Allow me first of all, Sir, to welcome you again to our midst as you preside over this open meeting. Allow me to commend you for the far-reaching choice of the theme “The role of the Security Council in the pacific settlement of disputes”.
The pacific settlement of disputes has constituted and cont…
First of all, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, for this very good initiative. This wrap-up session, and the fact that you have invited the Presidents of the General Assembly and of the Economic and Social Council to take part in it, is indeed very commendable. I would also like to say tha…
Mr. President, I would like at the outset to thank you for convening this meeting on the situation in Timor-Leste.
My delegation welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) (S/2003/449), as well as the briefing pres…
I should like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the situation in Kosovo. My delegation wishes to express its support and appreciation for the Secretary-General’s very substantive report (S/2003/421) and especially to thank Mr. Annabi for the update that he presen…
I would like to start by thanking the President for his initiative to include on the agenda of the General Assembly the subject of the role of diamonds in fuelling conflicts, which is of great importance.
We would also like to thank Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, Permanent Representative of the Republ…
I am very honoured and pleased, Mr. President, to see you back here with us. I think that we should keep you here longer, if Mexico allows, because your presidency is such a welcome one.
I should like to express my great appreciation for the initiative of the Mexican presidency in scheduling this i…
I too would like to thank Mr. Morris for coming here. It is not an accident that he is coming to the Security Council. One might ask why. Mr. Morris deals with food; the Security Council deals with peace and security. Yet, it is important that he has come here. I think the link was established also …
I would like to start by congratulating you, Sir. I am very pleased at your assumption of the presidency for the month of April. Allow me to reiterate our thanks to Ambassador Traoré for the brilliant way that he guided the work of the Council during the month of March; our thanks go also to the ent…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting of the Security Council to examine the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB) (S/2003/345), which allows members to closely follow recent developments and to be kept informed on progress…
At the outset, on behalf of the Angolan delegation, I should like to express our thanks and our recognition to the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC),
Mr. Hans Blix; to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency …
I would first like to congratulate Guinea for the initiative it has taken to convene this special meeting that allows us to analyse and seek effective solutions to problems which have gravely affected the stability of certain regions of the African continent and that have thus contributed to the eco…
Let me start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for presenting this report (S/2003/243) and saying that I am very pleased that you, Sir, have timely sounded the warning on the changing situation. I would also like to join my colleagues in offering my condolences to the Republic of Korea on…
At the outset, I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of March, and to thank Germany for its brilliant presidency during the month of February.
I join preceding speakers in thanking and expressing my appreciation, on behalf…
I would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting on a key problem for the Security Council.
The introduction of targeted financial and travel sanctions by the Security Council against individuals involves a qualitative change in the Council’s sanctions policy, which…
I should like also to join other colleagues in conveying our condolences to the Government of Afghanistan and to the Government of Pakistan on the losses that they have suffered, which we learned of this morning. Afghanistan is a country which has been at war for a very long time and has known a gre…
I wish to start by expressing our appreciation to Mr. Blix and Mr. ElBaradei for their reports today. Their reports, I hope, will help to ease the severe tension we are facing in the world today.
The Security Council is meeting once again to discuss Iraq. The Government of Iraq has been the subject…
I would also like to join those who have expressed satisfaction for the very comprehensive briefings presented this afternoon by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, and by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello.
These briefin…
I would like to start by welcoming the presence, at the beginning of the meeting, of the Secretary-General. I know that he had to leave to attend to other business. I welcome in particular the presence of Mr. Michael Steiner, the Special Representative, and the report that he introduced this morning…
Since I am the first member of the Angolan Government to be on American soil since 1 February, allow me to express my condolences to the American Government and people on the disaster and loss of life sustained in the space shuttle Colombia accident that took place on that day.
Allow me also to con…
Allow me first to welcome France’s initiative to convene this high-level meeting of the Security Council to assess the international community’s efforts in the struggle against terrorism.
They have been very strenuous efforts. The adoption of Security Council resolution 1373 (2001) demonstrates the…
