Let me begin, Mr. President, with warm congratulations and thanks
to you and to your whole team for a very successful presidency. Once again, it has been a busy month. I am therefore glad that you have made time for this wrap-up session so that we may capture the lessons learned from the past few w…
I wish to thank all of our briefers. We are particularly grateful to the Egyptian presidency and to Spain for convening a meeting on the threats posed to the Sahel region by climate change and terrorism. We, like those two delegations and others in the Chamber, are really concerned by the possible a…
I am grateful to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her eleventh report and briefing to the Security Council. I would like to begin by underscoring the United Kingdom’s strong support of the Court. I thank the Prosecutor and her Office for their detailed work, as set out in…
I thank you, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to brief my colleagues on the Council’s visit to Somalia, to be followed by your own briefing on the visit to Kenya and Egypt. I want to begin by thanking you for your initiative to organize the visit to the Horn of Africa, which was an extremely usef…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. I also thank all our briefers for what they have just told us.
I want to underscore the United Kingdom’s commitment to the links between the African Union and the Security Council. I said it in the informal session and I will say it here: w…
I join others in welcoming Special Representative Tanin back to New York. I thank him for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/407) and for his briefing today. I also welcome First Deputy Prime Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku to the Council and I thank them for their statement…
At the outset, I would like to join you, Mr. President, and others in expressing our condolences to the families of all those killed in recent terrorist attacks. I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General and the Secretary-
General of Al Azhar Islamic Research Academy for their briefin…
I would like to join others in welcoming High Representative Inzko back to the Council. At the outset, I would like to reiterate the United Kingdom’s full support for his role and I thank him for his briefing today.
Since we last met on this issue (see S/PV.7555), we have witnessed historic develop…
I want to begin by thanking the three briefers — not just for their briefings but for all of their hard work on our collective behalf in chairing the Committees.
It has been a decade since the General Assembly unanimously adopted the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, and in that tim…
I thank you, Mr. President, for responding rapidly to my request for an urgent meeting. I welcome the briefings by Under- Secretary-General Feltman and Under-Secretary- General O’Brien, and I welcome the fact that this is a public meeting of the Security Council.
Aleppo has been Syria’s cultural ca…
I join others in thanking the Secretary-General, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross and the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières for their important briefings today. The Chamber is far removed from the harrowing realities that their presidents have just des…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2285 (2016). Although the past few weeks have been regrettable, today’s resolution must mark a turning point in the urgent efforts to bring the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) back to full functionality. MIN…
I wish to respond to two particular points that the representative of Russia made in connection with our earlier statement.
First, he made a reference to our comments on Crimea, which, by the way, according to the United Nations, is categorically not a part of Russia. He said that Crimea was a stab…
I thank the Minister for his remarks. I join others in welcoming Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun, Ambassador Apakan and Ambassador Sajdik back to the Security Council, and I thank them for their sobering briefings today.
As those briefings have told us so clearly, the word ceasefire is losing …
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union, and I would like to add just a couple of brief remarks.
I would first like to express our gratitude for today’s meeting, and in particular to thank the co-facilitators for their tireless work, whi…
Like other speakers today, Mr. President, I would like to welcome your leadership on this issue, and I thank Mr. Zerihoun for his briefing.
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As my United States colleague mentioned earlier, two ships were attacked off the coast of Nigeria earlier this month. I would like to echo …
I would like to thank all our briefers this morning. Let me take this chance to commend President Mohamud for his leadership. Under his guidance, we have witnessed progress in Somalia that was once thought impossible. He has spearheaded Somalia’s return to the international community. As he just sta…
I would like to join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his briefing. For all the excitement there was last week around the hearings of the candidates for the position of the next Secretary-General, we are pleased to have the current Secretary-General still working very closely with us for…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this debate, and the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Terrorism is the scourge of our time. We are reminded almost daily of the brutality and human cost of terrorist attacks and violent extremism. They strike indiscriminately, in everyday p…
This evening we have sent a clear and unanimous message. It is time for the Government of Burundi to live up to the commitments President Nkurunziza made to the Secretary-General, to the international community and, most important, to the people of Burundi themselves. That means that the Government …
