Thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this open briefing on East Timor. I should also like to thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hedi Annabi, for the comprehensive information he has provided us.
Precisely a year ago the people of East Timor prepared to …
My delegation associates itself with the previous expressions of thanks to the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hédi Annabi, for the detailed report he has given us about the situation in Kosovo and on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Koso…
I should like to begin by echoing the thanks conveyed by earlier speakers to the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Bernard Miyet, for the briefing he just gave us on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the activities of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herze…
We wish first of all to express our gratitude for the 9 August 2000 report of the Secretary-General on Ethiopia and Eritrea (S/2000/785), and for Mr. Miyet’s update at this formal meeting of the Security Council. As we have noted on other occasions, we believe that the format selected for this meeti…
I will be very brief. First, I want to thank you once again, Mr. Acting President, for your flexibility and understanding of the concern expressed by the Latin American and Caribbean Group, and the concern of our country in particular.
I would simply like a clarification. Does the increase by one o…
While acknowledging, Sir, your efforts to accommodate the concerns of all delegations, I once again appeal to your understanding and wisdom and ask that the amendment earlier proposed by the Chairman of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States be incorporated into the draft text: that the nu…
Since I am taking the floor for the first time, I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting and for your constant efforts to achieve a consensus for adoption of the draft resolution.
In connection with the statement that was made by the Ambassador of the Bahamas in his capacity as re…
I wish first of all to thank the Secretary-General for the comprehensive report contained in document S/2000/738, and to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his statement this morning. I wish also to express the gratitude of my delegation for the excellent work being done in East Timor by the United Nations T…
Since 1999 the Security Council has been addressing the question of the participation of children in armed conflict, because it understands that this painful reality of our times represents a grave threat to the future of new generations that will inevitably have consequences for international peace…
Allow me, Mr. President, to begin by commending you for the excellent and timely initiative taken by your delegation of having us once again consider the question of the prevention of armed conflict. Allow me also, through you, to convey my delegation’s thanks for the presence of the Secretary-Gener…
My delegation would like to begin by expressing its appreciation to you, Mr. Minister, for your presence here today and for your decision to preside over this important meeting. We are also grateful for the presence of Mr. Peter Piot, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on H…
We would like to thank Mr. Annabi for the information he provided us this morning.
Since the meeting which the Council held on 9 June to hear a briefing by the Special Representative, Mr. Bernard Kouchner, institutional advances have been registered that include the establishment of the
office of …
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency, and I would like to wish you the greatest success. You can count on our full cooperation. I would also like to express our gratitude and extend our warm regards to Ambassador Levitte and his entir…
Allow me first of all to express my appreciation for the format of this meeting on Somalia. Undoubtedly, the active and broad participation of the Members of our Organization will help us find a solution to the conflict.
We also wish to express our thanks for the very complete information updating …
I should like first of all to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, for the complete and useful information he has given us. I also want to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important meeting. My delegation has always emphasized the …
I would like to begin my statement by welcoming the presence here of Mr. Carl Bildt, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy and Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union. I would also l…
Argentina’s abstention is based on my delegation’s serious doubts regarding the underlying reasons for denying participation in this debate to Mr. Jovanović, particularly bearing in mind previous instances in the Council in recent months especially during the month of December.
I wish to fully clar…
Through you, Sir, I should like to thank the President of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (ICTY), Judge Claude Jorda. His briefing reveals the…
I should like to thank to the Secretary-General for his report and his Special Representative, Mr. Klein, for his eloquent and positive briefing.
As the Secretary-General has indicated in his report, stable peace cannot exist without appropriate mechanisms to promote the rule of law. Hence, the pr…
We would like first of all to express our gratitude for the report given to us by Mr. Bernard Kouchner and to say that we highly value his presence at this meeting.
A year ago the Security Council adopted resolution 1244 (1999), which marked the end of a humanitarian tragedy whose main victims were…
