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lines on the record: 37
first: 2006-05-09
most recent: 2007-04-17
sittings or episodes: 4
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“There are still a number of speakers remaining on the list for this meeting. I intend, with the concurrence of members of the Council, to suspend the meeting until 3 pm. The meeting was suspended at 1.20 p.m. 07-30908”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency, the Honourable Mr. Abdulla Shahid, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives. I give him the floor.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to Mr. Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, to whom I give the floor.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“I extend a warm welcome to Her Excellency Heidemarie Wieczorek- Zeul, the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Also, we would welcome debates in the Economic and Social Council. I am well aware, as has been mentioned, that the meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development this year will focus on energy. I look forward to the output of those discussions. I think this debate has already shown that this is an issue not just of grave concern, but also very much of common concern, and so I judge that we need that shared endeavour to which I referred a moment ago. If it succeeds, we will all enjoy better prospects for security. Climate change is a threat that can bring us together if we have the wisdom to prevent it from driving us apart. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council. On behalf of the Security Council, I now give the floor to the representative of Germany.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“The United Kingdom proposed this debate during our presidency, because we felt that by facing up to the implications of climate change for that collective security, the world will take wiser decisions as we begin to build a low-carbon global economy - not at the cost of development - but to enable us to build a new kind of, indeed, sustainable development, as the representative of Qatar sought. If our shared endeavour succeeds, maybe we can achieve this. Of course, as a number of colleagues have said, there are other organs of the United Nations that have particular responsibilities in respect of climate change, but this is not an either/or. The United Kingdom would welcome substantial debates in the General Assembly. Indeed, I made this issue a particular feature of the speech I made to the General Assembly last September.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“The fact that so many non-members of the Security Council have chosen to speak today is a reflection of the bitter truth that instability will often be visited first and hardest on the already most vulnerable. President Museveni of Uganda, whose economy depends on hydropower from a reservoir that is already depleted by drought, has called climate change an act of aggression by the rich against the poor. He is one of the first leaders to see this problem in security terms. He will not be the last. Certainly for the United Kingdom, climate change is a security issue, but it is not a matter of narrow national security. It has a new dimension. It is about our collective security in a fragile and increasingly interdependent world.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“As a group of the most respected retired American admirals and generals said in a report published just yesterday, climate change is a threat-multiplier for instability. Listening to the debate, I am struck by the widespread recognition that there are significant links clearly already being experienced by some countries between the impacts to be expected from climate change and the increased risks of conflict and insecurity within and between States. The United Kingdom fully agrees that full account should be taken of climate risks as we address the root causes of conflict. And, like other Council members, I very much welcome the Secretary-General's offer to assist us in such work.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“The consequences of drought and crop failure - and, from that, intensified competition for food, water and energy. The consequences of economic disruption on the scale predicted in the Stern report are not seen since the end of the Second World War. Charged as we are with the maintenance of international peace and security, this Council can make a unique contribution to the building of a shared understanding of what an unstable climate will mean for our individual and collective security. We can, and I believe we must, because this Council deals day in and day out with those very kinds of tensions and conflicts that an unstable climate will make yet more frequent and even more dangerous.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“I will now make a statement in my capacity as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom. For the United Kingdom, as for my Belgian colleague and others who have spoken in this debate, climate change is transforming the way that we think about security. Over the last couple of years, the threat we face has grown larger in scale and sharper in outline. Recent scientific evidence has reinforced and, in some cases, exceeded our worst fears. It has given us a picture of the physical impacts on our world that we can expect as our climate changes; and those impacts go far beyond the environmental. Their consequences reach to the very heart of the security agenda. Consequences of flooding, disease and famine - and, from that, migration on an unprecedented scale.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“I would like to welcome the presence of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, at this meeting, and I invite him to take the floor.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“On behalf of the Security Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. Vittorio Craxi, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Italy.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“In accordance with the understanding reached among Council members, I wish to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than five minutes 07-30908 in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. Delegations with lengthy statements are kindly requested to circulate the texts in writing in the Chamber and to deliver a condensed version when speaking. The list of those who wish to speak having been distributed, I think that colleagues will understand why that discipline would be helpful. On behalf of the Council, I extend a warm welcome to His Excellency Mr. J an Kubis, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, to whom I give the floor.