I thank the briefers for their insights and I welcome Ms. Paleki Ayang to the Council. We should hear the voices of women activists from civil society in the Chamber more often.
I would like to begin with the words of another activist, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee. In 2003, her group Women of Liber…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this important and timely debate. I join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Bringing peace to the Great Lakes area has been one of the most difficult challenges faced by the Council. Decades of violence and chaos have left millions dead — mill…
I thank Special Representative Honoré for her briefing. As she has made clear today, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti continues to make a welcome contribution to stability and development in Haiti. It is a contribution that is clearly helping what is the poorest, least-developed cou…
I welcome Special Representative Haysom and Ambassador Saikal back to the Security Council and thank them for their briefings. I will stick to the five minute rule, particularly since we rigidly enforce it when we are President.
The extension of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan …
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2272 (2016) today. I pay tribute to Samantha for her determination and courage in bringing this difficult issue to the Security Council.
Like so many in the chamber yesterday, I was appalled by the sickening crimes detailed in our meeting (see …
I am very grateful to the Secretary-General for his urgency in bringing this issue to the Security Council and for his briefing today.
For nearly 70 years, the pale blue helmets of United Nations peacekeepers have been synonymous with the work of the United Nations. In the 16 missions ongoing today…
The United Kingdom strongly supports the unanimous adoption of resolution 2270 (2016). I join my colleagues in welcoming the robust new measures that it brings into force, thanks to strong and united action by the Security Council.
This resolution is a step change. It contains some of the toughest …
I am grateful to Special Representative Tanin for his briefing and I welcome First Deputy Prime Minister Dačić and Ambassador Çitaku back to the Security Council.
As this is the first Council meeting on Kosovo this year, I would like to begin by looking forward to what 2016 holds in store. It will …
I thank Foreign Minister Steinmeier for his briefing. We look forward to his return to the Security Council in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, permanently, before too long. In the meantime, he has our full support, both in Vienna and here in New York, in taking forward the p…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing today and for all of his sterling work in such challenging circumstances.
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 (2016), endorsing the agreement on a cessation of ho…
I would like to begin, Mr. President, by thanking you and your team for your presidency of the Security Council for what has been a very busy month of February. I expect that the two biggest events of the month, in terms of products that we can agree on, are still ahead of us, and I hope that we wil…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. I also want to thank Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal for their thoughtful contributions to this debate and to this agenda.
John F. Kennedy once said, “the mere absence of war is not peace”. His words over half a century ago go to th…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this briefing. It is well timed, following our discussion of sanctions last week.
As this is our first opportunity to do so in the Chamber, I should like to begin by expressing my condolences and those of the United Kingdom to the family of Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali …
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this debate and for being with us in person today. I want to join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing, all of which I agree with, and for his leadership of the Human Rights Up Front initiative.
The Security C…
The United Kingdom strongly endorses, supports and welcomes the Secretary-General’s Plan of Action for Preventing Violent Extremism (A/70/674).
In welcoming that initiative today, the General Assembly has declared with one voice that we stand united — united against violent extremism, united in def…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I welcome the comments of the representatives of Sweden and Chile.
As we have heard today, sanctions are a vital part of the Council’s arsenal. Together with the other tools at our disposal, they can help to prevent conflict, slow the spread of…
I thank you, Mr. President, and your team for a successful presidency. You, Sir, have guided the Council through an eventful month. Uruguay and the other new members of the Council have really hit the ground running. I very much agree with Mr. Motohide Yoshikawa on brevity.
We appreciate that you, …
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) through resolution 2263 (2016), unanimously adopted today. As the penholder on this issue, and as one of the largest contributors to UNFICYP, we are pleased that the mission ha…
I begin by joining others in welcoming the briefing by the Secretary-
General and the presence and contributions of so many ministers.
Since our previous open debate (see S/PV.7540), the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has sadly deteriorated. The violence that we saw i…
I would like to begin by welcoming you to the Chamber, Mr. President, as well as Foreign Minister Holguín Cuéllar.
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2261 (2016) today. The special political mission that the resolution mandates is an important step forward towards peac…
