I welcome the briefing from the Deputy Secretary-General, and I welcome the Secretary-General’s ongoing visit to the region.
“We are all human beings; we are all equal”. Those are the words of Uri Rezken, an Israeli man who was stabbed last week. Yuri was attacked in a supermarket while working sid…
I hope I can solve that problem by speaking in English. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate and for all the initiatives the presidency has taken so far, and I also thank the briefers.
As I said during the wrap-up debate in June (see S/PV.7479), I am frequently struc…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s emergency meeting, and we thank Jordan for requesting it. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his briefing.
It is vital that the Security Council respond urgently and effectively to escalating situations such as the one we are wi…
The United Kingdom is committed to supporting the United Nations peace operations architecture. I hope that we can all work together to ensure the continual improvements in the United Nations ability to deliver in this crucial field.
The demand for effective United Nations peace operations has neve…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of the important resolution 2240 (2015) today. Sadly, the issue it seeks to address — the migration crisis — needs little introduction to the Council. We already know it too well from the harrowing images of the drowned, the heartbreaking stories of loss, and…
I would like to thank Ms. Sandra Honoré, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing today, and to join others in offering our condolences on the passing of General Jaborandy, who served the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) with distinction. We welco…
I wish to exercise the right of reply to some of the comments made by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius earlier today.
The British Government has no doubt about the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, which has been British since 1814 and which it administers as the British Indian …
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. None of us doubts that violent extremist ideologies across North Africa and the Middle East constitute a grave threat to international peace and security, regional stability and peaceful civilian life across the world. In confronting …
Nearly 70 years ago, the first meetings of the General Assembly and the Security Council took place in London. They marked the point when the world came together to turn its back on war and to seek to institutionalize the conditions for peace. By that process, from the ashes of the Second World War,…
We meet at an important moment. Today, we celebrate the huge progress that the world has made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we commit to going even further through the new Sustainable Development Goals. Since the MDGs were adopted in the year 2000 (resolution 55/2), we have mad…
I thank the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2015/684) and for supplying the Council with the report of the Tripartite Review Commission on the United Nations in Afghanistan (S/2015/713, annex). I welcome the briefings of Special Representative of the Secretary- General Haysom and Executiv…
I would like to begin by thanking the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1367 (2006) and the Panel of Experts for their continued work in supporting the Council’s resolutions on Iran. I particularly want to thank Mr. Oyarzun Marchesi for his continued leadership as Chair of the Committee.
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The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the adoption today by consensus of this landmark resolution 69/321. I would like to thank my Namibian and Croatian colleagues for all their efforts as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly in shepherding thr…
The Government of the United Kingdom decides its voting position based on the text of each draft resolution presented. It has traditionally been the case that only flags of States Members of the United Nations are flown at its Headquarters. Despite our long-held support for the creation of a Palesti…
I want to begin, as Cristián did, by expressing condolences both to the leadership of the United Nations and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and to the Government of Brazil for the tragic death of General Jabornady of MINUSTAH.
I also want to echo what Cristián just sai…
At the outset, I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zarif for his final briefing. I am sure others will join me in paying tribute to all his hard work on Kosovo and his determination to improve the lives of all of Kosovo’s citizens. We wish him every success in his …
I thank Assistant Secretaries-General Titov and Nakamitsu, as well as Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bangura, for their very thoughtful briefings, as well as for the number of recommendations they made to the us, which I found very creative and which we really need to take seriously…
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s very important debate. I also thank the Secretary- General for sending a very clear signal to the Council about how important it is that we cooperate effectively with regional and subregional institutions.
That relationship between t…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this important meeting, for keeping this theme on the agenda and, in particular, for the way that Nigeria responded to the challenge of Ebola within its own borders, as well as for your leadership in helping so many others.
I welcome the briefings by Dire…
The United Kingdom is pleased to have co-sponsored resolution 2235 (2015). We strongly support the establishment of a Joint Investigative Mechanism into alleged uses of toxic chemicals as weapons in Syria. This Mechanism is a vital step forwards. Through our actions today, we have moved closer to en…
