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2021-12-20
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2022-08-23
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  1. “We also urge immediate and unconditional access to the site for experts and officials from the IAEA to conduct the critically needed safety, security and safeguards verification activities. We welcome the cooperation expressed by the parties in that regard. Kenya continues to call for the parties to refrain from any action that may further escalate the situation. We continue to reiterate, as we have time and again, the need to shift gears to an immediate cessation of hostilities and for the deployment of available diplomatic tools to end the conflict. A cessation of hostilities would lay the groundwork for the negotiation of a lasting peace settlement that guarantees the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, for which Kenya continues to advocate.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source

  2. “Indeed, a stray or deliberate targeting of any nuclear facility, even if the facility is intended for peaceful uses, will turn it into a nuclear weapon with equally devastating capabilities. We therefore remain deeply concerned about the continuous shelling in the vicinity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is exposing thousands of civilians to grave security risks and power cut-offs. In that regard, Kenya welcomes the Secretary- General’s recent visit to Lviv and fully supports his plea for the withdrawal of military equipment and personnel and an immediate end to all military activity around what is in fact Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, in order to guarantee its safety.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source

  3. “I would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the situation concerning the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. It is unfortunate that we are having this discussion for the second time in just more than a week, at the tail end of the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The objective of the Treaty is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. The deployment of nuclear weapons can have a long- term apocalyptic effect on humankind, biodiversity and the environment.”

    2022-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9114 (2022) · source

  4. “We call on all States parties to the Convention to make use of the established mechanisms so that any concern or suspicion of the presence of those extremely dangerous weapons can be verified. In situations of armed conflict, we must point out that such verifications demand a cessation of the conflict for them to be carried out. We urge States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons to seize the opportunity of the ninth Review Conference later this year to strengthen the biological weapons regime. In conclusion, Kenya reaffirms its recognition of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

    2022-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8999 (2022) · source

  5. “We are gravely concerned by the sustained targeting of civilians and objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, including residential homes, health facilities and shelters, as well as power and water infrastructure, in violation of international law and international humanitarian law. At this point, the Council should be focused on getting a cessation of the military campaign in Ukraine. We appeal to those concerned to do so immediately so as to allow humanitarian action and facilitate a much- needed dialogue towards a sustainable political solution. Any allegation of the development of biological weapons in contravention of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction must not be taken lightly.”

    2022-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8999 (2022) · source

  6. “We join other speakers in expressing our deepest condolences to the Permanent Mission of Ireland and the family of Ambassador Jim Kelly over his shocking demise. I thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary- General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing. It is regrettable that the armed conflict in Ukraine rages on at an intolerable cost to the people of Ukraine and, increasingly, to the entire world, especially the global South, as the prices of essential commodities rise sharply because of shortages and the impacts of sanctions.”

    2022-03-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8999 (2022) · source

  7. “We encourage the expansion of such activities to include psychosocial support to the population, especially for children who have known nothing but war. It is imperative that those programmes be adequately funded so that they can meet their intended goal for change. In conclusion, we reiterate the importance of respect for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. I reaffirm Kenya’s solidarity with the people of Syria in their quest for peace, which can be delivered only by a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political dialogue.”

    2021-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8937 (2021) · source

  8. “We strongly condemn the subsuming of the safety and security of the Syrian people to the interests of external States. We therefore urge all members with leverage and engagement in Syria to update their approaches so that they are not associated in any way with the profound suffering caused to the people of Syria. The cross-border aid mechanism, supported by cross-line deliveries, remains a crucial avenue for humanitarian assistance. We applaud the development of a six-month plan, as well as the new direct distribution modality in north-west Syria. We call for clear standards of oversight and transparency of aid delivery for the cross-border mechanism and for cross-line deliveries. Aid should not be politicized or diverted. Kenya commends the United Nations humanitarian response through the early-recovery and livelihood activities.”

    2021-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8937 (2021) · source

  9. “No areas or groups should be punished by association, and neither should the practice of collective punishment be instituted. We ourselves recall the practices of collective punishment meted out by colonial authorities throughout Africa in the last century. The African people recall them as profound injustices and condemn them wherever they may be occurring, including in Syria. The Government and actors in Syria must accept the need to more closely distinguish between civilian populations and terrorist fighters and insurgents. The Government should aspire in concrete ways to providing aid to all Syrians, while making sure that aid is not diverted. For Syrians to succeed in implementing such recommendations, regional and global actors intervening in the country must play their part.”

    2021-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8937 (2021) · source

  10. “Kenya will support all actions that offer relief to the long-suffering people of Syria. We commend Special Envoy Pedersen’s engagements in Damascus, but regret the lack of commitments to convene a seventh session of discussions of the Constitutional Committee. We hope that the discussions will take place in January and urge the parties to agree to this undertaking and engage meaningfully and constructively. Progress on the political track is the lifeline for the people of Syria. It is intimately linked to the humanitarian track. For the international community to have confidence in the Government’s ability and willingness to be the primary conduit for aid, it must show respect for the human and civil rights of all Syrians regardless of their region or ethnic identity.”

    2021-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8937 (2021) · source

  11. “I thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Ms. Amani Ballour for their briefings. We also welcome the participation of the representatives of Syria, Iran and Turkey. The situation in Syria is a profound test of the promise of the United Nations and its Charter to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Our inability as the Council to bring to an end the untold suffering of the Syrian people should rally us in 2022 to do our utmost to fulfil the Charter of the United Nations in this situation. Kenya condemns the unrelenting destruction of human lives and livelihoods caused by the inability to find a political settlement in Syria. We implore the Security Council to rise out of dormancy and its repetitive meetings and find the means to act together.”

    2021-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8937 (2021) · source