I thank Under- Secretary-General Feltman and High Commissioner Al Hussein for the sobering briefings that they have just given us. I agree with them that this debate is a sad but fitting way to mark international Human Rights Day. It has to be right that we focus on what is probably the worst human …
I pay tribute to the work of your predecessor, Mr. President, and that of Ambassador Rattray over the past year. They brought much-needed energy and innovation to a debate which has been dormant for too long. We know that you and Ambassador Lucas will approach reform of the Security Council with the…
I thank Assistant Secretaries-General Titov and Nakamitsu, as well as Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bangura, for their very thoughtful briefings, as well as for the number of recommendations they made to the us, which I found very creative and which we really need to take seriously…
I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s very important debate. I also thank the Secretary- General for sending a very clear signal to the Council about how important it is that we cooperate effectively with regional and subregional institutions.
That relationship between t…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this important meeting, for keeping this theme on the agenda and, in particular, for the way that Nigeria responded to the challenge of Ebola within its own borders, as well as for your leadership in helping so many others.
I welcome the briefings by Dire…
The United Kingdom is pleased to have co-sponsored resolution 2235 (2015). We strongly support the establishment of a Joint Investigative Mechanism into alleged uses of toxic chemicals as weapons in Syria. This Mechanism is a vital step forwards. Through our actions today, we have moved closer to en…
The United Kingdom is proud to be a sponsor of today’s important resolution 69/314, on tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife. We align ourselves with the statement delivered earlier on behalf of the European Union, and we would like to thank and congratulate Gabon and Germany. Over the past two y…
I shall speak very briefly just to say that this is a 20-year anniversary of an event in which the United Nations as an institution and the Council were deeply associated. It is therefore
absolutely vital and absolutely right that we have focused on this. We were proud to hold the pen on the draft …
The United Kingdom is outraged that Russia has vetoed this draft resolution today. Russia’s action tarnishes the memory
of all those who died in the Srebrenica genocide. Russia will have to justify its decision to the families of the more than 8,000 people murdered in the worst atrocity in Europe s…
The draft resolution (S/2015/508) before us is a balanced text. We have worked very hard to make sure that it is so and that it remembers the past respectfully and sensitively. Let me be clear: there were victims on all sides. That is clearly set out in the text. Crimes were committed against all si…
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of resolution 2218 (2015). In co-sponsoring it, we wish to reiterate our full support for the Secretary-General, Special Representative Bolduc and Ambassador Ross. We appreciate their efforts to achieve a lasting and mutually acceptable political
solution th…
I thank you, Madam, for convening today’s important debate and for giving it a lot of publicity through Twitter.
I welcome the Secretary-General’s report (S/2015/203), which is a vital framework for all of us. I particularly want to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Bangura for…
Let me begin by condemning the Al-Shabaab attack this weekend in Mogadishu. Our colleague, Ambassador Yusuf Bari- Bari, Somalia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, was among those killed. Ambassador Yusuf will be remembered as someone who worked tirelessly at the Human Rights…
I thank the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and the Panel of Experts for their continued
work in supporting implementation of the Security Council’s resolutions on Iran. I particularly welcome Spain’s leadership on this sensitive issue.
We have made progre…
I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. I want to add my thanks to those of others to Special Envoy David Nabarro, Special Representative Anthony Banbury, and Thomas Mauget for their tireless work in combating this epidemic. I do not want those thanks to sound formulaic. Th…
I thank you, Madam President, for holding this important debate today and for your personal commitment to this issue. I also warmly thank Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, Mr. Mulet and Mr. Beyani for their compelling and sobering briefings. I would particularly like to welcome Ms. Suaad Allami from Iraq and to th…
The United Kingdom welcomes the fact that the Security Council voted unanimously in favour of the renewal of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). We also welcome the spirit of compromise and flexibility displayed on all sides during the negotiations on the text of resolution…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Kubiš for his update to the Council and Mr. Fedotov for his briefing. I also thank Ambassador Tanin for his remarks. I will focus today on four areas: elections, security, engagement with the Government of Afghanistan and counter-narcotics.
Si…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun and Assistant Secretary-General Šimonović for the briefings that we have just heard and for the detailed and thorough work being undertaken by the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
Let me start with the positive. Th…
I thank Special Envoy Hiroute Guebre Sellassie for her briefing and take this opportunity to welcome her to her new role. I also want to thank the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, for his work over recent months to begin the implementation of the integrated s…
