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  1. “In conclusion, Afghanistan continues to face a number of significant challenges in 2018, but this is also a year of real opportunity. With timely elections and the launch of a credible political and peace process, this year has the potential to be the one that Afghanistan finally and irreversible turns a corner. However, as the United States Deputy Secretary of State so rightly pointed out, the commitment to this must be conditions- based, and not driven by timelines. We need, at times, to be patient. That is in everyone's interests - most of all that of the Afghan people, who have waited so very long peace. Let us therefore all pledge today to do everything we can within the Security Council and beyond to support the efforts to bring about that peace and stability.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  2. “It takes vision, courage and leadership to begin a conversation with your adversary after years of violence and bloodshed. However, the time is now surely ripe for that conversation. The people of Afghanistan deserve peace. We therefore urge President Ghani and the Government to use the meeting to reach out to the insurgents and to try to launch a credible peace process. All of us here today should collectively and individually express our full support for this peace process, which is vital to Afghanistan's long-term stability. Credible, inclusive and timely elections are also essential. We commend the work of various United Nations bodies in helping the Government to prepare for parliamentary and presidential elections this year and next.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  3. “We are also working closely with in NATO to support Afghanistan. Our non-combat troops have played a crucial role in supporting the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces. Through the National Army Officer Academy, we have helped to train over 3,000 cadets - Afghanistan's military leaders of the future. But ultimately, I am sure that, as others have done, or will do, during the course of this debate, the solution to long-term peace and stability lies not within the military but in a peace process that is Afghan-led and Afghan-owned. That is why the forthcoming meeting of the Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation is so very important. We encourage all of Afghanistan's regional partners to fully support those efforts towards peace.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  4. “There is a clear appetite for it within some of the most important regional groups, such as in the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan and the Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference. I believe that today's meeting is an important opportunity to demonstrate the Council's wholehearted support for that type of cooperation. However, there is still a long way to go before Afghanistan's Government and people achieve their goal of building a more stable and prosperous country. The United Kingdom will continue to play our part within the international community in supporting that goal. We have committed up to £750 million for the four years up to 2020 to help support the Afghan Government's work to improve security, reduce poverty and increase broad access to health and education.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  5. “We warmly welcome the efforts under way to improve the links between Afghanistan and its regional partners in South and Central Asia. I believe that is critical to achieving greater economic development in Afghanistan, which of course is an essential factor for long-term stability. Such cooperation will help find common economic interests to reduce frictions and provide further avenues for resolving disputes. The Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project is a great example of the benefits of this type of regional cooperation. Afghanistan and its neighbours have worked together and alongside the international community to overcome significant challenges, bringing that important endeavour to the point of implementation. We are confident that much more regional cooperation will now follow.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  6. “I commend you, Mr. President, for your leadership, your foresight and diplomacy in convening this important and timely debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his insightful briefing. As many have observed during the course of this debate, regional partnerships are crucial to achieving long-term peace and security. That is particularly important when we consider the future prosperity of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is making genuine sustainable progress in overcoming its many challenges. I saw that myself when I visited Kabul only three months ago. The international community has a crucial role to play in encouraging and promoting that progress, as do the regional partnerships and the initiatives that have been discussed here today.”

