I should like to thank you, Sir, for your briefing to the Council this morning and join other colleagues in conveying the United Kingdom’s thanks to Ambassador Grauls and Ambassador Jurica for their briefings. I also take this
opportunity to thank the staff and the experts of each Committee — I see…
Let me join others in thanking you Sir, for holding this open debate on a very important issue. I would like to express my thanks, alongside my colleagues, for all the presentations that we have heard today, including from nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Development Fund for Women …
May I join those colleagues who have thanked the President of the General Assembly for organizing this important debate today. It offers a useful opportunity to take stock of the work of the Peacebuilding Commission and the
Peacebuilding Fund and to charter the challenges we still face. Those chall…
First of all, we would like to express our congratulations to you, Sir,
and to China on your assumption of the presidency of the Council this month, and also to underline our gratitude to Ambassador Kafando and the team of Burkina Faso for their very successful shepherding of the Council through th…
The peace process is a process that commands legitimacy and consent from all parties. At the moment, in the peace process, the international community needs more than ever to demonstrate in word and indeed the ability to make a practical contribution to progress and to avoid the posturing that under…
It is humbling to stand before this great Assembly today. Events of recent weeks have proved beyond doubt that we are now in a new global age. Living through the first financial crisis and the first resources crisis of globalization, we are a world not simply in transition, but facing transformation…
I would very much like to thank the Chairman-in-Office for his briefing. I should also like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity today discuss the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its partnership with the United Nations.
What the Chairman-in-Off…
I would like to align myself with the comments made by the representative of Sweden on behalf of the European Union and to make a few additional comments on behalf of the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom has been a strong supporter of the system-wide coherence process for many years. The more eff…
I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting today. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for their briefings. The Secretariat, the United Nations and the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) are doing a difficult job in very difficult ci…
We expressed our concerns last night when we met on this same subject, and those concerns have only increased today with the disturbing news of an escalation in the fighting and of further casualties, including those involving civilians. The situation on the ground in unclear, but it is nevertheless…
Before we came into this Chamber, members of the Council met in the Consultations Room. We regret that it has not yet been possible to agree on a Security Council statement on this issue. We hope that it will be possible in the days to come. But the absence of a statement tonight should not be taken…
I join my colleagues in welcoming you, Mr. President, to your role as President of the Council for the month of August, and express our thanks to Ambassador Le Luong Minh and his team for the excellent way that they guided the Security Council last month.
I would also like to join colleagues in tha…
I would like to begin by welcoming the Special Representative and also His Excellency the Ambassador of Nepal. It is very good to have him here and we welcome the constructive relationship that the Government of Nepal and the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) have created between them.
My cou…
Let me thank you, Your Excellency, for having organized this open debate on children and armed conflict and for being here to chair it today, which I think underscores the importance of this issue to us all. I would like to add our thanks to the French delegation, and in particular to Ambassador Rip…
We join others in warmly welcoming the Prime Minister of Djibouti today and also the representatives of Eritrea, the African Union and the League of Arab States. We thank Mr. Honwana for his briefing.
Of course, we welcome reports that the situation is calm at present, but we are also concerned by …
I too would like to extend my delegation’s welcome to His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Iraq, as well as to thank him for his remarks to the Council today on behalf of the Iraqi Government. I would also like to thank Special Adviser Gambari for his presentation, the Controller for his briefing …
We too thank Ambassador Grauls for his report and welcome him to his new responsibilities as Chairperson of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). The delegation of the United Kingdom will give him its full support.
I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the si…
We thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report and we
also strongly align ourselves with the statement made last night by the European Union. Let me also commend the superb leadership of Peter Piot over the past 12 years.
Clearly we have much to be encouraged about, but the scale of t…
We join others in welcoming His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica to today’s briefing. His presence reflects Costa Rica’s strong leadership on this issue. We also welcome the new Permanent Representative of Belgium.
And, of course, we welcome Prosecutor Moreno- Ocampo back to the Securi…
Let me add our voice to those of others who have welcomed the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) back to the Security Council. I thank them for their latest reports on the im…
