Like the previous speakers from the United States, Japan and France, the United Kingdom condemns in the strongest terms the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s flagrant violation of unanimous decisions of the Security Council.
Despite our repeated condemnation and successive Security Council re…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing just now.
At the outset, let me express my condolences to the Government and the people of Iran following the terrible attacks yesterday. In recent weeks, the United Kingdom has stood firm through senseless terrorist atrocities that …
At the outset, let me thank Council members for their words of condolence and support here and elsewhere following the horrific attack in London this weekend. The perpetrators sought to terrorize us, to divide us, but make no mistake: they will fail. Together we will defeat them, and we will need Se…
I thank Mr. Stephen O’Brien for his powerful briefing and for all he does on this crucial issue. We are meeting today exactly five months since a ceasefire was declared in Syria. Sadly, as Stephen has set out, it is a ceasefire that exists in name only. The past five months have seen
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I thank you, Sir, for holding today’s debate and ensuring that this Chamber hears the voices from civil society and your own statement. It is quite rare to get a round of applause from this audience. I also thank the Secretary-General and to the International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Rig…
I wish to thank Mr. Shearer for his briefing just now and for all of his excellent work.
We are meeting two months after President Kiir recommitted to a ceasefire in South Sudan, two months after the Security Council adopted a presidential statement (S/PRST/2017/4) with very clear steps. We should …
I thank you, Sir, for the opportunity to have this interactive discussion with the Force Commanders. Many thanks to them and to Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing.
Tomorrow is the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, so I want to begin by paying tribute to all of our Force Commanders…
I thank the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Head of the African Union Military Observer Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) for their briefings and for all of the progress that they and their teams are making.
This is a well-timed meeting, coming as it does so soon after the …
I thank the President for organizing, presiding over and co-leading our highly successful visit to Colombia 10 days ago. It was a great privilege to co-lead it with you, Sir. I also want to thank all of the Permanent Representatives around the table for taking part and for participating so energetic…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for convening and presiding over this important open debate. Let me begin by welcoming both Mina Jaf and Adama Dieng back to the Council and to thank them for their very important briefings this morning. I would like to pay particular tribute to Ms. Jaf for sharing her pow…
I thank Mr. O’Brien for his important briefing today and for all of his sterling work.
I would like to begin as Mr. O’Brien did by wholeheartedly condemning the terrorist attack on desperate civilians as they were being evacuated as part of the four towns agreement. It is utterly tragic that over 1…
I would like to start by complimenting Mr. Shearer and the entire United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) team for the steps that they have taken to enhance the Mission’s ability to fulfil its mandate, despite the hostile circumstances in which it operates.
The situation in South Sudan is di…
I thank Nickolay Mladenov very much for his briefing. As he explained, peace for many people in the Middle East remains a remote prospect and a distant memory.
Two weeks ago, we saw a horrific chemical-weapons attack on Khan Shaykhun in Syria. Environmental samples from the sites have tested positi…
I thank Mr. Kobler and Mr. Skoog for their briefings.
At the outset, I ensure Mr. Kobler of the United Kingdom’s full support of his work and reiterate its commitment to the Libyan Political Agreement — the sole framework for a political solution to the situation in Libya. Sadly, as he has made cle…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having called this important debate. I welcome the clear Security Council support for discussing this issue. I also thank the Secretary- General for his briefing and strongly agree with all of it.
The United Kingdom is committed to the promotion and protect…
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2350 (2017). It is a good demonstration of how the United Nations should be sustaining peace by selecting the right tools at the right time for the right ends. As we argued on Tuesday, the Haiti of today is not the Haiti of 2004. It is…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this meeting and for maintaining the Security Council’s focus on preventing conflict in Africa. I also thank Kairat for his comprehensive briefing as Chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) c…
The conflict that has ravaged Syria has lasted for more than six years. For the people of Syria, that must feel like an eternity. Here in this Chamber, we get only so many moments to act, only so many moments to show them that hope is not dead, chances for the world to unite in condemnation of war c…
I would like to thank Staffan de Mistura for his briefing and his unrelenting efforts to secure a political solution to the conflict in Syria. He has our continued full support.
Despite his efforts and those of the Security Council and the international community, the people of Syria have been deni…
The United Kingdom is honoured to present, on behalf of our other penholders — the United States and France — a draft resolution condemning the events of 4 April in the Khan Shaykhun area of southern Idlib in the Syrian Arab Republic. The events in Khan Shaykhun were the worst of human acts. They ha…
