I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria and Mr. Markram for their briefings. I also thank all the United Nations teams on the ground for the important and incredibly difficult work they do.
As Staffan de Mistura said, this is an important Security Council meeting. My Government…
I will not detain my colleagues for very long. There is another very good quote from Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There: “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” I think that is the quote that suits my Russian colleague bes…
We did not seek this meeting, but we take requests from the Council for meetings very seriously. I am pleased to be able to update the Council on some developments, but I am also pleased to be able to provide the intellectual clarity that our Russian colleague has called for. In my statement, I will…
I thank the Deputy to the High Representative for his briefing.
I would like to start by also saluting Dr. Morad. I thank him for his work, and I thank Ambassador Haley for drawing our attention to his presence in this Chamber today. I also thank all those members of the United Nations, the Interna…
I would like to join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your presidency, and thanking the Netherlands for theirs. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing. It was very good to have news of his visit in March and to see the degree to which the Security Council’s mandate is …
I would like to welcome you to the Council today, Mr. President, and to thank France for its work in facilitating the unanimous adoption of resolution 2409 (2018).
I would like to concentrate on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) …
I thank you, Mr. President, both for being here today to underscore the vital importance of this topic and, in particular, for your very powerful statement. The United Kingdom supports your call for a referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.
I also wish to express our…
I offer very many thanks to colleagues for their warm welcome, as this is the first time I take the floor as the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom. It is an enormous honour to represent the United Kingdom. It is very nice for me personally to be back in New York. I see many good friends…
As this is the first time I am speaking in the Chamber under your presidency, Mr. President, allow me to start by thanking Ambassador Dabbashi and Ambassador Shalgham for their stewardship of the Council this past month, by welcoming you, Sir, for this month and by pledging our support to you in all…
I wish to add the United Kingdom’s voice of welcome to those of Security Council colleagues to the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Mr. Zannier, to President Tadić of Serbia, and to the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Mr. Skender Hyseni, over a year after Kosovo became independent. I would a…
I wish to join my colleagues in congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for February and the French mission on its excellent stewardship of the Council last month. It is a great honour to welcome Mr. von der Schulenburg back to the Council in his new cap…
I should like to speak in explanation of vote. Before doing so, however, I should like to join other delegations in paying tribute to Ambassador Khalilzad.
The question of the situation in Somalia has been a genuinely difficult one for the Security Council to address. Many factors — related to the …
Let me join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing today. We share many of the concerns that he has raised, and the aide-memoire that we have gathered to adopt today shows the weight of consideration that the Security Council has given to this issue over the years.
But I th…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving us the opportunity to meet today and to hear from the High Commissioner for Refugees. We are very grateful to him not only for his comprehensive and thoughtful statement, but also for the work he does in leading what is obviously a very dedicated team of people…
I would add our voice to those of colleagues around the table who have thanked the Presidents and Prosecutors of both Tribunals for their presentations. I would like to join others in congratulating in particular Judge Patrick Robinson on his election as President of the International Criminal Tribu…
I, too, would like to join others in welcoming High Representative Mr. Lajčák back to the Chamber. I thank him for the comprehensive picture he has given us today of the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and I
would like, through him, to thank his people on the ground and the European …
I should like to join you, Mr. President, and others in welcoming the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and in thanking him for his further briefing on his investigation into the very grave humanitarian situation in Darfur.
My Government continues to strongly support the independ…
May I join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing to the Security Council on these important issues. It was also very good to have the opportunity to hear from the representative of Chad. I would also like to begin by echoing what was just said by the representative of Burki…
As has been noted, and as you, Sir, indicated earlier in consultations, there will be an opportunity to address a much wider range of Middle East issues at the appropriate meetings later in the month. So today I will confine my remarks to the issue at immediate hand, which I think appears to be the …
I too would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General for his briefing, to welcome the representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the representative of Rwanda, and, of course, to thank the Foreign Minister of Belgium for his statement and for spending time wi…
