Bulgaria welcomes the convening of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development as a necessary and timely step.
Bulgaria fully supports the position of the European Union delegation expressed at this forum. We share the opinion that migration can contribute to achieving a high…
I congratulate you, Mr. President, most warmly on the occasion of your election to this important post. The tireless support of Bulgaria for your mission will be among the most active, and I would like to express the profound gratitude of my country to your predecessor, Mr. Jean Ping, for his remark…
We welcome this high- level meeting as a timely opportunity to review the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and to reconfirm and, where possible, elaborate on the commitments already undertaken in the crucial area of financing for development.
Although the United Nations has made significan…
At the outset, I should like to express, on behalf of my delegation, our most sincere condolences to the Mission of the Holy See and the Mission of Poland on the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, one of the most important figures of the twentieth century and the first Slavic pope in the his…
Allow me first to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session and to wish you the best of success in your responsibilities.
It is a special honour for me to address the General Assembly today, as I represent the Bulgarian chairma…
I should like at the outset to thank Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, President of the Security Council, for his comprehensive presentation of the report of the Security Council (A/59/2) to the General Assembly. We must note that the Council has accomplished work
whose volume, intensity and political s…
First of all, allow me to extend our condolences to the people and the Government of Morocco with respect to yesterday’s earthquake.
On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria and in my capacity as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), I …
As others have done, I would like first of all to thank the delegations of the United States and of the United Kingdom for their comprehensive briefings on the situation in Iraq.
We commend the tireless efforts of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in pursuing its commitment to establish a f…
First of all, on behalf of the Republic of Bulgaria, I should like to express our strong condemnation of the vicious terrorist attacks that have occurred in Istanbul and to join others in expressing our deep sympathy with the families of all who have been affected by those terrorist acts.
We are gr…
First of all, I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to you, Sir, for having convened this important meeting and for your contribution to putting the HIV/AIDS issue high on the agenda of the Security Council. I would also like to express our thanks to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secret…
Allow me first of all to join others in commending you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting on an issue which, in our view, is of primary importance for the international community. I would also like to thank the Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean- Marie Guéhenno,…
I welcome the presence in the Security Council of Mr. Holkeri and to express Bulgaria’s gratitude to him for his work to date in an extremely important and delicate mission and often in difficult circumstances. I also assure him of Bulgaria’s full support in his tasks.
As an associate country of th…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important meeting, which enables us to assess the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). I should also like to thank the countries — particularly Germany and the Netherlands — that had the good will to be represented at the ministerial level a…
I, too, should like to thank Mr. Sevan for his extremely detailed and in-depth briefing and for the extraordinary work that he has contributed to concluding the oil-for- food programme. The conclusion of a programme of
that scale and complexity in the space of six months is an extremely difficult t…
I welcome the Secretary-General to the Council and thank him for his introductory remarks, as well as for his important contribution to the discussions that preceded the adoption of this resolution.
Bulgaria has just voted in favour of resolution 1511 (2003). My delegation is extremely gratified at…
At the outset, I should like, like previous speakers, warmly to thank the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ambassador Inocencio Arias, for his presentation of the Committee’s programme of work, as well as for the outstanding work he and his team in the Spanish Mission are doing in the co…
Before beginning my statement, I would like to extend the condolences of my delegation and my country on the killing of three United States diplomats in the Gaza Strip. Bulgaria categorically condemns this heinous terrorist act.
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report of 6 Octobe…
Like other preceding speakers, my delegation is extremely disturbed by the extremely serious situation in the Middle East. Bulgaria agrees with the analysis of the situation, contained in recent documents by the European Union.
We have said here and elsewhere that our country strongly condemns suic…
As a country associated with the European Union, Bulgaria associates itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Italy on behalf of the Union.
I believe that Bulgaria, as a Balkan country, has a special role to play in this debate. I shall make a few preliminary …
I should like to extend my delegation’s congratulations to you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of our full cooperation.
I should also like to thank Ambassador Jones Parry for his skilful presidency last month.
Bulgaria categorically condemns the…