    2018-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8162 (2018) · source

  7. “We recognize that Russia is playing an important part in the Iranian issue, so it is not that Russia is being obstructive across the board, but in relation to the Syrian matter, as I said, with an expert independent body that came up with a report that Russia did not like, it sought to veto it, which sends an extremely dangerous signal for future nuclear proliferators and one that I think we should all roundly condemn. The meeting rose at 1 pm.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  8. “These were the facts that Russia then did not like and so it was on that basis that it chose to veto the JIM, and in so doing, it set back the whole issue of non-proliferation and all of our efforts and destroyed a global consensus against the use of chemical weapons. This is very dangerous precedent, as I said in my original comments. It was also, I think, a sad day for us all here in the Security Council, but most importantly it was a calamity for the Syrian people. I would therefore simply urge Russia to use the very considerable influence that it wields to stop Al-Assad from using chemical weapons in future and to comply with his country's obligations.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  9. “I simply would like to restate the facts of which everyone in the Security Council is well aware: Russia was - and we accept this fact 4 a key player in creating the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). We were very delighted to see that it played its full role in that regard. The Security Council will recall that Russia voted to establish the JIM. (resolution 2235 (2015)). It voted in favour of a report and resolutions that set out the very detailed methodology that the JIM. was to follow. This was an independent expert body. It then made a key undisputed finding of fact: the fact that the Syrian regime - the regime of Al-Assad - had gassed its own people.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  10. “As ever, it is the unity of the Security Council and the United Nations beyond that is Vital. Together, we must continue working to prevent proliferation; together, we must hold to account those States that breach our rules; and together, we must persuade and cajole would-be proliferators to abandon their ambitions to develop weapons of mass destruction. The United Kingdom remains ready to work closely with all members of the Security Council towards these important goals, which I believe are essential for the future security of humankind.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  11. “We believe that the best way to achieve this goal is through gradual multilateral disarmament, negotiated step by step, within existing frameworks. There is much more that we can do if we continue to work together. We can continue the voluntary moratoriums on nuclear weapon testing and also work for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. We can prevent nuclear, chemical and biological material from falling into the hands of terrorists by working for full and effective implementation of resolution 1540 (2004), and we can tackle the threat of ballistic missiles by encouraging Member States to consider acceding or adhering to the missile technology control regime and the Hague Code of Conduct. The Security Council has, as we know, a very special role to play in safeguarding international peace and security.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  12. “Although the pace of non-proliferation and disarmament is often frustratingly slow, it is Vital not to lose sight of the ambitious vision that the Treaty embodies. Its achievements stem from its development over time by consensus and because it has offered tangible benefits to each and everyone of its signatories. By contrast, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons would offer no solutions to the very complex security challenges that we face, nor in my view to the significant technical challenges of nuclear disarmament. That is why the United Kingdom will not become a party to the nuclear weapon-ban treaty. We do not consider that its prohibitions represent an emerging rule of customary international law. The United Kingdom remains committed to a world without nuclear weapons.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  13. “I fear that the Council's lack of unity and resolve on Syria sends the most dangerous possible signal of a confused message to would-be proliferators of the future. The Security Council must be prepared to hold all transgressors to account and the United Kingdom implores those in the Council who have stood in the way of action to join the consensus for the future. The lesson for the Council could not be clearer. When we work together, we can persuade and cajole States to abandon their ambitions to obtain weapons of mass destruction. If we do not, it is the most vulnerable - civilians, often - who suffer and the security of the world is put at risk. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons remains a cornerstone of international security.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  14. “We agreed that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's development of a nuclear programme is illegal and cannot be accepted. In response, the Council collectively has imposed the strictest sanctions in a generation with a number of Security Council resolutions. We may rest assured that these measures are already having an impact. The Security Council must, in my View, continue to stand united on both North Korea and Iran. By contrast, the Security Council has not been as united in response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Regrettably, it has been Russia that has repeatedly wielded its veto in the Council, despite clear conclusions from an impartial independent expert investigation set up by the Council itself that the Syrian regime and Da'esh have repeatedly used chemical weapons.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  15. “Through our painstaking joint diplomacy and accorded pressure, Iran finally came to the negotiating table. Collectively we agreed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which we in the United Kingdom continue steadfastly to support. We should always remember that before the deal, Iran could have produced enough fissile material for a weapon in a few months. Now all experts would suggest that this would take at least a year. All of us in the Security Council should be proud of this success that we achieved by working together. Let us continue this work. On North Korea, rightly, we have had successes, not least because we have worked together. North Korea has repeatedly and continuously flouted our non-proliferation rules with deepening consequences for international security.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  16. “Together we have painstakingly constructed a comprehensive set of rules, norms and standards that counter the proliferation of all types of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. If the rule book that we have written together is to remain effective in this century, we must all meet our responsibilities to protect and implement our common rules, norms and standards, and we must hold those who breach them properly to account. The success or failure depends upon our ability to work together, and this is illustrated most recently by the examples of Iran, North Korea and Syria, which I shall now briefly discuss. The threat of a nuclear Iran brought the international community - the Security Council - together to defend our commonly held rules and to protect our shared security interests.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  17. “On behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, may I warmly congratulate Kazakhstan on becoming the first Central Asian nation to steer and preside over the Security Council. As has been pointed out, its historic commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament is well known. We welcome this important debate because our collective security and prosperity depend upon an effective global non-proliferation regime. It is sometimes easy to forget just how recently the global community first coalesced around a common strategy in this sphere. There were very dark predictions made during the 1960s and the 1970s of a bleak world in which there would be dozens of nuclear armed States vying with each other. Yet today, thanks to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, that number of nuclear States remains in single figures.”

