I would like at the outset to thank and congratulate Ambassadors Ripert, Urbina and Mayr-Harting in their capacities as Chairmen of the 1373, 1540 and 1267 Committees, briefings on which have just been presented to us.
First of all, we note with satisfaction the adoption by the 1540 Committee of it…
My delegation would like at the outset, Mr. President, to thank you and the delegation of the Russian Federation for having taken the initiative to organize this meeting, thus giving us the opportunity to consider the important issue of the situation in the Middle East, of which the Israeli-Palestin…
I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. I assure you of the close cooperation of my delegation. I wish also to pay tribute to Ambassador Heller and the Mexican delegation for the excellent manner in whic…
Burkina Faso welcomes the adoption by this Council of resolution 1871 (2009), a resolution that extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), whose actions we unreservedly support. When on 22 April the Council considered the issue of Western Sahara…
I would like to thank you personally, Madame President, and the Mexican delegation — the new Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict — for having organized this open debate on such an important issue as the protection of children in armed conflict.
We note the presence this mornin…
I should like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for having presented the report of the Secretary-General on enhancing mediation and its support activities (S/2009/189). We are grateful to the Secretary-General for having submitted the report, whose main recommendations we support.
My delegation, which assoc…
I wish at the outset, Sir, to offer my sincere congratulations to you and your team on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April; I assure you of our full cooperation. I wish also to congratulate Ambassador Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham and the entire delegation…
I should like to join preceding speakers in
thanking Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his presentation on the situation in the Middle East. I am particularly grateful for the important information with which he provided us.
As the Security Council meets once again to consider the situation in the Middle East, …
At the outset, I wish to welcome Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo. I thank them for their important contributions, and Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for his briefing.
What em…
At the outset, we would like thank the Director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the briefing that he has just given us. When the need for a debate on the humanitarian situation in the Sudan arose, we saw no objection to it, aware as we are of the difficult humanitarian…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abadallah for his briefing on the situation in Somalia and express our appreciation for the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Somalia. We also thank Commissioner Lamamra for his very informative statement.
Reading the Secretary-Gene…
I wish to join previous speakers in thanking Mr. Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his briefing. I would also like to welcome the presence of our colleague, the Permanent Representat…
I wish at the outset, Mr. President, to welcome you as the new Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to the United Nations and to thank you for having convened this meeting to consider the report of the African Union-United Nations panel on modalities for support to peacekeeping ope…
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for the report he has just given us of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). I also thank the Permanent Representative of Iraq for the extremely valuable information he has conveyed to us.
To begin with…
My delegation would like to join others in welcoming the presence at this debate of President José Ramos-Horta. I would like in particular to thank him for his important and encouraging statement. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his decision to personally introduce his report (S/2009/…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Sir, for calling for this debate on the situation in Sierra Leone, and Mr. Michael von der Schulenberg and Ambassador Frank Majoor for their very comprehensive statements. We also welcome the presence here of our new colleague from Sierra Leone, Ambassador Sheko…
At the outset, I, too, wish to tell my friend, Ambassador Francis Butagira, now that he is leaving us, how deeply we have appreciated his effective contributions to the work of the Security Council. I wish him all the best in his future duties.
Mr. President, we would also like to thank you and the…
We should like to join you, Mr. President, in paying tribute to Ambassador Khalilzad and in expressing our good wishes for his future endeavours.
With respect to the resolution that we have just adopted, we would like to thank the delegation of the United States of America for its leadership in the…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which is a subject of great importance and whose consideration by the Council is all the more important in light of the tragedy currently unfolding in Gaza, unfortunately demo…
My delegation welcomes the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1860 (2009) regarding the present serious situation in the Middle East.
The Council could not remain indifferent to the tragedy under way in Gaza, especially in the light of its
mandate, but also of the serious humanitarian conse…
