I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland and Dr. Baxter of Save the Children for their briefings and for the tireless work of their teams.
Gaza has become the deadliest place in the world to be a child. Women and children continue to bear the brunt of the brutal conflict, which, since 7 October 2023,…
I am grateful to Sierra Leone for convening this important meeting, and I thank Assistant Secretary-General Spehar, African Union Commissioner Bankole Adeoye, Ms. Samai and Mr. Descardes for their briefings today.
In 2016, the sustaining peace framework underlined the importance of shared responsib…
I thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Koury and Ambassador Yamazaki for their briefings today. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Libya in our meeting.
Libyans deserve stability and prosperity but, disappointingly, a political settlement to …
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Director Doughten for their briefings and for the tireless work of their staff and other United Nations personnel in Yemen.
The situation in Yemen is desperate, with devastating flooding coming on top of an already dire humanitarian crisis. We express condolences…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative Haysom, Ms. Wosornu and Major General Gituai for their important update, as well as for the tireless work of their teams in the face of a very challenging operating environment. I also welcome the Permanent Representative of South Sudan.
As we heard t…
I should like to begin by thanking Antigua and Barbuda and Portugal for their successful facilitation of resolution 78/322 and their commitment and hard work in pursuing this important agenda.
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of the resolution on the multidimensional vulnerability index (MV…
I thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo and Director Doughten of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings.
First, the United Kingdom is appalled by the Israeli military strikes on the Al-Tabaeen school, where Palestinian civilians were sheltering. The United Nati…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Gherman for their briefings. I also thank the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team for its work on the report (S/2024/583).
The United Kingdom remains deeply concerned about the rising threat from Da’esh and its affiliates.…
I welcome you, Madam President, to the Security Council, and I thank you for convening today’s debate and for Sierra Leone’s consistent leadership in promoting the women and peace and security agenda. I thank Executive Director Bahous, Assistant Secretary-General Pobee and Ms. Khair for their briefi…
The United Kingdom recognizes the important role that regional initiatives can play in delivering peace and security in Africa. We voted in favour of today’s resolution 2746 (2024) to support peace in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. We thank France and Sierra Leone, as co-penholders, for thei…
I would like to thank Ms. Wosornu and Mr. Omollo for their briefings and for the work of their teams in the Sudan.
There is only one possible conclusion from the Famine Review Committee’s data — there is famine in the Sudan, and that famine is entirely man-made. Today 100 Sudanese civilians, men, w…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on Sierra Leone’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this coming month. We wish you every success. We also welcome the presence of the representative of the Sudan at today’s Council meeting. I wish also to thank Prosecutor Khan for h…
The United Kingdom supports the draft amendment (A/78/L.103) and aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of the United States.
We were glad to see that language was included in the modalities resolution 78/269, which allows for meaningful and inclusive civil society participatio…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 78/319 and thanks the co-facilitators for their efforts to reach agreement. We look forward to the high-level meetings. Ahead of the meetings, it is important to affirm the universal and unified character of the United Nations Convention on the …
I thank Mr. Ebo for his briefing.
On 24 February 2022, many of us were sitting in the Council when we learned the terrible news that Russia had launched an illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
On that day, and on every one of the 882 days since, Ukraine has been bravely exercising its right…
I ought just to correct the record on that procedural matter and we explained all of this to colleagues on PC Net. But as Council members know, the very long-standing practice for briefings in the Council is that we extend an invitation to non-Council members upon their request, and we do not do it …
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Mr. Rajasingham for their briefings this morning.
I will make three points today.
First, as they have made clear, the humanitarian situation across Syria remains dire, borne out of over a decade of conflict and the actions of the regime, including its recent deci…
I thank Brazil and Croatia for driving the work of the Peacebuilding Commission over the past 18 months.
We are experiencing the highest number of conflicts since the Second World War. The human and financial cost is unsustainable.
The implementation of the sustaining peace agenda through all pill…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Simão for his very helpful briefing and for all his work and that of his team.
I would like to start by welcoming the Security Council’s agreement of the presidential statement on the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS…
We were glad to see that language on civil society participation was included in resolution 76/307, on the modalities for the Summit of the Future, which allows for meaningful civil society participation in this important Summit. These modalities allow us to see the rationale for objections to the p…
