The United Kingdom voted to abstain in the voting on resolution 2504 (2020). We will not vote to stop vital aid reaching Syria, but neither will we vote in favour of a resolution that reduces aid provision for vulnerable populations and puts lives at risk. Although four of the five permanent members…
I thank you, Mr. Minister, for coming here to be with us. I also thank all the other ministers who have honoured the Security Council with their presence today. I would like to say how nice it is to once again have Mary Robinson representing The Elders. I thank her for all the work The Elders do to …
I will be brief. I have a practice in this Chamber of stepping in when
I see criticism of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to defend the humanitarian wing of the United Nations, the members of which care far more about the Syrian people than their own Government and are worki…
I echo the statement made by the representative of Belgium. Today is a sad, sorry and truly dreadful day for the people of Syria. It is a day that I hope the Council will never repeat. I would like to say once again to the Minister of Kuwait how much we appreciate the effort that his delegation put …
I once again thank the Special Envoy for all the work his team is doing and thank Ms. Rajaa Altalli for being in the Chamber today and sharing her story. I am very sorry for the suffering that she and her family have experienced.
Like others, we thank the Special Envoy for his tireless efforts aime…
I join others in welcoming the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait to the Security Council. His country has made an outstanding contribution as a donor and as a member of the Security Council. It has been an honour to work with his country’s delegation, which has always focused on the hear…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General and the Head of the Delegation of the European Union. It is also very good to have our Iranian colleague with us.
We welcome the Secretary-General’s eighth report (S/2019/934) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2014) and we offer our thanks to the Secreta…
I thank Special Representative Yamamoto and Ms. Khurram for their extremely helpful briefings and note how nice it is to see Ms. Khurram here again. I would also like to thank my colleague the Afghan Ambassador. We are very pleased to be part of the Group of Friends of Women in Afghanistan and find …
We are gathered here today in the name of prevention. International peace and security are under threat, owing to North Korea’s unabated development of ballistic-missile and nuclear-weapon technology. Despite concerted good- faith efforts by the United States to negotiate a solution, this year has s…
I congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month. You have the United Kingdom’s full support. I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the Permanent Observer of the International Committee of the Red Cross and His Grace the Archbishop …
I thank you, Madam President, for coming here today. I also thank you and the German Minister for creating an environment where over two thirds of the people sitting around the table are women. That is fantastic, a taste of things to come. I hope you will visit us often.
I also wanted to congratula…
The United Kingdom was pleased to vote in favour of resolution 2493 (2019), which South Africa proposed today, and we are very grateful for your efforts, Sir, to secure Council consensus on the resolution and the efforts of your Mission.
We welcome the resolution’s focus on implementation. Implemen…
I would like to thank our two briefers and commend all the work that their teams are doing on the ground.
I think that we have heard a very wide-ranging description of what is going on the ground at the moment. There are some very good parts, as Mr. Lowcock said, but also some things that we need t…
As this is the first time I am speaking in the Chamber this month, let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency and our Russian colleagues for the presidency in the month of September.
It is very good to have the Foreign Minister of Colombia with us once more. He is very welco…
I will be brief. I just wanted to say, and should have said in my intervention, that we share the American concerns on Xinjiang. On humanitarian intervention, I do not think that it is a topic for the Security Council today but we will be happy to participate in discussions on that topic at a diffe…
My Minister would have liked to have been here to deliver this intervention, but the Ministers have cantered through their interventions, unlike the normal business of the Council, so I am afraid that he is tied up in another event, and I apologize for that.
I wanted to start by agreeing with what …
It is very nice to have the Afghan Ambassador with us.
As a number of people said earlier, this is a very significant time for Afghanistan, a country in which I had the honour to serve, on which I have worked many times in my diplomatic career and which I know well.
Others referenced the horrific …
I thank Special Envoy Mr. Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, and Mr. Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings.
Let me start by joining the United Nations unequivocal condemnation of the attacks on the…
Let me also add our voice to everyone else’s in welcoming Ambassador Craft.
We also welcome today’s unanimous adoption of resolution 2488 (2019), which streamlines the process through which the Government of the Central African Republic can acquire arms and equipment. This is a clear message of sup…
As this is the first time that I am taking the floor under the Russian presidency, let me congratulate you, Sir. You have our full support. I thank our Polish colleagues for their stewardship during the month of August. I would also like to thank our briefers: the Special Representative of the Secre…
