Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Thank you, Mr. President. The United Arab Emirates is delivering this statement in an explanation of vote before the vote on the draft resolution titled “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica”. In 2012, the remains of a baby girl
Delivered by: His Excellency Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab, Permanent Representative & Chair of the Arab Group for the month of May Mr. President, I have the honour to speak today on behalf of the Arab Group in this important debate. I also would like to thank all briefers for their valuable inputs. Mr. President, Adherence to
Delivered by: Ahmed AlMahmoud, Political Coordinator and Sanctions Coordinator I’d like to thank Switzerland for convening this meeting. I’d also like to thank the briefers for their insightful contributions. Science, technology, and innovation are progressing at a rate and scale previously unseen. As we heard from our briefers today, there is a growing recognition of
Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, and Chair of the Arab Group for the Month of May UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, Thank you for your swift response in convening this emergency special session of the General Assembly at the request of the Arab Group, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation,
Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Mr. President, Thank you for convening this important meeting. The United Arab Emirates deeply regrets that the Security Council was unable to adopt its first-ever resolution on weapons of mass destruction in outer space. By failing to adopt this resolution, the Council missed an important
Delivered by: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Madam President, I’d like to begin by thanking Malta for organising this open debate and Deputy Prime Minister Fearne for presiding over this meeting. I also thank Special Representative Patten for her briefing. As a survivor of the Darfur Genocide, Ms. Ahmadi exemplifies the resilience
Delivered by Mr. Mohamed Bouassiba, Second Secretary Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this important annual debate on the use of the veto in the Security Council, which we consider as an opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue on situations in which the veto is used. We would like to express
Delivered By: His Excellency Mohamed Abushahab, Ambassador and Permanent Representative UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery Madam president, I thank His Excellency Ian Borg for presiding over this meeting and we congratulate Malta for assuming the presidency of the council for this month. I also thank the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, for his participation and important brief.
Delivered by: Shahad Matar, Spokesperson and Acting Political Coordinator UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Mr. President, At the outset, I thank you for convening this meeting on the item related to the use of the veto by a Permanent Member of the Security Council. This is the second meeting in four days under this
