I should like first of all to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for his statement and his highly relevant comments on the topic of discussion today.
Belgium associates itself with the statement which our Slovenian colleague will be making soon on behalf of th…
I too wish to extend heartfelt condolences to China and Myanmar.
I thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this debate on post-conflict peacebuilding. Belgium associates itself with the statement to be made by the representative of Slovenia on behalf of the European Union.
The concept paper …
I should like at the outset to thank the High Representative, Ambassador Lajčák, for his presentation and for his report to the Security Council (S/2008/300, annex, enclosure). I should also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovin…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate, which is providing the Security Council with an opportunity to revisit the question of the proliferation of and illicit trade in small arms, a matter of great concern. I thank Ms. Hannelore Hoppe for her
introduction of the report o…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his presentation, as well as Ambassador Khalilzad for his briefing on behalf of the Multinational Force.
Belgium welcomes the improvement in the security situation in Iraq in general, and in Baghdad in particular. However, the situation …
At the outset, I wish to commend and, above all, to thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s very important debate. We welcome the resolve of Africa and its leadership to bring peace, security and development to their continent. I can assure you that we share your conviction that those objectives can …
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his introduction at the beginning of this meeting. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Under- Secretary-General for his briefing.
Belgium associates itself with the statement to be delivered by our colleague from Slovenia in his country’s…
A few days ago, the European Union (EU) paid tribute to the memory of the victims of terrorism. Four years following the Madrid attacks, the date of 11 March has become a day of remembrance in Europe for all the victims of terrorism, whose numbers are unfortunately continuing to increase. In that re…
This is my fifth 90-day report to the Security Council, which I am delivering in accordance with paragraph 18 of resolution 1737 (2006). The report covers the period 19 December 2007 to 17 March 2008, during which the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) held no …
First of all, I would like to thank the Under-Secretary- General Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing and presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Afghanistan.
Let me, through you, Mr. President, welcome the presence of Mr. Kai Eide and congratulate him, on behalf of Belgium…
Belgium voted in favour of resolution 1803 (2008), and we welcome its adoption by a very large majority. Belgium took note with great interest of the statement issued by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, wit…
I would like first of all to express my gratitude to Under- Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno and to our colleague the Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste for their clear briefings.
I would also like to state that my delegation fully endorses the statement that will be made shortly by my Sl…
Allow me first to welcome the presence of the President of Serbia among us today, as well as that of the Secretary- General.
Today, the Security Council is considering, once again, the question of the status of Kosovo. In October 2005, the Council supported the Secretary-General’s proposal to initi…
As the most recent Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme demonstrates, we can no longer distinguish the climate agenda from that of development. It is in that conviction that, in my capacity as Minister for Development Cooperation, I am participating in this debate, an…
How many of us around this horseshoe-shaped table have children? Who in this Chamber does not want the best for his son or daughter? Three hundred thousand
children have been forcibly separated from their families. That represents half of Belgium’s children between the ages of 11 and 15. Let us thi…
I thank Mr. Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for their briefings at the outset of our debate. Also, we listened carefully to the statement of our colleague, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations.
Let me begin by s…
At the outset, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing.
The Security Council is holding a second debate in a week on the situation in the Middle East. We spent numerous hours last week discussing a response to the latest developments in Gaza and southern Israel. W…
First of all, like others before me, I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for his briefing. My delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made later by the representative of Slovenia on behalf of the European Union.
The situation in the Gaza Strip and the south of Israel…
I would like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his first briefing and for the impact he has already had on the work of the United Nations in Iraq. I also thank Ambassador Khalilzad for his briefing on behalf of the Multinational For…
This is my fourth 90- day report to the Security Council, which I am delivering in accordance with paragraph 18 of resolution 1737 (2006). The report covers the period from 20 September to 18 December this year.
During the reporting period, the Committee held no sessions of informal consultations, …
