I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Ms. Beerli, and Eveline Rooijmans of Oxfam International for their briefings. It is really good to have them both in the Chamber with us today.
In the period since we last …
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this urgent meeting, and I thank Ms. Kang for her sobering analysis of life in besieged and hard-to-reach areas in Syria.
In recent days, the world has seen this horror for itself. Images of emaciated men and women living under siege in Madaya…
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2259 (2015). Through this adoption, the Council gives its full support to the Libyan Political Agreement signed last week, and its full backing to a Government of National Accord based in Tripoli, as the signatories of the Agree…
First of all, I would like to thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi very much indeed for his excellent leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). As his briefing showed, this has been a busy year for that important body. I would also like to commend the 1540 Group of Exp…
I thank the President for her initiative in holding this important open debate. I welcome the briefings from Special Envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed, from High Commissioner Al Hussein and from Assistant-Secretary-General Kang.
As all the briefers have made painfully clear, the situation facing the people o…
I am very grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing and for all his hard work in Afghanistan leading the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I join others in welcoming Ambassador Saikal to the Council in his new role and look forward to…
Let me begin by thanking the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, for all that they are doing to bring the Syrian parties together. Allow me to also thank you, Mr. Secretary, for the characteristic drive and energy that you have brought for months to this process in establish…
I would like to begin, as others have done, by congratulating the President for suggesting today’s meeting, in which the Finance Ministers of the members of the Security
Council have come together for the first time in the history of the United Nations. I would also like to congratulate the Secreta…
Normally at these meetings, it is traditional to thank the briefers for their statements, and I do so very strongly. I particularly want to thank Nadia Taha for her testimony before the Council today. I believe that it is hard to overestimate the extent of the impact when somebody who has suffered w…
I simply wish to point out, in response to the statement made by the representative of the Sudan, that the Court is in fact carrying out a preliminary examination into the United Kingdom’s activities in Iraq, and that the United Kingdom is fully cooperating with the Court in relation to that prelimi…
Let me join others in thanking the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Chair, as well as the Panel of Experts, for their continued hard work in supporting the Council’s resolutions on Iran.
I would like to begin by echoing Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi’s words and welcomi…
It is an honour for me to represent the United Kingdom at the conclusion of the 10-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society. The World Summit’s Tunis Agenda for the Information Society is a crucial one for the United Kingdom, and the review is a major step forward in our shared aim…
The United Kingdom thanks the Prosecutor for her twenty-second report to the Security Council and for her briefing today.
The United Kingdom shares the Prosecutor’s concern regarding the situation in Darfur and calls on all sides to reach a political solution. In June, in resolution 2228 (2015), th…
I welcome the briefings today from the Deputy Secretary-General and from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Given the interconnected nature o…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Feltman and High Commissioner Al Hussein for the sobering briefings that they have just given us. I agree with them that this debate is a sad but fitting way to mark international Human Rights Day. It has to be right that we focus on what is probably the worst human …
I would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors for their presentations today. The United Kingdom is fully committed to the principle that there must be no impunity for the most serious international crimes, and we continue to support the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),…
Forced displacement is one of the most pressing issues facing the international community. This year, more than 819,000 refugees and migrants have entered Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, more than half of them from Syria. That is nearly four times the total number
who crossed during the whole…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of all the members of the Security Council, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session, and I thank you for arranging today’s meeting.
As the President of the Security Council for the month of November, it is my…
I pay tribute to the work of your predecessor, Mr. President, and that of Ambassador Rattray over the past year. They brought much-needed energy and innovation to a debate which has been dormant for too long. We know that you and Ambassador Lucas will approach reform of the Security Council with the…
The United Kingdom welcomes today’s adoption of resolution 2244 (2015) and the 14 positive votes it received.
The Monitoring Group has a key role to play in keeping the Security Council informed about sanctions issues in a region that is so important to our collective work. At the heart of the Grou…
