(Resumed) Reasserting international legal protections…

• Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (S/2026/357)
• Letter dated 12 June 2026 from the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2026/495).

 Presidency: Colombia

 Briefer: Ms. Vanessa Frazier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

 Briefer: Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UNICEF

 Briefer: Mr. André Prospery Raymond, Country Director, Plan International Haiti

 Statements: All Council members

 Further statement: United States of America

 Statement: Canada (also on behalf of: Group of Friends of Children and Armed Conflict)

 Statements: Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Germany, Brazil

 Statement: Her Excellency Jainaba Jagne, Special Envoy for Children Affected by Armed Conflict, African Union

 The meeting was suspended.

 The meeting was resumed.

 Statements: Poland, India, Austria, Islamic Republic of Iran, Chile, Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Portugal, Syrian Arab Republic

 Statement: Australia (also on behalf of: Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ))

 Statements: Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia

 Statement: Observer State of Palestine

 Statements: Israel, Azerbaijan, Spain, Yemen, Japan, Cuba, Estonia

 Statement: Mr. Sebastian Rogač, Director-General for Multilateral and Global Affairs of the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia

 Statements: Mexico, Kuwait

 Statement: Her Excellency Hedda Samson, Chargée d'affaires a.i. of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations

 Statements: Belgium, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Algeria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Lithuania, Luxembourg

 Statement: Finland (also on behalf of: Nordic countries)

 The meeting was suspended.

 The meeting was resumed.

 Statements: Lebanon, Ireland, Malta, El Salvador, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

 Statement: Burkina Faso (also on behalf of: Alliance of Sahel States)

 Statements: Guatemala, Tajikistan, Uruguay, Angola, Morocco, Armenia, Czechia, Mali, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Philippines, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Iraq

 Statement: Trinidad and Tobago (also on behalf of: CARICOM)

 Statements: Montenegro, Georgia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Jordan

 Statement: Observer State of the Holy See

 Statements: Myanmar, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Burundi, Malaysia, Cambodia