I thank you, Mr. President, and I thank High Commissioner Grandi for his powerful remarks today.
This meeting comes at a crucial moment. As the High Commissioner has told us, the number of people who have been forced from their homes continues to rise, with direct impacts for regional stability and…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
First, the United Kingdom is appalled by the deeply distressing scenes emerging from Rafah following Israeli air strikes over the weekend. As the Foreign Secretary has said, we call on Israel to launch a swift, comprehensive and transparent i…
Let me thank Mozambique for convening this meeting. I am also grateful to all the briefers for their remarks today. As they have set out, it is crucial that we move from commitments to concrete actions on women and peace and security and youth, peace and security.
I will set out three broad priorit…
Let me join colleagues in thanking Switzerland for its work in taking forward this very important resolution (resolution 2730 (2024)) and the collaborative way in which it did so. On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would also like to take the opportunity today to pay tribute all United Nations and h…
I am grateful to Mozambique for organizing this debate. I also thank the Secretary-General, Commissioner Bankole Adeoye and the Permanent Representative of Brazil for their briefings.
The United Kingdom is proud to be a close partner of African States and their peoples. We are committed to working …
Let me start by thanking Mozambique for convening this important debate and thank all our briefers today for their powerful briefings.
The Secretary-General’s most recent report on the protection of civilians (S/2024/385) presents a stark picture: a 72 per cent increase in civilian deaths in armed …
The United Kingdom is committed to preventing an arms race in outer space. That is why we introduced a draft resolution in the General Assembly last year establishing norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours to reduce threats to space systems (resolution 78/20). It was adopted with the …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
There is much irony to Russia calling yet another meeting on weapons proliferation in a month where we have seen the appalling destruction of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. As we speak, Russian forces continue their devastating attacks aro…
Let me start by thanking Special Coordinator Wennesland and Ms. Wosornu for their briefings today, and I would like to once again express our deepest condolences for the loss of the United Nations staff who have been killed in this conflict. I will make three broad points.
First, it has now been mo…
I would like to welcome the representatives of Iraq and Kuwait to the Chamber.
Let me start by thanking the Special Representative for her briefing and for the important work of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The Mission has made an important contribution to Iraq over the p…
The United Kingdom is honoured to present the draft annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. While we had the responsibility of preparing the introduction to the report, this report is a collective effort by both the 2023 Council membership and the Secretariat. We thank all Cou…
I thank High Representative Schmidt for his briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and the European Union (EU) in our meeting today.
I would like to make three bold points.
First, the United Kingdom believes that it is for the pe…
Let me begin by thanking Prosecutor Khan for his briefing today on his Office’s twenty-seventh report on the situation in Libya. The United Kingdom reiterates our support to the ongoing investigation and welcomes the Prosecutor’s latest report to the Council.
The United Kingdom was pleased to read …
Let me first congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency for the month of May, and thank Malta for its excellent stewardship in the month of April. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Special Envoy Tetteh for their briefings today, and I welcome the participation of the …
The United Kingdom would like to begin by thanking South Africa for its able facilitation in this process, as well as the core group of the Foreign Policy and Global Health Initiative — Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal and Thailand — for putting forward this important resolution (resoluti…
The United Kingdom reiterates its commitment to making progress towards a two-State solution, in which a safe and secure Israel lives alongside a sovereign, viable Palestinian State.
The people of the West Bank and Gaza must be given the political horizon of a credible route to a Palestinian State …
We are grateful to High Representative Schmidt and to the Assistant Secretary-General for their briefings. We also took careful note of the briefing in her personal capacity by
Ms. Cvijanović, and we welcome the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia to the Chamber.
First, w…
I will be brief. Allow me to answer that question. I think that it is clear from my statement at least that we did not link the Nord Stream attack to anything to do with Ukraine. This is a question of consistency in Russia’s approach to attacks on critical infrastructure, and we merely pointed out t…
I can be quick because we have had this debate many times in the Chamber before.
As we have said several times, the United Kingdom unequivocally condemns acts of sabotage on critical
national infrastructure. And we take the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines extremely seriously.
I would like t…
The United Kingdom commends the important work of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 in holding to acco…
