The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2327 (2016) today, renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). It is a vital Mission, carrying out perhaps our most important role — protecting civilians when they need it most. I want to pay tribute to the brave …
I want to begin by welcoming the Secretary-General’s briefing, as this will probably be his last public meeting on the issue. I want to thank him for his unflinching activism on the Middle East peace process. It has been a difficult and, at most times, frustrating portfolio, but he has not wavered i…
At the outset, I want to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I pay tribute to Spain and to your ambassador here in New York for their excellent leadership of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) over the last two years. Preventing nuclear, c…
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2323 (2016) today, which renews the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). It sends a strong signal of Security Council unity and commitment to resolving the situation in Libya. As the penholder on this…
I thank you, Mr. President, for agreeing to hold this emergency meeting at the initiative of France and the United Kingdom.
This is a dark day for the people of Aleppo, surely the darkest of the past five years. Al-Assad’s forces, propped up by Russia and Iran, have once again redefined horror. The…
I would like to begin by welcoming the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) back to the Security Council and by thanking her for her briefing today. The United Kingdom is grateful for her twenty-fourth report,
and we thank her and her Office for their continuing investigation of the…
I thank the briefers for their interesting updates.
I must begin by offering my sincerest condolences to Mr. Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, the Permanent Representative of Egypt, following the horrific bombing in Cairo on 11 December. This attack is yet another reminder of the unrelenting cruelty and ba…
At the outset, let me welcome Deputy Secretary-General, Mr. Jan Eliasson, and Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, back to the Council and thank them for their briefings. In case this is my final opportunity in this Chamber, allow me to commend and congratulate Mr. Elias…
At the outset, I would like to reiterate the United Kingdom’s continued support for and commitment to the work of
the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. They are leading the fight against impunity, holding perpetr…
Just five days ago I sat in this Chamber (see S/PV.7822) and asked what it would take to stop the horror in Aleppo. Today Russia and its small number of followers have shown that they have no interest — none whatsoever — in answering that question. Instead, for the sixth time in five years, they hav…
I thank you, Mr. President, for this urgent meeting. I am very grateful for the sobering analysis just shared by our briefers.
As we have heard so clearly, the clock is ticking for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the world is watching. Just two weeks remain until President Kabila’s second…
The United Kingdom strongly supports the unanimous adoption of resolution 2321 (2016). We welcome the leading role played by the United States and China, as well as the statement made this morning by the Secretary-General.
In 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has conducted an unpreced…
What will it take? Syria is in the midst of a horrific conflict and the worst is probably yet to come. The United Kingdom and France have called this emergency session because eastern Aleppo and other besieged areas are today
facing new depths of crisis, as the three briefers have so clearly descri…
At the outset, I would like to welcome the analyses shared by the Secretary-General and all our briefers this morning. I also join others in paying tribute to you, Mr. President, for your leadership in bringing this vital issue to the Council. An important part of our responsibilities as the Securit…
I thank Stephen O’Brien and Elizabeth Hoff for their powerful briefings.
The United Nations is working tirelessly to help millions of men, women and children in desperate need in Syria. The Syrian regime and Russia, in contrast, seem to be determined to increase that number, make their suffering ev…
The United Kingdom aligns itself fully with the statement just delivered by the representative of Spain. We are pleased to make two further points on the United Nations- African Union partnership — a partnership that will remain critical for peace and security on the African continent. I will focus …
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2319 (2016) today, which renews the Joint Investigative Mechanism for another year. I pay tribute to Ms. Power for all her efforts and those of her team to bring the Security Council together on such a vital issue.
I would also like t…
I thank the Senegalese delegation for convening this important debate. I join others in thanking the briefers. I warmly congratulate Mr. Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen on his election as Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The United Kingdom looks forward to working wi…
I thank the briefers. I would like to begin by paying particular tribute to Special Representative Ms. Ellen Løj for leading the
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) through an extremely difficult period. As all three briefers have made so painfully clear, South Sudan is deteriorating bef…
I thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing today. I welcome Ambassador Çitaku and First Deputy Prime Minister Dačić back to the Security Council and I thank them both for their statements.
It has been less than three months since the last briefing on the work of the United Nations Interi…
