"The United States strongly supports the adoption of today's resolution, which imposes consequences on the Houthi and former President Salih, demands that the Houthi cease military operations, and calls on all sides to once again return to the negotiating table."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

"We would do well to learn from our Rwandan colleagues, who honor what happened not only through memory and grief, but also through action in the present... We join you not only in mourning, but also in your seeking to build a world where other people do not have to endure what you did."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

"The United States and Europe have a vital stake in curbing conflicts beyond our borders... We also have a moral stake in ending the suffering and atrocities endemic to these conflicts...  These new challenges and responsibilities are the reason that UN peacekeeping needs European militaries more than ever."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

"Today, this Council makes crystal clear that the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon is no less an evil than the use of any other chemical as a weapon. The Syrian regime's use of any toxic chemical as a weapon is prohibited by the Chemical Weapons Convention and constitutes a violation of resolution 2118."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

"This Council's impact will increase only if member-states' positions change. And that will happen only if we recognize that there are children just like our own starving in Yarmouk, and mothers just like our own who die in childbirth in Aleppo... If this doesn't motivate us, literally nothing will."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

"The United States strongly supports today's resolution, which is part of a comprehensive strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL... As a result of these and other efforts, ISIL is having a harder time generating new funds needed to carry out its operations. Today's resolution aims to make that effort even more challenging, by using sanctions and other punitive tools to target three ISIL income streams."

- Ambassador Samantha Power

Today's resolution matters. It speaks to our deep concern with these ongoing violations, it presses the Government of Sudan to take the long overdue steps necessary to protect the people of Darfur and stop the violence.

In spite of the significant challenges that persist, on our trip we saw evidence everywhere of the incredible resilience and determination of the Haitian people; of rubble that has not only been cleared, but of new structures that have been put up in its place, and new hopes that have been raised with them.

Attacks on any religious or ethnic group are attacks on us all. Attacks on Jews are attacks on us all. And we must not only stand up together against these acts of violence, but also against the hatred, intolerance, and prejudice that helps lead to such acts.

- Ambassador Samantha Power

The pattern is clear. Where Russia has made commitments, it has failed to meet them. Russia has negotiated a peace plan, and then systematically undermined it at every step. It talks of peace, but it keeps fueling war.

- Ambassador Samantha Power