The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2327 (2016) today, renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). It is a vital Mission, carrying out perhaps our most important role — protecting civilians when they need it most. I want to pay tribute to the brave …
The United Kingdom welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2319 (2016) today, which renews the Joint Investigative Mechanism for another year. I pay tribute to Ms. Power for all her efforts and those of her team to bring the Security Council together on such a vital issue.
I would also like t…
I thank the Secretary-General and all our briefers for their remarks today. We welcome this chance to discuss the Central Asian region. It is a part of the world that we hear too rarely about in the Chamber, although the region faces many unique challenges that directly affect our core business, nam…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary since the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were conceived and 40 years since th…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for the clarity of his briefing
and for sharing his recommendations with us today. These ideas will help us protect and prevent attacks on medical personnel and their places of work. The United Kingdom welcomes this important contribution.
At the outset,…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2304 (2016) today. It is a vitally important decision that needed to be taken now. Through this resolution, we have created a protection force under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), a protection force called for by both the In…
I join others in welcoming the briefings from the Secretary-General, Special Representative Zerrougui and UNICEF
Executive Director Anthony Lake. Their specific examples and the scale of the numbers that they just gave underline how important this is.
At the outset, I should like to express my gra…
I congratulate Japan on its assumption of the Council presidency, and thank France for its very efficient running of the Council’s business last month.
I should like to take this opportunity to join Egypt in paying tribute to the role of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). As we review t…
I would like to to use this opportunity to add my voice to others on behalf of my Government to thank Special Representative Haysom for the way he has carried out what I think is an extraordinarily tough job, and one that he has
done with both flair and commitment. On behalf of my Government, addin…
I wish to thank all of our briefers. We are particularly grateful to the Egyptian presidency and to Spain for convening a meeting on the threats posed to the Sahel region by climate change and terrorism. We, like those two delegations and others in the Chamber, are really concerned by the possible a…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. I also thank all our briefers for what they have just told us.
I want to underscore the United Kingdom’s commitment to the links between the African Union and the Security Council. I said it in the informal session and I will say it here: w…
I would like to join others in welcoming High Representative Inzko back to the Council. At the outset, I would like to reiterate the United Kingdom’s full support for his role and I thank him for his briefing today.
Since we last met on this issue (see S/PV.7555), we have witnessed historic develop…
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union, and I would like to add just a couple of brief remarks.
I would first like to express our gratitude for today’s meeting, and in particular to thank the co-facilitators for their tireless work, whi…
Like other speakers today, Mr. President, I would like to welcome your leadership on this issue, and I thank Mr. Zerihoun for his briefing.
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As my United States colleague mentioned earlier, two ships were attacked off the coast of Nigeria earlier this month. I would like to echo …
This evening we have sent a clear and unanimous message. It is time for the Government of Burundi to live up to the commitments President Nkurunziza made to the Secretary-General, to the international community and, most important, to the people of Burundi themselves. That means that the Government …
I welcome Special Representative Haysom and Ambassador Saikal back to the Security Council and thank them for their briefings. I will stick to the five minute rule, particularly since we rigidly enforce it when we are President.
The extension of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan …
I thank you, Sir, for convening this briefing. It is well timed, following our discussion of sanctions last week.
As this is our first opportunity to do so in the Chamber, I should like to begin by expressing my condolences and those of the United Kingdom to the family of Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali …
I would like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Ms. Beerli, and Eveline Rooijmans of Oxfam International for their briefings. It is really good to have them both in the Chamber with us today.
In the period since we last …
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this urgent meeting, and I thank Ms. Kang for her sobering analysis of life in besieged and hard-to-reach areas in Syria.
In recent days, the world has seen this horror for itself. Images of emaciated men and women living under siege in Madaya…
Normally at these meetings, it is traditional to thank the briefers for their statements, and I do so very strongly. I particularly want to thank Nadia Taha for her testimony before the Council today. I believe that it is hard to overestimate the extent of the impact when somebody who has suffered w…
