I welcome you to the Security Council, Sir, and Iwould like to warmly welcome as well the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and to thank her for her briefing. I would like to record our thanks here also to Mr. Nigel Fisher for his leadership of the United Nations Stabilization Mission …
I would like to welcome you warmly to the Council, Madam President, and to thank you for scheduling this important debate today. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay, Under- Secretary-General Amos and the Director from the International Committe…
I would like to thank Special Representative Abou Moussa for his briefing this morning.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has blighted the heart of Africa for over 20 years. It remains what it always was — a thuggish band of criminals who prey
on civilians, target women and children, and terrorize …
Let me thank the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), Ambassadors Quinlan, Loulichki and Kim Sook, for their comprehensive briefings today and for the effective manner in which they have taken on leadership of those Co…
I would like to join Security Council colleagues in welcoming Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Leonid Kozhara, to the Security Council today. May I also thank him for setting out his priorities as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 20…
I thank Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Fisher for his briefing.
At our last Security Council discussion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in October 2012 (see S/PV.6842), I was cautiously optimistic about progress in Haiti and noted the importan…
Let me start by thanking the Secretary-General for his report (S/2013/133) and his statement this morning. We welcome back to the Council Special Representative Ján Kubiš. I would also like to thank Ambassador Tanin for his contribution to today’s debate, as well as to thank Foreign Minister Carr an…
I join others in welcoming Baroness Ashton to the Council and thanking her for giving us her briefing today. These meetings are an important step in broadening and strengthening the European Union’s relationship and collaboration with the United Nations and in highlighting areas where the European U…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this important debate today and for having come to New York to lend your personal weight to this important issue. Let me also warmly thank the Secretary-General, High Commissioner Pillay and the Director for International Law and Cooperation of the Int…
I should like to thank Special Representative Moussa for his statement and for his continued work on the issues under consideration.
For over 20 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has blighted the heart of Africa. Led by the odious Joseph Kony, the LRA remains a murderous band of criminals tha…
I offer many thanks to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for her report and her briefing. She has set out clearly the action that the International Criminal Court has taken over the past six months on Darfur and the areas on which the Court will focus in the coming months.
Bu…
I thank Ambassador Osorio and the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) for their continued work, and pay tribute to Ambassador Osorio and his team in the Mission of Colombia and to the support that they have received from the Panel of Experts during his two years as Chair of that…
I would like to begin by expressing the United Kingdom’s continued support for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Their work is essential in helping to tac…
The United Kingdom is pleased to make a statement in this annual joint debate on the Security Council report and the question of Security Council reform. We are grateful for the efforts of our Colombian colleagues, who so meticulously compiled this year’s report (A/67/2), as well as for Ambassador S…
I wish at the outset to thank the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing. We very much appreciate the presence here of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Timor-Leste and his participation in today’s debate.
This has been a pivotal year for Timor-Leste. It has mark…
I thank you, Sir, for giving us the opportunity to discuss such an important issue and for underlining its importance by presiding personally over today’s debate. The timing is particularly relevant, given the tenth anniversary this year of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the sad fact tha…
We are very grateful to you, Mr. President, for arranging this timely debate so soon after the Secretary-General’s mini-summit on Somalia last month. We welcome the Indian Minister of State to today’s meeting. We also thank Ambassador Mahiga for his briefing, and we look forward to the possibility o…
Many thanks to Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing, and I join others in welcoming the new Permanent Representative of Pakistan.
The bloodshed in Syria has now entered its twentieth month. The facts and figures cited by other Council members on the human cost of the conflict have sadly…
It is an honour to have you lead this meeting, Mr. President; many congratulations to you and to Guatemala on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the first time. Many thanks to the German delegation for everything it did during its presidency of the Council last month. Many thanks, t…
I thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2012/703) and his Special Representative, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing. I also welcome the contribution of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, to today’s debate.
I will focus my statement on three areas — the recent…
