I welcome the briefing from the Deputy Secretary-General, and I welcome the Secretary-General’s ongoing visit to the region.
“We are all human beings; we are all equal”. Those are the words of Uri Rezken, an Israeli man who was stabbed last week. Yuri was attacked in a supermarket while working sid…
I hope I can solve that problem by speaking in English. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate and for all the initiatives the presidency has taken so far, and I also thank the briefers.
As I said during the wrap-up debate in June (see S/PV.7479), I am frequently struc…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s emergency meeting, and we thank Jordan for requesting it. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his briefing.
It is vital that the Security Council respond urgently and effectively to escalating situations such as the one we are wi…
The United Kingdom is committed to supporting the United Nations peace operations architecture. I hope that we can all work together to ensure the continual improvements in the United Nations ability to deliver in this crucial field.
The demand for effective United Nations peace operations has neve…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of the important resolution 2240 (2015) today. Sadly, the issue it seeks to address — the migration crisis — needs little introduction to the Council. We already know it too well from the harrowing images of the drowned, the heartbreaking stories of loss, and…
I would like to thank Ms. Sandra Honoré, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing today, and to join others in offering our condolences on the passing of General Jaborandy, who served the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) with distinction. We welco…
I thank the Secretary-General for his latest report (S/2015/684) and for supplying the Council with the report of the Tripartite Review Commission on the United Nations in Afghanistan (S/2015/713, annex). I welcome the briefings of Special Representative of the Secretary- General Haysom and Executiv…
I would like to begin by thanking the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1367 (2006) and the Panel of Experts for their continued work in supporting the Council’s resolutions on Iran. I particularly want to thank Mr. Oyarzun Marchesi for his continued leadership as Chair of the Committee.
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The United Kingdom warmly welcomes the adoption today by consensus of this landmark resolution 69/321. I would like to thank my Namibian and Croatian colleagues for all their efforts as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly in shepherding thr…
I want to begin, as Cristián did, by expressing condolences both to the leadership of the United Nations and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and to the Government of Brazil for the tragic death of General Jabornady of MINUSTAH.
I also want to echo what Cristián just sai…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important and unique debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the Prime Ministers of Samoa and Jamaica and the Finance Minister of the Seychelles for their instructive briefings, and all the other ministers for their presence here today…
I would like to thank the Ministers of Malaysia, the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine for marking this occasion with their presence.
The United Kingdom is deeply saddened, frustrated and disappointed that Russia has vetoed draft resolution S/2015/562 today. The draft resolution was about
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I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate, and I welcome Mr. Nickolay Mladenov’s presence and compelling briefing. The timing of this open debate, a year after the conflict in Gaza, is sadly fitting. Today is an important moment to remember all those who lost their liv…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2231 (2015). The resolution endorses the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreed in Vienna last week. It creates the baseline from which to recalibrate our broader relationship with Iran, and it is an opportunity for us all to re-engage econom…
Let me begin by thanking you, Sir, and your team for your hard work this month, and for your invitation to hold this wrap- up session, which is a very welcome initiative. As your statistics made clear, it has been a productive month in terms of products, but it has also been a challenging one when w…
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2228 (2015) renewing the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The need for that mission is greater than ever. As Council members heard so powerfully in the Arria Formula meeting earlier this …
Let me begin by thanking Ambassador Patriota and Ambassador Skoog for their briefings today and for all their hard work, past, present and future, in chairing the Peacebuilding Commission.
I would like to take this opportunity to talk not about peacebuilding in theory but peacebuilding in practice,…
I thank the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and its Chair, as well as the Panel of Experts, for their continued work in supporting implementation of the Council’s resolutions on Iran.
This briefing comes at a crucial moment for Iran. Negotiations between Iran and the E3+3 o…
I join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2015/422), Special Representative of the Secretary- General Nicholas Haysom for his briefing and Ambassador Zahir Tanin for his remarks this morning.
I join my Spanish colleague and others in strongly condemning this morning’s attack…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate. I welcome the leadership that Malaysia has shown on this important issue, and I am pleased at the unanimous adoption of resolution 2225 (2015). I also thank the Secretary- General, his Special Representative Ms. Zerrougui and UNICEF Deputy …
