I thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her very clear and concise fifteenth report and her briefing to the Security Council today. The work and focus of the International Criminal Court on Libya is extremely important in tackling impunity and making accountable those re…
The United Kingdom would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on taking up the presidency of the Security Council, and we wish you every success. I also wish to thank High Representative Inzko and his team for their objective and detailed reports and their continued efforts to support the impl…
The United Kingdom was pleased to vote in favour of resolution 2414 (2018), which we believe sends a strong signal of the support from the Security Council in three key areas — first, support for de-escalation; secondly, support for the continuing work of the United Nations Mission for the Referend…
I thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing. I also thank the other two speakers for their statements.
I think that it is obvious that the ongoing violence on Gaza’s borders has made the past weeks particula…
Allow me to start by thanking the Secretary-General, State Secretary Neculăescu and Commissioner Chergui for their briefings. As I remember saying in Addis Ababa last September at the Security Council’s joint meeting with the African Union Peace and Security Council, our relationship is vital and we…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate today. It is clear that there is a lot of interest in the Chamber, and that a lot of us are wrestling with common challenges, while we all have very similar hopes and aspirations for what might be done in this area. While I therefore take Mr. Pol…
I would like to thank our briefers, starting with my Swedish colleague and, through her, I thank all who have done so much on the Peacebuilding Commission and the Liberia configuration. I would also like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Zouev for his impressively multilingual briefing, and Chid …
It is an honour to have Their Excellencies the Vice-President and the Foreign Minister of Colombia with us today.
On behalf of the British people and Government, I too would like to begin by expressing my condolences to our colleagues of Côte d’Ivoire, to the family and friends of Mr. Tanoh-Boutcho…
I will be brief. I was asked a number of questions by the Russian Ambassador. I have nothing to add to what I said in relation to the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that has just been published and the way in which the samples were taken. I have nothing to …
I would like to thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, who briefed us on the findings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would also like to thank the OPCW and its staff. The Security Council invited us to keep it upd…
Before I start, if I may make a request of the Secretariat — it would be very helpful, I think, for the Council to have either a
briefing or a brief account of where the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact-finding Mission and the United Nations Department of Safety and Securit…
I welcome the new Special Envoy and thank him for his briefing. I also thank Mr. Lowcock for his assessment and welcome our Yemeni colleagues.
It is a desperate situation and it is clear, as the Special Envoy set out, that it can be resolved, ultimately, only through a political solution. I think w…
As a number of speakers have noted today, the Charter of the United Nations makes clear that the United Nations was established to protect the dignity and worth of the human person. We therefore join our other colleagues in thanking you, Mr. President, for convening today’s debate.
I emphatically a…
I think it is obvious why we voted against the draft resolution. We support completely what the French representative laid out about next steps and we will work tirelessly to that objective, along with partners on the Council.
The Russian Ambassador referred to myths. These are not our myths. The w…
I should like to respond to the remarks made by the Ambassador of Bolivia about the United Kingdom.
We have no doubt about the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and surrounding maritime areas. Successive British Governments have made …
These are uncertain times and today we deal with exceptional circumstance. Acting with our American and French allies, in the early
hours of this morning the United Kingdom conducted coordinated, targeted and precise strikes to degrade Al-Assad’s chemical weapons capability and deter their future u…
The Secretary- General has presented a catalogue of danger in the Middle East, including Gaza, Yemen and Iraq. It is no disrespect to those issues that today, like other speakers, I will concentrate on Syria. The United Kingdom will be ready to put its shoulder to the wheel on those other issues whe…
I sincerely thank our Bolivian colleague for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We welcome the new Coordinators. At the outset, I would like to state that we were very pleased to have been paired with Equatorial Guinea in terms …
I thank Foreign Minister Coulibaly for taking time to join us today. I should like to join colleagues in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and my Swedish colleague for his report and the expeditious work of his Committee.
Like other speakers, we condemn t…
I will be brief. In the Consultations Room just now, Mr. President, you and the representative of Sweden made valiant attempts at a compromise. We all appreciate what is at stake and thank you for your and Sweden’s efforts.
But, fundamentally, the United Kingdom could not vote for the Russian text …
