Speeches and remarks

18 March 2025 As delivered Thank you, Madam President, and I welcome the opportunity to update the Security Council on the humanitarian crisis. Overnight, our worst fears materialized. Airstrikes...

New York, 12 March 2025 Thanks very much, Steph [Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General], and it’s great to be here. It’s Day 115 for me, so I’m still relatively new by UN standards, but...

6 March 2025 As delivered Thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Special Envoy Grundberg, for your tireless efforts. Madam President, When I last briefed the Council on Yemen, I shared detail on...

New York, 26 February 2025 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President, Nearly two years of relentless conflict in Sudan have inflicted immense suffering and turned parts of the country into a hellscape. ...

Riyadh, 25 February 2025 As delivered Excellencies, fellow humanitarians, I want to congratulate you, Dr. [Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah, Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and...

Geneva, 17 February 2025 As delivered Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today. If I can just depart briefly from the prepared remarks as we kick off, because I think a lot of us are...

London, 13 February 2025 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. I also thank Special Envoy Grundberg for his energetic commitment to peace in Yemen. Mr. President, I hope the Council will join me in...

New York, 12 February 2025 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, As the Special Envoy [Geir Pedersen] has just said, we must seize the opportunity of this moment for Syria’s people. ...

New York, 26 January 2025 As delivered Mr. President, distinguished members of the Security Council, Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian situation in the...

Briefing for the Security Council session: “On the plight of children in the Gaza Strip, given the gravity of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which particularly hits the most vulnerable” 23...