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“We are not, in this debate, seeking to pre-empt the authority of those institutions and processes where action is being decided - the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies, the United Nations agencies, and, of course, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Having been the United Kingdom's lead negotiator for five years in that body, I am the last person who would wish to undermine its work, or that of any other. But the decisions that we come to and the actions that we take in all of those forums will be better, stronger and more effective if they are informed by the fullest possible understanding of all of the implications of climate change. So I very much look forward to this unprecedented debate. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“Our responsibility in the Council is to maintain international peace and security, including the prevention of conflict. An unstable climate will exacerbate some of the core drivers of conflict, such as migratory pressures and competition for resources. The recent Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change speaks of potential economic disruption on the scale of the two world wars and of the great depression. That alone will inevitably have an impact on the security of all of us - developed and developing countries alike. So today is about the world recognizing that there is a security imperative, as well as economic, developmental and environmental ones, for tackling climate change and for our beginning to build a shared understanding of the relationship between energy, climate and security.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“I should like to draw attention to document S/2007/186, which contains a letter dated 5 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, transmitting a concept paper on the item under consideration. I should also like to draw attention to document 8/2007/203, which contains a letter dated 12 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba, and 2 document S/2007/211, which contains a letter dated 16 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of Pakistan. I should now like to make some brief introductory remarks in my national capacity, before giving the floor to other Council members. I welcome this debate. There have been some questions as to whether this is the right place to be having this discussion, so let me set out why I believe that it is.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to invite those representatives to participate in the consideration of the item, without the right to vote, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure. There being no objection, it is so decided. At the invitation of the President, the representatives of the aforementioned countries took the seats reserved for them at the side of the Council Chamber. The President: The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“I should like to inform the Council that I have received letters from the representatives of Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, the Sudan, Switzerland, Tuvalu, Ukraine and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in which they request to be invited to participate in the consideration of the item on the Council's agenda.”
2007-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5663 (2007) · source
“We look forward to working with colleagues in the European Union, the Quartet and the Arab world in the coming weeks to develop a new programme aimed at building viable Palestinian institutions that can help deliver peace with Israel and prosperity and security for Palestinians. That is a practical agenda to take us forward. What I believe we may be hearing, and what I would like to see from this meeting today, is a clear commitment of the political will necessary to implement it.”
2006-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5530 (2006) · source
“Pending the outcome of negotiations on a unity Government, the United Kingdom supports an extension of the temporary international mechanism to help alleviate the situation. We are working with European Union and Quartet partners to deliver that. Then fourthly, we must help develop the institutions of a future Palestinian State as a means to build and sustain peace. That is in no way a new idea, but it remains an important and, increasingly, an urgent one. Tony Blair said in Ramallah earlier this month that we needed real international support for the process of peacebuilding.”
2006-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5530 (2006) · source
“We welcome the commitments made by both Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas during Tony Blair's recent visit, to the effect that they were prepared to meet without conditions. I particularly welcome the role of Egypt and other Arab States in working for the release of Corporal Shalit, to help create the conditions for a productive dialogue. Secondly, we need a Palestinian Government with which the international community can engage. That means one that is based - as my Danish colleague said - on the Quartet's three principles. President Abbas is a man of peace and integrity. We support his efforts to form a national unity Government that will work for peace with Israel. Thirdly, we must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
2006-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5530 (2006) · source
“The international community is united in the goal of a two-State solution. Only a handful of extremists, who benefit from ongoing conflict, oppose that vision. I agree with my colleague from Qatar, that we should reinvigorate the road map, which is the framework for getting there. Both sides need to meet their obligations under it. In the Quartet we have a mechanism for coordinating the international community's engagement. I welcome the Quartet's statement from its meeting yesterday, which gives us a clear framework for moving forward. So we are not short of vision or mechanisms or frameworks. What we need are some practical ideas and, above all, the political will to deliver them. I see four immediate priorities. First, contact between the parties must be resumed.”
