As this is the first time that I personally take the floor during your presidency, Mr. President, I would like to welcome you to the position and pledge the United Kingdom’s support for Kuwait during this month. I would also like to thank your predecessor.
This is a very difficult set of issues, as…
I do not intend to make a full explanation of vote, but I just wanted to thank colleagues around the table for the constructive approach they took in this negotiation, and to our African partners, in particular. I would also like to thank my expert, Nerys Cross-Smith, for bringing this to a good con…
I am sorry for taking the floor again; I will be brief. I have been quite alarmed by what we have just heard in the last closing interventions. I would therefore like to be very clear about a number of things.
First, I would like the record to show that I did not get the commitments that I was seek…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General for her briefing.
Like others, we continue to be extremely concerned by the Syrian offensive in north-west Syria. I want to put on record how much we welcome Turkey’s ongoing efforts to reinstate the ceasefire, de-escalate the violence and set up a working gr…
I extend a huge thank you to our briefers Mr. Zenenga, Mr. Madeira and the Assistant Secretary-General. It is very good to have them, as those are the first briefings that we have had since the mandate renewal of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) (see S/PV.8494).
I would like to start b…
I thank Mr. Salamé and Mr. Chergui for their briefings, as well as the German Ambassador for his report on the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya. We are very grateful that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General could be here in New York. That was …
I will be really brief. I just want to say one thing to my colleague the Russian Ambassador. I thank him for his queries about the World Health Organization. That suggests to me that we should get together with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and others to really drill down i…
I apologize for taking the floor once again, but I do not think that we have heard an answer with regard to the hospitals. I want to return to that. We are very clear. We do not support terrorism or terrorist acts, and we agree with the representative of Germany that the attacks on Russian bases sho…
I thank our briefers.
We will hear from the representative of Turkey later, but I want to start by welcoming Turkey’s efforts to agree to agree the Sochi ceasefire in September. As we welcomed that then, so we welcome now its efforts to restore that ceasefire and de-escalate. I think we heard very …
I would like to thank all the briefers, beginning with the Special Envoy. What we heard today is both uplifting and frightening. The British Foreign Secretary spoke about that this morning and asked me to pass on his thanks to the United Nations and its relevant agencies for all the heroic efforts, …
I thank you, Madam President, for your presence here in New York; it is very nice to see you again. I join others in thanking Indonesia for focusing this debate on this very important issue, and I pay tribute to your country’s role in United Nations peacekeeping. I also thank Lieutenant General Mart…
I thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria. I am going to be brief, but I do not want my brevity to be construed as a lack of interest. Simply, I think that many of the previous speakers have spoken very eloquently. Our colleague from the United States, for example, spoke
about th…
I would like to start by congratulating Prime Minister Netanyahu on being asked to form a new Israeli Government and Prime Minister Shtayyeh on the formation of the new Palestinian Authority Government. The United Kingdom looks forward to working with both of their Administrations to advance the obj…
I join others in thanking Assistant Secretary-General Mueller for her briefing and to pay tribute to her teams on the ground. I would also like to add our voice to those thanking Nujeen Mustapha for such an amazing and compelling briefing, for telling her story and for sharing it with everyone here.…
I thank all the briefers. I will divide my remarks between what we heard from Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and what we heard from Ms. Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Ms. Luqman, Chairperson, Food for Humanity. They all made compelling poi…
I would like to welcome the Foreign Minister since that was not prohibited in the list of things you said we could talk about, Mr. President.
With respect to the briefing, I think that it is a very good thing that we have Ms. Salamanca here today because it is an important reminder of the role that…
I apologize for taking the floor again, but I cannot allow those allegations against the Bank of England to go unaddressed.
I reject completely the allegations made by the Venezuelan Ambassador. He has made them before. I wrote to the then President of the Security Council — the Permanent Represent…
I know, Mr. President, that you do not want to prolong this. I do not want to get into a tit for tat, but the money was not stolen from a British bank. It is very important that we correct such falsehoods.
I thank our three briefers, as well as the United States for proposing this discussion today and Vice-President Pence for joining the Security Council.
It is clear from the briefings that we heard that the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has reached epic proportions, and it is right that the Secur…
I thank Mr. Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for his briefing. I think that this is clearly a topic that moves very many members of the Council. I also wanted to pay tribute to the High Commissioner and all his staff, including those around the world. The Office of the United N…
