Today our briefers have sounded the alarm and warned us of the surging levels of acute hunger, which are largely attributable to conflict. But that is not for the first time. More than a year ago, the Secretary-General drew the Council’s attention to the change in the long-term trend in global hunge…
I would like to thank you, Sir, and your delegation for organizing today’s briefing and for giving us the opportunity to discuss the situation in the Lake Chad basin one year after we in the Council visited the region and adopted resolution 2349 (2017), which was unique in its comprehensive approach…
I thank our briefers for their clear and detailed accounts. They have set out why there has been such a rapid increase in humanitarian needs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As Under-Secretary-General Lowcock reported, the number of people in need of aid in the Democratic Republic of the Co…
My Russian colleague has asked some questions that I thought I should answer.
He asked why we came to the Security Council. Is the Security Council not where a country comes
when there has been a threat to international peace and security or an unlawful attack on it?
He asked if we will work with…
I thank you, Sir, for arranging this urgent meeting of the Security Council today to give the United Kingdom the opportunity to update Council colleagues on our investigation into a nerve agent attack in Salisbury.
On Sunday, 4 March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal were found in the …
I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and, through him, may I thank all of those trying to supply the desperately needed humanitarian response on the ground. They are indeed valiant.
Sixteen days ago, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2401 (2018). We did so because we and…
I thank Foreign Minister Alfano for his briefing. The United Kingdom fully supports the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its efforts to achieve stability, peace and democracy for the people of Europe, including through dialogue. Like the United Nations, the OSCE is a pi…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-Generals Lowcock and Feltman for their clear, factual briefings and for reiterating to all of us on the Security Council the ongoing horror of the conflict in Syria — and in particular in eastern Ghouta, because that is where it is clear the situation is most di…
The Security Council has long recognized that the situation in Yemen threatens international peace and security. It has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, which gets worse by the day. The conflict creates ungoverned spaces in which terrorists can operate, poses security threats to count…
I thank you, Sir, for focusing the Security Council’s attention on the purposes and principles of our Charter of the United Nations. I also thank the Secretary-General and His Excellency the former Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for their briefings today.
Today’s meeting, as the President has …
I would like to thank the President, the Secretary-General and Mr. Mladenov. I would like to welcome President Abbas and thank him for his address to the Security Council. I welcome his stated commitment to non-violence and to engaging constructively towards the two-State solution.
The United Kingd…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and High Commissioner Grandi for their briefings.
This weekend the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, visit Cox’s Bazar, where he met some of the almost 1 million Rohingya refugees
enduring the difficult living conditions that we have heard…
I would like to thank Ian Martin for his briefing and the Kuwaiti presidency for having scheduled this open debate. I should like also to congratulate Kuwait on taking up the chairmanship of the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions. I look fo…
I disagree with a lot of what my Russian colleague said, but I will not stretch my colleagues’ patience. But I do feel compelled briefly to respond to several of the points that he made.
The first point is to say that this is not political for us. Preventing the use of these abhorrent weapons shoul…
I would like to thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
We are holding this meeting in the open Chamber today after reports of a series of chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta within the past month, as the Al-Assad regime continues its merciless bombing and killing of civilians. Over th…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing.
When considering the Syria humanitarian issue, we always have in mind the powerful plea last December by the Russian Permanent Representative that we should keep our differences over the politics in Syria out of our
consideration of hum…
I would like to thank the briefers — Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, Assistant Secretary-General Mueller and Chairperson Mogae — for updating us today.
As all Security Council members are aware, the long-term stability of South Sudan is dependent upon securing a political agreement. To that end, …
When I heard today that Russia had called for an urgent meeting on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, I was glad that we could return to an issue on which the Council has a duty to ensure that those responsible are held to account. That duty is even more pressing today, because yet another heinou…
I thank Mr. Salamé and Ms. Schoulgin Nyoni for their briefings.
I also warmly welcome and thank Ms. Sharief, our civil society briefer, who conveyed a very powerful message and eloquently highlighted the importance of an inclusive peace process that includes, in particular, women and youth. Perhaps…
I thank the Secretary- General and Mr. Yamamoto, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for the latest report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2017/1056). I also thank all of our briefers.
As the Secretary-Gene…
