I would like to begin by expressing our condolences to Tunisia for the death of the President, but I also wish to join my colleagues in condemning the recent attacks in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan, which are a very sad reminder of why peace is so essential. Afghanistan has suffered enough f…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui and Ambassador Alotaibi for their briefings today.
I will focus my invention on three issues: the security, humanitarian and political situations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
First, the deterioration in the security situ…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Chambas for his briefing.
I too can be quick because, as the German Ambassador said, there is a good degree of consensus in the Council on today’s topic. I agree with the points made by almost everyone here today. Let me just highlight three i…
I would like to start, if I may, on a different topic. I would like to join the Secretary-General in expressing our deep sadness at the passing of Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. I would like to pay tribute to Mr. Amano’s tireless work in the pursuit of …
I welcome you back to the Council, Mr. President, for your second day as the presiding officer. May I also welcome Foreign Minister Trujillo García to the Council, as well as a number of his colleagues who are now our firm friends after a very productive visit last week. I once again thank him and h…
Let me continue where you, Mr. President, left off — with day two of the visit of the Security Council.
On 13 July, the Council travelled to Caldono, in Cauca — an area that has been highly affected by conflict over the past five or more decades. Our first meeting there was with community leaders f…
I wish to thank our briefers today.
We know that transitions are crucial for countries emerging from crisis and which, at that time, are at risk of returning to conflict and losing political, developmental, social and economic gains. We need to get those transitions right as a top priority, in part…
I would like to thank our United Nations colleagues for their briefings and once again to ask them to pass on our gratitude to their teams on the ground, who are working tirelessly to try and help the people of Yemen.
I wanted to start, if I may, by once again expressing our full support for Specia…
I would like to thank the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Carmel Agius, and the Prosecutor, Mr. Serge Brammertz, for their briefings to the Council today.
At the outset, as this is the first meeting of the Council which Judge Agius has attended as Pre…
I thank you, Mr. President, for using your presidency today to highlight this issue and organize this briefing on youth, peace and security. May I also thank our briefers very much. It is very valuable and important to hear directly from representatives not only of civil society but also of the yout…
I thank Mr. Zannier for his briefing.
When the Security Council decided not to hold a meeting on this issue on the day of President Zelenskyi’s inauguration, the Russian Ambassador accused the Council of censorship. Well, there is no censorship. Here we are debating the issue. Back then, Russia was…
I would like to start by thanking Special Adviser Karim Khan for his informative updates on the recent progress made by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD). I would also like to take this opport…
May I start, Mr. President, by welcoming your choice of topic for today’s debate. I think that, from the conversation we have had around the table and the contributions made, this is one that has provoked considerable interest. It is a really good choice. In the same spirit, I would also like to tha…
Can I start by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I also congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. I would also like to join colleagues in welcoming Ambassador De Rivière to the Security Council and bidding a fond farewell to Amba…
It is very nice to see you, Mr. President, presiding over today’s meeting, and I thank our French colleagues for their work on resolution 2480 (2019). I must also bid Ambassador Delattre farewell and thank him for his leadership in the Security Council. I am grateful for his friendship to me persona…
Obviously, again and as we have often said in the Council, there are far too many inaccuracies in the Syrian representative’s statement to go into any detail, but since he mentioned us I wanted to speak in reply to remind him that we were given the floor to speak on a point of order yesterday (see S…
I thank the Special Envoy and his team. What they do remains absolutely vital, however hard pounding it is on the ground.
I will start, if I may, with Idlib, where the Special Envoy started. We had a big debate about this earlier in the week (see S/PV.8561), so I will not rehearse all those points.…
I would like to thank all Council colleagues for their engagement on resolution 2479 (2019) and for coming together in this constructive way, and I am very pleased today to see the resolution adopted unanimously. I particularly want to thank our good friends from Germany, with whom we have worked so…
This debate is an opportunity for us to reaffirm our support for the principles of our responsibility to protect (R2P), as endorsed at the 2005 World Summit. Yet, despite this historic commitment, it is clear as we look across the
world that we are failing in our responsibility. The Office of the U…
I thank our briefers this morning.
The United Kingdom welcomes the Secretary- General’s seventh report on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2019/492). We extend our thanks to the Secretariat staff for their continued
professionalism and the support they provide to the Secretary-Gener…
