My delegation welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1566 (2004). Terrorism is one of the greatest scourges facing humankind today. It represents a grave violation of human rights and deeply shocks the human conscience. That is why we must be resolute in our struggle to eliminate it.
We expr…
Mr. President, I thank you for organizing this public
debate on a very topical issue. Our Council dealt with this issue last year also. Today’s meeting enables us to continue our reflections so as to constantly improve the work of the international community in providing assistance to post-conflict…
We would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council. We would also like to thank Ambassador Yáñez-Barnuevo for his efforts as President of the Council last month.
We are extremely disturbed by the turn of events in Palestine over the past few days. The situat…
Allow me first of all to address my warmest congratulations to Mr. Jean Ping on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session. Allow me also to pay a well-deserved tribute to Mr. Ping’s eminent predecessor, Mr. Julian Hunte, whose great vitality enabled him to relaunch…
At this stage in our discussions, we do not have any questions to ask. We would like to make a few comments.
At the outset, we would like to thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Obasanjo, for having kindly come to meet with the Council in his capacity as current Chairma…
I would like to express our appreciation for your initiative, Mr. President, in having organized this ministerial-level meeting of the Security Council on civilian aspects of conflict management and peace-building. It is a very topical and relevant theme, given the increasing complexity of United Na…
Benin voted in favour of the resolution that the Council has just adopted, marking a new turning point in the international community’s mobilization on behalf of the Sudanese people and in the search for a speedy resolution to the humanitarian tragedy in Darfur. Throughout the negotiations, my deleg…
Allow me to thank Ambassador Muñoz for his exhaustive and very informative briefing on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) over the past four months.
We also note that this meeting of the Security Council is being held in the wake of the
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Benin voted in favour of resolution 1559 (2004). The initiative of the cosponsors was basically intended to help stability in Lebanon, a friendly country that is recovering from several years of civil war and has managed to restore a peaceful democracy. My country voted in favour of the draft resolu…
Mr. President, my delegation expresses our deepest condolences to you, to your Government and to the families of the victims for the loss of two Russian passenger aeroplanes.
We are grateful to you for organizing this public meeting to consider the situation in Afghanistan and its consequences for …
Mr. President, I thank you for convening this public meeting on the situation in Timor-Leste. I also thank Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his excellent briefing on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2004/669).
My delegation welcomes with renewed sa…
As the first Council member to speak at today’s meeting, let me congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I wish you every success, and wish your wonderful country and your great people all the best as well as peace. I would like to assure you that my deleg…
At the outset, I thank you, Sir, for having taken the felicitous initiative of organizing this public debate and for
ensuring the high level of representation here by presiding over it yourself. We also welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and the Vice- Minister for Foreign Affairs of…
We wish to express our warm appreciation to Ambassador Jones Parry for his excellent introduction of the report (S/2004/525) of the Security Council mission to West Africa, which he headed.
After all that has been said on the subject, we will be brief. Although, given the duration of the mission, t…
My delegation would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your laudable effort to organize this public debate on a very timely subject: the role of civil society in post-conflict peace-building. We are also pleased to note the participation of many civil society actors and the President of t…
The protection of human dignity is the cardinal principle of the United Nations Charter. All States have committed themselves to respecting it. In actuality, we see that this principle is often flouted. The United Nations and humanitarian organizations are coping with growing difficulties in the are…
Resolution 1546 (2004), which we have just adopted unanimously, paves the way for the effective restoration of Iraqi sovereignty, as called for in the timetable for the political process. We welcome the positive developments in the negotiations that led to the adoption of the resolution, which estab…
As the Security Council is gathered this morning for its first public meeting in June, I should like to convey to you, Sir, the congratulations of my country’s delegation on your assumption of the presidency and to assure you of our full cooperation in guaranteeing the success of your mandate.
I sh…
We thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative of inviting the Council to reflect on the United Nations response to complex crises.
The past two decades have been particularly marked by a considerable development of the United Nations role in armed conflicts. The complexity of those conflicts has…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this public meeting, which will allow us to take stock of the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999), entrusted with the implementation of sanctions approved by the Council against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
On the…