    2018-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8160 (2018) · source

  18. “That is the real path to security and prosperity for the North Korean people; only Kim can now make that choice, and all of us here must work together to persuade him to make the right choice. Our message to Kim Jong Un and his regime must therefore be clear and united. For the well-being of his countrymen and the safety of his neighbours in the wider world, he must change course. I hope that the North Korean representative present here today conveys that strong message back to Pyongyang. We must all work together and use all the diplomatic and economic tools at our disposal to deliver this uncompromising message. Let us stand firm and stand fast to our values. The world looks to all of us here to defend our system of international security. For the sake of future generations of humankind, we must now rise to the challenge.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  19. “We must share information and expertise to prevent North Korea from using front companies or illicit channels to evade sanctions. We must all cooperate fully with the highly competent and professional United Nations Panel of Experts on North Korea sanctions, whose work we strongly recommend and will continue to support actively. But we should be clear that the reason we enforce sanctions is to force Kim Jong Un to see that he has a choice of two paths. The path he is currently on will lead his country to greater poverty and isolation, and threatens the security not just of North Korea but of the entire world. He can and must choose to change course. He can choose to comply with the Security Council's resolutions and join the community of law- abiding nations. He can choose to let his people express themselves through debate and commerce.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  20. “In response to those actions, the Council has unanimously and appropriately decided to impose the strictest sanctions in a generation on North Korea. Our community of nations has shown its deep condemnation of the regime by taking the sanctions seriously. And, of course, that has started to have an impact. We all have a responsibility to ensure that the sanctions are fully and properly implemented so that they have the desired effect. Now that North Korea's arms dealers are discovering that their usual routes to clients are closed, its diplomats are struggling to process bank transactions for contraband goods and their exporters of manual labour are finding that their contracts are not being renewed. We must therefore not only keep this pressure up but increase it.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  21. “We heard multiple examples of Violations of foreign citizens' rights, including those of your own country, Mr. President. Today we meet once again to condemn North Korea's illegal and dangerous nuclear-weapon programme. Kim Jong Un claims that he wants to be a responsible actor and to bring security and prosperity to his people. The regime's actions, exemplified by its systematic violation of human rights and its nuclear- weapon programme, demonstrate precisely the opposite intent. North Korea's pursuit of an intercontinental nuclear weapon is increasingly destabilizing for us all. It has fired some 20 ballistic missiles this year. We have seen three intercontinental ballistic-missile launches and two missiles launched across the territory of northern Japan.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  22. “It is our collective responsibility and in our collective interests to ensure that all nations stand by their commitments and obligations under the Treaty and its associated agreements; it is also our duty as members of the Council, and as responsible international actors. We must abide by our collective rules, defend our values and work together in the Council to safeguard a system of international security that benefits the whole of humankind. North Korea repeatedly and wilfully rebuffs that system and our collective values. Earlier this week, members of the Council heard appalling and harrowing accounts (see S/PV.8130) of the regime's brutal treatment of its own people - of women forced to drown their newborn babies because the regime did not consider them to be racially pure.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  23. “I would like to thank Foreign Minister Kono for bringing us together in today's important meeting under Japan's presidency of the Security Council. I also thank the Secretary- General for his comprehensive briefing on the clear global threats and challenges that the destabilizing conduct of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea presents to us all. I would like to start by discussing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It was and is a great diplomatic achievement and remains a cornerstone of our international security. As signatories, we have all benefited from its protections.”

