I should like to thank you, Sir, for your briefing to the Council this morning and join other colleagues in conveying the United Kingdom’s thanks to Ambassador Grauls and Ambassador Jurica for their briefings. I also take this
opportunity to thank the staff and the experts of each Committee — I see…
Let me join others in thanking you Sir, for holding this open debate on a very important issue. I would like to express my thanks, alongside my colleagues, for all the presentations that we have heard today, including from nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Development Fund for Women …
May I join those colleagues who have thanked the President of the General Assembly for organizing this important debate today. It offers a useful opportunity to take stock of the work of the Peacebuilding Commission and the
Peacebuilding Fund and to charter the challenges we still face. Those chall…
I would very much like to thank the Chairman-in-Office for his briefing. I should also like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity today discuss the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its partnership with the United Nations.
What the Chairman-in-Off…
I thank you, Mr. President, for calling this meeting today. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for their briefings. The Secretariat, the United Nations and the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) are doing a difficult job in very difficult ci…
We expressed our concerns last night when we met on this same subject, and those concerns have only increased today with the disturbing news of an escalation in the fighting and of further casualties, including those involving civilians. The situation on the ground in unclear, but it is nevertheless…
Before we came into this Chamber, members of the Council met in the Consultations Room. We regret that it has not yet been possible to agree on a Security Council statement on this issue. We hope that it will be possible in the days to come. But the absence of a statement tonight should not be taken…
I join my colleagues in welcoming you, Mr. President, to your role as President of the Council for the month of August, and express our thanks to Ambassador Le Luong Minh and his team for the excellent way that they guided the Security Council last month.
I would also like to join colleagues in tha…
I would like to begin by welcoming the Special Representative and also His Excellency the Ambassador of Nepal. It is very good to have him here and we welcome the constructive relationship that the Government of Nepal and the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) have created between them.
My cou…
Let me thank you, Your Excellency, for having organized this open debate on children and armed conflict and for being here to chair it today, which I think underscores the importance of this issue to us all. I would like to add our thanks to the French delegation, and in particular to Ambassador Rip…
I too would like to extend my delegation’s welcome to His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Iraq, as well as to thank him for his remarks to the Council today on behalf of the Iraqi Government. I would also like to thank Special Adviser Gambari for his presentation, the Controller for his briefing …
Let me add our voice to those of others who have welcomed the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) back to the Security Council. I thank them for their latest reports on the im…
Allow me to begin by echoing your condolences, Mr. President, to the peoples of China and of Burma/Myanmar with regard to the sad events that have occurred in those countries.
The United Kingdom abstained today on this resolution, in line with our long-standing position. We recall the annual Genera…
I join colleagues in welcoming this debate and in thanking the Secretary-General for preparing a thought-provoking and challenging report. I would also like to thank the Deputy to the High Representative for her intervention. I would like to associate my delegation with the statement to be delivered…
I wish to join colleagues in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his presentation on the Secretary-General’s report (S/2008/266). I should like to ask him to pass on our thanks to the United Nations and all the team working on Iraq. They do very good work, and I would like to see that acknowled…
With your permission, Sir, I should like to make a general statement.
The United Kingdom welcomes the adoption of the resolution on the permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. It is fitting that, as we close the year marking the two-hundred…
I would like to thank Ambassador Sangqu for his oral report on last month’s mission to Timor-Leste, which was led by Ambassador Kumalo. We would like to thank the Secretariat for the detailed written report on that mission (S/2007/711). We also pay tribute here to Ambassador Kumalo’s leadership and …
I too would like to extend our thanks to the Presidents of the Courts, Judges Pocar and Byron, and to the Prosecutors, Ms. Del Ponte and Mr. Jallow, not only for their briefings today, but for the tireless commitment with which they work for justice in their respective areas. My delegation would wis…
I, too, would like to join others in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing. I think his visit to the region was very welcome, and it is very good to have a first-hand assessment from him of these situations of concern.
I will discuss the Sudan first. We share the Under-Secretary-Gen…
I would like to thank Mr. Arias, Mr. Verbeke and Mr. Burian for their briefings to the Council this morning. We would also like to thank them and their staff for their time and
commitment to these important committees and for the energy and seriousness that they bring to the task.
I would also lik…
