. We call again on Russia to end its war on Ukraine. I would now like to talk about several countries in Central Africa where people are owed greater progress towards democratic reforms, as we heard from our civil society speaker.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“Let me thank our three briefers this morning for their informative and useful briefings. Let me begin by highlighting two issues that have been raised by several of my colleagues who spoke before me — two issues that are causing a great deal of harm in the Central African region and exacerbating conflict: the climate crisis and food insecurity. The United States Government reiterates that the climate crisis is a security crisis and a threat multiplier that contributes to instability in various ways. Within the scope of its mandate, we urge the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to consider ways to effectively assess and take into account the impacts of the climate crisis. We also remain concerned, as others are, about the impacts of the food security crisis across Central Africa.”
2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source
“But the United States is not fooled, neither are Council members, and we are not going to look away. Instead, we will continue to hold Russia accountable, and we join others in continuing to call on Putin to end his war of choice. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. The representative of the Russian Federation has asked for the floor to make a further statement.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“We expect the Russian Government to publicly and unequivocally state that Russian forces and its proxies will not use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine or anywhere, ever, in accordance with Russia’s international legal obligations. What we are seeing today from the Russian Federation is not the behaviour of a responsible country seeking to address serious concerns in this organ. Even the documents that Moscow circulates do not support their allegations. That is merely an attempt to distract us from the awful violence that Russia is perpetrating in Ukraine. It is an effort to make us turn away from the suffering inflicted by Putin’s war, the horrors of Bucha, the brutal siege of Mariupol and the bombardments killing civilians across the country.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“But what is not fiction, and what we must not forget, is that Russia has a long and well-documented track record of using chemical weapons, including in attempted assassinations and the poisoning of Putin’s political enemies, such as Alexei Navalny. It is Russia that continues to support the Al-Assad regime in Syria, a regime that has repeatedly used chemical weapons. It is Russia that has long maintained a well-documented biological weapons programme in violation of international law, including the Biological Weapons Convention. Those actions are unacceptable, and we will not stand for them. I reiterate the position of the United States that any use of chemical or biological weapons by Russia will result in severe consequences.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“Russia repeatedly debases the Council through these absurd meetings and endless claims about chemical and biological weapons programmes in Ukraine, which are categorically false and ludicrous. They follow a well-worn pattern in which the Russian authorities accuse others of the very violations that Russia either has perpetrated or intends to perpetrate. We should not lend Russia’s outlandish claims any credence beyond watching closely for the possibility of a false-flag chemical or biological attack by Russia’s forces as the Kremlin continues to perpetrate its premeditated, unjustified and unprovoked war against Ukraine. We heard this morning fanciful claims about poisoned banknotes, secret treatments on psychiatric prisoners and non-disclosure agreements. It is as if the Russian representative’s talking points came from a bad spy novel.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. Let me begin as well by joining colleagues in expressing my deepest condolences to the United Arab Emirates on the death of its President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. I thank Mr. Markram for his appearance at this morning’s meeting and for the always credible, objective and sober contributions of the Office for Disarmament Affairs to the Security Council’s discussions. But I also regret that he was asked to join us today as part of this truly farcical conversation. As other speakers said, Russia is once again using the Security Council as a platform to spout disinformation and conspiracy theories about Ukraine, even as Russia continues its brutal and inhumane assault on the Ukrainian people.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“I thank Mr. Markram for his briefing. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Thomas Markram, Deputy to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I give the floor to Mr. Markram.”
