I simply wanted to respond to the amendment proposed by the Russian delegation and to say very clearly that the United Kingdom does not support the removal of the phrase “including key populations” from the text.
To remove the phrase is an attempt to ignore the fact that there are groups disproport…
May I begin by joining you, Mr. President, in warmly thanking our co-facilitators, the Permanent Representatives of Australia and Namibia, for their excellent work on this text. We look forward to participating fully in the high- level meeting on HIV and AIDS to be held in June.
We bring draft amen…
May I begin by responding to your New Year’s message, Sir, by extending the United Kingdom’s thanks for your leadership and dynamism during this particularly challenging period. As you said, we have achieved a great deal over the past four months, and we wish you well for the remainder of your term.…
The United Kingdom voted in favour of decision 75/510 and is pleased to see that it has secured a significant majority.
It will enable the General Assembly to continue to function in exceptional circumstances where in-person meetings are not possible. In doing so, it facilitates the democratic func…
I will be very brief. In our Organization’s seventy-fifth year, the revitalization of its work has never been more important. The initial
results of the global consultation launched to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations send us a clear message. There is widespread support for …
We simply wish to say at this point that resolutions commemorating important anniversaries to mark the end of the Second World War have been negotiated by the Assembly for a long time. In this instance, we engaged constructively from the beginning of the process, repeatedly raising our concerns as I…
It is difficult to follow the powerful words from my friend from the Canadian delegation. I thank her for those.
We simply wish to join Germany in supporting its proposed deletion of the fifth preambular paragraph contained in A/75/L.6.
The United Kingdom also strongly supports the aim of the draf…
The United Kingdom thanks you, Mr. President, and the co-facilitators, Azerbaijan and Canada, for the work done on this modalities resolution over the past two months.
The United Kingdom voted in favour of resolution 75/4, and we believe that we must now turn our attention to what the General Assem…
I thank our briefers for their valuable insights. I was struck today, as ever,
by the consensus in their contributions, in terms of both their analyses and their prescriptions.
I wish to begin by paying tribute to the dedication and courage of all the men and women serving in the United Nations Mu…
I want to join others in thanking Special Envoy Huang Xia for his briefing.
We share the concerns set out in the Secretary- General’s report (S/2020/951) about both the immediate and the secondary impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Great Lakes region. We commend the effor…
Let me begin by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary- General Swan for his briefing and welcoming Ambassador Madeira and also thanking him for his comprehensive briefing, as well as Ambassador Osman.
On behalf of the United Kingdom, I want to first express my condolences to the families…
Before I begin my intervention, may I join you in offering our sincere thanks to the Secretariat, the interpreters and the security personnel who have made our presence here today possible. It is good to demonstrate that, when required, meetings at our Headquarters can be delivered.
I would like to…
May I join others in welcoming you to the presidency, Mr. President, and also in welcoming Viet Nam and the other four elected members to the Security Council. We look forward to working with them.
In the context of this briefing, we also welcome particularly the delegation of the Niger. We know fr…
We offer our thanks first to you, Madam President, and to Cote d’Ivoire for convening today’s important debate, and to our briefers for giving us their time and their insights.
The deteriorating situation in West Africa is a source of major concern, as we have heard from everyone in the Council tod…
The United Kingdom welcomes the opportunity to discuss the situation in Afghanistan in the General Assembly this morning and to restate our full commitment to supporting the Government of Afghanistan and the crucial work of the United Nations in that country.
I want to begin, as many others have to…
The United Kingdom joins others in welcoming the announcement by the Secretary-General last week that agreement had finally been reached on the Constitutional Committee. As Mr. Pedersen said, it will be convened in Geneva on 30 October. We are also grateful to him for setting out the modalities and …
This debate is an opportunity for us to reaffirm our support for the principles of our responsibility to protect (R2P), as endorsed at the 2005 World Summit. Yet, despite this historic commitment, it is clear as we look across the
world that we are failing in our responsibility. The Office of the U…
The United Kingdom would like to thank the President for convening this important high-level meeting.
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Sweden on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
I join previous speakers in recognizing a…
