UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Madam President, I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. James Swan, and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and the Chair of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, and the Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations, Mr.
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, I would like to thank Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, and Mr. Weixiong Chen, the Acting Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, for their valuable briefings. Mr. President, The United Arab Emirates places great importance on countering extremism and terrorism in
Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. The DPRK’s January 30 (local time) launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a significant escalation in the DPRK’s recent violations of multiple Security Council resolutions and seeks to further destabilize the region. We condemn this unlawful action in the strongest terms. This IRBM marks the
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
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
NEW YORK – 21 January 2022 – During a closed meeting of the United Nations Security Council, H.E. Lana Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, presented a classified briefing on the Houthi terrorist attacks. Ambassador Nusseibeh was joined by an official from the UAE armed forces. Following the conclusion
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attacks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, 17 January, as well as in other sites in Saudi Arabia. The attacks, which were committed and claimed by the Houthis, resulted in 3 civilian deaths and 6 other civilians injured. 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
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check Against Delivery Madam President, At the outset, the UAE thanks the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Carlos Massieu, for his valuable briefing. We also welcome the representative of Colombia Mr. Emilio Archila and Ms. Luz Marina Giraldo in this meeting. We
