May I, too, begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Ndiaye for his leadership in these challenging times and, through him, the military, peace and other personnel under his leadership for their service. I also thank President Lourenço for his contribution to our discussion…
The United Kingdom is grateful for all your efforts this year, Mr. President, in encouraging progress on this important issue. We are particularly grateful for your efforts in encouraging Member States towards a mutually acceptable decision today on what is clearly, from our discussions last week, a…
Allow me to begin by joining other speakers in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing and his honest analysis and reflections, as well as for setting out a very action-oriented plan for United Nations Mission in South Sudan going forward. It is clear from wh…
I thank the briefers for their briefings.
As we have said in the Security Council many times before, the people of Haiti deserve an end to the dysfunction that has so long plagued their State institutions and governance. I want to start by joining other speakers in calling for free, fair, credible …
We very much welcome High Representative Borrell Fontelles’ attendance at the Security Council today and thank him for his briefing. We agree entirely with his emphasis on the importance of multilateralism.
The United Nations-centred, international rules- based system provides a foundation for coor…
I have the pleasure this evening to introduce a pre-recorded statement by Wendy Morton, Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
I would like to begin by thanking the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her thirty-third report on the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005), which is, of course, her final report to the Security Council in that capacity. The United Kingdom would like to expre…
I would like to start by thanking President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings to us today.
We are impressed that the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals has continued to function so well, despite the difficulties imposed on it by the coronavirus disease. Lockdow…
I apologize for taking the floor. I would like to make clear our understanding that as amendment A/75/L.94, concerning paragraph 9 of draft resolution A/75/L.93, has been rejected, we are now being asked to vote on paragraph 9 of draft resolution A/75/L.93. The United Kingdom intends to vote in favo…
I wanted to start by, like others, thanking the co-facilitators, Georgia and the Philippines, for the modalities draft resolution (A/75/L.93) that we have before us today. It is the result of a lot of hard work on their part and on the part of colleagues around the room.
But I am not going to focus…
On behalf of the United Kingdom, I want to begin by expressing our thanks to Special Representative of the Secretary- General Fall for his continuing efforts to support and promote peace, stability and security in Central Africa, particularly amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its …
May I begin by thanking the representatives of the delegations of Brazil and Haiti for their excellent explanations on their own amendments (A/75/L.90 and A/75/L.91) and, in particular, Haiti, for so graciously moving on the question of rule 91.
I will not set out the United Kingdom’s long-standing…
If my colleague from Haiti wishes to proceed expeditiously, the quickest way to do it would be to simply vote on the amendments as they have been submitted. I think people in this Hall will know that we Brits are quite keen on orderly queueing, and we are clearly standing on a line in this context. …
I confess, I do not really understand the logic of the proposal made by the representative of Haiti. Having said that, I thought his statement on the substance was an excellent statement but, to our mind, we have three amendments here that were submitted in sequence; we see the numbers on the docume…
May I begin for thanking you, Mr. Acting President, for taking the chair this afternoon for this meeting. It is good to see you on the podium, Sir.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants a cybercrime treaty that enjoys the widest possible support, builds on existing internat…
Allow me to begin by thanking the co-facilitators for their work on draft resolution A/75/L.86. We look forward to supporting the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS. We are grateful that the newly agreed modalities allow us to see the rationale for objections to the participation of non-governmental age…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General for his report on advancing atrocity prevention (A/75/863). We would also like to take this opportunity to confirm our support for the Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and on the Responsibility to Protect and their Office for brin…
It feels particularly propitious to have you, Madam Vice-President, in the Chair for this agenda item. I would like to thank the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the CARICOM delegation for bringing today’s important resolution to the General Assembly. The United Kingdom is also pleased to be a spon…
The United Kingdom welcomes today’s debate on 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 (IIIM). Securing the …
The adoption of draft resolution A/75/L.65 today is an opportunity for the international community to reiterate its commitment to working together to reduce the flow of conflict diamonds. The United Kingdom would like to take this opportunity to thank the Kimberley Process for warmly welcoming our c…