2006-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5530 (2006) · source
“I share in welcoming you to the chair, Madam President. Events over the summer have shown once again the terrible human cost resulting from the lack of progress towards peace in the Middle East. We have seen it in Gaza, with over 200 fatalities and an appalling humanitarian situation, and in Israel, where rockets continue to fall on civilians. In particular, we have seen its impact in Lebanon, where this summer's crisis had its origins in the continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The central importance of peace in the Middle East has never been clearer. As the British Government has repeatedly emphasized, there can be no higher priority for the international community. I welcome this opportunity for the Security Council to address the issue, and am grateful to the Arab League for the initiative.”
2006-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5530 (2006) · source
“Our own Prime Minister has announced this evening his intention to visit the region, in particular Israel and Palestine, over the coming period, and to consult those there - and, of course, members of the Quartet - on what might be the best way forward. The step we are taking in this resolution today, to bring peace to Lebanon, must be part of a larger process to bring peace to all of the people of the region as a whole. The United Kingdom will do all it can to help bring this about.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“We reiterate our full support for President Abbas and others who are working to resolve the current situation, and we offer our condolences to Palestinians on their losses. Real peace throughout the Middle East can come only on the basis of a lasting, comprehensive settlement. As our Prime Minister said in his speech in Los Angeles on 1 August, we need a new strategy for the Middle East, one that tackles extremism and promotes moderation and reconciliation. Our priority must be to create the conditions for an early resumption of negotiations based on the Quartet road map. There is no military solution to these problems. Negotiation is the only viable way to bring peace and prosperity to the people throughout the Middle East.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“I look to their leaders now to give full support, both to this resolution and to resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), including by denying support for continued warfare to Hizbollah and refraining from other actions that destabilize the region. And I cannot make such an observation without referring to the recent remarks about Israel by the President of Iran. Such comments are wholly unacceptable in themselves, and they have the capacity to promote further violence. Our chief focus today is inevitably on the crisis in Lebanon. But we must, at all costs, as a number of colleagues have said, not lose sight also of the situation in Gaza, where violence continues to take a heavy toll and where the humanitarian situation of the Palestinian people - itself compounded by conflict - continues to cause great concern.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“Hizbollah faces a historic choice: whether to continue on the path of violence and destruction or to support the aspirations of the Lebanese people for a peaceful future through a political path which is itself a path of peace. To implement this resolution we look first and foremost to all the parties to respect its terms. But we also look to those with influence to play their part. Hizbollah's backers, notably Syria and Iran, must now consider their positions - whether they want to work with the rest of the international community to build a peaceful future in the region or to oppose those efforts, at a high cost to the region and ultimately to themselves.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“We cannot achieve one unless we guarantee the other. And that is why this resolution sets out a framework for establishing peace, security and stability in southern Lebanon on the basis of extending the Government of Lebanon's control throughout its territory and, in particular, through implementation of Security Council resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006). For far too long, Lebanon has suffered from occupation, interference and conflict, and it is the civilian population, both in Lebanon and in Israel, which has suffered most. As Prime Minister Siniora has said, this must now end. But we must also see an end to Hizbollah's random attacks continually directed against Israeli civilians. No country can accept its citizens having to live under the shadow of rockets fired from across the border.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“The United Kingdom is contributing Â£62 million to meet priority relief needs in Lebanon. Most of that will be channelled through United Nations agencies. We will also support the Red Cross and a number of non-governmental organizations, whose role will be critical. Faced with a crisis, the international community is often generous in its response. But that very generosity can pose a challenge of coordination. So we 06-4649] are grateful to the United Nations for the leading role it is playing on that front. We urge all parties to take all necessary measures to ensure that humanitarian relief workers can go about their life-saving business without hindrance or fear of attack. At the heart of this resolution is the need to pursue the twin objectives of Lebanese sovereignty and Israeli security.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“United Nations agencies have been working tirelessly, but have faced extremely difficult conditions on the ground. We hope a full cessation of hostilities will allow for rapid expansion of those efforts and those of other relief organizations and bilateral donors; the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) will have an important role to play in that regard. The United Kingdom will play its full part. We are taking immediate steps to provide practical and other support for the Government of Lebanon. The British team of humanitarian experts and experts in post-conflict reconstruction has been in Lebanon, and Prime Minister Blair has been in touch with Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora about ways in which the United Kingdom can support the recovery effort.