On 3 January 2022 the five permanent members of the UN Security Council issued the following Joint Statement: The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the … Continue reading →
On 13 December Niger and Ireland sponsored a draft resolution that would have requested the UN Secretary‑General to integrate climate‑related security risk as a central component of United Nations conflict‑prevention strategies aiming to help counter the risk of conflict relapse. … Continue reading →
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) embodies a political commitment to end the worst forms of violence and persecution. It seeks to narrow the gap between Member States’ pre-existing obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law and the reality faced … Continue reading →
The Security Council’s first ever discussion of the maintenance of international peace and security in the face of climate change was hosted by the UK, the current chair of the Security Council, and attended by world leaders.
Continue reading →On 27 July 2020 Together First published a report by international legal expert Mona Ali Khalil in which she outlines her recommendations for achievable, short-term reform of the UN Security Council. In the report, Mona Ali Khalil makes a number … Continue reading →
The Together First campaign is commissioning a series of reports looking deeper into specific issues arising from the erosion of multilateralism in our global system. For the first of these expert reports, they have commissioned Mona Ali Khalil to address … Continue reading →
On 23 March 2020 the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, appealed to all warring parties across the world to lay down their arms in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19 — the common enemy that is now threatening … Continue reading →
This is an extract from an article published on the Foreign Policy website on 27 March 2020. The United Nations Security Council is watching the greatest global health crisis in a century unfold from the sidelines, quarreling over the wisdom … Continue reading →
On 12 April 2017, the Security Council rejected a draft resolution that would have condemned the reported chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun and expressed its determination to hold the perpetrators accountable. The following is a … Continue reading →
Published on 29 Mar 2017 Informal comments to the media by H.E. Mr. Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of March, on the situation in … Continue reading →