I would like first of all to thank Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa, for his briefing on the Agreement reached in Pretoria on 6 April among the parties to the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire.
We are gratified by the results of the mediation carried out by President Mbek…
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the 19 States members of the Rio Group: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Thes…
The Argentine Republic voted in favour of this resolution on the basis of the report submitted to the Security Council by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which stated clearly that serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity had been committed and verified in Darfur.
The r…
To begin, the Argentine delegation would like to congratulate the delegation of Brazil and to thank it for proposing today’s topic. We believe that selecting the topic of the African dimension in the work of the Security Council was extremely appropriate, considering the number and importance of Afr…
At the outset, we want to thank you, Mr. President, for
having organized this meeting regarding a country that is experiencing a unique situation, as described by Mr. Alan Doss, Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, whom we thank for presenting the Secr…
Like previous speakers, I am pleased to congratulate the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Barisa Colak, for his statement and to thank Lord Paddy Ashdown, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his comprehensive report on t…
First of all, I should like to express our solidarity and our condolences to the people and the Government of Bangladesh and to the families of the soldiers who died recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
I wish also to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-…
I wish first to thank the presidency of Benin and you, Sir, for convening this important meeting. Argentina welcomes and is gratified by your presence at this meeting of the Security Council. We also welcome the presence of the Secretary-General and extend our thanks to his Special Representative an…
At the outset, I would like to join previous speakers in thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen, for his thorough briefing on activities carried out by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), in accordance with Security C…
My delegation would like at the outset to thank the Government of Benin for having taken the initiative to convene this open debate on children and armed conflict. I am very pleased to see also that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Benin is presiding over our work, and we are sure that this will …
Permit me at the outset, Mr. President, to express my appreciation for your country’s interest in holding this open debate on the issue of small arms, which affect the daily lives of millions of persons. Permit me also to thank, through you, Mr. Nobuyasu Abe, Under- Secretary-General for Disarmament…
I have the pleasure of speaking on behalf of the delegations of Argentina and Brazil on agenda item 36, entitled “The situation in the Middle East”, and agenda item 37, entitled “Question of Palestine”. Our delegations would like to avail themselves of this opportunity to express once again the sorr…
The Argentine delegation associates itself with a statement made yesterday by the representative of Chile, whose views we share. We wish in particular, as other delegations have done, to highlight the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on …
I would like at the outset to thank the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry, for his introduction of the annual report of the Security Council for our consideration.
The annual discussion of the report of the Security Council in plenary meeting is, we bel…
At the outset, the Argentinian delegation would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the work of the Organization (A/59/1), which serves as a basis for our current deliberations.
My country would like to reiterate the fact that it values the work that the Organization has been doin…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the delegations of Brazil and Argentina with regard to agenda item entitled “The situation in the Middle East”.
A process began 15 years ago at the Madrid Conference that should have culminated in the achievement of a just and lasting peace in the various tra…
At the outset, let me commend you, Mr. President, for
convening today’s meeting. My country welcomes the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Jamaica, The Honourable K. D. Knight, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas, who have expressed their concern with respect to the problem of Haiti, …
The Argentinean delegation is honoured to submit, on behalf of the sponsors, draft resolution A/58/L.43 entitled, “Participation of volunteers, ‘White Helmets’, in the activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development”, wit…
The Argentine Republic voted in favour of draft resolution A/58/L.28, on the Syrian Golan, because we believe that its essential aspect is linked to the illicit nature of the acquisition of territory by force. Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations prohibits the threat or use o…
My delegation wishes to associate itself with the statement made this morning by the delegate of Peru on behalf of the Rio Group. In that statement, reference was made to most aspects of this topic, and my statement will therefore be limited to two essential comments.
For many years, the major inte…