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“The resolution underlines the international community's determination to support the Lebanese people and Government in making a new start, for there can be no going back to the way things were. We have seen the tragic consequences of that all too clearly in the past weeks: hundreds of dead - mostly civilians - thousands wounded and hundreds of thousands displaced. We grieve for and with them, and we offer our condolences to the Governments of Lebanon and of Israel, and to the families of all those affected, for the losses they have suffered. Such tragedies must not be repeated, and we will do all we can to help Lebanon move forward to live in peace and prosperity with all its neighbours. The immediate priority is to address the humanitarian crisis.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“The United Kingdom very much welcomes the adoption of this resolution. Its objectives are clear: to bring about full cessation of hostilities, to create the space for an urgent humanitarian relief effort and to begin a process leading to a permanent ceasefire and a durable peace. That last point is crucial. It is why it has taken long and 06-4649] intensive negotiations to arrive at today's decision. We needed to achieve a resolution that looked beyond the short term and held out the prospect of a lasting solution. That meant agreeing upon a text that took sufficient account of the positions of both parties: the sovereign and elected Governments of Lebanon and of Israel. That was not straightforward; it has taken time and effort. But the United Kingdom firmly believes it was the right thing to do.”
2006-08-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5511 (2006) · source
“Let us resolve today not to let them down. Today the Council supports the Darfur peace agreement. It supports the African Union. It supports transition to a United Nations force. It supports the people of Darfur. By doing so it honours the values on which the United Nations itself was founded.”
2006-05-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5434 (2006) · source
“Yet despite that the amount of humanitarian aid has decreased as compared to last year. Here again, the United Kingdom has just pledged and additional Â£9 million. I urge others to do the same. The United Kingdom also stands ready to play its part in the wider reconstruction of Darfur, so that its people may return home and live in peace - something that we around this table may take for granted but which for millions of people in Darfur remains a distant hope. What was agreed on paper at Abuja must now be implemented on the ground. It is time for the international community to rally to Darfur's security and humanitarian needs. Since its inception, the Security Council has stood at many moments of history. Now is such a moment. For the first time in three long, hard years of war, the people of Darfur have some hope.”
2006-05-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5434 (2006) · source
“The United Kingdom will do its part and has just contributed an additional Â£20 million. Our second challenge is to speed up transition to a United Nations force in Darfur. We need detailed planning proposals from the United Nations, intensified consultations with potential troop- contributing countries and, above all, the immediate dispatch of a military assessment mission to Darfur. The Government of the Sudan said that it would allow that once a peace deal was signed. I look forward to the Sudanese representative confirming his Government's agreement to transition and to the immediate arrival of the assessment mission. Our final - and, sadly, our continuing - challenge is to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. The humanitarian situation in Darfur is getting worse.”
2006-05-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5434 (2006) · source
“Again like the Secretary-General, I urge the remaining rebel groups to sign up to the agreement, which does represent the only hope for the peace, security and development of the region and the Sudan as a whole. But the agreement is only the start of rebuilding Darfur. This Council and the wider international community face three challenges. The first is to sustain the African Union Mission in Darfur (AMIS). The AU, in its first-ever peacekeeping mission, has done a remarkable job, and that in exceptionally difficult circumstances. We must urgently strengthen AMIS to ensure that the ceasefire prevails. As you said, Sir, I hope that a pledging conference will be convened without delay, and I call on States and international organizations to provide assistance.”
2006-05-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5434 (2006) · source
“Today, after three years of war and with the signing of the Darfur peace agreement at the African Union-led peace talks in Abuja, the people of Darfur at last have a chance for peace. Our meeting today enables us to respond to that opportunity and to ensure that the African Union (AU), the United Nations and others are equipped to meet the challenge it involves. Like the Secretary-General, may I venture to pay tribute to the efforts of President Sassou-Nguesso, President Obasanjo, AU Chairman Konare and AU Special Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim for their tireless work in bringing the talks to a conclusion. I would like to give the agreement they delivered the United Kingdom's full support. I urge the parties to respect their commitments and to implement the agreement without delay.”
2006-05-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5434 (2006) · source