Before I start, I want to pick up on what both the American and the German Ambassadors said about the Holocaust commemoration, which of course takes place this year. It is a very important commemoration. Some of us will be joining the Secretary-General at the weekend in New York to commemorate this …
I wish to welcome once again the Special Envoy to the Security Council. I also welcome the Director. I thank both of them for their briefings and for their tireless efforts and those of their teams on this very acute problem.
I think it is clear from what we have heard today that the political sett…
Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing.
Like others, I would like to begin by offering my condolences and those of the British people for the loss of life we have seen in recent attacks in Mali and the wider Sahel. I am thinking particularly of last Thursday’s terrible a…
The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions is an important technical body on which all Member States rely. There are a number of issues that we need to address around its effectiveness and efficiency, which need to be discussed holistically.
The United Kingdom was disappointed…
Before I start on Colombia, let me thank you, Mr. President, for having arranged the two moments of silence and also used this occasion to pay tribute to His late Majesty Sultan Qaboos of Oman.
Turning to Columbia, I would like to welcome the Foreign Minister. We are very pleased to have her here a…
I know time marches on; I will be brief. I have a practice in the Security Council of defending the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) here at the United Nations whenever the Syrian representative attacks it. I wish to point out that, on this occasion, the same will apply.
O…
The United Kingdom voted to abstain in the voting on resolution 2504 (2020). We will not vote to stop vital aid reaching Syria, but neither will we vote in favour of a resolution that reduces aid provision for vulnerable populations and puts lives at risk. Although four of the five permanent members…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming here to be with us. I also thank all the other ministers who have honoured the Security Council with their presence today. I would like to say how nice it is to once again have Mary Robinson representing The Elders. I thank her for all the work The Elders do to …
May I join others in welcoming you to the presidency, Mr. President, and also in welcoming Viet Nam and the other four elected members to the Security Council. We look forward to working with them.
In the context of this briefing, we also welcome particularly the delegation of the Niger. We know fr…
I will be brief. I have a practice in this Chamber of stepping in when
I see criticism of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to defend the humanitarian wing of the United Nations, the members of which care far more about the Syrian people than their own Government and are worki…
I echo the statement made by the representative of Belgium. Today is a sad, sorry and truly dreadful day for the people of Syria. It is a day that I hope the Council will never repeat. I would like to say once again to the Minister of Kuwait how much we appreciate the effort that his delegation put …
I once again thank the Special Envoy for all the work his team is doing and thank Ms. Rajaa Altalli for being in the Chamber today and sharing her story. I am very sorry for the suffering that she and her family have experienced.
Like others, we thank the Special Envoy for his tireless efforts aime…
I join others in welcoming the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait to the Security Council. His country has made an outstanding contribution as a donor and as a member of the Security Council. It has been an honour to work with his country’s delegation, which has always focused on the hear…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union. It is also very good to have our Iranian colleague with us.
We welcome the Secretary-General’s eighth report (S/2019/934) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2014) and we offer our thanks to the Secreta…
I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing and for the work that he and his team do in difficult circumstances. I also thank Ms. Raemer for her briefing and the perspective that she shared, which was of great interest.
Three years since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016) by the Counc…
I too would like to thank the Prosecutor for her thirtieth report on the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005) and her briefing to the Council today. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Prosecutor and her team for their dedication in pursuing the investigations and continui…
Allow me to join others in thanking Special Representative Shearer, not only for his briefing, but for his work and that of his entire team on the ground in South Sudan. We really enjoyed coming to see Mr. Shearer. We were impressed by what he and his team were doing, and we really want to thank him…
I thank Special Representative Yamamoto and Ms. Khurram for their extremely helpful briefings and note how nice it is to see Ms. Khurram here again. I would also like to thank my colleague the Afghan Ambassador. We are very pleased to be part of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan and find …
We offer our thanks first to you, Madam President, and to Cote d’Ivoire for convening today’s important debate, and to our briefers for giving us their time and their insights.
The deteriorating situation in West Africa is a source of major concern, as we have heard from everyone in the Council tod…
May I start by aligning the United Kingdom with the statement
delivered by the observer of the European Union earlier this morning (see A/74/PV.48).
The needs of people affected by crises around the world have never been as high or as pressing as they are today. In 2020, nearly 168 million people …
