I should like to add my voice to those of others in the Chamber today welcoming the recently appointed United Nations Special Representative, Mr. Rűcker. We are very lucky to have someone of his experience and knowledge in Kosovo appointed by the Secretary-General. We look forward to working very cl…
The United Kingdom greatly welcomes the adoption of resolution 1706 (2006) by the Council today. The United Kingdom had the honour to introduce the draft resolution to the Council as one of the co-sponsors.
The crisis in Darfur, which should never have started, has gone on far too long. Over the pa…
The United Kingdom very much welcomes the adoption of this resolution. Its objectives are clear: to bring about full cessation of hostilities, to create the space for an urgent humanitarian relief effort and to begin a process leading to a permanent ceasefire and a durable peace. That last point is …
I would like to thank Special Representative Coomaraswamy and UNICEF Executive Director Ms. Veneman for their briefings. UNICEF rightly has a high reputation among all our publics, and we thank Ms. Veneman for her leadership.
We also pay tribute to the work of the United Nations Development Program…
We welcome today’s debate. The United Kingdom remains a strong advocate of Security Council reform, including expansion. The Council remains, and needs to remain, an efficient and effective body able to tackle the many modern challenges of international peace and security.
We welcome what has been …
I would like to begin by thanking you, Sir, for bringing this important issue to the Council for debate during the Danish presidency. The United Kingdom is proud and pleased to strongly support your initiative. Our thanks go as well to Judge Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice (…
I, too, would like to welcome Prime Minister Çeku here today, for the first time since his appointment. I also welcome Ms. Raskovic-Ivic and thank her for her statement.
The United Kingdom associates itself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Austria on behalf of the Europe…
We thank the Presidents of the two Tribunals — Judge Pocar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Judge Møse of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) — and the two Prosecutors — Carla Del Ponte of the ICTY and Hassan Bubacar Jallow of the ICTR — f…
I would like to begin by associating the United Kingdom with the statement we have just heard delivered by Mrs. Haubner on behalf of the European Union.
In three days’ time, it will be exactly 25 years since AIDS was first discovered. Twenty-five years in which millions have wept as they watched th…
Today, after three years of war and with the signing of the Darfur peace agreement at the African Union-led peace talks in Abuja, the people of Darfur at last have a chance for peace. Our meeting today enables us to respond to that opportunity and to ensure that the African Union (AU), the United Na…
The United Kingdom voted in favour of the resolution just adopted by the Council to renew the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for a further six months.
Since the resolution is a technical rollover of the mandate and does not respond to any other …
I would like to welcome and thank the High Representative at this, his first meeting with Council members. The United Kingdom wishes him well in his new role of what he has rightly called a crucial stage in the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and we will support him fully in his work. We woul…
I align myself with the statement to be made shortly by the representative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union on behalf of the Union. I should like to make the following additional remarks.
Once again we are discussing events in the Middle East at a critical time. Today’s suicide bomb…
I want to begin by joining the Secretary-General in the tribute contained in his report to the work of Jean Arnault and warmly to welcome Tom Koenigs to the job. I personally, and my delegation and Government, look forward to working with him very closely.
I associate myself with the statement to b…
My delegation, too, aligns itself with the statement to be made by the Ambassador of Austria on behalf of the European Union.
Like others, I want to begin by thanking Mark Malloch Brown for his briefing. I think that this has helped the debate here in the United Nations come back to ground. It has …
Like others, I would like to begin by thanking the three Committee Chairmen for their detailed briefings, as well as the experts and staff who support the Committees.
My delegation fully associates itself with the statement to be made by Ambassador Pfanzelter of Austria on behalf of the European Un…
My delegation are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report and to his Special Representative, Mr. Jessen-Petersen, for his briefing today and for his outstanding leadership of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The continued unflagging energy and integrity t…
My delegation is most grateful to Mr. Guterres for his presence today and also for his thoughtful and powerful statement. I should like to acknowledge in particular his comments at the end about the importance of values as we tackle the challenge of refugee flows and migration.
I want to use the op…
My delegation fully subscribes to the statement to be delivered shortly by the representative of Austria.
We are delighted to join our Council colleagues in welcoming President Gusmão and Foreign Minister Ramos-Horta to the Security Council today. Their presence provides us an opportunity to pay tr…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 25 countries of the European Union. A number of other countries have aligned themselves with this statement. They are Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Ice…
