I thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for his elaborate briefing on the situation in Kosovo.
Last week Mr. Kouchner handed over his charge as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General. That concluded his 18-month-long responsibility in one of the most difficult areas where the United …
Mr. President, we welcome amongst us the presence of Mr. Svilanovic, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We believe his presence in the Council contributes to the involvement of the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Government in support of the Council’s efforts to achieve an ea…
Let me begin by extending a hearty welcome to Senator Biden, who is here with us today. Allow me also to thank Special Representative Jacques Paul Klein for his comprehensive briefing on the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The information he provided has been very helpful.
Against a ba…
Mr. President, let me start by conveying our heartiest congratulations to you on your assumption of the Council presidency. I would also like to pay tribute to Ambassador van Walsum for his distinguished leadership of the Council in November.
We appreciate the comprehensive briefing given by the Le…
Yesterday The New York Times carried a front-page story on the horrors of the war in Sierra Leone. The civil conflict in Sierra Leone has consumed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people — women, men and children — and has created more refugees than there are currently from any other Afric…
Yesterday the United Nations and the international community observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. It is befitting that the General Assembly commenced the debate on the question of Palestine under agenda item 41 to coincide with that.
With your permission, Mr. Pr…
I have the pleasure to introduce, on behalf of the co-sponsors, draft resolution A/55/L.43/Rev.1, entitled “International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non- Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010)”.
Since the publication of document A/55/L.43/Rev.1, four additional co-sponsors have j…
It is a special pleasure for Bangladesh to see you, Madam President, presiding over the Council’s meeting this morning. I agree with the Secretary-General that we should have women presidents more often.
The presence in the Council today of the Vice- Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Mr. Faustino Im…
We thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this meeting on the situation in East Timor. I welcome once again in our midst Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the Secretary General. We very much appreciate his focused, informative and useful briefing
on the latest developments in …
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for scheduling this briefing by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This follows the logic of the meeting we had in March on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. Today’s meeting…
We are considering this important item against the backdrop of humanitarian emergencies which have exceeded by far our worst expectations. We are all aware of the natural and man-made disasters and emergencies of the past year. The Secretary-General’s report (A/55/82) lists some of these major tragi…
Since I am the lone speaker on this item in this meeting, I should like to mention that agenda item 39, “Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies”, is one which is very close to the heart of the Bangladesh delegation. W…
Violence, violence and more violence. This is the only news we are getting out of the Middle East for nearly two months. Given the alarming deteriorating situation in the area, this meeting could not have been more timely.
Permit me at this point to offer my delegation’s sincere thanks to you, Mr. …
We welcome the presence of Judge Claude Jorda, Judge Navanethem Pillay and Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in the
Council and thank them for updating us on the work and overall situation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal…
Mr. President, it is a pleasure once again to see you preside over yet another important meeting of the Council. We deeply appreciate your efforts in coming to the Council and briefing us on your recent visit to Ethiopia and Eritrea. My delegation would also like to express its appreciation to the S…
I warmly welcome Mr. Bernard Kouchner’s coming to brief us in the Council. Some major developments have taken place in the region since he last briefed us in September. His update and views are therefore timely for the Council. His briefing this morning was very thorough, well balanced and with a st…
It is a particular pleasure for me and my delegation to take part in what you, Mr. President, termed as the pièce de résistance of the Dutch presidency: this open debate on the item “No exit without strategy”. We thank you very much for introducing the debate on issues relating to the conclusion or …
Ten years ago, the leaders of the world came together at the World Summit for Children and jointly committed themselves to giving every child a better future. Now, as we set out on the follow-up of the Summit, we remember Jim Grant, the conceiver and architect of what was a pioneering global summit …
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for updating us on the current situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We appreciate the detailed information and analysis with which he provided us on the general elections. This morning, we had an opportunity to deliberate on this issue i…
In a few days we will observe the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord, which was done in Paris. Bosnia and Herzegovina has now emerged as a sovereign State, with internationally agreed borders. The people in Bosnia have had to work hard during the last five years to restore t…
