Delivered by: Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi, Minister of State Mr. President, Thank you to our briefers today – Assistant-Secretary-General Khiari, President Bachelet, President Mbeki, and Ms. Alvarez – for their valuable statements. Peace-making is not the purview of the few alone, but a shared responsibility of the many. This Council has often spoken with
Delivered by: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative I’d like to begin by thanking today’s briefers, SRSG Catriona Laing and Ambassador Mohammed El-Amine Souef, and we also welcome Somalia’s participation in this meeting. Over the past two decades, and against many odds, Somalia has proven to be a great example of resilience, and
Delivered by: Shahad Matar, Second Secretary Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank the co-organisers for this meeting and the briefers for their valuable contributions to today’s discussion. The United Arab Emirates reaffirms its condemnation of all acts of conflict-related sexual violence. As a member of the International Alliance on Preventing Sexual
Delivered by: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Thank you, Mr. President, and I’d also like to thank our briefers, Martin and Tor, for their invaluable remarks and insights today, and to thank them for all the fantastic work they are doing in very difficult circumstances. This morning’s explanation of vote of the
Delivered By: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mr. President, It is perhaps beyond me to put into words the abject horrors we are witnessing in Gaza. That is why the United Arab Emirates fully supported the Council to take action today, and we still support that the Council does take action on
Delivered by: Nasra AlRahma, First Secretary Mr. President, I thank Special Envoy Xia for his informative briefing. I also thank Mr. João Samuel Caholo, the Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, and Ms. Joséphine Malimukono for their contributions to today’s discussion. I welcome the participation of the representatives of the
Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, I thank the Special Representative, Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane for their valuable briefing. I also welcome the participation of Ambassador Taher Al-Sunni to this meeting. I wish to reiterate, once more, the UAE’s condolences
Delivered by: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mr. President, Long before the unjustifiable Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, Gaza was already one of the most desperate places on Earth to live. All Council members have rightly condemned the indiscriminate murder of innocent Israeli civilians and the taking of 199 of
Delivered by: Ghasaq Shaheen, Political Coordinator Mr. President, I thank Deputy High Representative Ebo for his valuable briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representative of Ukraine in today’s meeting. Essential to the right to self-defence that all member states possess is the ability to develop defence capabilities. With such activities come certain risks,
