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Mr. President, Distinguished members of the Council, The conflict in Ukraine will soon enter its fourth year. Since the Department of Political Affairs last briefed the Council on the situation in eastern Ukraine on 28 April…

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the fourth “Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and…

Mr. President, members of the Security Council, On the night of 8 February, ISIS and its affiliates in the Sinai launched a series of rockets towards the Israeli coastal resort of Eilat. Thankfully, no one was killed or…

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the opportunity to brief on this important topic. I would like to start by expressing my sincere condolences to the loved ones of the victims of Wednesday’s…

Madame President, The Council has requested the Secretariat to provide an update on Syria. In addition, Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura will brief the Council in less than a week. I will therefore keep my remarks…

Statement by Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, at the Security Council 8 June 2017 Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the outset, I would like to reiterate, on behalf of…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Today I devote my regular briefing to the Council to reporting, on behalf of the Secretary-General, on the implementation of resolution 2334 during the period from 25 March to…

Mr President and Dear Karel, I am joining you by VTC from Brussels because I had very minor eye surgery on my right eye which had been affected in many missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and it was useful to do so…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, As you know, today’s Great Return March near the Gaza fence has unfortunately resulted in violence. Based on the information at our disposal, around 30,000 people participated…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, I am briefing you from Geneva, as we are preparing for round 8 of the UN-convened intra-Syrian talks. Let me explain how we got here over the past month, and the approach to the…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, According to the official news agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and various governmental sources, at approximately 02:48 am local time on 29 November…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, This Security Council meeting on the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is timely and again demonstrates that it is not just the nuclear…