United States Mission to
the United Nations

This day is personal for me. Having grown up in the segregated South, I was moved to tears the first – the very first time…

We underscore the continuing importance of the 751 Somalia Sanctions Committee as the venue for productive technical discussions regarding sanctions listings. We also emphasize the…

The United States underlines that the area between the Blue Line and Litani River must be free of weapons except for those used by the…

Libya is on a precipice. We call on all parties in Libya to refrain from violence or from actions that will precipitate violence. We call…

This year particularly, in light of the much-anticipated UN human rights report on Xinjiang, I am thinking of the numerous Uyghurs who were wrongfully detained…

And also let me be clear that the United States has not turned our backs on Afghanistan. We have remained in the country*, we have…

Instead of looking to the international community for help with these crises, the Taliban harbored the leader of al-Qaida in downtown Kabul. How can they…

The United States also calls for immediate de-escalation in northern Syria. We remind all parties that they have an interest in stability and security. We…

These young people are committed to finding ways to deal with urban hunger, and one of those ways is to provide these urban farms. And…

I have enjoyed my career advocating for getting food to the hungry, medicine to the sick, and homes here in America for those persecuted abroad.…

One of Putin’s concerns that he expressed was that NATO – he felt that NATO was threatening him. And NATO is not an organization that…

I’ll tell you a very quick story. I lived and worked in Liberia in the 1970s, and Liberia was a relatively stable country until they…

We've been pushing for an IAEA visit. The Ukrainians invited the IAEA. The Secretary-General was there last week and pushed both sides to allow for…

So I was in Ghana a few weeks ago, and I gave a speech in which I stressed that Africans can become the breadbasket of…

There are no shortcuts to statehood; it is imperative that all stakeholders help to develop the conditions for and embrace a political horizon that would…

We condemn in the strongest terms sustained missile strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine, which have repeatedly hit residential areas…

The evidence of Russian forces interrogating, detaining, and forcibly deporting hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, including children, continues to mount. Their reasons are clear: They…

This would allow for the Ukrainian personnel – who are currently being held under duress – to operate the facility, complete a damage assessment, and…