The United Kingdom welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). We thank France for its efforts as penholder to reconcile the differing views of Security Council members. Delegations made diffic…
The magnitude of the challenges the Afghan people face requires a resolute and unified response by the international community. More than 28 million people are in humanitarian need, and approximately 20 million people are acutely food insecure. If food assistance is not sustained, we risk the emerge…
I would like start by thanking Prosecutor Khan for his twenty- fourth report and for briefing us today on the work of his Office.
We are pleased to note that the Office of the Prosecutor has accelerated its investigative and cooperation activities under the renewed strategy outlined in the previous…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this first plenary meeting of the seventy- seventh session on the revitalization of the General Assembly. I would like to begin by congratulating Ambassadors Egriselda González López and Mitchell Fifield on their reappointment as co-facilitators and by reaffirming the…
I thank the High Representative for her very helpful briefing.
Syria has had nine years to come into compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention. But since its accession, it has repeatedly and categorically failed to provide the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with a…
Let me join other speakers in congratulating Gabon on its excellent presidency in October. I wish Ghana all the best for the month of November. I thank High Commissioner Grandi for his briefing, and I offer congratulations on the recent extension of his term by the General Assembly.
The United King…
The United Kingdom thanks President Hofmański for the annual report (see A/77/305) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and his presentation today (see A/77/PV.22). We congratulate Nazhat Shameen Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang on their election as Deputy Prosecutors of the Court.
The United King…
Today’s vote sends a powerful message of Security Council support, not just to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), but also to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and all Somalis.
UNSOM has played an important role in Somalia since its inception. The recent strategic review found …
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General and the Special Envoy for their very helpful briefings. I would also like to welcome the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan to this meeting.
We would like to make three brief points today.
First, the United Kingdom commends the tireless efforts of …
Let me just echo Mr. De la Fuente Ramírez’s thanks to Council members for their cooperation and for the flexibility shown during these negotiations. In particular, I would like to thank our co-penholder, Mexico, including the experts on both sides, for our close working partnership on resolution 265…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General for Legal Affairs for his briefing.
This meeting represents another attempt by Russia to distract from its crimes in Ukraine and from the failure by Iran and Russia to abide by their international obligations.
Russia and Iran have been caught red-handed violati…
I thank Special Envoy Huang Xia for his briefing today and welcome the participation of the representatives of countries of the region in this meeting.
The United Kingdom remains deeply concerned about the security situation in the Great Lakes region, in particular the resurgence of violence by the…
Let me thank Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Pedersen and Ms. Ghelani for their briefings today.
I would like to make three points.
First, the United Kingdom supports the efforts of Special Envoy Pedersen to advance the implementation of resolution 2254 (2015) through the step-for- step ini…
I thank the High Representative for her briefing.
There may be one thing that I can agree on with my Russian colleague — that today, sadly, we heard no significant new developments in the briefing from the United Nations. Instead, we again heard a long list of areas in which the Syrian regime conti…
Let me thank Special Representative Bathily for his inaugural briefing to the Security Council and congratulate him on taking up his appointment. He has the full support of the United Kingdom in the implementation of his mandate. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Li…
I once again thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. And I thank Resident Coordinator Brown for her invaluable update on the situation on the ground and the work the United Nations team is doing in the toughest of circumstances.
So far, this war has killed, maimed and psychologicall…
Let me thank the Deputy Secretary-General and all our briefers today for their testimony, advocacy and leadership.
As we mark the anniversary of resolution 1325 (2025), the United Kingdom is proud to be a leading champion of the women and peace and security agenda at the United Nations and around t…
I thank Special Representative Rugwabiza for her briefing, and I also welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic and the representative of Rwanda in this meeting. I would like to make three points in response to what we have heard today.
First, the…
I would like to start by congratulating President Gatti Santana on her deserved appointment and by thanking her for the most recent report on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see A/77/242). Under her stewardship, the Mechanism will continue to play an essential role in en…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for
his insights and leadership of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and for the hard work of his team in the toughest of circumstances. I join others in expressing our deepest condole…
