I can be brief.
The United Kingdom, like its partners in the European Union, voted in favour of draft resolution A/58/L.26/Rev.1, entitled “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine”. We did so because we support the need to find a just and peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict…
Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open meeting. Our thanks also go to Assistant Secretary-General Kalomoh for his presentation of the report of the mission (S/2003/1077).
In my remarks, I will be supplementing and speaking within the framework of the statement to be made shortly by the …
Like other speakers, I would very much like to welcome the first report of Special Representative Harri Holkeri to the Security Council.
I associate my Government with the statement to be made by Italy on behalf of the European Union. Because most of the important points have already been covered i…
I begin by associating my delegation with your remarks, Mr. President, and those of the Secretary-General, condemning the attacks that took place yesterday in Baghdad, including those against the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Such terrorist attacks will not deflect the int…
The United Kingdom fully shares the thoughts of, and the statement to be made by, Italy as the presidency of the European Union. I have just a few comments to make in my national capacity.
My first comment is to welcome and congratulate both the Government of Timor-Leste and the United Nations Miss…
I begin by paying a tribute to Dr. Akila Al-Hashimi, a senior member of the Iraqi Governing Council, who died earlier today.
I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Al-Hashimi earlier this year in London and later in Baghdad, and I was struck by her courage and her dedication to the Iraqi people. Dr. Al…
At the General Assembly’s special session on HIV/AIDS two years
ago, the United Kingdom’s representative, Clare Short, said this:
“We have, I am afraid, no reason to congratulate ourselves on the convening of this session. ... We have been aware of the infection for 20 years and that it was spread…
I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the two previous speakers in thanking Ambassador Sinclair very much
for his careful account of the situation, welcoming the details that the Ambassador of Papua New Guinea has offered us, congratulating the Peace Monitoring Group on their role an…
I should like to begin by complimenting you, Sir, on the early months of your chairmanship of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). We are grateful for what you have done. We endorse the work programme that you have set out for the next 90 days and the principles that guide this. I will associate m…
We are grateful for the reports before the Council and for today’s briefing. We share the revulsion of others at the abuses we have heard described and at the lack of respect for human life that they represent. We have heard about rape and mutilation being used as weapons of war, and about pillage b…
The United Kingdom associates itself with the European Union statement to be given shortly by the Italian Ambassador. We welcome this opportunity to reiterate our support for Council resolution 1244 (1999) as the basis for the international community’s policy on Kosovo.
Kosovo has come a long way s…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report and to David Stephen and Ambassador Kumalo for their very helpful introductory remarks today.
The situation in Guinea-Bissau is very worrying. The political process appears to be stuck. We are disappointed at the lack of progress on the promul…
We are grateful for today’s briefing.
The United Kingdom fully associates itself with the statement that will be made later by the representative of Greece on behalf of the European Union and its acceding and associated countries.
If I may, I just want to take this opportunity to take up three poi…
Our thanks to Mr. Sharma, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, and his team for all their work.
Timor-Leste’s international environment is important to its future, and the United Kingdom encourages Indonesia and Timor-Leste to continue working together towards agreement on border delin…
The representative of Greece will shortly be making a statement on behalf of the European Union; my delegation naturally endorses what he will say.
I should like to join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his very useful introduction to our debate today. The United Kingdom is…
As we all deepen our understanding of what is required to deliver security at all stages, from conflict prevention through peacekeeping to reconstruction and peace-building, not least in the face of new emerging threats including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and international ter…
Through you, Mr. President, I would like to thank the Secretary- General for his latest report on the work of the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB) and Assistant Secretary-General Danilo Türk for his informative briefing. We welcome the progress that has been made since the las…
I would like first of all the thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his briefing and to express gratitude to the Secretary-General for the report on which it was based. We think that it is right for the Secretariat to sound a warning bell, as Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno put it, when it jud…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency, and by wishing you well at a very important moment. I also echo and underline the thanks which you so generously gave to Vice-Chancellor Joschka Fischer and Ambassador Gunter Pleuger for the excellent way in whic…
I speak on behalf of a very old country, founded in 1066 by the French. In opening, I would like to thank Mr. Blix and Mr. ElBaradei for their reports and to express my very great appreciation to them and to their inspection teams for their great efforts in the face of what I think is still very cle…
