I thank Ambassador Imnadze of Georgia and Ambassador Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates for taking on the leadership of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform.
The United Kingdom is a long-standing and firm supporter of the need for reform of the Security Council. When the…
May I say that I am grateful to our briefers for their clear explanation of the facts this afternoon. I want to thank the head of the Leadership Panel, and through him his whole team, for their committed, impartial and expert work over the past five months investigating the use of chemical weapons i…
I thank Mr. Inzko for his report (S/2017/922, annex) and his briefing. He has the full and continuous support of the United Kingdom.
I want to begin by warmly welcoming the unanimous adoption of resolution 2384 (2017) this morning. I pay tribute to you, Mr. President, and to your delegation for you…
I want to thank our briefers for sharing their analyses with us today, and particularly to welcome Police Commissioner Makotose to the Council. I also want to thank the presidency and the Secretariat for ensuring that we hear women’s voices in this Chamber, not just on policing but on all the issues…
At the outset, Sir, I wish you all the best in your month of the presidency. I also want to thank United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Grandi for his compelling, but concerning, remarks this morning.
We meet today at a crucial time for global displacement, as the number of people forcibly …
I would like to thank all our briefers and visiting Ministers for their remarks. I am particularly grateful that we have had the opportunity to hear a voice from civil society in this Chamber today, something that is even more vital at a time when so many such voices are being ignored, threatened or…
A little more than four years ago in this very Chamber, a member of the Security Council proudly declared,
“the use of chemical weapons by any party will be carefully investigated by the Security Council,
which will stand ready to take action under Chapter VII of the Charter” (S/PV.7038, p.4).
“B…
Russia’s procedural proposal is a cynical attempt to link two things that do not need to be linked and that should not be linked — the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism, on the one hand, and its report, which is due imminently, on the other. Attempting to link the two, as Russia is doing,…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jenča and, through him, Special Coordinator Mladenov for all of their work.
From the outset, I would like to make clear, as we approach the centenary of the Balfour Declaration next month, that the United Kingdom understands an…
I would like to thank Special Representative Honoré for her briefing. As the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) draws to a close after 13 years in Haiti, I would like to join others in thanking her for her dedicated service. I also want to pay tribute to all who have been invol…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. Eight months ago he issued an urgent wake-up call to the world as the threat of famine and the threat of millions starving to death loomed large over the people of Somalia, South Sudan, north-eastern Nigeria and Yemen. Today, thanks to hi…
I thank Mr. Lacroix, Ambassador Blanchard and Ambassador Bin Momen for their briefings.
I would like to begin by paying tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of the men and women of United Nations peacekeeping. They represent the very best of the Organization. We owe it to them and to those they pro…
We meet today, just days after the first-ever bilateral ceasefire between the Government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). For the first time in over half a century, the guns between those two once-warring sides have fallen
silent. That creates yet another historic opportunity for pea…
It is clear that trafficking in persons is a scourge that unites the membership of the United Nations. Since no country is immune from this awful crime, it is right that every country is united in the shared commitment we made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end forced labour, mode…
I would also like to thank all the briefers here this morning and take this opportunity to welcome Under-Secretary-General Voronkov to his new post, wish him every success and tell him how much we are looking forward to working with him during his time.
As all of us in this Chamber know only too we…
I thank the Secretary General for his briefing and for all that he has done to bring this issue before the Security Council.
As a long-standing friend of the Burmese people, the United Kingdom has watched in horror at the violence that has erupted over the past month. What began as a series of atta…
May I thank Secretary General Liu and Ambassador Aboulatta for their briefings, which were both informative. I thought that they contained some important recommendations of which we can all take note.
A year ago, the Security Council met to adopt its first-ever resolution on the terrorist threats f…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tadamichi Yamamoto for his briefing today. At the outset, I want to express my gratitude and that of my Government for the work that he and his team are doing in extremely challenging circumstances. I also thank Foreign Minister R…
I thank Secretary Tillerson for calling this important meeting of the Security Council.
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is one of the gravest regional and international security concerns. This threat does not respect national borders, and the proliferation of such weapons must end.…
I am delighted to have cast the United Kingdom’s vote in favour of resolution 2379 (2017), and I am grateful to Council members for their unanimous support of this United Kingdom- drafted text.
One year after we gathered on the margins of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly and promis…