2022-05-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9033 (2022) · source
“I would like to again draw the attention of speakers to paragraph 22 of presidential note S/2017/507, which encourages all participants in Council meetings to deliver their statements in five minutes or less, in line with the Security Council’s commitment to making more effective use of open meetings. I now give the floor to the representative of Ukraine.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Given the scale and nature of reported violations and abuses committed by Russia against children in eastern Ukraine between 2014 and 2021 and the evidence of alarming increases in violations and abuses by Russia across Ukraine since February 2022, the situation warrants a place in the report. As almost all of us around the table have said, the international community has an obligation to protect children, the most vulnerable among us. Member States should work collectively to ensure that innocent children — regardless of the borders within which they reside — can live without imminent fear of death, shelling and lifelong trauma. Let us do our part. Let us not forget the children of Ukraine. I now resume my functions as President of the Council.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“We call again on Russia to end its war on Ukraine and abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law, including those regarding taking feasible precautions to avoid and minimize harm to civilians, including children. Additionally, all parties to the conflict should urgently facilitate safe and unhindered access for medical and humanitarian workers and supplies in order to ensure the provision of necessary humanitarian assistance and allow safe passage for those seeking to flee, including children. We join others in calling on the Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to add Ukraine as a situation of concern in the upcoming annual report on children and armed conflict.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Meanwhile, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova- Belova, has touted efforts to fast-track the adoption of children from Ukraine within Russia. Children are being exposed to extreme violence, fear and anxiety. That can have major psychological effects on children that will have an impact for generations. Unless appropriate support is provided, the trauma associated with these experiences can have serious and enduring negative consequences on their cognitive development for years to come. Many on the Security Council have just now called for diplomacy to resolve this crisis. We agree that diplomacy and dialogue are essential to resolve the crisis, and Russia should show its commitment to pursing a peaceful resolution by silencing the guns and withdrawing its forces from Ukraine.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Russia is clearly seeking to assimilate these regions into its orbit. And for the children of Kherson, that would have grave consequences. For example, schools would be forced to adopt the Russian curriculum, with the goal of trying to erase all signs of Ukrainian adult identity or Ukrainian culture. In addition to fearing every waking day for their lives and safety, displacement poses particular risks for children. They become increasingly vulnerable to human trafficking and other forms of exploitation and abuse. This is even more acute for those children who are unaccompanied or have been separated from their parents or caregivers. Ukrainians — many of them children — have reportedly been deported to Russia and processed through so-called filtration camps.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“And reliable reports indicate that when first responders arrived at the school to assist victims of the bombing, Russia’s forces opened fire on them. We have all seen devastating and gruesome images of mass graves. There are reports of individuals executed en masse, bodies marked with unequivocal signs of torture, and now we are hearing more and more horrific accounts of sexual violence against women and girls, as well as boys and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer persons. The United States is particularly concerned about the situation in Kherson, where Russian forces have reportedly removed local officials and installed an illegitimate pro-Russian puppet administration. In recent days, those illegitimate proxies have increasingly indicated an intention to petition Russia to annex Kherson.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“Of the nearly 14 million people forced to flee their homes since the conflict escalated, approximately half are innocent children — children who deserve a chance to live, grow and thrive, but instead are struggling every day to survive in horrific circumstances. The danger to children is only increasing. Growing numbers of hospitals and schools have been destroyed, as we are hearing. In the first five weeks since the 24 February invasion, an average of 22 schools were struck every day. Since this war began, there have been more than 200 attacks on health-care facilities and schools. We heard news this past weekend, as other members have mentioned, of a bomb hitting a school in the eastern Ukrainian town of Bilohorivka. It killed as many as 60 people, including many children.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. I thank Assistant Secretary-General Msuya and Deputy Executive Director Abdi for their very insightful briefings, which provide the Security Council and the watching global community an opportunity to hear of the immense suffering that has resulted from this unnecessary and brutal war, especially the suffering Russia is inflicting on children in Ukraine. Their briefings underscore what all of us — all of us who do not live in Russia — have seen on our screens and in the media for the past two and a half months. Children in Ukraine have been displaced, hurt, orphaned or killed.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“I thank Mr. Abdi for his briefing. I would like to draw the attention of speakers to paragraph 22 of presidential note S/2017/507, which encourages all participants in Council meetings to deliver their statements in five minutes or less, in line with the Security Council’s commitment to making more effective use of open meetings. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Estonia, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator; and Mr. Omar Abdi, Deputy Executive Director for Programmes at UNICEF. The Security Council will now begin its consideration the item on its agenda. I now give the floor to Ms. Msuya.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9032 (2022) · source
“The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2630 (2022). I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements after the voting.”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9031 (2022) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2022/387, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Albania, Brazil, China, France, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America”
2022-05-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9031 (2022) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its the agenda. The Council has before it the text of a statement by the President on behalf of the Council on the subject of today’s meeting. I thank the Council members for their valuable contributions to this statement. In accordance with the understanding reached among the members of the Council, I shall take it that the members of the Security Council agree to the statement, which will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2022/3. The meeting rose at 3.05 p.m.”
