As this is the first time I am speaking in the Chamber under your presidency, Mr. President, allow me to start by thanking Ambassador Dabbashi and Ambassador Shalgham for their stewardship of the Council this past month, by welcoming you, Sir, for this month and by pledging our support to you in all…
I join colleagues in thanking Mr. Pascoe for his briefing this morning, and I also thank the representatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
I would like to associate the United Kingdom with the statement to be made later today by the Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic on behal…
I wish to add the United Kingdom’s voice of welcome to those of Security Council colleagues to the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Mr. Zannier, to President Tadić of Serbia, and to the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Mr. Skender Hyseni, over a year after Kosovo became independent. I would a…
I wish to join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for February and the French mission on its excellent stewardship of the Council last month. It is a great honour to welcome Mr. von der Schulenburg back to the Council in his new cap…
I should like to speak in explanation of vote. Before doing so, however, I should like to join other delegations in paying tribute to Ambassador Khalilzad.
The question of the situation in Somalia has been a genuinely difficult one for the Security Council to address. Many factors — related to the …
Let me join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing today. We share many of the concerns that he has raised, and the aide-memoire that we have gathered to adopt today shows the weight of consideration that the Security Council has given to this issue over the years.
But I th…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving us the opportunity to meet today and to hear from the High Commissioner for Refugees. We are very grateful to him not only for his comprehensive and thoughtful statement, but also for the work he does in leading what is obviously a very dedicated team of people…
Let me, first of all, Sir, start by praising your presidential efforts over the past three days to bring us together, as well as those of the President of France for all that he has been attempting to do to bring forward the goals that we seek together.
We have been brought together over the past t…
There could not be a greater contrast between the daily regime of delicate diplomacy at the United Nations and the day- to-day reality of death and destruction in Gaza, but the two are linked. The United Kingdom believes that the crisis — and I use that word advisedly — in Gaza is an indictment of t…
My delegation thanks the Special Coordinator for his briefing today. We listened very carefully to the very full contributions from Ambassadors Mansour and Shalev, and I thank them for their statements.
This debate comes very soon after the Security Council discussions on Tuesday. Today is an oppor…
I would like to start by setting out an explanation of vote in relation to the resolution we have just passed before moving on to my broader statement.
The United Kingdom has voted in favour of the resolution adopted because we support robust action to address the serious threat to international na…
The United Kingdom welcomes this debate and the prospect of a new Security Council resolution on this matter, the first since 2004. The violence, intensity and grievances of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have global ramifications. Their resolution is the proper business of the Council.
The Secur…
I would add our voice to those of colleagues around the table who have thanked the Presidents and Prosecutors of both Tribunals for their presentations. I would like to join others in congratulating in particular Judge Patrick Robinson on his election as President of the International Criminal Tribu…
First of all, I would like to thank Ambassador Grauls for this year’s final report to the Council and, on behalf of my delegation, join others in paying tribute to his outstanding chairmanship of the 1737 Committee.
The United Kingdom remains committed to the E3 + 3 Governments dual-track policy. T…
I, too, would like to join others in welcoming High Representative Mr. Lajčák back to the Chamber. I thank him for the comprehensive picture he has given us today of the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I
would like, through him, to thank his people on the ground and the European …
May I join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing to the Security Council on these important issues. It was also very good to have the opportunity to hear from the representative of Chad. I would also like to begin by echoing what was just said by the representative of Burki…
I should like to join you, Mr. President, and others in welcoming the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and in thanking him for his further briefing on his investigation into the very grave humanitarian situation in Darfur.
My Government continues to strongly support the independ…
As has been noted, and as you, Sir, indicated earlier in consultations, there will be an opportunity to address a much wider range of Middle East issues at the appropriate meetings later in the month. So today I will confine my remarks to the issue at immediate hand, which I think appears to be the …
I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for his briefing, to welcome the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the representative of Rwanda, and, of course, to thank the Foreign Minister of Belgium for his statement and for spending time wi…
I am delighted that so many leaders who have served the world with such distinction and whom I admire for their statesmanship have assembled from every faith and every continent for this very special conference on the culture of peace and the power of dialogue. And I am grateful that this conference…
