It is with great pleasure that I initiate the discussion on agenda item 28 entitled “Culture of peace”.
We have in front of us the report of the Secretary- General on the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, which began last year.
I thank the …
It is a distinct honour to have the Prime Minister of Somalia with us today. We welcome his statement and recognize his Government’s pragmatic approach and commitment to the peace process. We are also grateful to Representative of the Secretary-General, David Stephen, for his presentation
of the Se…
I wish to thank Ambassador Richard Ryan for his presentation of the fifty-sixth annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. The consideration of the report provides an important occasion for the General assembly to deliberate on the work of the Security Council. As an elected memb…
Let me join previous speakers in thanking Mr. Hans Haekkerup, Special Representative of the Secretary General, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and for his informative briefing and update on its important aspect…
We are meeting here today against a sombre backdrop. The barbaric and catastrophic attacks on the landmarks of our host city and country three weeks back, resulting in a huge loss of human life and destruction of property, has been a terrible tragedy. The attacks on that fateful morning of September…
We have in our hand the report of the Secretary-General issued at a trying and challenging time, as we are still recovering from the shock of destruction of lives and property, caused by attacks in New York, our host city, and Washington. Let me reiterate my delegation’s heartfelt condolences for th…
Thank you very much, Mr. President, for convening this public meeting on a situation that requires continued Council attention and engagement.
I shall first address issues of direct and immediate concern to the Security Council. I refer to regional threats to peace and security in the Central Afric…
Since I am taking the floor for the first time since your assumption, Sir, of the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, allow me to congratulate you on behalf of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. We are confident that under your able guidance we will be …
The Government and the people of Bangladesh are shocked at the despicable, cowardly acts of terrorism committed yesterday in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. We are overwhelmed by the enormous toll in innocent human lives, destruction and damage in cities that these horrific attacks hav…
We welcome very much the presence of the Secretary-General at this meeting, which records a significant success of the United Nations. We would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for his useful briefing on
the various aspects of the election for the Constituent Assembly in East Timor.
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It is a distinct honour and a privilege for us to have you preside over the Council meeting this morning. We give you our warm congratulations on the successful conclusion of the Colombian presidency of the Security Council, and we pay special tribute to Ambassador Valdivieso and his admirable team.…
My delegation appreciated the briefing given by the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Hédi Annabi, which provided the background for our deliberations this morning.
Significant developments have taken place since the most recent meeting of the Council on this subject, in which Ambassador Morjane par…
My delegation would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Guéhenno, for his useful briefing this morning. We particularly appreciated his in-depth analysis of the situation in Kosovo.
At the last Council meeting on this item, held on 26 July 2001, we reiterated …
We have been witnessing in the past few weeks a dangerously escalating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and East Jerusalem. We are extremely concerned at the continuation of the alarmingly high level of violence taking place daily and causing numerous deaths and intolerable human suff…
We thank you, Mr. Foreign Minister, for your personal presence in the Security Council to preside over this meeting that is very relevant to the Council’s mandate. We thank you and the Colombian delegation, under the able guidance of Ambassador Alfonso Valdivieso, for taking the initiative to hold t…
Bangladesh thanks you, Mr. President, for holding this open debate on East Timor. This morning, we heard a very useful briefing by the Special Representative of Secretary- General, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello. His presentation was characteristically cogent and eloquent. We note the substantive progre…
First of all, Mr. President, let me thank you for organizing this open debate on Kosovo. We believe that the exchanges that have taken place so far have been very useful. Those exchanges were preceded by a very extensive and useful briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations,…
Bangladesh appreciates the presence, and the statement, of the Secretary-General at this important meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We believe that his contacts with the leaders of the region advance the cause of peace.
We also appreciate the briefing by Ambassador Kamel Morjane. Lo…
As a focus of its foreign policy and diplomatic efforts, Bangladesh has been stressing that conflict prevention is a political, humanitarian, economic and moral imperative. We therefore consider it a special occasion that the General Assembly of the United Nations, for the first time, is taking up p…
On behalf of the Government of Bangladesh, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Member States of the United Nations for the condolences and sympathy they have extended at this special tribute of the General Assembly on the occasion of the sad demise of the honourable Speaker of the Bangl…
