I wish at the outset to thank the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing. We very much appreciate the presence here of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Timor-Leste and his participation in today’s debate.
This has been a pivotal year for Timor-Leste. It has mark…
Let me thank the Prosecutor for her report on the situation in Libya. It is just over one year since the end of the conflict in Libya and the declaration of liberation from the misrule of the Al-Qadhafi regime. Despite recent security challenges, the political transition in Libya is continuing and t…
I thank you, Sir, for giving us the opportunity to discuss such an important issue and for underlining its importance by presiding personally over today’s debate. The timing is particularly relevant, given the tenth anniversary this year of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the sad fact tha…
We are very grateful to you, Mr. President, for arranging this timely debate so soon after the Secretary-General’s mini-summit on Somalia last month. We welcome the Indian Minister of State to today’s meeting. We also thank Ambassador Mahiga for his briefing, and we look forward to the possibility o…
Many thanks to Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing, and I join others in welcoming the new Permanent Representative of Pakistan.
The bloodshed in Syria has now entered its twentieth month. The facts and figures cited by other Council members on the human cost of the conflict have sadly…
In September 2000, with the adoption of resolution 1315 (2000), the Council demonstrated its commitment to the fight against impunity and the restoration of peace and security in Sierra Leone. Given its deep concern that serious violations of international humanitarian law had been committed in Sier…
It is an honour to have you lead this meeting, Mr. President; many congratulations to you and to Guatemala on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the first time. Many thanks to the German delegation for everything it did during its presidency of the Council last month. Many thanks, t…
I am proud that this year Britain welcomed the world to the Olympic and Paralympic games and put on a great display, showing that while we may have only the twenty- second-largest population in the world, we can roll out one of its warmest welcomes.
I am honoured, too, that in the coming year I hav…
I, too, thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States for their words, and I am grateful to you, Mr. President, for proposing this debate on peace and security in the Middle East.
Over the past 18 months, the Arab Spring, as we have come to…
I thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/703) and his Special Representative, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing. I also welcome the contribution of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, to today’s debate.
I will focus my statement on three areas — the recent…
I will be brief. The United Kingdom does not consider that a conflict exists over the Falkland Islands, and I reiterate what I previously stated, that we have no doubts whatsoever about the United Kingdom’s sovereignty over those islands.
The United Kingdom would like to exercise its right of reply to the previous statement made by the representative of Argentina.
The United Kingdom has no doubt about its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and the surrounding maritime areas. The British Government attaches great importance to the…
I thank the Deputy Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for their briefings. I am grateful to our colleagues from Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq for their valuable insights. I thank you, Mr. President and the Government of France for initiating this meeting, whic…
I should like to start by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today, for his work and for the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) as a whole. I would like to welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. …
I thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling today’s important meeting of the Security Council. Let me begin also by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abou Moussa for his briefing and for the valuable contribution that he makes to peace and security in the Central African region…
The United Kingdom welcomes this opportunity to have a productive dialogue with Force Commanders, and I thank you, Mr. President, for sustaining this valuable initiative for the third year in succession. I thank also the Force Commanders for having provided us with very important and insightful pers…
I join others in thanking Ambassador Osorio for today’s briefing to the Council and for his report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Panel of Experts. As his report made clear, the Committee continues to do important work in support of the Council’s …
I would like to begin by reiterating the United Kingdom’s continued support for both the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Their work is essential in helping to tackle impunity and deliver justice to the countl…
I thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo for his report, for setting out the action that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken over the past seven years on Darfur and for briefing us on the latest developments in the work of the Court on this matter. The United Kingdom continues to support that work and…
Let me, too, thank the Prosecutor for his report on the situation in Libya. Libya is getting back on its feet. Civil society is flourishing and the economy is restarting with the approval of a national budget and the reopening of the stock market. Registration programmes for revolutionary fighters a…