2022-05-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9028 (2022) · source
“That includes stopping its obstruction of the work of the OPCW and fully declaring its chemical-weapons stockpile and programmes for destruction under international oversight. We also call on Russia to act responsibly and cease its efforts to undermine the Chemical Weapons Convention by protecting Syria from accountability for its inexcusable use of chemical weapons. In conclusion, the most meaningful way to observe today’s twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention entering into force is for every one of us to be faithful to the commitments contained in the Convention.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“Russia, which is itself in violation of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention for its repeated use of chemical weapons, and which lacks, frankly, even the most remedial semblance of credibility when it comes to international peace and security, continues to peddle falsehoods in an effort to undermine the OPCW, repeatedly using its Security Council veto to shield Syria from accountability for its atrocities. As we collectively mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States once again calls on Syria to cooperate fully with the OPCW as it is bound to do by resolution 2118 (2013) and to comply with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“As a State party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, Syria agreed to fully disclose the precise location, aggregate quantity and detailed inventory of the chemical weapons it possessed. Yet, as we have heard countless times from the High Representative and OPCW Director-General Arias, Syria’s declaration still cannot be considered complete and accurate, nearly nine years after joining the Convention. In the face of irrefutable proof, documented by the meticulous work of the OPCW, that Syria is flouting its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Al-Assad regime, in this Chamber, hurls preposterous accusations of bias at the OPCW’s independent and professional experts in a failed effort to impugn them and distract from proven facts.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“Asa Statepartytothe Chemical Weapons Convention, Syria agreed to never, under any circumstances, use chemical weapons. Yet we uncontestably know, from the independent reports of the OPCW-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism and the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), that the Al-Assad regime has used chemical weapons against its own people on at least eight occasions since joining the Convention. Unfortunately, the IIT’s work is not done, as it continues to investigate several additional incidents of chemical-weapons use. And the picture is even more grim than that: the United States assesses that the Al-Assad regime has used chemical weapons at least 50 times since the conflict in Syria began.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“Relevant to this meeting, the OPCW oversaw the speedy destruction of Syria’s declared chemical-weapons stockpile. We now know, unfortunately, that Syria’s declaration was incomplete. Our presence in this Chamber today and the Security Council’s ongoing monthly meetings to discuss this subject are a reminder that the success of the Convention and the OPCW — and more broadly, any success in the realm of arms control and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — cannot be taken for granted. Each month, in the Security Council, we are forced to reckon with the fact that the use of these horrific weapons, once thought to be relegated to history, has resumed. We are reminded that we must collectively remain vigilant to prevent the emergence and normalization of chemical-weapons use.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“I thank the High Representative for her briefing this morning. I would also like to commend the continued diligence and professionalism of the independent experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). We salute their tireless efforts to ensure the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. As the High Representative has just highlighted, today we mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention’s entry into force. For a quarter of a century, the United States and other nations that share our commitment to a safer world have endeavoured to rid the world of chemical weapons and deter their use by anyone, anywhere and under any circumstances. In that time, the OPCW has achieved great success, with the Convention having reached near-universality.”
