Author: HM Government

Thank you, Mr President.  I deliver this statement on behalf of the Core Group for South Sudan: Albania, Norway, Ireland and the United Kingdom.  We thank the Commissioners for their report. Its findings depict a grave deterioration in South Sudan’s human rights and security situation throughout 2025. We are deeply concerned by evidence of renewed largescale conflict, unprecedented […]

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UK food and farming take centre stage this week after the first tariff‑free shipment of British beef arrived in the US, alongside the launch of the UK’s first dedicated agri‑food trade mission to Washington DC. The trade mission will build on a milestone of the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal, where both countries agreed to implement […]

Colleagues, this is a fragile moment for the Middle East.   The United Kingdom played no role in the strikes against Iran.   But we are under no illusion about the nature of the Iranian regime.   The Iranian regime has murdered thousands of its own people simply for exercising their fundamental rights and freedoms.   Iran has repeatedly […]

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Thank you, Mr Chair. We hear regularly from the Russian Federation that Ukraine and its supporters are working to undermine peace efforts, alleging that attacks peak precisely around peace talks to derail diplomacy. These accusations are both hypocritical and revealing. They follow a familiar pattern in which Russia attributes to others what it does itself. […]

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Statement by foreign ministers of the Sudan Core Group at the Human Rights’ Council: The Foreign Ministers of the Sudan Core Group at the Human Rights’ Council – Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom – express our collective outrage and profound sorrow at the findings of the Fact-Finding Mission’s report on El […]

Thank you, Mr Chair. Deputy Prime Minister Popșoi, welcome to the Permanent Council today, and thank you for your insightful remarks. The United Kingdom remains a strong and consistent supporter of Moldova’s European integration path. We commend the sustained progress your government has made on democratic reform, rule of law, and the protection of fundamental […]