I would like to sincerely thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing on the most recent report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/1092). I would also like to thank Mr. Fedotov and Ambassador Umarov for their briefings today. I join other colleagues in thanking Ms. Ghiza…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General for his briefing. I also listened very carefully to what President Vučić and President Thaçi said today.
We believe that Kosovo’s development of its own armed forces is within its sovereign right as a self-governing independent State, and we urge Kosovo to do it…
I would like to welcome the new Yemeni representative to the Council. This is a good day for all of Yemen. I want to congratulate and commend Mr. Griffiths and his team for the work they have done to bring about these developments. But, as Mr. Griffiths himself said, we should also thank and commend…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for being at this meeting, for his briefing and for all the work that his team is doing on the ground to help the people of Syria.
The United Kingdom joins other colleagues in welcoming the adoption of resolution 2449 (2018). This ensures that aid can contin…
I thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this debate. We are very grateful to United States Secretary of State Pompeo for taking the time to be here today. This debate comes at a very important moment. The world is an unpredictable place right now. The developments that we are going to discuss tod…
The United Kingdom aligns itself with the explanation of vote
that will shortly be delivered by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union. The following statement will be made in our national capacity.
The United Kingdom voted in favour of draft resolution A/73/L.42 and we than…
Mr. President, I wish to welcome you back to New York. I join other speakers in saying how welcome it is to have representatives of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) also with us today.
Yesterday, the Council discussed the complex challenges of post-c…
I thank President Ouattara for travelling to be with the Security Council today.
I would join other speakers in expressing my personal condolences as well as those of my Government and of the Queen on the death of President George H.W. Bush, whom I had the honour to meet a number of times. He was i…
Let me begin by repeating in the Chamber what I said in the consultations room — we offer you and your mission our congratulations, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency. We very much look forward to working with you and supporting you. We also congratulate our Chinese colleagues for the way the…
I thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura and his team for all the work they do on the ground.
It is good that we are discussing this issue because it gives us an opportunity to recall, as the French Ambassador has just done, exactly how many agreements have been reached by the Security Council, inc…
I thank our four briefers very much. I do not think that I have ever heard a more powerful set of briefings and pleas in the Security Council than those we heard from today. I think that their words and requests will reverberate around the Council. So far, the Council has been very united in its sup…
Let me thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing and for all the good work he and his team continue to do in Kosovo and the region. I also welcome His Excellency the Foreign Minister of Serbia and Her Excellency the Kosovo Ambassador to Washington, D.C.
We fully sup…
I welcome our colleagues from Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia.
I should like to thank Council members for their unanimous support for resolution 2444 (2018). It lifts sanctions on Eritrea. It sets out the Council’s continued support for efforts to improve peace and security in Somalia.
The agreement…
I would like to start by apologizing for my absence at the beginning of this open debate, since I left the Chamber to go to a remembrance service for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. It is very good — and I thank China — that we are having this debate today so close to that a…
I thank the High Representative for his briefing today and for the work of his Office in maintaining peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has long been a very important and almost totemic issue for the Council, if one goes back to the start of the conflict in the ear…
As this is the first time I take the floor during this month, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I also thank Bolivia for its presidency of the Council last month.
I would like to thank the High Representative for her brief…
I thank the Under- Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for briefing the Security Council today.
The United Kingdom is committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We do not and will not recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. The illegal seizure of Crimea…
I want to repeat something that I have said before in the Chamber. Criticizing the United Nations for doing its job should not be the task of anyone speaking in the Chamber. I know that we need to have free speech and I know that we need to be frank. But the United Nations, including the Office for …
I thank Mark Lowcock once again for a clear and stark briefing, as well as his entire team on the ground.
I would like to start by joining the representative of Kuwait in expressing our deepest condolences to the Government and the people of Indonesia for the plane crash.
I also want to say that I…
I will be very brief. We have heard a great deal of support for the Special Envoy in the Chamber. Let us look to that to hold between now and 19 November. I have a question about Idlib. The Syrian Ambassador referred to the Syrian authorities retaking — I repeat, retaking — Idlib. That would cut acr…
