The United Kingdom strongly supports the unanimous adoption of resolution 2270 (2016). I join my colleagues in welcoming the robust new measures that it brings into force, thanks to strong and united action by the Security Council.
This resolution is a step change. It contains some of the toughest …
I thank Foreign Minister Steinmeier for his briefing. We look forward to his return to the Security Council in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, permanently, before too long. In the meantime, he has our full support, both in Vienna and here in New York, in taking forward the p…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing today and for all of his sterling work in such challenging circumstances.
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 (2016), endorsing the agreement on a cessation of ho…
I would like to begin, Mr. President, by thanking you and your team for your presidency of the Security Council for what has been a very busy month of February. I expect that the two biggest events of the month, in terms of products that we can agree on, are still ahead of us, and I hope that we wil…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. I also want to thank Ambassadors Kamau, Skoog and Rosenthal for their thoughtful contributions to this debate and to this agenda.
John F. Kennedy once said, “the mere absence of war is not peace”. His words over half a century ago go to th…
I wish to thank you, Madam President, for having convened this debate and for being with us in person today. I want to join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing, all of which I agree with, and for his leadership of the Human Rights Up Front initiative.
The Security C…
The United Kingdom strongly endorses, supports and welcomes the Secretary-General’s Plan of Action for Preventing Violent Extremism (A/70/674).
In welcoming that initiative today, the General Assembly has declared with one voice that we stand united — united against violent extremism, united in def…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. I welcome the comments of the representatives of Sweden and Chile.
As we have heard today, sanctions are a vital part of the Council’s arsenal. Together with the other tools at our disposal, they can help to prevent conflict, slow the spread of…
I thank you, Mr. President, and your team for a successful presidency. You, Sir, have guided the Council through an eventful month. Uruguay and the other new members of the Council have really hit the ground running. I very much agree with Mr. Motohide Yoshikawa on brevity.
We appreciate that you, …
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) through resolution 2263 (2016), unanimously adopted today. As the penholder on this issue, and as one of the largest contributors to UNFICYP, we are pleased that the mission ha…
I begin by joining others in welcoming the briefing by the Secretary-
General and the presence and contributions of so many ministers.
Since our previous open debate (see S/PV.7540), the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has sadly deteriorated. The violence that we saw i…
I would like to begin by welcoming you to the Chamber, Mr. President, as well as Foreign Minister Holguín Cuéllar.
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2261 (2016) today. The special political mission that the resolution mandates is an important step forward towards peac…
The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2259 (2015). Through this adoption, the Council gives its full support to the Libyan Political Agreement signed last week, and its full backing to a Government of National Accord based in Tripoli, as the signatories of the Agree…
First of all, I would like to thank Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi very much indeed for his excellent leadership of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). As his briefing showed, this has been a busy year for that important body. I would also like to commend the 1540 Group of Exp…
I thank the President for her initiative in holding this important open debate. I welcome the briefings from Special Envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed, from High Commissioner Al Hussein and from Assistant-Secretary-General Kang.
As all the briefers have made painfully clear, the situation facing the people o…
I am very grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing and for all his hard work in Afghanistan leading the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). I join others in welcoming Ambassador Saikal to the Council in his new role and look forward to…
Let me join others in thanking the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Chair, as well as the Panel of Experts, for their continued hard work in supporting the Council’s resolutions on Iran.
I would like to begin by echoing Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi’s words and welcomi…
I welcome the briefings today from the Deputy Secretary-General and from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Given the interconnected nature o…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Sir, on behalf of all the members of the Security Council, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventieth session, and I thank you for arranging today’s meeting.
As the President of the Security Council for the month of November, it is my…
The United Kingdom welcomes today’s adoption of resolution 2244 (2015) and the 14 positive votes it received.
The Monitoring Group has a key role to play in keeping the Security Council informed about sanctions issues in a region that is so important to our collective work. At the heart of the Grou…