    2017-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8137 (2017) · source

  24. “I believe that it will only create unnecessary divisions and undermine the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which rightly sits at the heart of all of our non-proliferation efforts. The Security Council has a heavy responsibility to protect international peace and security. Member States share that responsibility and must play their part in implementing the Council's resolutions. We now need to work tirelessly together to stop proliferation, save lives and make the world a safer place.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  25. “The United Kingdom Government urges Council members to support the vital work of the Council-mandated OPCW-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism and to renew its mandate, and we must keep up the efforts to prevent non-State actors from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction, based on resolution 1540 (2004). We all recognize that these proliferation challenges are very complex. They require a persistent and united approach in line with existing treaties and norms. That is why the Government of the United Kingdom, for one, does not believe that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was opened for signature yesterday, is helpful.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  26. “Iran must also continue to do so if we are all to have confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear programme. However, while the JCPOA has dealt with one risk, others, as we all know, remain. Iran continues to play a destabilizing role within its region and its ballistic-missile testing is still inconsistent with resolution 2231 (2015). Iran must respect the call of the Council and cease such activities. As other members have said, the situation in Syria also poses the most serious proliferation challenges. This year, sarin gas has again been used as weapon, in a clear violation of the international prohibition of the use of chemical weapons. There must be no impunity for the perpetrators of such terrible crimes against humanity.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  27. “That is why we must all continue to press North Korea to respect the Council's resolutions and, even at this late stage, to change its reckless course. We must enforce the measures that we have adopted and be prepared to expand them if North Korea continues on that reckless path. Turning to the very different case of Iran, we now know that the multilateral system can and will continue to deliver results. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has succeeded in limiting Iran's nuclear capability. Iran has rolled back its nuclear programme, and the International Atomic Energy Agency has had unprecedented access. The British Government will therefore continue to abide by its commitments under that deal and urge the other parties to do the same.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  28. “I was in Seoul only last month and was struck by the focus of President Moon Jae-in's Government in trying to resolve the situation, recognizing that what has long been a regionalized dispute now has truly global ramifications. Secretary Tillerson has made it clear that the United States does not regard it as desirable to work for regime change or accelerated reunification of the peninsula, to garrison its forces north of the thirty-eighth parallel or indeed to harm the North Korean people. Yet the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has responded with more missile tests and another nuclear test. While the regime prioritizes its military programmes, the people of North Korea suffer deprivation and hardship.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  29. “Individually and collectively we must enforce these rules, working through bodies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), or as groups of concerned States. If we are to succeed, the Council and strong multilateral institutions must be at the heart of that approach and we must persist when countries continue to defy the international rules-based system. That is why it is right that we have collectively developed a framework of sanctions against North Korea and continued to strengthen those sanctions in the face of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's dangerous provocations.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source

  30. “I thank Secretary Tillerson for calling this important meeting of the Security Council. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is one of the gravest regional and international security concerns. This threat does not respect national borders, and the proliferation of such weapons must end. We all have a part to play in this.Our shared rules and norms are designed to keep the world safe. The Council has a responsibility to prevent proliferation, tackle threats and respond when these weapons are used. Individual nations also have a responsibility to implement the measures imposed by the Council and indeed to be ready to go further when the situation requires.”

    2017-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8053 (2017) · source