Delivered by: His Excellency Omar Sultan AlOlama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications Mr. President, At the outset, I’d like to express my appreciation to our colleagues from the Russian Federation and congratulate them on a successful Presidency of the Council last month. I wish the same to Switzerland
Delivered By: His Excellency Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab, Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Excellencies and Colleagues, I thank all the briefers for their insightful interventions. At the outset, I would like to stress that cultural heritage embodies people’s identity and history. It keeps us connected to the past and lays the foundation to build
Delivered by: His Excellency Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, I want to begin by thanking Foreign Minister Lavrov for chairing this meeting. I also thank the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing. Mr. President, Our sustained commitment to effective multilateralism, grounded in international law and the principles
Delivered By: Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab, Deputy Permanent Representative Mr. President, I thank Mozambique for taking the initiative to organize this meeting, which is long overdue. Improving security sector governance is a key feature in the Action for Peacekeeping Initiative, Our Common Agenda, and the African Union’s Silencing the Guns initiative, and of course in many
Delivered by: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mr. President, At the outset, I would like to thank you, Minister Borg, for presiding over this important meeting. I would also like to thank High Representative Borrell for joining us today. Almost 25 years ago, hundreds of Emirati troops deployed to Kosovo to support
Delivered by: Ghasaq Shaheen, Political Coordinator Madam President, I would like to thank you for keeping the Children and Armed Conflict agenda a priority for this Council, and choosing to focus our discussion today on prevention. The UAE looks forward to working with you as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.
Delivered by: Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Madam President, I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Chen for their valuable briefings, and I also took note of the informative briefing from Ms. Praxl from the Global Center on Cooperative Security. In January alone, 10 attacks in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of
