I assume you, Mr. President, are sharing your water with all the members of the Security Council who need it.
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing. I also welcome the Ambassador of the Sudan here. The Under-Secretary-General talked about some of the remarkable changes that have …
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing, and I would like to join others in welcoming the Peruvian Foreign Minister back among us once again today.
Today marks a milestone for the United Nations engagement in Haiti — the end of United Nations peacekeeping and a fundamental reconf…
As this is the first time I am speaking in the Chamber this month, let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency and our Russian colleagues for the presidency in the month of September.
It is very good to have the Foreign Minister of Colombia with us once more. He is very welco…
It is customary for all Security Council members to thank the President of the meeting for convening a debate on an important topic when they have chosen one, but I really mean it. Preventive diplomacy is a vital tool of the Council in maintaining and restoring international peace and
security, whi…
Let me, like others, to thank Special Envoy Xia for his briefing this morning. We look forward to continuing to work closely with him to support efforts to achieve greater peace, stability and development in the Great Lakes region.
The Great Lakes region, historically characterized by internal conf…
Let me say simply that we very much welcome the Council’s decision to renew the authorization for Member States and regional organizations to inspect and seize vessels involved in people smuggling and human trafficking off the coast of Libya. We remain deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict in …
I would like to add my own congratulations to you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency. I also thank the Russian delegation for its habitually professional Security Council presidency last month.
I also thank you, Mr. President, for convening a debate on this important issue. I than…
The United Kingdom joins others in welcoming the announcement by the Secretary-General last week that agreement had finally been reached on the Constitutional Committee. As Mr. Pedersen said, it will be convened in Geneva on 30 October. We are also grateful to him for setting out the modalities and …
I would like to welcome today all the Ministers to the Council. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had wanted to make the intervention on behalf of the United Kingdom today, but he had to return to London for urgent parliamentary business.
The United Kingdom is a staunch supporter of the African Union …
I will be brief. I just wanted to say, and should have said in my intervention, that we share the American concerns on Xinjiang. On humanitarian intervention, I do not think that it is a topic for the Security Council today but we will be happy to participate in discussions on that topic at a diffe…
My Minister would have liked to have been here to deliver this intervention, but the Ministers have cantered through their interventions, unlike the normal business of the Council, so I am afraid that he is tied up in another event, and I apologize for that.
I wanted to start by agreeing with what …
It is customary for the British Prime Minister to come to the United Nations and pledge to advance our values and defend our rules, the rules of a peaceful world, from protecting freedom of navigation in the Gulf to persevering in the vital task of achieving a two-State solution to the conflict in t…
I thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing.
The United Kingdom has long made its position clear that Israeli settlement activity is illegal. The increased pace of settlement advancement and the retroactive approval of unauthorized settlement outposts — as seen in the Jordan Valley on Sunday — further t…
The situation for civilians in northwest Syria is devastating. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed, including over 500 women and children, and almost 630,000 people have been forced to leave their homes since the beginning of May. I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Mueller for…
There were two draft resolutions on the table today. The humanitarian penholders’ draft resolution (S/2019/756) would have protected civilians. The Russian and Chinese draft resolution (S/2019/757) imperils them.
We thank the humanitarian penholders, Belgium, Germany and Kuwait, for their considera…
Let me, too, thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Shearer for his briefing.
As my colleague from Equatorial Guinea just said, we very, very much welcome the meeting that took place between President Kiir and Mr. Machar. This was a necessary step for the implementation of the Revita…
It is very nice to have the Afghan Ambassador with us.
As a number of people said earlier, this is a very significant time for Afghanistan, a country in which I had the honour to serve, on which I have worked many times in my diplomatic career and which I know well.
Others referenced the horrific …
I thank Special Envoy Mr. Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, and Mr. Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings.
Let me start by joining the United Nations unequivocal condemnation of the attacks on the…
Let me also add our voice to everyone else’s in welcoming Ambassador Craft.
We also welcome today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2488 (2019), which streamlines the process through which the Government of the Central African Republic can acquire arms and equipment. This is a clear message of sup…
As this is the first time that I am taking the floor under the Russian presidency, let me congratulate you, Sir. You have our full support. I thank our Polish colleagues for their stewardship during the month of August. I would also like to thank our briefers: the Special Representative of the Secre…
