I, too, welcome High Representative Inzko to the Security Council and thank him for his report (see S/2012/307). The United Kingdom would like to express its gratitude to the High Representative for the tireless and principled efforts he has undertaken to ensure the implementation of the General Fra…
I am very grateful to you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to discuss Somalia at such an important time, to the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2012/283) and to his Special Representative Augustine Mahiga for the briefing he has just given us. We greatly appreciate the Special Represen…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today. I also welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, and His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, the Foreign Minister of Serbia.
Th…
Let me thank the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001), and 1540 (2004), Ambassadors Wittig, Puri and Sangqu, for their comprehensive briefings today and for their effective leadership of those Committees.
Let me start with the Al-Qaid…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency. You can be sure of our full support during this month. I also offer many thanks and congratulations to Ambassador Rice and the United States delegation on their successful presidency in April.
In recent weeks…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having initiated this discussion on strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to assist Member States in securing their borders against illicit cross-border trafficking and movement. I should also like to thank the Secretary- General for his briefing,…
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing earlier this morning. We all agree that nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global peace and security. The recent Nuclear Security Summit in the Republic of Korea reinforced political will and mobilized the technical expertise necessary …
I thank the President for convening today’s debate and for the opportunity to discuss the important reports that outline
the progress of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) (A/66/659) and Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) (A/66/675).
Let me first turn to the Peacebuilding Fund. In recognition…
I thank you, Mr. President, for arranging and presiding over this meeting. Many thanks also to Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Mr. Abdul Fatau Musah of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mrs. Florentina Adenike Ukonga of the Gulf of Guinea Commission for their briefings.
As we said in the …
It is an honour to have you chairing this meeting, Sir. It is also a great honour for us to have heard the inspiring words of President Ramos-Horta — not only his uplifting account of Timor-Leste’s extraordinary journey, but also his reminder of the Council’s heavy and noble responsibility. We are s…
I should like to extend a warm welcome to the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, Mr. Gilmore, to the Council today in his capacity as Chairperson-in- Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I thank him for his briefing.
The United Kingd…
I would like to start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Mulet for his briefing. I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his participation by video teleconference. The use of video teleconferencing is one of several recent usefu…
I, too, thank the Prime Minister of Qatar and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States for their reports and their powerful words, and we are all grateful to you, Mr. President, for presiding over this debate.
Our task as a Council is clear: we must address the horrifying violence that ha…
I join others in thanking Ambassador Osorio for his briefing to the Council today and for his report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Panel of Experts.
Five years have passed since the Security Council adopted resolution 1737 (2006), in December 20…
The United Kingdom welcomes this plenary debate, as well as the 10 October report of the Secretary-General on global economic governance and development (A/66/506*). We very much look forward to the draft resolution to be circulated by the delegations of Chile and Singapore in the new year. The Secr…
I would like to begin by expressing 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 to combat impunity and deliver justice to victims in the former …
We welcome this High-level Dialogue to consider our shared promises to the world’s poor. Since the last such meeting, the Millennium Development Goals Summit and the Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul reaffirmed those promises and provided new impetus to continue to push towards…
I thank the President for the opportunity to discuss the important issue of civilian capacity here today. We would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Susana Malcorra for her continued leadership on that agenda.
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the recent report of the Secretary-General on…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today. I am also pleased to welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, and His Excellency
Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for…
Thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over this debate. We thank as well the Foreign Minister of Timor-Leste for being with us here today and for his very helpful briefing, and Ms. Ameerah Haq for her briefing and for all the work that she and all her colleagues in the United Nations Integrated Mi…
