First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I should also like to thank Minister Stubb for the briefing he has given us, as the Chairman-in-Office, on the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). I
would also like to assure him …
Belgium’s commitment to the European Union-led military force in Chad and the Central African Republic (EUFOR) has been constant and demonstrates our concern for security and the humanitarian situation in this area. We have been contributing about 100 personnel to the European mission since the begi…
We are fortunate that today’s meeting is being presided over by one of the greatest practitioners of conflict mediation and resolution, President Blaise Compaore, whom I wish to congratulate on his initiative. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General and Mr. Brahimi for their statements.
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It will soon be four years since our heads of State and Government unanimously and irrevocably enshrined the principle of the responsibility to protect. In so doing, we offered a promise of hope to humanity — the promise of a future in which the words genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime…
This is the seventh 90-day report to the Security Council in accordance with paragraph 18 (h) of resolution 1737 (2006). The report covers the period 14 June to 11 September 2008, during which the Committee held one session of informal consultations. Allow me to begin by updating the Council on a ma…
We are pleased that today the Council has renewed the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), which sends a clear message regarding the future deployment of the Mission, which is working in very difficult circumstances to promote the well-being of the populat…
The end of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), eight years after its creation and eight years after the end of the war between the two countries, is an important decision for the Security Council.
The border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea remains unresolved, and the Un…
I wish at the outset to welcome among us Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo. I wish also to welcome Mr. Lamberto Zannier, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and to assure him of our full suppor…
I too wish to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his very detailed and comprehensive briefing. I wish also to thank the representative of Palestine and Ambassador Gillerman for their useful contributions to our debate. On behalf of Belgium, a friend of Israel, I wish Ambassador Gillerman …
I wish to begin by welcoming the presence of Mr. Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal, and of the Permanent Representative of Nepal. I should also like to thank the Special Representative for his comprehensive overview of the current situation in Nepal and of the assi…
The Council has addressed the issue of children in armed
conflict on a number of occasions. Today’s debate, for which I would like to thank the President, is a timely occasion to take stock of the work accomplished by the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, established under resolution 16…
We sincerely regret that the draft resolution could not be adopted today. Although the vote reflected our differing positions as to the means to be used, we are nevertheless resolutely unanimous as regards the seriousness of the situation in Zimbabwe and the goals to be pursued. All Council members …
First of all, my delegation welcomes the presence in the Chamber of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Allow me also to welcome Mr. Eide, who has made his first briefing to the Security Council since he assumed his responsibilities. In three and a half months, he has alre…
My delegation welcomes the Prime Minister of the Republic of Djibouti and the representatives of Eritrea,
the African Union and the League of Arab States. We also thank the Secretariat for its briefing.
Belgium shares the concern expressed around this table regarding the border incidents that took…
I would like to thank the Special Envoys, Mr. Salim and Mr. Eliasson, for their presentations. I would like to thank them also for their tireless efforts over the past 18 months. We would like them to know that Belgium has very much appreciated their commitment.
The briefings that we have just hear…
Allow me too to welcome among us the Secretary-General, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Boris Tadić, and the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Mr. Fatmir Sedjiu.
I would like to briefly highlight three points to which my delegation attaches special importance. First, apart from the …
I would like to begin by joining with those who have welcomed the initiative to hold this debate in the Security Council. I think it is both fundamental and urgent to speak out to express our indignation, to speak out to express our disgust at these tragedies within tragedies. The stories that we ar…
First of all, my delegation would like to welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq. We would like also to thank Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari and Assistant Secretary-General Warren Sach for their respective presentations. Our thanks also go to…
Allow me at the outset to thank you, Sir, for your words of welcome and to express my pleasure at taking my place at the Security Council table. You can rely on my full support and that of my delegation.
I should also like to thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, …
I would like to express my thanks for the reports before us and for the statements made today by Tribunal Presidents Dennis Byron and Fausto Pocar and by Prosecutors Hassan Bubacar Jallow and Serge Brammertz. It is my particular pleasure to congratulate Mr. Brammertz: today is his first appearance b…
