United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Emyr Jones Parry
The United Kingdom holds one of the five permanent seats on the Security Council. Emyr Jones Parry has served as Britain’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since July 2003. The following is excerpted from Ambassador Parry’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on October 17, 2003. The United Kingdom welcomes and supports the proposal made by the Secretary-General in his speech to the General Assembly on September 23 to set up a panel of eminent personalities to look at the current challenges to peace and security, the contribution of collective action to addressing them, the functioning of the…