As the Security Council’s penholder for Darfur, the United Kingdom wholeheartedly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2296 (2016), which extends the important work of African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year. I also welcome the constructive spirit i…
At the outset, I would like to offer my sincerest condolences to the representative of the United States following the horrific attack in Orlando on Saturday. This was a hateful act of terror against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and the United States has the fullest support …
Let me begin by welcoming President Touadera to the Council and thanking him and Mr. Maurer for their briefings. I also want to thank the Secretary-General for his remarks and for his report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2016/447).
My conclusion from this debate so far, sadly,…
The United Kingdom will vote in favour of draft resolution A/70/L.51 today. The draft resolution seeks to reaffirm the inalienable right of internationally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees to return to their homes in a safe and dignified manner, regardless of their ethnic origin. Let me be clea…
Let me begin by welcoming Ms. Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, back to the Council today. I thank her for her informative briefing this morning.
As the High Representative and other have set out, the European Union (EU) and regional organ…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the start of your presidency for the month of June.
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I am very grateful that France scheduled this debate today. The women and peace and security agenda is a high priority for the United Kingdom, and I am very glad th…
Let me begin, Mr. President, with warm congratulations and thanks
to you and to your whole team for a very successful presidency. Once again, it has been a busy month. I am therefore glad that you have made time for this wrap-up session so that we may capture the lessons learned from the past few w…
I thank you, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to brief my colleagues on the Council’s visit to Somalia, to be followed by your own briefing on the visit to Kenya and Egypt. I want to begin by thanking you for your initiative to organize the visit to the Horn of Africa, which was an extremely usef…
At the outset, I would like to join you, Mr. President, and others in expressing our condolences to the families of all those killed in recent terrorist attacks. I would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General and the Secretary-
General of Al Azhar Islamic Research Academy for their briefin…
I want to begin by thanking the three briefers — not just for their briefings but for all of their hard work on our collective behalf in chairing the Committees.
It has been a decade since the General Assembly unanimously adopted the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, and in that tim…
I thank you, Mr. President, for responding rapidly to my request for an urgent meeting. I welcome the briefings by Under- Secretary-General Feltman and Under-Secretary- General O’Brien, and I welcome the fact that this is a public meeting of the Security Council.
Aleppo has been Syria’s cultural ca…
I join others in thanking the Secretary-General, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross and the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières for their important briefings today. The Chamber is far removed from the harrowing realities that their presidents have just des…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2285 (2016). Although the past few weeks have been regrettable, today’s resolution must mark a turning point in the urgent efforts to bring the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) back to full functionality. MIN…
I thank the Minister for his remarks. I join others in welcoming Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun, Ambassador Apakan and Ambassador Sajdik back to the Security Council, and I thank them for their sobering briefings today.
As those briefings have told us so clearly, the word ceasefire is losing …
I would like to thank all our briefers this morning. Let me take this chance to commend President Mohamud for his leadership. Under his guidance, we have witnessed progress in Somalia that was once thought impossible. He has spearheaded Somalia’s return to the international community. As he just sta…
I would like to join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his briefing. For all the excitement there was last week around the hearings of the candidates for the position of the next Secretary-General, we are pleased to have the current Secretary-General still working very closely with us for…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this debate, and the Secretary-General for his briefing.
Terrorism is the scourge of our time. We are reminded almost daily of the brutality and human cost of terrorist attacks and violent extremism. They strike indiscriminately, in everyday p…
I thank the briefers for their insights and I welcome Ms. Paleki Ayang to the Council. We should hear the voices of women activists from civil society in the Chamber more often.
I would like to begin with the words of another activist, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee. In 2003, her group Women of Liber…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2272 (2016) today. I pay tribute to Samantha for her determination and courage in bringing this difficult issue to the Security Council.
Like so many in the chamber yesterday, I was appalled by the sickening crimes detailed in our meeting (see …
I am very grateful to the Secretary-General for his urgency in bringing this issue to the Security Council and for his briefing today.
For nearly 70 years, the pale blue helmets of United Nations peacekeepers have been synonymous with the work of the United Nations. In the 16 missions ongoing today…
