I thank Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for being at this meeting, for his briefing and for all the work that his team is doing on the ground to help the people of Syria.
The United Kingdom joins other colleagues in welcoming the adoption of resolution 2449 (2018). This ensures that aid can contin…
I wish to thank Special Representative Fall and Ms. Ghelani of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for briefing the Council today and for all that their respective teams are doing in what is a complicated and difficult region, as they have both set out.
Today, I w…
Let me begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Ms. Helen Meagher La Lime, for her briefing, and in particular for the mandate-implementation benchmarks dashboard of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), which is very useful and helpful. …
I thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this debate. We are very grateful to United States Secretary of State Pompeo for taking the time to be here today. This debate comes at a very important moment. The world is an unpredictable place right now. The developments that we are going to discuss tod…
I would like to thank Judge Theodor Meron, President of the International Residual Mechanism of the Criminal Tribunals, and its Prosecutor, Mr. Serge Brammertz, for today’s reports and briefings.
I would like to start by commending the Mechanism on its work and progress over the past year. It was o…
The United Kingdom urges the General Assembly to provide its full support to the Government of Afghanistan and to the draft resolution before us (A/73/L.44). We commend the efforts of our German colleagues as penholders on the draft resolution, which we believe should command broad agreement and con…
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the explanation of vote
that will shortly be delivered by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union. The following statement will be made in our national capacity.
The United Kingdom voted in favour of draft resolution A/73/L.42 and we than…
Mr. President, I wish to welcome you back to New York. I join other speakers in saying how welcome it is to have representatives of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) also with us today.
Yesterday, the Council discussed the complex challenges of post-c…
I thank President Ouattara for travelling to be with the Security Council today.
I would join other speakers in expressing my personal condolences as well as those of my Government and of the Queen on the death of President George H.W. Bush, whom I had the honour to meet a number of times. He was i…
Let me begin by repeating in the Chamber what I said in the consultations room — we offer you and your mission our congratulations, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency. We very much look forward to working with you and supporting you. We also congratulate our Chinese colleagues for the way the…
May I just start by saying that I was disappointed by the Russian representative’s explanation of vote in the previous meeting (see S/PV.8409). As he himself stated, he did not actually make an explanation of vote, but a substantive statement. In doing so Russia showed contempt for the Security Coun…
I thank our briefers, Special Envoy Kafando for his update and
Ambassador Lauber for updating us on his trip to Burundi and the region, and for so clearly setting out his recommendations. I would also like to welcome the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/1028), which provides a valuabl…
I want to express my gratitude and that of my country to Ambassadors Nusseibeh and Imnadze for their excellent leadership of the intergovernmental negotiations process during this year. I would like to congratulate Ambassador Nusseibeh on her reappointment and Ambassador Braun on his appointment as …
This is a topic that should concern us all, and I thank China for convening this important open debate today. Many of the threats and challenges faced by our African partners, including violent extremism, terrorism, serious and organized crime and armed conflict have no regard for borders. In our de…
I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing.
The United Kingdom is deeply concerned about the recent violence in Gaza and Israel, including the civilian casualties. We must do everything we can to avoid another devastating war, which would compound the already awful humanitarian and secur…
I thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura and his team for all the work they do on the ground.
It is good that we are discussing this issue because it gives us an opportunity to recall, as the French Ambassador has just done, exactly how many agreements have been reached by the Security Council, inc…
May I thank all of the briefers for sharing their assessment of progress in South Sudan following the visit. It is important and welcome to see such joint African Union-United Nations activity.
The signing of the revised Peace Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of
South Su…
I thank our four briefers very much. I do not think that I have ever heard a more powerful set of briefings and pleas in the Security Council than those we heard from today. I think that their words and requests will reverberate around the Council. So far, the Council has been very united in its sup…
Let me also thank today’s briefers.
The challenges facing the Sahel region are complex and becoming increasingly so. The United Kingdom is concerned about the increasing incidence of terrorism, criminality and intercommunity violence in central Mali. We share the Secretary-General’s concerns about …
Let me say that the United Kingdom continues to support the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), which carries out essential work in stabilizing the political and security situation in the Central African Republic. That is critic…
