Thank you, Mr President, for convening today’s important meeting. I would also like to thank Ms. Keita for her briefing.
United Nations peacekeeping operations play a critical role in containing and reducing conflict, often in the most challenging circumstances, such as
in Mali and South Sudan. Th…
I thank our briefer, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Nakamitsu.
Last year, 560,000 people died at the hands of small arms and light weapons. That is more than one death every minute of every day for an entire year. That is the tragic reality that the report of the Secretary-Gen…
I would like to begin by thanking our briefers. In particular, I would like to say to Special Representative Patten how profound and incredibly moving her testimony to the Security Council was. Her concluding words that inaction must not be allowed to take place are vital for us all. I think she has…
Let me start by condemning the horrific attack on peacekeepers and host-country troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo yesterday and by offering my sincere condolences to Tanzania and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is truly shocking that peacekeepers are targeted in that way. Ou…
I thank our briefers and the Secretary-General for his report (S/2017/969). It provideds a comprehensive summary of the actions many of us have taken to protect cultural heritage sites since the adoption of resolution 2347 (2017) and, perhaps more importantly, of what more we can all do to prevent a…
At the outset, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ms. Keita for her briefing. Time and time again, we have voiced our despair at the depth of the suffering of the people of South Sudan. The scale of the numbers is deeply shocking: one third of the population has been forced to flee their…
I thank the briefers for updating us following the disturbing news footage that we all saw last week, showing migrants being sold into slavery in Libya.
Today, let us stand together as an international community in our commitment to eliminating the abhorrent crime of modern slavery and human traffi…
May I say that I am grateful to our briefers for their clear explanation of the facts this afternoon. I want to thank the head of the Leadership Panel, and through him his whole team, for their committed, impartial and expert work over the past five months investigating the use of chemical weapons i…
I want to thank our briefers for sharing their analyses with us today, and particularly to welcome Police Commissioner Makotose to the Council. I also want to thank the presidency and the Secretariat for ensuring that we hear women’s voices in this Chamber, not just on policing but on all the issues…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jenča and, through him, Special Coordinator Mladenov for all of their work.
From the outset, I would like to make clear, as we approach the centenary of the Balfour Declaration next month, that the United Kingdom understands an…
It is clear that trafficking in persons is a scourge that unites the membership of the United Nations. Since no country is immune from this awful crime, it is right that every country is united in the shared commitment we made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end forced labour, mode…
I would also like to thank all the briefers here this morning and take this opportunity to welcome Under-Secretary-General Voronkov to his new post, wish him every success and tell him how much we are looking forward to working with him during his time.
As all of us in this Chamber know only too we…
I thank the Secretary General for his briefing and for all that he has done to bring this issue before the Security Council.
As a long-standing friend of the Burmese people, the United Kingdom has watched in horror at the violence that has erupted over the past month. What began as a series of atta…
May I thank Secretary General Liu and Ambassador Aboulatta for their briefings, which were both informative. I thought that they contained some important recommendations of which we can all take note.
A year ago, the Security Council met to adopt its first-ever resolution on the terrorist threats f…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tadamichi Yamamoto for his briefing today. At the outset, I want to express my gratitude and that of my Government for the work that he and his team are doing in extremely challenging circumstances. I also thank Foreign Minister R…
I join others in congratulating you, Mr. President. I look forward to you bringing Slovak wisdom to our debates.
The United Kingdom continues to support the principle of the responsibility to protect, and we would welcome the inclusion of the responsibility to protect on the formal agenda of the As…
I wish you a Happy New Year, Mr. President. I also thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Menkerios for his briefing.
At the outset, let me express my thanks to you, Sir, and tio the Secretariat for leading a successful visit to the Africa Union (AU) in Addis Ababa. We all saw and he…
I thank the briefers for their insightful contributions. Let me also today, through the Deputy Secretary-General, thank the women and men of the United Nations around the world for their service and courage.
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the upcoming statement of the European Union.
Confli…
Today we have been discussing the work of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo extended pursuant to resolution 2293 (2016). Tragically, their report (see S/2017/672/Rev.1) comes in the wake of the murder of two United Nations human rights experts, Michael Sharp and Zaida Cata…
I want to begin by offering my condolences to all of those affected by the attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali in recent days. The United Kingdom condemns in the strongest possible terms the violent actions of those intent on undermining stability in the region. They will not succeed. I would also like…
