I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and for reasserting the presence of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) on the ground in Haiti. I also welcome the presence here today of the representatives of Haiti, Belize and the…
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi and Director Rajasingham for their briefings today. I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic in our meeting, as well as the representatives of Oman and Türkiye.
I will make four points today.
First, this month’s ind…
I thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Milbert Shin for his briefing and for the work he and his team are doing in Kosovo. I would also like to thank former Special Representative Caroline Ziadeh for her leadership and service during her tenure. I welcome the participation of…
I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Haiti today.
The United Kingdom condemns, without reservation, the violence that continues to undermine efforts to restore democratic rule in Haiti. We remain committed to using United Nations sanctions to maintain pressure on those who…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Tetteh for her briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representative of Libya in our meeting.
I will make three points.
First, the United Kingdom reiterates its full support for the efforts of the United Nations Support Mission in …
I thank Special Envoy Xia for his briefing.
I will make three points.
First, the United Kingdom urges the parties in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to continue to engage in good faith in the ongoing peace processes facilitated by the United States and Qatar. These processes, alongsid…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing.
The United Kingdom stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their right to democracy, freedom and human dignity.
Nicolás Maduro Moros’ claim to power is fraudulent. The National Electoral Council of Venezuela has still not re…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations and the Assistant Secretary-General very much for their valuable briefings today. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2025/532).
As we have hear…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General and today’s briefers.
Twenty-five years ago, the Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000), delivering a united message that for peace to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. This means that it must entail women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participat…
Let me start by congratulating our Korean colleagues for the excellent stewardship of the Council in the month of September, a really busy month of September.
I wish you, Mr. President, the best for the month of October.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jenča for his briefin…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Keita for briefing us today, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
I will make three points.
First, the United Kingdom commends Qatar, the African Union and the United State…
The United Kingdom is fully committed to supporting efforts to address insecurity in Haiti and to alleviate the suffering of the Haitian people. We unequivocally condemn the use of sexual and gender-based violence by armed gangs as a tool of control and coercion. And with this in mind, the United Ki…
There is an urgency to this debate. It was two years ago that the United Kingdom first brought artificial intelligence (AI) to the Council (see S/PV.9381). Since that time, its capabilities have grown exponentially. This is a lightning strike of change. Everyone — diplomat, peacebuilder, terrorist …
I thank the Secretary-General for the briefing at the beginning of this crucial meeting.
Yesterday, alongside other Ministers here in New York this week, I hosted a session to hear from doctors who have recently returned from Gaza. The stories they told will stay with me forever. One told of the sc…
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, and I thank President Zelenskyy and Minister Sybiha. The United Kingdom commends them for their leadership and determination. I also thank them for welcoming me to Kyiv two weeks ago, where I saw first-hand the impact of Russia’s brutal war,
Russia’s …
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for that briefing.
For three and a half years, the world has witnessed a permanent member of the Council engaged in the full-scale and unprovoked invasion of another State, a violation of its most basic obligations under the Charter of the United Nations. As …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Ms. Otunbayeva, and Ms. Girowal for their briefings today.
We commend the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and UN- Women in suppo…
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous support shown by Council members for this resolution (resolution 2792 (2025)). We welcome the Council’s decision to authorize a senior representative with a mandate to support cooperation to locate and return missing Kuwaiti and third- country nationals and …
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Under- Secretary-General Fletcher for briefing us today, and I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Yemen in our meeting.
I will make three points.
First, the United Kingdom condemns in the strongest terms the detention of at least 22 Uni…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her comprehensive briefing. I welcome the presence of Ambassador Olabi as the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic and the presence of the representative of Türkiye.
After 10 years of obstruction and denial by the Al-Assad regime, we have a window of …
