We thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s debate on such an important issue. We also thank the Secretary-General for introducing his first report (S/2009/362) pursuant to resolution 1820 (2008), and welcome the relevant analyses and recommendations it contains.
Sexual violence is among the most hei…
Allow me, on behalf of the delegation of Burkina Faso, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month, and to pay a well-deserved tribute to the delegation of Uganda for the effectiveness with which it steered the work of the Council in July.
I would al…
Permit me at the outset to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Somalia and to thank him for his statement. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, and African Union Commissioner Lamamra for their briefings, which provided updated informati…
First of all, I would like to thank the Special Representative, Mr. Victor Da Silva Angelo, for his
briefing on developments in the situation in eastern Chad and north-eastern Central African Republic.
The security and humanitarian situation in eastern Chad and north-eastern Central African Republ…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, a subject to which we attach great importance.
We also thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for hi…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative to convene this meeting on the situation in Darfur. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary- General Alain Le Roy for his briefing. We welcome the participation in this debate of His Excellency Mr. Mikhail Margelov, Special Representat…
I would like to welcome your presence among us today, Mr. President, as well as to thank you for providing us an opportunity once again to express ourselves on the important issue of peacebuilding, which is the subject of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2009/304). Before moving to the issue b…
I should like at the outset to thank Justice Renate Winter and Mr. Stephen Rapp, President and Prosecutor, respectively, of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, for the very useful information that they have shared with us on the Court’s judicial activities and its completion strategy. We also welcom…
We should like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing following his visit to Myanmar, the second of its kind within a year, to better see first-hand the development of the socio-political and humanitarian situation on the ground and to jump- start the reconciliation and democr…
Let me thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe and Ms. Susana Malcorra for the briefings they just gave us. I would also commend the participation in this debate of our colleague from Somalia.
Burkina Faso is very concerned over the current situation in Somalia, which is marked by a very serious deterioration in ter…
As you conclude your duties as Permanent Representative of your country to the United Nations, on behalf of my delegation I, too, should like to pay tribute to you, Sir, above all for the excellence with which you presided over the Security Council for the month of June, as well as for the quality o…
At the outset, I thank you, Sir, for choosing the topic of United Nations peacekeeping operations as the subject of our discussion today. I should also like to thank Mr. Le Roy and Ms. Malcorra for their briefings.
The maintenance of peace is one of the principal responsibilities of the United Nati…
We thank you, Sir, for having convened this debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. Given that the Council is once again taking up this question in the
course of six months, the importance of the issue is evident. We also thank Under-Secretary-General John Holmes for his briefing o…
I would like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his presentation of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2009/284) on the situation in Iraq and, as he is completing his post as the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), to pay tribute to him for his valuable contribution to th…
At the outset, allow me to welcome the presence at this meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Vuk Jeremić, and of Kosovo, Mr. Skender Hyseni. I also duly thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his briefing.
It is with …
The delegation of Burkina Faso voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted to us because we wanted, at this stage, for the United Nations to be able to maintain a presence in the region without the mission finding itself in legal limbo. The parties would then have had an opportunity to pursue …
Burkina Faso, which is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and actively advocates the timely entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, voted in favour of resolution 1874 (2009), which we have just adopted, because it firmly believes in the need for …
I wish to thank the Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) and the Chairman of the Sierra Leone configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission for their very instructive briefings. I also welcome the presence …
Allow me at the outset, Mr. President, to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of your country and to take this opportunity to congratulate you on Turkey’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also wish to commend Ambassador Churkin and his team for their effect…
I should first like to welcome the presence here today of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whom we would also like to thank for his important statement. I should also like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, who has just assumed his new functions as High Re…
