We would like to thank you, Madam President, for having organized this debate. We also express our appreciation to the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report and our thanks to Under-Secretary-General Holmes and to High Commissioner Pillay for their comprehensive briefings today. We also wish…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council and assure you of the full cooperation and support of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would also like to express our appreciation to Ambassador Heller and his delegation for the great diplomat…
Let me first thank the Secretary-General for his detailed report on the latest developments in Afghanistan and the United Nations activities in the country (S/2010/318). I would like to welcome Special Representative Mr. Staffan de Mistura and to express our gratitude for his comprehensive briefing.…
At the outset, let me thank you, Mr. President, for convening
this meeting of the Security Council to discuss such a significant issue. Noting that our last debate on this issue took place in 2006 (see S/PV.5474) and that this very month we deliberated the progress and contributions of the ad hoc t…
I would like to welcome today the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and to thank them for their detailed reports and extensive briefings. We note once again their hard work and dedicati…
At the outset, we would like to thank you, Mr. President, and Her Excellency Ms. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano for convening this debate, thus showing that Mexico attaches special interest to the issue of children in armed conflict. As a country with critical experience, Bosnia and Herzegovina feels …
At the outset, let me welcome His Excellency President Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for the Sudan; Mr. Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secretary-General; Mr. Gambari, Joint Special Representative; and Mr. Bassolé, Joint African Union-United Nations…
I would like to stress once again that Bosnia and Herzegovina was among those who nourished the hope that the issue at stake could be resolved through negotiations and in a manner that would satisfy the concerns of all. However, we find ourselves confronted with further aggravation regarding a compr…
At the outset, Bosnia and Herzegovina would like to welcome the report of the Secretary-General on the progress made in the implementation of the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (A/64/735).
Bosnia and Herzegovina has aligned itself with the …
At the outset, we take this opportunity to warmly welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. We also welcome Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco, and thank him for his briefing today.
Bosnia and Herzegovina would like to join other members of the Security Council …
At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to commend Your Excellency for convening this briefing in order to discuss the very important topic of intercultural dialogue for peace and security.
In an increasingly globalized world, different nations and civilizations live together and interact with e…
I should like to welcome and thank His Excellency Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti, for his presence and for his statement to the Council. We appreciate the constructive role played by Djibouti in the region and applaud President Guelleh’s personal efforts in that regar…
On behalf of the delegation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I would like to express our appreciation to the Secretary- General for his comprehensive report (S/2010/169) on the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK). I would also like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative …
At the outset, I would like to join my colleagues in welcoming the First Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Abdurahman Ibrahim, and in thanking him for his important statement. I further wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ould Abda…
I would like to express our appreciation for the convening of this debate. We consider it to be an excellent opportunity to provide more information about the Committees, adding to the transparency and better understanding of their work.
At the outset, I would like to thank each of the Chairmen for…
I am honoured to have the opportunity to be here on this special day and to participate together with all of those gathered to commemorate the victims of the Second World War and to celebrate the sixty-fifth anniversary of its end. That historic day undoubtedly determined the future of humankind and…
I would like first of all, Sir, to congratulate you and the friendly Mission of Lebanon on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of May. Let me also congratulate the Japanese Mission on its very successful presidency during the month of April.
I welcome the convening of thi…
I would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti, for his presence here today. I would also like to thank Mr. Edmond Mulet, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, who has acted in that position from the very beginning of the crisis. We wish him every suc…
I should like to begin by thanking Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, and Ms. Margot Wallström, Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, for their informative briefings.
Bosnia and Herzegovi…
The delegation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is very pleased to join all members in celebrating International Mother Earth Day. We would like to thank the Plurinational State of Bolivia for initiating this plenary meeting of the General Assembly. We strongly support resolutions 63/278, “International Mo…
