I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today. I would also like to welcome to the Council Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, and Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia.
The United Kingdom is gr…
I would like to join everyone in welcoming High Representative Valentin Inzko back to the Council and to thank him for his report (see S/2012/813). As always, it is a detailed report, documenting objectively but also starkly the range of serious ongoing challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Unit…
In September 2000, with the adoption of resolution 1315 (2000), the Council demonstrated its commitment to the fight against impunity and the restoration of peace and security in Sierra Leone. Given its deep concern that serious violations of international humanitarian law had been committed in Sier…
I should like to start by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today, for his work and for the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) as a whole. I would like to welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. …
The United Kingdom welcomes this opportunity to have a productive dialogue with Force Commanders, and I thank you, Mr. President, for sustaining this valuable initiative for the third year in succession. I thank also the Force Commanders for having provided us with very important and insightful pers…
Let me, too, thank the Prosecutor for his report on the situation in Libya. Libya is getting back on its feet. Civil society is flourishing and the economy is restarting with the approval of a national budget and the reopening of the stock market. Registration programmes for revolutionary fighters a…
I, too, welcome High Representative Inzko to the Security Council and thank him for his report (see S/2012/307). The United Kingdom would like to express its gratitude to the High Representative for the tireless and principled efforts he has undertaken to ensure the implementation of the General Fra…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today. I also welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, and His Excellency Mr. Vuk Jeremić, the Foreign Minister of Serbia.
Th…
I should like to extend a warm welcome to the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, Mr. Gilmore, to the Council today in his capacity as Chairperson-in- Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I thank him for his briefing.
The United Kingd…
I would like to start by thanking Assistant Secretary-General Mulet for his briefing. I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his participation by video teleconference. The use of video teleconferencing is one of several recent usefu…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif, for his briefing today. I am also pleased to welcome to the Council His Excellency Mr. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, and His Excellency
Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for…
I would like to join previous speakers in welcoming High Representative Valentin Inzko to the Council. I thank him for his detailed, accurate and objective report (S/2011/682, annex).
The United Kingdom would like to express its gratitude to the High Representative for his ongoing efforts to uphold…
I would like to thank the Chairs of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001), and of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Ambassadors Wittig, Puri and Sangqu, for their comp…
Thank you, Sir, for scheduling this important briefing. Let me begin by thanking Special Representative Mr. Abou Moussa for his briefing and, moreover, for the valuable contribution he makes to peace and security in the Central African region. I also thank His Excellency Mr. António, Permanent Obser…
The United Kingdom is pleased to make a statement in this annual debate on Security Council reform. We are grateful this year to be discussing the issue separately from the Security Council annual report (A/66/2). Reforming the Security Council so that it is more representative of the modern world i…
I will try to be very brief. I thank Ambassador Wittig for inviting Under-Secretary-General Le Roy and the Force Commanders from the African Union-United Nations
Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and th…
I thank you for convening this important discussion, Mr. President. The United Kingdom welcomes your personal commitment and the leadership you have shown on disarmament and non-proliferation. We are very pleased to have this opportunity to take stock since last September’s High-level Meeting on Rev…
