I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for what has been a most useful, comprehensive and informative briefing.
I think, if I may say so, that the process of reporting on East Timor and the interaction between the Council and the Secretariat as the United Nations Transitional Admi…
I should like to join in the condolences that have been expressed by other members of the Council to the delegation of Tunisia on the death of President Bourguiba, and also in the congratulations that have been expressed to the President, and others around the Council table today. It is a great plea…
The United Kingdom welcomes the Secretary-General’s report. It provides a useful general overview of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) issues in the
I will not make a detailed statement on this subject today. The Permanent Representative of Portugal will be making a statement on b…
My delegation would like to join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his report, and also in thanking Mr. Annabi for his very clear briefing at the beginning of this meeting.
We are pleased that the transition period in Tajikistan is drawing to a close. The main task for us all now is to c…
I thank you, Sir, for your kind welcome and congratulate you on bringing us together in open meeting on this vital subject. I am also extremely grateful to Ambassador Fowler for his updating briefing.
For far too long, Angola has been ravaged by conflict, used as a proxy by the super-Powers during …
It is a great pleasure to see you here today, Mr. President. I should like, if I may, to join the tributes the have already been paid both to you and to Ambassador Chowdhury and the Bangladesh Mission for the really sterling work that they are doing during the current presidency of the Security Coun…
The adoption of the draft resolution on which we will vote today is a critical step forward in the Council's consideration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a clear demonstration of the Council's readiness to build on the momentum of January's open meeting. And in practical terms, it cr…
Welcome, Sir, to New York and to the Security Council. As others have said, it is a real pleasure to see you here today.
Against this background, we should clearly continue to analyse all proposals for United Nations operations to ensure that these risks are kept to a minimum and, where they cannot…
At the outset, I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the office you now hold. It is good to see you in the hot seat so soon after your arrival in New York, and my delegation pledges to work with you, not only during this coming month but for the remainder of Argentina's term on th…
I should like to take the floor in explanation of the United Kingdom’s votes on the draft resolution on the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (A/54/L.50) and the draft resolution on the dissemination of information on decolonization (…
We welcome the opportunity of this debate, during which the representative of Finland will speak later on behalf of the European Union, and whose intervention my delegation fully supports.
As Assistant Secretary-General Fall told us earlier, the situation in Burundi is becoming increasingly complex…
I would first like to associate myself with the statement made earlier in this debate by the Permanent Representative of Finland on behalf of the European Union. I can, as a result, be extremely brief.
The draft resolution on which we are about to vote today, and which the United Kingdom had the ho…
The draft resolution which the Council is about to adopt, and which the United Kingdom has been privileged to steer through the Council, is an important and significant milestone on the long and challenging road to lasting peace in Sierra Leone. With the establishment of the United Nations Mission i…
I should like to speak briefly in exercise of the right of reply to respond to the remarks about the Chagos Archipelago made this morning by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Mauritius.
The British Government maintains that the British Indian Ocea…
I would like to thank the Netherlands for its initiative in convening this important
As a son of Africa, I am especially delighted to be presenting to the Council our new British Government policy on Africa. I was actually born in Nairobi and brought up in Pretoria. My parents fought for freedom in…
Let me at the outset congratulate the Netherlands on initiating this debate. It is inevitable that this Security Council is often preoccupied with immediate and pressing crises. But if we are to do our job of securing peace throughout the world, we must
The dramatic threat to human life from weapon…
I would like to say a few words in response to the remarks by the Foreign Minister of Spain about Gibraltar. The long- standing position of the British Government on this matter is well known to the Government of Spain. I will simply restate it briefly here.
British sovereignty over Gibraltar was c…
It is just over half a century since the then British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, presented the Charter of the United Nations to our Parliament. He told our Parliament:
“We are seeking not merely good relations between nations but between the human beings within nations”.
The concept he saw ex…
Like other speakers I should like to emphasize the gravity of the present situation in East Timor. Shortly before this meeting I spoke to Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who had just returned from Dili with the Security Council mission. He confirmed at first hand the extent of the destruction in the city and…
The events of the last few weeks are further proof, if any more were needed, that there is no military solution to the problems of Afghanistan. Despite a month of bitter fighting, neither side has gained any decisive advantage over the other.
As this war drags on, it is the people of Afghanistan wh…
