Author: HM Government

Throughout High-Level Week, we heard a clear and repeated commitment to achieving a two-state solution. It remains the only credible path forwards to a better future for Israelis and Palestinians, founded on lasting peace and security for both. Yet the two-state solution is at risk of being destroyed by the facts on the ground. Mr President, my Prime […]

We, the Foreign Secretary of the UK, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, and the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs of Kenya co-hosted yesterday a meeting of Foreign Ministers to underscore the security risks of the intensifying […]

On 24 September, the United Kingdom, on behalf of the Coalition for Atrocity Prevention and Justice in Sudan and in association with Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Preventing And Ending Mass Atrocities (PAEMA) hosted a high-level event during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly on protecting civilians and frontline responders in Sudan. The event […]

Thank you, Chair. I am making this statement on behalf of Canada, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom. The recent Duma elections were held against a backdrop of severe political repression. As I have said before in this Council, Russia has closed down domestic opposition, squeezed out independent civil society and silenced the independent media. […]

As we heard today, over 100 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide.  For more than two thirds of refugees, displacement is not a passing crisis.  It lasts five years or more, with no durable solution in sight.  A childhood spent entirely in a camp. A home never returned to.  A family still waiting to rebuild. […]

Tens of thousands of civilians in Government of Yemen-controlled areas who have been displaced by escalating Houthi violence will be supported by new UK funding, announced today in response to the declining humanitarian situation in Yemen. Delivered through the UN emergency appeal for Yemen, the £10m package will provide access to child nutrition and food […]

As the son of two Jewish refugees, I speak to this gathering as somebody with profound gratitude for the state of Israel for looking after my grandmother after the Second World War, after she lost her husband at the hands of the Nazis.   I speak as someone that, I think everyone in this room […]

We reaffirm our commitment to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and longer-term recovery, reconstruction and peace in Gaza, including through the work of the Palestinian Authority, the Board of Peace and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG). We recall that the Comprehensive Plan endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution […]

UK support will help provide healthcare, clean water, sanitation and other essential services for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Funding will include support for medical consultations, rehabilitation for children with blast injuries, safe water provision and vital mental health services. Comes as the UK convenes partners with Jordan and Qatar to drive action on humanitarian […]

UK support will help provide healthcare, clean water, sanitation and other essential services for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Funding will include support for medical consultations, rehabilitation for children with blast injuries, safe water provision and vital mental health services. Comes as the UK convenes partners with Jordan and Qatar to drive action on humanitarian […]