Like others, I would like to start by thanking Ambassador Wronecka, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan, for her briefing and for her continued efforts as Chair, based of course on her considerable personal experience. It is disappointing that o…
Let me thank Assistant Secretary-General Keita for her briefing and wish her well in her new role, as this is the first time that I have seen her since she took it up. I also welcome the presence of Her Excellency Foreign Minister Camara in the Security Council.
I will focus largely on the implemen…
The United Kingdom would like to express its support for the statement to be delivered by the representative of Denmark, on behalf of a group of countries. I will also set out here why the United Kingdom supports the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (resolution 73/195).
Migrat…
May I say, at the outset, how much we welcome Côte d’Ivoire’s initiative to bring this issue back to the Council’s agenda, which I think we last considered in 2013. It is a timely moment to look at it.
May I also welcome the briefing by Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Off…
Five years ago, fighting broke out in South Sudan. Over the past five years, nearly 400,000 people have been killed. Lives have been lost and futures have ended. But in 2018 we have seen significant progress. A year ago, the peace process was stalled. In September, the parties signed the Revitalized…
I wish to thank Special Representative Fall and Ms. Ghelani of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for briefing the Council today and for all that their respective teams are doing in what is a complicated and difficult region, as they have both set out.
Today, I w…
The United Kingdom urges the General Assembly to provide its full support to the Government of Afghanistan and to the draft resolution before us (A/73/L.44). We commend the efforts of our German colleagues as penholders on the draft resolution, which we believe should command broad agreement and con…
May I just start by saying that I was disappointed by the Russian representative’s explanation of vote in the previous meeting (see S/PV.8409). As he himself stated, he did not actually make an explanation of vote, but a substantive statement. In doing so Russia showed contempt for the Security Coun…
I want to express my gratitude and that of my country to Ambassadors Nusseibeh and Imnadze for their excellent leadership of the intergovernmental negotiations process during this year. I would like to congratulate Ambassador Nusseibeh on her reappointment and Ambassador Braun on his appointment as …
This is a topic that should concern us all, and I thank China for convening this important open debate today. Many of the threats and challenges faced by our African partners, including violent extremism, terrorism, serious and organized crime and armed conflict have no regard for borders. In our de…
May I thank all of the briefers for sharing their assessment of progress in South Sudan following the visit. It is important and welcome to see such joint African Union-United Nations activity.
The signing of the revised Peace Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of
South Su…
Let me also thank today’s briefers.
The challenges facing the Sahel region are complex and becoming increasingly so. The United Kingdom is concerned about the increasing incidence of terrorism, criminality and intercommunity violence in central Mali. We share the Secretary-General’s concerns about …
Let me say that the United Kingdom continues to support the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), which carries out essential work in stabilizing the political and security situation in the Central African Republic. That is critic…
I would like to extend our thanks to all of our briefers. I would like in particular to ask Special Representative of the Secretary-General Onanga-Anyanga and Special Representative Moussa Nébié to pass on to their teams on the ground the thanks of the Council for the work they do in difficult circu…
Let me begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Mali, Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, and all of his staff for their important work, as well as Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his briefing. We welcome the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/866), and through Und…
The United Kingdom welcomes the fact that resolution 73/5 is limited in time to the duration of the Palestinian leadership of the Group of 77 (G-77) and limited in scope to the functions necessary to carry out that role. For those reasons, we voted in favour. Our vote today is to enable the effectiv…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Arnault for his briefing, which chimes very closely with our own assessment and analysis of the developments over the past three months. Let me also warmly welcome Foreign Minister Trujillo to the Security Council for the first time.
The Unite…
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of
your duties, and the United States on its presidency of the Council last month.
I would like to begin by thanking all of the Committees for their work, and their Chairs for updating us on the implementation of these important r…
I thank all Council members for their support for resolution 2437 (2018), which renews for a further 12 months the authorization for Member States and regional organizations to inspect and to seize vessels on the high seas off the coast of Libya being used for migrant smuggling or human trafficking …
I join others in congratulating you, Madam President, on taking up office.
The United Kingdom resolutely supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, within its internationally recognized borders. We reiterate that we do not recognize and continue to condemn the Russian Federation’s an…
