I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important and unique debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the Prime Ministers of Samoa and Jamaica and the Finance Minister of the Seychelles for their instructive briefings, and all the other ministers for their presence here today…
The United Kingdom is proud to be a sponsor of today’s important resolution 69/314, on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife. We align ourselves with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union, and we would like to thank and congratulate Gabon and Germany. Over the past two y…
I would like to thank the Ministers of Malaysia, the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine for marking this occasion with their presence.
The United Kingdom is deeply saddened, frustrated and disappointed that Russia has vetoed draft resolution S/2015/562 today. The draft resolution was about
securin…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate, and I welcome Mr. Nickolay Mladenov’s presence and compelling briefing. The timing of this open debate, a year after the conflict in Gaza, is sadly fitting. Today is an important moment to remember all those who lost their liv…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2231 (2015). The resolution endorses the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed in Vienna last week. It creates the baseline from which to recalibrate our broader relationship with Iran, and it is an opportunity for us all to re-engage econom…
I shall speak very briefly just to say that this is a 20-year anniversary of an event in which the United Nations as an institution and the Council were deeply associated. It is therefore
absolutely vital and absolutely right that we have focused on this. We were proud to hold the pen on the draft …
The United Kingdom is outraged that Russia has vetoed this draft resolution today. Russia’s action tarnishes the memory
of all those who died in the Srebrenica genocide. Russia will have to justify its decision to the families of the more than 8,000 people murdered in the worst atrocity in Europe s…
The draft resolution (S/2015/508) before us is a balanced text. We have worked very hard to make sure that it is so and that it remembers the past respectfully and sensitively. Let me be clear: there were victims on all sides. That is clearly set out in the text. Crimes were committed against all si…
Let me begin by thanking you, Sir, and your team for your hard work this month, and for your invitation to hold this wrap- up session, which is a very welcome initiative. As your statistics made clear, it has been a productive month in terms of products, but it has also been a challenging one when w…
I would like to thank Prosecutor Bensouda for her report and for her briefing today.
The situation in Darfur remains a serious concern with an increase in violence and insecurity over the reporting period. The number of people affected by the conflict continues to grow with 2 million now displaced …
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2228 (2015) renewing the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The need for that mission is greater than ever. As Council members heard so powerfully in the Arria Formula meeting earlier this …
Let me begin by thanking Ambassador Patriota and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings today and for all their hard work, past, present and future, in chairing the Peacebuilding Commission.
I would like to take this opportunity to talk not about peacebuilding in theory but peacebuilding in practice,…
I thank the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Chair, as well as the Panel of Experts, for their continued work in supporting implementation of the Council’s resolutions on Iran.
This briefing comes at a crucial moment for Iran. Negotiations between Iran and the E3+3 o…
I join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2015/422), Special Representative of the Secretary- General Nicholas Haysom for his briefing and Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his remarks this morning.
I join my Spanish colleague and others in strongly condemning this morning’s attack…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. I welcome the leadership that Malaysia has shown on this important issue, and I am pleased at the unanimous adoption of resolution 2225 (2015). I also thank the Secretary- General, his Special Representative Ms. Zerrougui and UNICEF Deputy …
I welcome this opportunity for a candid and constructive discussion with the Force Commanders. I wish to thank Mr. Ladsous and the three Generals for their briefings. I look forward to their responses to our questions.
I would first like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the Force Comm…
I welcome this opportunity to review the Council’s subsidiary bodies on counter-terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and the sanctions regime against Al-Qaida and its affiliates. I thank our briefers for the comprehensive overview they have just given and the hard work they do on our behalf alongs…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this urgent meeting. I thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman and Mr. Hug, Deputy Chief Monitor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
It is disturbing that the Council must again return to this issue, since fighting has flared u…
The United Kingdom looks forward to the adoption of draft resolution A/69/L.69, on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees from the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The draft resolution reaffirms the unalienable right of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refuge…
I thank the Tribunal and Mechanism Presidents and Prosecutors for their briefings and their reports.
I would like to begin by emphasizing the United Kingdom’s continued support for the important work of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal…
