I also extend our gratitude to China for their work as penholder on this text.
The United Kingdom is pleased the Council has unanimously agreed the renewal of the important mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). This includes new language calling on the Taliban to …
The United Kingdom voted in favour of this resolution (resolution 2814 (2026)) to continue the important work of the special political mission, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti. We thank the penholders for their efforts.
Last year the Council authorized increased security support and a…
We welcome the Council’s extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) for a final two-month period, until 31 March 2026. We look forward to the Organization’s orderly and sustainable transition of UNMHA’s responsibilities and residual functions to …
I thank Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, and Mr. John Brandolino, Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for their briefings, and I welcome the Permanent Representatives of Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic an…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Pobee, Ms. Masih Alinejad and Mr. Ahmad Batebi. We welcome this timely meeting.
The United Kingdom is appalled by the reports that potentially thousands of people in Iran have been killed and many more arrested in the most brutal repression of public protests in …
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the representatives of Iran, Germany and the European Union in today’s meeting.
Today, I will focus first on the need for Iran to provide access to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), then on our co…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing, and we welcome the participation of many countries from the region.
We have long been clear that Nicolás Maduro’s claim to power lacks legitimacy. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has still failed to publish the full results of the…
We reject the points made just now by the representatives of Russia and China. Today’s meeting is fully in line with the decisions and procedure of the Council. The United Kingdom, alongside France and Germany, triggered the snapback procedure in full accordance with resolution 2231 (2015). We did s…
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of this resolution (resolution 2809 (2025)), which authorizes the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) to continue its essential role in strengthening stability and security in Somalia with the support of the United Na…
I thank the briefers for their clear articulation of the current situation.
The United Kingdom remains steadfastly committed in its support for the work of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and its good offices. UNOCA’s role in early warning, preventive diplomacy and reg…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting today. I also thank Deputy Special Representative Gagnon, Under- Secretary-General Fletcher and Ms. Yari for their insightful briefings and stark descriptions of the situation in Afghanistan today.
Today I will focus on three of the key point…
I thank you, Madam President, for bringing us together today, and I thank the briefers for their expert insights and testimonies.
Since the first Security Council discussion on this topic in 2007 (see S/PV.5663), there has been real progress in tackling climate change, in tackling nature loss, in a…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz Massieu for his briefing and for reasserting the presence of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) on the ground in Haiti. I also welcome the presence here today of the representatives of Haiti, Belize and the…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations and the Assistant Secretary-General very much for their valuable briefings today. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2025/532).
As we have hear…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General and today’s briefers.
Twenty-five years ago, the Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000), delivering a united message that for peace to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. This means that it must entail women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participat…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption by consensus of the final documents of the Summit of the Future, namely the Pact for the Future, the Declaration on Future Generations and the Global Digital Compact (resolution 79/1). We congratulate and thank the President of the General Assembly, the Unite…
The United Kingdom maintains that our autonomous sanctions strongly support and are consistent with the fundamental purposes of the United Nations, as expressed in the Charter of the United Nations.
The United Kingdom’s preference is to support sanctions through the Security Council in order to adv…
As part of the vow in 1945 to protect future generations from the scourge of war, the founding Members of the United Nations conferred primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security upon the Security Council. As part of that, permanent members of the Council were given veto …
The United Kingdom is committed to supporting conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding in Africa, including through sustainable development. We welcome the efforts of the
African Union (AU) and subregional organizations to tackle the causes of conflict and note the importance of United Nat…
We have heard repeated warnings from humanitarian experts on the ground in Gaza that 9 out of 10 people are getting only one meal a day, that more than half a million people are projected to be facing catastrophic levels of hunger and that disease is spreading in overcrowded areas as people go witho…
