The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2473 (2019). The Libyan arms embargo remains an important tool of the Council and an integral part of our work to help support the stabilization of Libya.
We are concerned by reports of weapons entering Libya and take this opportunity to remind…
I very much welcome the opportunity to discuss working methods today. It is an important subject and it affects the Council’s ability to deliver on its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations as an effective, efficient and transparent organ.
I also thank you, Mr. President, for you…
I thank Mr. Fall for what he has had to say and for his efforts.
We very much welcome the continued support of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to tackle the underlying root causes of conflict in the region, and we believe that national, regional and international coope…
I do not intend to make a full explanation of vote, but I just wanted to thank colleagues around the table for the constructive approach they took in this negotiation, and to our African partners, in particular. I would also like to thank my expert, Nerys Cross-Smith, for bringing this to a good con…
The United Kingdom welcomes today’s adoption of resolution 2471 (2019). As a member of the troika, we stand firm in our support for peace in South Sudan and for the progress made to date, especially efforts from the region led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development to ensure that the Revi…
I am sorry for taking the floor again; I will be brief. I have been quite alarmed by what we have just heard in the last closing interventions. I would therefore like to be very clear about a number of things.
First, I would like the record to show that I did not get the commitments that I was seek…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for her briefing.
Like others, we continue to be extremely concerned by the Syrian offensive in north-west Syria. I want to put on record how much we welcome Turkey’s ongoing efforts to reinstate the ceasefire, de-escalate the violence and set up a working gr…
I would like to take the floor in order to clarify the reference to Srebrenica in our statement to the Security Council this morning. The United Kingdom is clear that the Srebrenica massacre was an act of genocide, as confirmed by the judgments of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia…
A century ago, when international humanitarian law was still in its infancy, civilians represented only 10 to 15 per cent of the total casualties in armed conflict. Today, civilians account for more than 80 per cent of all casualties. As we sit here today, civilians are bearing the brunt of conflict…
I do not want to detain us any longer than necessary. I want to reply to the representative of Argentina. We have had a couple of responses to each other during the day so I hope that I may simply say that the United Kingdom has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia…
I welcome you back to the Security Council, Madam President. I also thank Special Coordinator Mladenov and Commissioner- General Krähenbühl for their respective briefings.
Since the Council’s previous monthly meeting on this issue (see S/PV.8517), we have witnessed the worst violence in Gaza since …
I extend a huge thank you to our briefers Mr. Zenenga, Mr. Madeira and the Assistant Secretary-General. It is very good to have them, as those are the first briefings that we have had since the mandate renewal of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) (see S/PV.8494).
I would like to start b…
I would like to begin by thanking Special Representative Hennis-Plasschaert for her very thoughtful and comprehensive briefing. I think today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2470 (2019), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), shows the strong support o…
I thank Mr. Salamé and Mr. Chergui for their briefings, as well as the German Ambassador for his report on the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya. We are very grateful that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General could be here in New York. That was …
Fragility, conflict and violence are among the defining challenges of our time. Alongside climate change, they present the biggest threats to the successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
There is a clear rationale for us to prioritize peacebuilding; it prevents the …
I thank the Chairs of the Committees for their briefings and the experts who make that work possible, especially in the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, the Counter- Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) and the Group of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1…
The Council has voted on whether to have a meeting on this subject, and we know the result. There is no meeting on the subject. The representative of the Russian Federation is not giving an explanation of vote. He is giving a substantive intervention on a meeting that is not happening. In so doing, …
I will be really brief. I just want to say one thing to my colleague the Russian Ambassador. I thank him for his queries about the World Health Organization. That suggests to me that we should get together with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and others to really drill down i…
I apologize for taking the floor once again, but I do not think that we have heard an answer with regard to the hospitals. I want to return to that. We are very clear. We do not support terrorism or terrorist acts, and we agree with the representative of Germany that the attacks on Russian bases sho…
I thank our briefers.
We will hear from the representative of Turkey later, but I want to start by welcoming Turkey’s efforts to agree to agree the Sochi ceasefire in September. As we welcomed that then, so we welcome now its efforts to restore that ceasefire and de-escalate. I think we heard very …
