May I say, Sir, how good it is to see you in the presidency during what I think is your last month with us in the Council, so it is very nice to see you there.
Let me also thank Special Representative Shearer for his briefing and all he has done. I would also like to thank Ms. Sunday for her very i…
We welcome the attendance and briefing by the Secretary-General today and, of course, by Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo. We share the Secretary-General’s concern at the gravity of the situation and the real risk of escalation and echo his call for an immediate ceasefire.
The Council has met so oft…
I would like to welcome you, Sir, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany to the Council today. I thought he was totally right. As he said, it is ever more difficult to put the human suffering in Idlib into words. It is so true, as we see the terrible human consequences of the escalating vio…
I thank you, Mr. President, for your briefing this afternoon.
The Somalia sanctions regime represents a shared effort by Somalia and its international partners to tackle the greatest threats to Somalia’s peace and security and to support long-term security sector reform. Its nature as a partial emb…
I thank Mrs. Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and Ambassador Zlauvinen for their briefings.
Over the past 50 years, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has minimized the proliferation of nuclear weapons, provided the framework to enable significant le…
I would like to thank our briefers. I thought Dan Smith’s briefing was particularly interesting. It is a helpful reminder that it is rarely the case in States like Somalia that all of a country’s problems can be fixed through a top-down political process in smoke-filled rooms in the capital city and…
Let me, as always, thank our briefers — Under-Secretary- General Voronkov, Executive Director Coninsx and Ms. Freij — for their briefings today. I would also like to thank the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1526 (2004) and 2253 (2015) conce…
I am grateful to Secretaries-General Guterres and Dato Lim Jock Hoi for their briefings.
The United Kingdom has a strong and long- standing relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). We have been party to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia since 2012, a…
Let me start by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his briefing and for the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to broker an end to the conflict in Libya. I would like to assure Special Representative Salamé of t…
The Security Council has met month after month for over four years to support the efforts of the Special Envoy to find a political solution pursuant to resolution 2254 (2015). The success of that process depends on the genuine will of all parties to find a solution, as well as efforts to make progre…
I also thank Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing. He mentioned the experience of United Nations officers and humanitarian officials for more than nine long years in Syria. Through him, we send our thanks to them for the job they have to do in such terrible circumstances.
We are appall…
Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing.
Like others, I would like to begin by offering my condolences and those of the British people for the loss of life we have seen in recent attacks in Mali and the wider Sahel. I am thinking particularly of last Thursday’s terrible a…
The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions is an important technical body on which all Member States rely. There are a number of issues that we need to address around its effectiveness and efficiency, which need to be discussed holistically.
The United Kingdom was disappointed…
I thank Special Coordinator Mladenov for his briefing and for the work that he and his team do in difficult circumstances. I also thank Ms. Raemer for her briefing and the perspective that she shared, which was of great interest.
Three years since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016) by the Counc…
Allow me to join others in thanking Special Representative Shearer, not only for his briefing, but for his work and that of his entire team on the ground in South Sudan. We really enjoyed coming to see Mr. Shearer. We were impressed by what he and his team were doing, and we really want to thank him…
It is nice to see you presiding over the Council, Madam President.
The United Kingdom welcomes the efforts of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and thanks the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Fall, for his briefing and his work and that of his team. W…
As we approach the seventy-fifth anniversaries of the creation of the United Nations in 1945 and the first meetings of both the Security Council and the General Assembly in London in early 1946, the United Kingdom takes particular pride and interest in contributing to the debate on reform of the Sec…
I am sure that I speak on behalf of my co-penholder, Germany, when I thank all Security Council colleagues for their very constructive engagement on resolution 2495 (2019). May I also thank our Sudanese colleagues for their cooperation and support, which, I think, is a sign of the new relationship b…
The United Kingdom attaches great value to the role of the African Union (AU) in preventing, mediating and resolving conflicts on the African continent. This is an important element not only of our collective work as the Security Council but also of the United Kingdom’s own bilateral strategic partn…
The United Kingdom was pleased to vote in favour of this resolution.
I would like to take this opportunity to set out our position on the Western Sahara. We reaffirm our support for the efforts by the Secretary-General to advance the political process and aimed at reaching a just, realistic, pragma…
