We wish to extend many thanks to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva for her briefing and for the work for her team. We also thank Ms. Akbar for her powerful account.
Recent months have seen a rapid deterioration in Taliban behaviour, with women and girls in particular fa…
Let me join others in congratulating Malta on its successful presidency in February and wishing you, Sir, the best for yours in March. My thanks also go to Special Representative Haysom and Mr. Talahma for their briefings, as well as to the Peacebuilding Commission for the additional material provid…
I would first like to thank Malta for convening this meeting today, and I congratulate you, Madam President, on taking up the Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. We look forward to working closely together. I also thank our briefers today for their powerful contributions.
The…
I thank Special Representative Wane for his briefing.
I join others in expressing our deepest condolences following the deaths in December of two peacekeepers of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). We salute the dedication of all personnel and con…
I am grateful to the Deputy Secretary-General, the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and Ms. Ndiaye for their briefings today.
As we all know, the cost of conflict is unsustainable, both in terms of human suffering and the resources available for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid. The New Agend…
Let me start by again thanking Special Envoy Pedersen and Deputy Director Mudawi for their powerful briefings today. I would like to highlight the following three points.
First, the United Kingdom welcomes the recent adoption of resolution 2672 (2023) to continue the delivery of life-saving aid to …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Brands Kehris for her briefing and the work of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The United Kingdom is committed to defending freedom of religion or belief around the world, a commitment we share with Ukraine, whose democrac…
Let me thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Under-Secretary- General Griffiths for their briefings. We are extremely grateful for the work that they and their teams continue to do for the Yemeni people.
The United Kingdom welcomes efforts by all parties to build on the relative peace we continue to se…
I am grateful to our briefers — Ms. Biha, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Touray, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) — for their presentations. I also thank former Special Representative of the Secretary-General Maha…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his very helpful update.
The United Kingdom remains deeply concerned about the recent closure of the Lachin corridor. We are pleased that the gas supply to the region has been reinstated, but we continue to call for the immediate reopening of the corrid…
I thank Special Representative Haysom and our briefers for their updates, in particular Major General Gituai. I welcome the update from the Permanent Representative of Gabon in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to 2206 (2015), concerning South Sudan. I also…
Let me begin by thanking all our briefers for their remarks today and welcoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Lutundula Apala Pen’apala to our meeting.
I will focus on the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional efforts, the United Nations Organi…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Perthes for his briefing today and the continued herculean efforts of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). I also welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of the Sudan at …
Every year we meet here to reflect on the global humanitarian picture and to look ahead to how we can respond to future challenges. Yet again, we are faced with a sobering picture.
In 2023, 339 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance — an increase of 25 per
cent from this year. …
I thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing, and we welcome President Zelenskyy’s participation in today’s meeting.
We discussed the situation in Ukraine last week (see S/PV.9195), and the Council’s message at that meeting was clear. Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukrainian civilians …
Let me thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Ms. Ghelani for their briefings today. We are encouraged that most truce measures continue to hold since the lack of extension in October, but we call for an end to the disturbing pattern of Houthi terrorist attacks on international shipping. The targeting of…
I want to thank Council members for their support today in adopting resolution 2662 (2022). It complements the work of
the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia in supporting Somalia and degrading Al-Shabaab. It was a complicated negotiatio…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee, Executive Secretary Tiaré and Mr. Ousman Ramadan for their briefings.
The regional picture in the Sahel is stark. Countries are facing unprecedented challenges with escalating violence, rising humanitarian needs and famine-like conditions. As always, it is…
My thanks go to Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and all of our other briefers for their presentations today. Let me also take this opportunity to thank all United Nations police forces for their essential work in what are sometimes extremely tough conditions.
I am pleased that today’s discussion is…
The United Kingdom welcomes the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). We thank France for its efforts as penholder to reconcile the differing views of Security Council members. Delegations made diffic…