2022-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9026 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, the United States welcomes MONUSCO’s continued efforts, in coordination with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to protect civilians from armed groups in the eastern part of the country and to disrupt the illicit networks fuelling their violent campaigns against civilian populations. The United States underscores the importance of the full implementation of the resolution 2612 (2021), noting that the entire MONUSCO force, including the Force Intervention Brigade, must take a dynamic and proactive approach to protecting civilians, especially as armed groups like ISIS-DRC and CODECO ramp up their attacks on vulnerable groups.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“The United States strongly condemns all attacks upon civilians, including the 1 February attack on the Plaine Savo internally displaced persons camp, where CODECO assailants slaughtered more than 60 people, mostly women and children, before MONUSCO intervened jointly with the Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) to repel the assault. We also lament the reported killing of at least 32 soldiers from the FARDC. The United States calls on all actors to end violence and any violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses. We strongly condemn all attacks on humanitarian workers.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“We reinforce the need for accountability to end impunity for those who fuel conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the broader Great Lakes region. Cooperation between the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and the Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region remains very important in identifying and implementing political solutions that will stem the flow of armed elements, arms and natural resources that are threatening the peace and stability of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“Of course, as we have heard, there remain great challenges that we as the international community, the United Nations system and the Great Lakes region must collectively address. In the light of that, we are very concerned about the continuing intercommunal violence and the increase in armed-group activity, particularly by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC), also known as the Allied Democratic Forces, the Coopérative pour le développement du Congo (CODECO), the Mouvement du 23 mars and numerous local armed groups. We remain committed to working with other States Members of the United Nations to make robust use of the Security Council’s 1533 (2004) sanctions regime.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“We encourage the Special Envoy to make progress on addressing the conflict and corruption risks associated with the region’s minerals trade, including engaging with international investors, the trade unions that represent miners and mine workers, and traders. The United States recognizes the steps that the region is taking towards regional economic integration. We therefore note favourably the admission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo into the East African Community. We are encouraged by recent subregional efforts, such as the creation of a contact and coordination group to address armed groups in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo through non-military measures.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“I thank Special Envoy Xia for his informative briefing and for joining us today. I also want to thank our other briefers for their very helpful and useful briefings. The United States continues to support the United Nations regional strategy for the Great Lakes. We encourage Special Envoy Xia to act as swiftly as he can on the regional strategy by using the good offices of the United Nations in partnership with regional leaders to achieve concrete progress on the objectives of the strategy’s action plan, as well as of the Framework agreement. We welcome the regional cooperation evidenced by the tenth summit of the Regional Monitoring Mechanism and now urge full implementation. We also welcome other efforts to strengthen regional security through new bilateral agreements and the mini-summit on peace and security in the Great Lakes region.”
2022-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9023 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, pursuing accountability and justice is essential both to building confidence in the political process that we called for in resolution 2254 (2015) and to securing the stable, just and enduring peace that the Syrian people so need and deserve.”
2022-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9022 (2022) · source
“At least 152,000 persons are still missing or arbitrarily detained in Syria, and tens of thousands have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment and lack access to legal representation and medical care in detention. We await the United Nations recommendations for measures aimed at enhancing attention in order to hasten the release of those arbitrarily detained souls in Syria. And we urge those with influence on the Al-Assad regime to encourage it to undertake large-scale unilateral releases, including of women, children and the disabled, to cease additional arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and egregious abuses against prisoners and allow immediate unhindered access to third-party prison monitors and medical services for all detainees.”
2022-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9022 (2022) · source
“In addition to the efforts through the Constitutional Committee, I would like to urge Special Envoy Pedersen to continue to redouble his efforts with regard to all aspects of resolution 2254 (2015), including on the protracted issue of people arbitrarily detained or missing. As Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said earlier this month, there has been a clear lack of progress on this file, even as we are entering the twelfth year of the conflict. During the Human Rights Council’s forty- ninth session, the United States joined other members of the Council in condemning the ongoing abuses in Syria, including abuses of detainees.”
2022-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9022 (2022) · source