I thank you again, Madam President, for convening us on this critical issue today.
We are grateful to our briefers. It was very good to hear their views on the practical and impactful steps that the Council and other United Nations Member States should take if we want to protect civilians and human…
I thank you, Madam President, for this discussion today. We are also very grateful to the briefers for their contributions, as they illustrated that technology is changing how we monitor, understand and respond to conflict and humanitarian crises around the world.
It is clear that, first, technolog…
I begin by joining others in thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Keita for her characteristically thorough and clear briefing. We look forward to reading Ms. Babite Inyobondaye’s contribution in due course.
I would also like to share the concern expressed by others around the S…
I would also like to begin by thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Acting Executive Director Chen for their informative briefings today. We also welcome the evident collaboration between their two teams, both in the preparation of this briefing and the delivery of their mandates. The work of t…
We, like others, are absolutely committed to the process of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, and we are fully supportive of the Chair and, in particular, the Secretar…
We would like to join others in thanking Israel and Germany for introducing this important resolution (resolution 76/250).
As others have said, collectively, we recall that 80 years ago today, the Wannsee Conference, in which the so-called final solution of the Jewish question was discussed and coo…
I want to begin by expressing our heartfelt thanks to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Fall for his insightful briefing today and, more significantly, for his continued efforts to support peace, stability and security in Central Africa. Although your modesty will not appreciate this, …
May I begin by welcoming back Special Representative of the Secretary-General Keita to the Chamber. It is very good to see her here in person, and we are very grateful for her briefing. I am also grateful to Ms. Kalala for her briefing and to you, Mr. President, for your insights on the visit of the…
We welcome you, Mr. President, as well as Minister Bhattacharya, to the Security Council today. It is good to see you. As you said in your statement, the diversion and misuse of small arms and light weapons costs hundreds of thousands of lives each year. And as the latest Secretary-General’s report …
At the outset, allow me to join others in congratulating Ambassador Al-Thani and Ambassador Hermann on their appointment as co-facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. We are grateful to them for having taken up that important responsibility and look forward to …
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix and Ms. Sinaré for their briefings, as well as the Permanent Representative of Chad for setting out her view.
It is clear again today that violence is spreading. Civilians are continuing to suffer and humanitarian access is becoming even more challenging ami…
Like others, I want to start by thanking the Permanent Representatives of
Slovakia and El Salvador for their commitment over the past session, and particularly Ambassador Mlynár for all of his work in this area. The fact that he could speak with such passion and clarity today on the subject shows h…
The United Kingdom would like to join others in thanking the President of the Human Rights Council for presenting the Council’s annual report (A/76/53 and A/76/53/ Add.1) today (see A/76/PV.24) and continuing the process of strengthening the links among the General Assembly, United Nations instituti…
I thank you, Sir, for convening us today to discuss this important issue. Our thanks also go to our briefers, not only for their valuable contributions but also all the work they do in this area in their respective fields. It was good to hear such practical and common-sense advice from them. We are …
I think the oral amendment to draft resolution A/75/L.120 proposed by China on behalf of a group of States reveals their true intentions, both through the draft resolution’s operative paragraph 11, which was just rejected, and with respect to civil society more broadly. But first I want to tackle a …
As ever, we are very grateful to the co-facilitators, Japan and Guyana, for all of their work on the text of draft resolution A/75/L.120, and we look forward to the high-level meeting on universal health coverage in 2023. But in proposing draft amendment A/75/L.124 today we come back to the fundamen…
I join others in thanking the delegations of Chad and Costa Rica for their incredibly hard work in facilitating resolution 75/314. I am also very grateful for my colleague from Guyana for reminding us that today is the anniversary of the coming into force of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. It is …
In respect to my Nigerian colleague, I am not trying to delay a decision on this. I am trying to make sure, as I said, that we all act with a full understanding of what it is that we are doing. I wonder if it would be possible for us to put before you, Madam, a short draft resolution, asking a speci…
Before I start, I just want to say categorically that the United Kingdom cares about this issue and thinks that it is an incredibly important issue, with which we need to deal very carefully and which we need to take incredibly seriously. It is very clear to me that, in this Hall this evening, this …
