May I, like others, start by extending sincere condolences to the Niger and France for the loss of their servicemen and servicewomen.
Let me also thank our briefers and welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Burkina Faso.
As set out i…
I would like to thank all the briefers, beginning with the Special Envoy. What we heard today is both uplifting and frightening. The British Foreign Secretary spoke about that this morning and asked me to pass on his thanks to the United Nations and its relevant agencies for all the heroic efforts, …
Let me begin by thanking the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina for his very objective and detailed briefing and report (S/2019/364, annex) and for all the efforts that he and his team have made to support peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He continues to have our full suppor…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor for briefing the Council on her seventeenth report to the Security Council pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), on the situation in Libya. The United Kingdom remains fully supportive of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to tackle impunity in Libya…
I thank you, Madam President, for your presence here in New York; it is very nice to see you again. I join others in thanking Indonesia for focusing this debate on this very important issue, and I pay tribute to your country’s role in United Nations peacekeeping. I also thank Lieutenant General Mart…
The United Kingdom was pleased to vote in favour of resolution
2469 (2019) resolution today. We believe the resolution sends a strong signal of our support for the valuable work of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, ex-President Horst Köhler, in his efforts to find a mutually acceptable p…
I would like to begin by extending a warm welcome back to the Security Council to Special Envoy Onanga-Anyanga. We look forward to working with him on this very important topic.
I think we all agree that this is a very complex issue. It also strikes me that this is an interesting time to be discuss…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria. I am going to be brief, but I do not want my brevity to be construed as a lack of interest. Simply, I think that many of the previous speakers have spoken very eloquently. Our colleague from the United States, for example, spoke
about th…
I would like to start by congratulating Prime Minister Netanyahu on being asked to form a new Israeli Government and Prime Minister Shtayyeh on the formation of the new Palestinian Authority Government. The United Kingdom looks forward to working with both of their Administrations to advance the obj…
It is important that Ukraine is regularly discussed here in the Council. Ms. Mueller told us that the leading cause of death of children in Ukraine is landmines, and that is a grim reminder of the real impact of this ongoing conflict, as also set out by our briefers from the Organization for Securit…
I thank Ms. Mueller and Ms. Mustapha for their answers to Ambassador Pierce’s questions. We have taken note of what they said, and we will follow up on those points.
I believe the representative of Syria responded to one of the three questions that we put to him. With your permission, Mr. President…
I join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing and to pay tribute to her teams on the ground. I would also like to add our voice to those thanking Nujeen Mustapha for such an amazing and compelling briefing, for telling her story and for sharing it with everyone here.…
We all know that today’s meeting takes place in uncertain times in the Sudan. The African Union Peace and Security Council issued a clear statement two days ago. Recent developments and what happens over the coming days have an impact on Darfur and, potentially, the wider region. The Council has to …
I thank all the briefers. I will divide my remarks between what we heard from Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and what we heard from Ms. Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Ms. Luqman, Chairperson, Food for Humanity. They all made compelling poi…
I would like to welcome the Foreign Minister since that was not prohibited in the list of things you said we could talk about, Mr. President.
With respect to the briefing, I think that it is a very good thing that we have Ms. Salamanca here today because it is an important reminder of the role that…
Let me start by saying how proud I am that the United Kingdom has already met and exceeded the United Nations target set in 2015 for doubling female participation in peacekeeping by 2020. Women currently make up 7 per cent of our contingent peacekeeping troops and 18 per cent of military observers a…
The United Kingdom would like to thank the President for convening this important high-level meeting.
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Sweden on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
I join previous speakers in recognizing a…
I apologize for taking the floor again, but I cannot allow those allegations against the Bank of England to go unaddressed.
I reject completely the allegations made by the Venezuelan Ambassador. He has made them before. I wrote to the then President of the Security Council — the Permanent Represent…
I know, Mr. President, that you do not want to prolong this. I do not want to get into a tit for tat, but the money was not stolen from a British bank. It is very important that we correct such falsehoods.
I thank our three briefers, as well as the United States for proposing this discussion today and Vice-President Pence for joining the Security Council.
It is clear from the briefings that we heard that the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has reached epic proportions, and it is right that the Secur…
