The United Kingdom thanks the President of the Human Rights Council for her comments today (see A/75/PV.22). Her presentation and her interactive dialogue at the Third Committee are part of the important process of strengthening the links between the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.
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May I say, Madam President, how good it is to see you presiding over today’s meeting. I also want to associate the United Kingdom with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Germany.
The United Kingdom would like to thank Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Crim…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix and Special Envoy Onanga- Anyanga for their comprehensive updates.
I would like to start by welcoming the improvements in bilateral relations between the Government of the Sudan and the Government of South Sudan. The United Kingdom also wishes to commend the…
The United Kingdom would like to congratulate President Agius on the work completed by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals over the past year. The ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has made this significantly more challenging than we could ever have expected. Ye…
I thank our briefers for their valuable insights. I was struck today, as ever,
by the consensus in their contributions, in terms of both their analyses and their prescriptions.
I wish to begin by paying tribute to the dedication and courage of all the men and women serving in the United Nations Mu…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock and Special Envoy Griffiths for their briefings.
It is not often that we start Yemen discussions with reasons to hope, so let me begin by welcoming the news of the prisoner release. The first flights happened today following the agreement, on 27…
I want to join others in thanking Special Envoy Huang Xia for his briefing.
We share the concerns set out in the Secretary- General’s report (S/2020/951) about both the immediate and the secondary impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Great Lakes region. We commend the effor…
I join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mahamat Saleh Annadif for his valuable briefing.
Let me begin by saying that the United Kingdom very much welcomes the establishment of the civilian- led transitional Government in Mali. We commend the decisive action taken b…
Let me begin by thanking High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Let me say, Mr. President, that I believe you have today shown contempt for members of the Security Council. You, Mr. President, put a briefer to the vote. You received two votes in favour alongside your own. Members of the Co…
I really fail to understand why these games are being played by such an expert delegation as the Russian delegation. You have been here, as we have, for 75 years. You know that
if a briefer is proposed under rule 39, the Council can either accept that, as happens in the majority of cases, without a…
It seems unnecessarily complex. Why do we not simply use the following wording: “The Russian Federation wishes to propose this briefer. Who supports it?”
You, Mr. President, asked for a briefer under rule 39. A number of us have objected. I think that it is for you, Sir, either to withdraw your proposal to invite that briefer or to put
your proposal for that briefer to the vote. I would not presume to tell you what language you should use.
I thank my Chinese colleague. Just to clarify, I asked for a vote, Mr. President, on your proposal to invite this briefer. It is your proposal that should be put to the vote.
The United Kingdom, together with Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany and the United States of America, would like to raise an objection to the briefer proposed under rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. The purpose of our meeting today is for the Security Council to review the imp…
As always, I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his words.
Like others, I would like to start today by expressing sincere condolences following the death of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad, the Amir of the State of Kuwait. As Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, the personal contribution H…
I have the honour to introduce the pre-recorded statement of His Excellency Mr. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I wish to thank Under-Secretaries-General DiCarlo and Lacroix for their briefings. Let me also thank all those United Nations colleagues who are working very hard to get the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) stood up and to deal with the ongoing issues th…
Let me begin by saying that we welcome the very wide support from members of the Security Council for resolution 2542 (2020), adopted to renew the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). I would also like to say that I am surprised by the decision of Russian and China to abs…
Let me thank Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for their briefings. I would also like to thank the Yemenis who today, through Mr. Lowcock, have spoken to the Security Council. It is because the situation is so desperate for Yemenis like those who spoke that the …
I would like to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for your quick work early on in the pandemic to appoint two coordinators to manage the General Assembly’s work on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). That has enabled us to come together to address the pandemic over the past few months.
I would …
