I thank the Special Coordinator once again for his briefing and for the work that he is doing to improve the situation and bring it closer to peace, as well as for all the hard work of his teams on the ground.
The United Kingdom remains committed to achieving a two-State solution, leading to a safe…
Welcome you back to New York, Mr. President. I thank our two briefers, the Special Envoy and the Under-Secretary-General. Let me also repeat the thanks of colleagues for everything their teams do on the ground to help the people of Syria, who need them more than ever. We are very conscious this is a…
May I also join others in thanking our briefers — Under-Secretary-General Lacroix; Special Envoy Nicholas Haysom, to whom we bid farewell and look forward to seeing very soon; Special Envoy of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) for South Sudan Ismail Wais, who I know has been work…
I would like to echo the Kuwaiti and Equatorial Guinea representatives in sending our condolences to all those around the world who have been affected by the recent hurricanes and flooding. I think the Kuwaiti representative was quite right in pointing out the link with climate change. It is one rea…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and, through him, the entire team in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan for the work they do. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for reminding us of the Kofi Annan story about the young girl. It is…
I thank all three of our briefers for their very informative briefings today. If I may, I would like to particularly thank Michael Keating for his work and commitment during this historic period in Somalia’s State-building process and for his resilience while holding this challenging and dynamic por…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this important debate today. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General and Ms. Blakemore for their briefings.
I believe that there has been a huge amount of progress and important successful outcomes concerning the peacekeeping agenda over the past 10 year…
I will be brief, but I want to thank the Turkish representative for again setting out the Turkish plan. All of us have listened very carefully to the Astana briefers. We do not want to detract from the Astana efforts; we support any move that gets the political process under way. But we have heard o…
I join my colleagues in expressing our condolences and solidarity with you, Madam President, your Mission, all our American friends and the citizens of this great city of New York for the losses of 9/11, and to all those countries that, like my own, lost their own nationals in the attacks. Speaking …
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting, which we appreciate very much. It was very good to hear from the Special Envoy. We appreciate the efforts he has made. We share his disappointment at the fact that the talks did not go ahead as planned, but it was good to hear that the consul…
I want to thank you, Madam President, for putting this very important issue on the Council’s agenda today. I want to thank the Secretary-General for his insightful words.
I also want to thank Mr. Prendergast. I was very interested in what he had to say about the three primary issues that need to be…
I thank the Special Envoy. I also thank John Ging very much, as well as the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait for being here with us today.
This is a terrible situation. I think that what we are hearing today is very strong support for the primacy
of the political process, as well as a…
I thank colleagues for the views and expressions of solidarity and support. I also thank those colleagues who repeated their revulsion at the use of chemical weapons wherever and whenever it occurs. I just want to make it very clear that the United Kingdom shares that position about bolstering the i…
I thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs for her briefing and for all the work that she is doing on this issue with her team. Through her, allow me to thank the staff of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
Like other speakers, we remain deepl…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita for both her briefing and the handout on benchmarks; it is particularly useful. We talk a lot about benchmarks in the Security Council when it comes to peacekeeping missions, but we do not always analyse performance against those benchmarks as clearly…
I want to thank you, Madam President, for scheduling this meeting today at short notice following the announcements in the United Kingdom yesterday.
When the Security Council last met on this issue, on 18 April (see S/PV.8237), I undertook to update the Council in the light of significant developme…
This is the first time I am taking the floor under your presidency, Madam President, so I would like to congratulate you and your team on your assumption of the stewardship of the Council for September. I would also like to thank Mr. Koncke of the Organization of American States (OAS) for his inform…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General not only for his very sobering briefing, but also for all his work on Libya. Through him, we would pass on our thanks to his team.
The first point I would like to make is to strongly condemn the escalation of violence in and around Tripoli…
Let me join others in congratulating you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. I would like to
say straight out that we support the ambition you have shown, Madam, in your provisional programme of work, and we are very happy with it. As all of us tend to do during ou…
On behalf of the following countries — Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and my own country, the United Kingdom — I have the honour to warmly welcome the a…
