Let me thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and for all the good work he and his team continue to do in Kosovo and the region. I also welcome His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Serbia and Her Excellency the Kosovo Ambassador to Washington, D.C.
We fully sup…
I welcome our colleagues from Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia.
I should like to thank Council members for their unanimous support for resolution 2444 (2018). It lifts sanctions on Eritrea. It sets out the Council’s continued support for efforts to improve peace and security in Somalia.
The agreement…
I would like to thank Special Representative Zerrougui and Ms. Mbela for their briefings. I would particularly like to thank Ms. Mbela for her brave work as a human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and for making such clear recommendations to the Council, her Government and th…
First, let me join others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ján Kubiš, both for his briefings and all the work he has done over the past three years and nine months as Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Ira…
I would like to start by apologizing for my absence at the beginning of this open debate, since I left the Chamber to go to a remembrance service for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It is very good — and I thank China — that we are having this debate today so close to that a…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Salamé for his briefing and by reiterating the United Kingdom’s strong support for him and the work of all his team on the ground.
It is clear that a military solution to Libya’s problems will not bring the long-term peace an…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Zouev and the Police Commissioners present with us here today, as well as Ms. Reitano, for their briefings.
I would like to begin by asking all the Blue Berets at today’s meeting to pass on to their colleagues the United Kingdom’s thanks and admiration for their …
I thank the High Representative for his briefing today and for the work of his Office in maintaining peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has long been a very important and almost totemic issue for the Council, if one goes back to the start of the conflict in the ear…
As this is the first time I take the floor during this month, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I also thank Bolivia for its presidency of the Council last month.
I would like to thank the High Representative for her brief…
The United Kingdom welcomes the Security Council’s agreement to renew the Libya sanctions regime. In particular, we welcome the fact that the Council has taken an important step by expanding the designation criteria to include gender-based violence. This sends a powerful signal that the internationa…
I would like to start by congratulating you, Mr. President, on China’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for November. The United Kingdom wishes you very good luck for the month.
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for briefing the Counc…
The United Kingdom was pleased to vote in favour today of resolution 2440 (2018), which supports the work of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Mr. Horst Köhler, and rightly focuses on progress that must be made towards a lasting and mutually acceptable solution that wil…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for briefing the Security Council today.
The United Kingdom is committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We do not and will not recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. The illegal seizure of Crimea…
I want to repeat something that I have said before in the Chamber. Criticizing the United Nations for doing its job should not be the task of anyone speaking in the Chamber. I know that we need to have free speech and I know that we need to be frank. But the United Nations, including the Office for …
I thank Mark Lowcock once again for a clear and stark briefing, as well as his entire team on the ground.
I would like to start by joining the representative of Kuwait in expressing our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Indonesia for the plane crash.
I also want to say that I…
I will be very brief. We have heard a great deal of support for the Special Envoy in the Chamber. Let us look to that to hold between now and 19 November. I have a question about Idlib. The Syrian Ambassador referred to the Syrian authorities retaking — I repeat, retaking — Idlib. That would cut acr…
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and his team for briefing us today. I find it incredible that we should have to rehearse, for the benefit of the Syrian authorities, why the United Nations needs to be involved in Syria. It is not a matter of national sovereignty that there are over 1 million refugees…
We thank you, Mr. President, and your delegation for choosing this important topic for an open debate today. We also thank the two Ministers for joining us. I found their briefings very powerful and it is excellent that they have given up time to be with us today. Minister Wallström is a very freque…
I thank the Chairperson of the independent international fact- finding mission on Myanmar for that compelling, shocking and moving briefing.
As I said on behalf of the nine Council members that called for this meeting, the briefing we heard today concerns allegations of the gravest crimes against i…
I would like to make a statement on behalf of the United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden and the United States of America.
Mr. President, we have read carefully the letter that you and other colleagues sent on 18 October (S/2018/938). We have requested …
