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UAE Statement at UN Security Council Open Debate on WPS – Protecting Participation: Addressing violence targeting women in peace and security processes

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Madam President, The UAE thanks Norway for organising this open debate on such a critical subject, and thank you Minister Anniken Huitfeldt for chairing this meeting and High Commissioner Bachelet for your insightful briefing. We listened carefully to you Zarqa and Kaavya, and benefited from your insights, so thank you. As the Foreign Minister of

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council on Yemen

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UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Check against delivery. Madam President, I would like to thank the Special Envoy to Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for their valuable briefings. We also thank the civil society representative, Ms. Ola Al-Aghbary, for highlighting numerous critical issues. I would like to reiterate,

UAE Statement to the Open Debate of the Security Council on Security in the Context of Terrorism and Climate Change

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Thank you, Mr. President. The United Arab Emirates is grateful to Niger, and President Mohamed Bazoum in particular, for bringing the Security Council’s attention to the critical interplay between climate change, terrorism, and extremism. We would also like to thank the briefers for their helpful input. The nexus between climate change and terrorism and extremism

UAE Statement at the Joint Special Meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee and the 1267/1989/2253 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee

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On “Terrorist-financing threats and trends and the implementation of Security Council resolution 2462 (2019)” Check against delivery. Madam Chair, Thank you for giving me the floor. I would also like to thank the briefers for their statements and the tremendous value they added to our discussion today. Despite the international community’s best efforts, the threat

UAE Statement at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Peace and Security Through Preventative Diplomacy: A Common Objective to all UN Principal Organs

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Check against delivery. Mr. President, At the outset, we would like to thank Mexico for organising today’s open debate and directing our attention to preventative diplomacy. We also extend our thanks to the Secretary-General, the President of the General Assembly, the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and the President of the International

UAE Statement at UN Security Council Open Debate on Maintaining International Peace and Security: Exclusion, Inequality, and Conflict

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Check against delivery. Mr. President, At the outset, the UAE would like to thank Mexico for organizing this meeting as well as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for presiding over this debate. We also extend our thanks to Secretary-General António Guterres and Ms. Lourdes Tiban Guala for their important briefings. Addressing the root causes of

UAE Statement at Arria-Formula Meeting on sea-level rise and implications for international peace and security

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Check against delivery. Excellencies, colleagues, I would like to thank Viet Nam and the co-organisers as well as the briefers for today’s important discussion.  Sea-level rise presents an unequivocal threat to international peace and security, undermining the very existence of some small island developing states and coastal regions. It behooves the Security Council to take