We would like to express our gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate on the African dimension in the work of the Security Council.
Although it comes as no surprise, the fact that you have taken this initiative does you credit.
The objectives of the Organization as se…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, on having taken the timely initiative of organizing this public meeting on the situation in Côte d’Ivoire.
We thank Mr. Alan Doss for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2005/186), and we welcome Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs o…
I, too, would like to thank Lord Ashdown for his presentation, which highlighted the outstanding progress made by Bosnia and Herzegovina as it moves towards admission to the Partnership for Peace programme and towards the commencement of negotiations for the conclusion of a stabilization and associa…
Let me thank Ambassador Denisov for briefing the Council on the activities of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). I should like also to take this opportunity to commend the Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), Ambassador Rupérez, for his effective work and his…
On behalf of the least developed countries, we have requested the floor in explanation of vote in order to express our surprise, our deep concern and our unanimous disappointment at the request made by one delegation to request a separate vote on operative paragraph 12 of this draft resolution on co…
I would like to echo previous speakers in congratulating Ambassador Muñoz and all the other members of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) for their excellent work. Ambassador Muñoz’s briefing sums up the efforts of the international community in confronting the modern-day s…
We welcome you, Sir, and are honoured to see you in the Chair for our debate today. We commend your delegation for the initiative you have taken to organize this open meeting on a very important topic, given the gravity of the situations to which it refers.
The statement just made to the Security C…
On behalf of the delegation of Benin, I wish to express our great appreciation to Ambassador Motoc of Romania for his dedication and the professional approach he has taken
towards the great responsibility entrusted to him by the Security Council. Under his able guidance, the Committee established t…
I would like to thank the representative of France for the summary of the report that he has given us. I would also like to pay tribute to him for the professionalism he displayed as head of the Security Council mission during our stay in Central Africa. We fully share his analysis of the situation …
Benin sets great store by issues related to the family. We would like especially to hail the efforts made by the international community during the decade to support the family.
We would have liked to have greater support for the resolution that we have just adopted for celebrating the tenth annive…
Allow me at the outset to sincerely congratulate the President on his election to the presidency of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. We would also like to thank him on behalf of the Government of Benin for his efforts to ensure the success of the work of the cur…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his very instructive briefing on the situation in Kosovo. We also commend the representative of the Government of Serbia and Montenegro for his outstanding contribution to our debate.
We greatly appreciated the report of…
I too would like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the two Tribunals for the briefings they have just given us on developments in the implementation of their completion strategies. We note that the two Tribunals are seeking ways to lessen the impact of factors which are holding back pro…
We are indeed pleased that the situation in Somalia is on the agenda for our meeting. The process of national reconciliation in Somalia was begun under the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and has now made significant progress in the last few months. That has brought back hope for a…
Benin voted in favour of resolution 1574 (2004) because we wanted to welcome the broad consensus achieved by
the parties and because we are convinced that the situation prevailing in the Sudan requires urgent action.
The holding of this Security Council meeting in Nairobi attests to the concern of…
Cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, which is aimed at the peaceful settlement of conflicts and the maintenance of international peace and security, is more important
today than ever before. The establishment of the African Union fully conforms with the objective of Ch…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General,
Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, for the excellent briefing he has just given the Council on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2004/888) on the situation in Timor-Leste, which in general is positive. We listened with interest to his personal …
Four years ago the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000), thereby setting the goal of establishing a benchmark for the international community that would guide the actions of States, international institutions and civil society in addressing gender-related problems in the context of effort…
I wish to thank Ambassador Denisov for his briefing and Mr. Ruperez for his contribution to today’s debate.
Since 11 September 2001, the entire world has accurately assessed the threat that terrorism poses to international peace and security. It has become clear that terrorism is a global threat th…
In the period covered by its report, the Security Council faced major challenges calling for the adoption of bold decisions. Delegations to the Council made every effort to analyse situations involved on the basis of the highly enlightening reports submitted to them by the Secretary-General. Thus, t…
