I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the clarity of his briefing
and for sharing his recommendations with us today. These ideas will help us protect and prevent attacks on medical personnel and their places of work. The United Kingdom welcomes this important contribution.
At the outset,…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this emergency meeting today at the request of the United Kingdom, the United States and France. I join others in thanking Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing and for his relentless stamina.
The Al-Assad regime and Russia are reducing Aleppo…
The United Kingdom wishes to exercise its right of reply in the light of comments made in the statement of His Excellency Sir Anerood Jugnauth, Prime Minister of Mauritius, in the debate this morning. The British Government has no doubts about its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which it ad…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of the important resolution 2310 (2016). This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Today’s resolution is both well-timed and an important contribution to the goals of the Treaty…
I am most grateful to Ms. Fang Liu for her comprehensive briefing on behalf of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The United Kingdom wholeheartedly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2309 (2016) thanks to the strong and united action of the Council. This is the first resolutio…
I would like to say to Secretary Kerry that I do not think that the people of the world are remotely fooled by what is going on in Syria. They know that this is not just a civil war; it is a barbaric proxy war, a conflict that is being fed, nourished, armed, abetted, protracted and made more hideous…
It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly for the first time and to do so as Prime Minister of a country that has always been a proud and proactive member at the very heart of the United Nations.
The United Nations was formed because leaders across the world knew that they could d…
I join others in welcoming today’s meeting and the briefing from the Secretary-General.
Since the Quartet’s report (S/2016/595, annex) issued in July, we have seen a worrying acceleration of some Israeli policies in the West Bank that are, as the report makes clear, eroding the viability of the two…
I join others in welcoming Special Representative of the Secretary- General Tadamichi Yamamoto for his first briefing to the Security Council and thank him for his leadership at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
It is sadly apt that we are holding this debate just a few …
On behalf of the United Kingdom, I warmly welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2307 (2016) today, and I congratulate the Government of Colombia on the historic peace agreement reached with the Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) last month.
“Historic” is a word that is somet…
I would like to reaffirm that the United Kingdom also supports keeping this item and transferring it to the agenda of the Assembly at its seventy-first session.
The United Kingdom is proud to sponsor this important resolution
on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife. We would like to thank and congratulate Gabon and Germany once more for their continued dedication and hard work in bringing people and countries together on this pressing issue.
The first…
I thank the President for convening this debate and Egypt for initiating it.
Peacekeepers at their best present the Organization at its best. They shield the oppressed. They provide hope to the hopeless. They help build a more peaceful future, often in the face of great personal danger. For all tha…
I congratulate you, Mr. President — Ramlan — and your team for everything you have done in the successful month of August. I think we have done a lot under your leadership. We have reacted to a lot going on in the world, and so I am glad that you have found time for this wrap-up session. I will keep…
I thank Special Representative Tanin for his briefing. I also welcome Ambassador Çitaku and Deputy Prime Minister Dačić back to the Council again.
I want to begin by congratulating the representatives from Serbia and from Kosovo on their success in the recent Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The at…
I join others in thanking the Malaysian presidency for this opportunity to exchange views on resolution 1540 (2004). I also thank the Secretary-General and all the briefers for their fascinating insights.
The threat of toxic, poisonous or nuclear materials falling into the hands of non-State actors…
I would like to Stephen O’Brien and all the humanitarian workers who trying to do their jobs as best they can in Aleppo and the rest of Syria.
We gather in the Chamber every month, and we routinely reduce the situation in Syria to simple statistics — statistics such as 400,000 killed, over 2 milli…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2304 (2016) today. It is a vitally important decision that needed to be taken now. Through this resolution, we have created a protection force under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), a protection force called for by both the In…
I join others in welcoming the briefings from the Secretary-General, Special Representative Zerrougui and UNICEF
Executive Director Anthony Lake. Their specific examples and the scale of the numbers that they just gave underline how important this is.
At the outset, I should like to express my gra…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption today of resolution 2303 (2016) establishing a United Nations police component in Burundi. We extend our thanks to the France for its patient efforts to try to find consensus on the resolution. We regret that not every member of the Security Council was able …
