Let me thank Acting Special Representative Swan and Special Representative Souef for their briefings and pay tribute to the work of their teams and troops. I also welcome the participation of the representative of Somalia in our meeting today.
I would like to make four points.
First, I congratulat…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee and Director Wosornu for their briefings today, and I am grateful to Ms. Ahmed for her powerful statement on the devastating impact of the conflict on millions of innocent civilians. I also welcome the participation of the representative of the Sudan in our …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Our Russian colleague has asked for this debate in order to obscure a simple truth. The situation we face today has one sole cause — President Putin’s illegal and unprovoked invasion. The problem is the presence of Russian weapons in Ukraine, …
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abarry and Economic Community of Central African States Commission President Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo for their briefings.
The United Kingdom welcomes the positive achievements made by the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa…
First, let me congratulate the Republic of Korea on the assumption of the presidency for the month of June and pay tribute to Mozambique for its excellent stewardship of our business during the month of May.
I would like to welcome Acting Special Adviser Peyró Llopis. I thank her for her briefing a…
I thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing, and I would like to pay particular tribute to Under-Secretary-General Griffiths for his leadership and his efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people over many years.
We are in the fourteenth year of this conflict. I therefore want to ma…
I thank you, Mr. President, and I thank High Commissioner Grandi for his powerful remarks today.
This meeting comes at a crucial moment. As the High Commissioner has told us, the number of people who have been forced from their homes continues to rise, with direct impacts for regional stability and…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland for his briefing.
First, the United Kingdom is appalled by the deeply distressing scenes emerging from Rafah following Israeli air strikes over the weekend. As the Foreign Secretary has said, we call on Israel to launch a swift, comprehensive and transparent i…
Let me thank Mozambique for convening this meeting. I am also grateful to all the briefers for their remarks today. As they have set out, it is crucial that we move from commitments to concrete actions on women and peace and security and youth, peace and security.
I will set out three broad priorit…
Let me join colleagues in thanking Switzerland for its work in taking forward this very important resolution (resolution 2730 (2024)) and the collaborative way in which it did so. On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would also like to take the opportunity today to pay tribute all United Nations and h…
I am grateful to Mozambique for organizing this debate. I also thank the Secretary-General, Commissioner Bankole Adeoye and the Permanent Representative of Brazil for their briefings.
The United Kingdom is proud to be a close partner of African States and their peoples. We are committed to working …
Let me start by thanking Mozambique for convening this important debate and thank all our briefers today for their powerful briefings.
The Secretary-General’s most recent report on the protection of civilians (S/2024/385) presents a stark picture: a 72 per cent increase in civilian deaths in armed …
I thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
There is much irony to Russia calling yet another meeting on weapons proliferation in a month where we have seen the appalling destruction of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. As we speak, Russian forces continue their devastating attacks aro…
Let me start by thanking Special Coordinator Wennesland and Ms. Wosornu for their briefings today, and I would like to once again express our deepest condolences for the loss of the United Nations staff who have been killed in this conflict. I will make three broad points.
First, it has now been mo…
I thank High Representative Schmidt for his briefing, and I welcome the participation of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and the European Union (EU) in our meeting today.
I would like to make three bold points.
First, the United Kingdom believes that it is for the pe…
Let me first congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency for the month of May, and thank Malta for its excellent stewardship in the month of April. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Special Envoy Tetteh for their briefings today, and I welcome the participation of the …
The United Kingdom reiterates its commitment to making progress towards a two-State solution, in which a safe and secure Israel lives alongside a sovereign, viable Palestinian State.
The people of the West Bank and Gaza must be given the political horizon of a credible route to a Palestinian State …
I thank Special Envoy Huang Xia and Assistant Secretary-General Msuya for their briefing. I am particularly grateful to Ms. Vaweka for her powerful testimony today. I welcome the participation of the representatives of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola in this meeting.
I would…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Salvador, Executive Director Waly and Executive Director Russell for briefing us today. I also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Haiti, as well as Foreign Minister Álvarez Gil of the Dominican Republic. I would like t…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, and Ms. Marcela Sánchez Buitrago for briefing us today, and I welcome Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia to our meeting. I would also like to thank the Colombian Government for hosting the Security Coun…
