Discurso do Representante Permanente, Embaixador Sérgio França Danese, em reunião do Conselho de Segurança sobre a Síria (Humanitária) - 11 de julho de 2023 (texto em inglês)

Madam President,

As co-penholders, Brazil and Switzerland have actively and constructively engaged with all Security Council members, as well as partnersin the region and other relevant stakeholders, both governmental and non-governmental, throughout intense negotiations during the past few weeks. We spared no effort to try to achieve a text as consensual as possible.

Throughout, we were guided solely by the urgent humanitarian needs of the Syrian people. The result of our effort is the amended draft resolution (S/2023/506) that we have put to the consideration by Council members today.

We listened carefully to the humanitarian actors on the ground. They firmly advocate for a year-long authorization as necessary to design and implement projects that go beyond life-saving supplies and that offer dignified solutions.

Even though we support their call for a 12-month extension, the text before you provides for a nine-month renewal. It is our renewed attempt for a compromise.

The draft resolution would renew the authorization for the Bal Al-Hawa border crossing, but we also worked to help ensure that the language reflectes the commitment to humanitarian assistance to all those in need in Syria through all modalities.

It includes an operative paragraph on the cross-line modality and calls for an expansion of humanitarian operations, more funding for enhanced early-recovery activities, as well as humanitarian mine action. It also addresses the demand for the creation of conditions for safe, voluntary, informed and dignified returns.

We believe this draft resolution is a fair compromise. It represents a balance between the different positions of Council members. We are grateful to all Council members for their engagement to that end. The adoption of a consensual draft resolution on this crucial issue would show the unity and commitment of the Security Council with respect to humanitarian issues in general and to the needs of the Syrian people in this specific case.

We now commend the draft resolution to the Council and ask all members to support it.

Thank you.