Excellencies, colleagues, friends, It is a pleasure to join you all today to celebrate the second-ever International Day of Human Fraternity. Today’s gathering is a display of our shared commitment to a peace founded on friendship, humility, and co-existence. This is human fraternity in action. In 2020, together with Bahrain, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, we
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery Madam President, At the outset, I would like to thank Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her informative briefing. Madam President, The UAE is closely monitoring recent developments. In the context of our discussion today, I would like to focus on the following aspects: First, the UAE
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery At the outset, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this important and urgent meeting. We also thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, for his valuable and comprehensive briefing. Madam President, The UAE strongly condemns the terrorist attacks carried out by
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery Madam President, I thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his comprehensive briefing. I also thank Mr. Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council for his valuable insights. Madam President, The provision of aid to Syrian civilians remains a priority, particularly in
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check Against Delivery Thank you, Madam President. We would also like to thank António Guterres, the Secretary-General; Ms. Deborah Lyons, Special Representative and Head of UNAMA; and Ambassador Tirumurti, Chair of the Security Council’s 1988 Sanctions Committee, for their thorough briefings. We also welcome the civil society briefer, Ms. Mahbouba Seraj, and thank
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check Against Delivery Madam President, At the outset, I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria, for his comprehensive briefing and vigorous diplomatic efforts to advance the political process. We also listened carefully to the briefing by Thuraya Hijazi.
The UAE thanks Norway for organizing this open debate. Thank you, Prime Minister, for your personal presence and for chairing this meeting. We would also like to thank the Secretary-General and Mr. Peter Maurer for their very insightful briefings. We have also listened carefully to the briefer in Sana’a, and of course, strongly reject the
It was only last week that we stood at this podium to condemn the DPRK’s ballistic missile launch of January 5. The regime has conducted three additional ballistic missile launches since then on January 11, January 14, and January 17 local time. The DPRK has announced that it conducted the launches on four occasions in
First, I would like to thank my good friend, Ambassador Jun, for the kind invitation to today’s event. I would also like to express the UAE’s appreciation for China’s essential leadership on the issue of sustainable development, which you rightly described as “the eternal pursuit of human society.” The UAE is proud to have been
