High Representative Statements (2021)

April

14th

HR delivers video message at virtual launch event for the 2nd Edition of “Effective WAM in a Changing DDR Context” handbook

6th

High Representative briefs Security Council during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria) on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013)

HR delivers opening remarks at UNODA & UNIDIR webinar on “Integrating gender perspectives into the NPT review process”

March

31st

HR delivers opening remarks at UNODA & BASIC webinar “Empowering Emerging Voices”

23rd

HR delivers video message to “Advancing integral disarmament in times of pandemic” webinar

19th

HR participates in “Why Multilateral Disarmament Matters” Georgetown SFS Virtual Seminar

17th

HR’s video message on the prevention and combatting of illicit trafficking of small-arms and light weapons at UNOCT & UNODC workshop

12th

HR delivers remarks at the adoption of the final OEWG report

10th

HR delivers remarks at Turtle Bay Security Roundtable “Space Sweepers” Event

9th

HR delivers statement to Japan’s Track 1.5 Meeting for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament

8th

HR addresses the National Diet of Japan on International Women’s Day (English)

HR addresses the National Diet of Japan on International Women’s Day

HR delivers statement at final session at OEWG on developments in ICTs in the context of international security

4th

High Representative briefs Security Council during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria) on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013)

February

23rd

High Representative’s opening remarks at the second informal workshop in support of the Conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction

18th

High Representative’s video message to the Diplomatic Academy of Mexico’s webinar on the TPNW

15th

High Representative delivers a video message to the State Parties of the Treaty of Tlatelolco on the occasion of the Treaty’s 54th anniversary

3rd

High Representative’s briefs Security Council during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria) on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013)

January

27th

High Representative’s acceptance speech for the 2021 Distinction in International Law and Affairs Award by The International Law Section of the NYSBA, on behalf of UNODA

High Representative’s opening keynote address at Wilton Park’s virtual meeting on “policy options for multilateral controls on ballistic missiles”

24th

High Representative’s message on the 75th anniversary of the first United Nations General Assembly resolution

22nd

High Representative’s video message to Hibakusha and civil society groups on the occasion of the TPNW’s entry into force (in Japanese)

11th

High Representative’s video message to participants of the Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center (HPC) Mid-Career Course on “Leadership in the UN system at the time of the pandemic”

5th

High Representative briefs Security Council on implementation of Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013) during Open VTC on Middle East (Syria)