Let me start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Keita and Ambassador Vieira for their briefings today, which set out a broadly optimistic assessment of Guinea-Bissau’s political trajectory. The United Kingdom shares this cautious optimism.
The successful conduct of legislative elections in Mar…
Let me also condemn the attacks on civilians in Burkina Faso and convey our condolences to the families. I thank Under-Secretary- General Lacroix for his briefing.
Today we have an opportunity to identify where peacekeeping reforms have already delivered a real
impact and where we need to redouble…
The United Kingdom continues to support a sovereign, stable Lebanon, governed and underpinned by legitimate State institutions. We recognize that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon makes a significant contribution to Lebanon’s stability and security and we are pleased to renew its mandate f…
I thank the two briefers of the United Nations, which continues to have the United Kingdom’s full support for the important work that it is doing.
Since this is my last meeting in the Chamber, I wanted to offer a few reflections on the Council’s work on Syria. It weighs heavily on me that, despite …
First, let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Hennis-Plasschaert for her briefing and for the excellent work that she and her team are doing on the ground in Iraq. She has our full support.
We particularly welcome the announcement of the memorandum of understandin…
May I start by thanking Mr. Vladimir Voronkov and Ms. Michèle Coninsx for their briefings today, which I think set out very clearly, as does the Secretary-General’s report (S/2019/612), just how much of a challenge remains. While military successes have removed Da’esh’s territorial control of the so…
I should like to join others in welcoming you, Sir, to the Security Council today, as well as to thank Nikolay Mladenov for his briefing and, through him, his team for all they are doing.
I want to start by stating clearly that the brutal murder of an Israeli soldier on 8 August and the improvised …
I would like to begin by thanking our briefers. This is a very positive moment, and therefore, I hope, a very positive meeting of the Security Council. The people of the Sudan have brought about unprecedented change through their demands for a peaceful, democratic and prosperous future. I congratula…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987, eliminated an entire category of missiles, those capable of travelling 500 to 5,500 kilometres. It was one of the key achievemen…
Let me begin by thanking our four briefers, who have genuinely enriched our discussions here today, as well as by extending the United Kingdom’s deepest sympathies to the families of the victims targeted in attacks by Al-Shabaab. We condemn those attacks in the strongest possible terms and we pay tr…
I thank you, Mr. President, for being with the Security Council once again and for convening today’s important debate. I also thank Secretary of State Pompeo for taking the time to join the Council today, and I welcome State Secretary Michaelis.
Last year we commemorated the centenary of the end of…
The United Kingdom is honoured to present the draft annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly today. I hope the Council members will support its adoption.
As the President of the Security Council for the month of August 2018, the United Kingdom was responsible for coordinating t…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important event on an important anniversary and for being with us today. I also thank His Excellency the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs for being here. It was very good to hear from our briefers the Under-Secretary-General, Ms. Bellal and t…
I express my thanks to France and to you, Madam President, for having arranged this meeting. I also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for her briefing on this very sobering occasion.
I join others in condemning, in the strongest terms, today’s attack on the United Nations convoy in Benghazi. We…
I am sorry, but I cannot let some of the preceding statements go unchallenged.
The United Kingdom and its partners do not support terrorism. We fight terrorism wherever we see it. The Syrian representative’s last remarks were quite unjustified and wholly without foundation and I invite him to withd…
I will be brief. I just want to say for the record that the Security Council can discuss any issue it wants relating to international peace and security. The representative of Syria might like to know that nine countries called for this meeting and not a single country objected, so it absolutely is …
I thank the Under-Secretary-General and the two briefers from civil society.
We join other speakers in welcoming the fact that this long-overdue subject is now being debated in the Security Council. It is worth recalling that the arbitrary detention of civilians by the Syrian regime is one of the f…
I too would like to express our thanks to His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland for being here today to conduct this debate. I join others in thanking all our briefers, particularly Ms. Kamara and Mr. Awan, for sharing their very compelling testimonies with the Security Council t…
I thank our two briefers today, Mark Lowcock and Susannah Sirkin.
I think we all feel that it is deeply frustrating that we come here month after month, but it is better that we come than we do not come. However harrowing it is, it is better that we hear what is happening in Idlib, than we do not h…
Once again I thank the Special Representative for his briefing and for the continued determination of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya to help de-escalate the situation in Libya and facilitate a return to the United Nations- led process.
This morning we heard a grave and alarming analysi…
