Our heads of State or Government, in the outcome document they adopted at the 2005 World Summit, advocated a strengthening of United Nations system- wide coherence and in particular called on the Secretary-General to undertake a further consolidation of the management and coordination of United Nati…
My delegation welcomed the decision taken at the 2005 World Summit to establish the Peacebuilding Commission, just as we welcome the sustained efforts to operationalize it as a representative intergovernmental advisory body with the main purpose of translating the international community’s will into…
Madam President, allow me first of all to say how much the delegation of Benin appreciates the high quality of the information contained in the various reports submitted by the Secretary-General by way of reference documents for our discussion on agenda items 48 and 62(a) and (b).
My delegation ass…
Madam President, my delegation is grateful to you for having organized this debate on the report on the work of the Organization (A/61/1 and Corr.1), which the Secretary- General, Mr. Kofi Annan, introduced on 19 September, at the 10th plenary meeting, in a very moving speech which continues to reso…
The President of the Republic of Benin, who holds the chairmanship of the Bureau of Least Developed Countries, was to be present here in order to give his address. However, due to traffic problems, he cannot
attend and therefore has asked me to read out the following statement.
“We have now reache…
My delegation is pleased to have this opportunity to give thought together to the progress report of the Secretary-General on this very important question of the prevention of armed conflict. We welcome the commendable efforts to promote dialogue made by the Department for Political Affairs in draft…
Allow me to express my delegation’s considerable admiration for the skill with which you have guided this debate on the reform of the Security Council, which is reaching its final stages.
United Nations reform received decisive impetus at the September 2005 summit, thanks to the renewed commitment …
First of all, I wish to convey to the Assembly warm greetings from the President of the Republic of Benin, His Excellency Thomas Boni Yayi, who would have very much liked personally to participate in this world meeting on HIV/AIDS and to address the United Nations.
My delegation fully endorses the …
Benin welcomes the positive initiative of the international community to organize this High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
Globalization promotes the mobility of the factors of production, including labour. Like other factors, the cross-border mobility of labour must now…
I would like to thank Ambassador Daudi Mwakawago, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, for the briefing he has just given us in introduction of the Secretary-General’s twenty-seventh, and last, report on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) (S/2005/777). …
Benin voted in favour of resolution 1645 (2005), on the Peacebuilding Commission. We did so because we support that body and that resolution in both spirit and letter.
However, we deem it inappropriate for the resolution to have been submitted under the current agenda item title. My delegation beli…
I would like at the outset to pay tribute to the humanitarian aid workers for their inestimable efforts to halt the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and elsewhere in Africa. In Darfur we must ensure the success of the Abuja negotiations. We must also find ways to stabilize the situation. The Security C…
My delegation wishes to join previous speakers in expressing thanks to Judges Pocar and Møse, as well as to Ms. Carla Del Ponte and Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow, for the briefings they have given us on the activities they have carried out within the completion strategy for both Tribunals by the year 20…
I should like to express to the Secretary-General my delegation’s great appreciation for the clarity of his fifth report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2005/740). I should also like to welcome the presence among us of the Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red …
My delegation would like to join the preceding speakers in thanking the High Representative, Lord Ashdown, for the informative briefing he has just presented to the Council on the developments in implementing the peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It would appear obvious that the normalizat…
Allow me to express from this rostrum my solemn condolences and those of my delegation to the delegation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan upon the terrorist attacks that took place in that country 9 November 2005. We repeat here our condemnation of terrorism in all its forms. My delegation aligns …
Mr. President, my delegation would like to convey our most earnest congratulations to you on this Security Council ministerial meeting that has been convened in order to take a decision on an issue of great importance for international peace and security.
Since it began dealing with the first repor…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this public debate and to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his statement.
By adopting resolution 1325 (2000) five years ago, the Security Council set for itself the objective of providing the international community with a common frame of reference for guid…
We would like to thank the Ambassador of Denmark, the Ambassador of Argentina and the Ambassador of Romania for their briefings to the Council on the activities of the Committees that they chair. It is clear that the fight against terrorism remains a high priority for the international community. Ac…
Allow me first of all to pay tribute to Mr. Jean Ping, who guided the work of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly with great energy. He had the tremendous responsibility of negotiating the United Nations reforms adopted by our heads of State or Government on Friday, 16 September. We comm…
