I thank Foreign Minister Alfano for his briefing. The United Kingdom fully supports the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its efforts to achieve stability, peace and democracy for the people of Europe, including through dialogue. Like the United Nations, the OSCE is a pi…
I would like to pay tribute to my Dutch colleagues for their tireless efforts to reach a consensus on the important resolution 2405 (2018), adopted today. I would also like to thank all of our briefers and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Yamamoto, for his briefing and…
Let me begin by welcoming the presence today of Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Okitundu. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Zerrougui for updating the Security Council on the intensi…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-Generals Lowcock and Feltman for their clear, factual briefings and for reiterating to all of us on the Security Council the ongoing horror of the conflict in Syria — and in particular in eastern Ghouta, because that is where it is clear the situation is most di…
First, I would like to thank our briefers for their updates on the situation in Yemen. I also want to warmly thank Mr. Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed for his tireless efforts over the past three years to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. We recognize that it has been an incredibly challenging task…
The Security Council has long recognized that the situation in Yemen threatens international peace and security. It has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, which gets worse by the day. The conflict creates ungoverned spaces in which terrorists can operate, poses security threats to count…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2401 (2018). In particular, we applaud your work, Mr. President, together with Sweden, as co-penholders.
But this is not a moment for self-congratulation. It has taken us far too long to agree this resolution. While we have been arguing over co…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for his very detailed and clear briefing today. It was very powerful to hear through him the voices of the people of eastern Ghouta.
Russia called this meeting today to allow us to present our understanding of the situation on the ground and come up with way…
I thank you, Sir, for focusing the Security Council’s attention on the purposes and principles of our Charter of the United Nations. I also thank the Secretary-General and His Excellency the former Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for their briefings today.
Today’s meeting, as the President has …
I would like to thank the President, the Secretary-General and Mr. Mladenov. I would like to welcome President Abbas and thank him for his address to the Security Council. I welcome his stated commitment to non-violence and to engaging constructively towards the two-State solution.
The United Kingd…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Touré and Ambassador Vieira for their informative briefings.
The situation in Guinea-Bissau is concerning. It is not the first country in the world to experience a political impasse, but it is a country that continues to emerge from the seriou…
I thank the representative of Peru for his briefing in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Counter- Terrorism Committee.
As we heard from Under-Secretary-General Voronkov last week (see S/PV.8178), military successes have left Da’esh weakened and fragmented. But we must remain vigilant, a…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and High Commissioner Grandi for their briefings.
This weekend the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, visit Cox’s Bazar, where he met some of the almost 1 million Rohingya refugees
enduring the difficult living conditions that we have heard…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Voronkov for his briefing and presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/80).
Since 2014, Da’esh has lost 98 per cent of its territory, and the global coalition has liberated more than 7.7 million people from its rule in Iraq and Syria. The United K…
I thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing and for the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/76).
As Ambassador Çitaku recalled, this month marks 10 years since Kosovo became a sovereign State. Let us reflect on the progress that has been achieved in this time. The people of Kosovo hav…
I would like to thank Ian Martin for his briefing and the Kuwaiti presidency for having scheduled this open debate. I should like also to congratulate Kuwait on taking up the chairmanship of the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions. I look fo…
I disagree with a lot of what my Russian colleague said, but I will not stretch my colleagues’ patience. But I do feel compelled briefly to respond to several of the points that he made.
The first point is to say that this is not political for us. Preventing the use of these abhorrent weapons shoul…
I would like to thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
We are holding this meeting in the open Chamber today after reports of a series of chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta within the past month, as the Al-Assad regime continues its merciless bombing and killing of civilians. Over th…
I would like to begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, and all of your team on a successful presidency. From the first day, when you started what I hope will be a new Security Council tradition by organizing a flag ceremony to welcome the new members, you have managed the Security Council busin…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing.
When considering the Syria humanitarian issue, we always have in mind the powerful plea last December by the Russian Permanent Representative that we should keep our differences over the politics in Syria out of our
consideration of hum…
