The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2765 (2024), which renews the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and we thank France and Sierra Leone for their leadership in the negotiations.
I would like to mak…
I thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs for her briefing. This is the seventeenth time in the past year that Russia has called a meeting that seeks to rewrite history and undermine United Nations-verified facts. Russia’s aim is to distort reality so thoroughly that the international …
Let me start by thanking the United States presidency for convening this important meeting and for the international leadership that it has shown in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) governance. That includes the first-ever General
Assembly resolution (resolution 78/265) on artificial intel…
I am grateful to Secretary Blinken for convening today’s meeting and for all the efforts of the United States to bring to an end the suffering in the Sudan, including through its leadership within the Aligned for Advancing Life-saving and Peace in the Sudan group, the Jeddah process and its signific…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Mr. Leff for their briefings.
Over the past year, we have seen the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea providing increasing support for Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine, through the supply of munitions, ballistic missiles and now manpo…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari and Ms. Efron for your briefing. I also thank Mr. Levy for sharing his brother’s story with us. The suffering that Mr. Levy and his family have been through is unimaginable.
Let me state, at the outset, that the United Kingdom stands with Mr. Levy and with…
Clearly, it is important that the Security Council has the best possible evidence to inform its deliberations, but since Russia vetoed the Panel of Experts of the Committee pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) (see S/PV.9591), we have been forced to look elsewhere for credible civil society organizati…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Under-Secretary-General Fletcher for their briefings. I also thank Mr. Jamous and Ms. al-Kateab for their very powerful briefings on the next steps needed for Syria.
This is a moment of hope and a new chapter for the Syrian people. They suffered enormously under t…
I thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo, Ambassador Lambrinidis and Ambassador Frazier for briefing us today.
Iran continues to develop its nuclear programme to levels that lack any credible civilian justification. Iran is not only failing to uphold its commitments under the
Joint Comprehensive P…
I thank Ms. Doughten for her briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representative of Ukraine and other colleagues in this meeting.
It is a tragedy and an outrage that once again, we are having to address the appalling impacts of Russia’s illegal invasion. I would like to make three point…
Let me thank Deputy Special Representative Koury, Ambassador Yamazaki and Mr. Omar for their briefings this morning. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Libya in our meeting.
The briefers have given us a stark assessment of the fragile stalemate in Libya. The current…
Let me start by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Abarry for his presentation of the Secretary- General’s report (S/2024/865) and his briefing today. I am also grateful to Ms. Nlate for her remarks.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank co-penholder Mozambique and th…
Somalia is undergoing a critical period in its security transition. In October, the Security Council endorsed the United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia taking over responsibilities from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia and beginning its transition to a United Nati…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva, Under-Secretary-General Fletcher and Ambassador Montalvo Sosa for their briefings today. I also thank Ms. Mahboob for her powerful testimony.
As many have already highlighted, the Taliban’s latest announcement to restrict medical e…
Let me begin by thanking Judge Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz for their latest reports (see S/2024/570) and for their briefings to the Council today. I also express our gratitude to the staff of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their continued dedication to int…
I thank Ms. Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Mubalama for their briefings today. I welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Kayikwamba Wagner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the representatives of Rwanda and Angola, in our meeting.
The United …
I thank Special Representative Al Hassan for his comprehensive briefing and Ms. Edwar for her valuable insights. I also welcome the participation of the representatives of Iraq and Kuwait in this meeting.
The United Kingdom welcomes the United Nations transition planning and the cooperation between…
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu and Director General Shikhani for their insightful briefings.
I would like to note that the United Kingdom will continue to defend the right of competent representatives of civil society to participate in the Security Council’s meetings, as enshrined in rule 39…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing and comprehensive update on what is a fast-moving situation. I am also grateful to Mr. Al Saleh for his briefing. I will make three points today.
First, today’s Security Council meeting serves as a sobering reminder that Syria remains as…
I just wanted to say that we fully support the inclusion of Mr. Al Saleh in today’s meeting. He and the White Helmets have worked tirelessly over 10 years, risking their lives to save the lives of those worst affected by the conflict in Syria, and it is only right that he should be able to share his…
