My delegation would like first to express our sincere condolences to Barbados and Argentina.
My delegation thanks President Sang-Hyun Song for his introduction of the sixth annual report of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (see A/65/313). We also express our gratitude to all of the Court’s st…
Allow me to thank and congratulate you, Sir, for convening this follow-up meeting to the High-level Meeting on Revitalizing the Work of the Conference on Disarmament and Taking Forward Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations, of 24 September 2010. Your initiative and engagement will undoubtedly help u…
Switzerland would like to explain its abstention in the voting on resolution 64/296, introduced by Georgia and entitled “Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia”.
Switzerland underlines its support for the discussi…
Switzerland thanks the President for convening these meetings. It almost goes without saying that we support resolution 64/294, which was adopted by the Assembly yesterday, and we thank the President for having undertaken that initiative. We share the feelings aroused by the catastrophic flooding in…
Switzerland supports the process aimed at promoting the right to water and access to sanitation for all, which we believe arises from the international instruments guaranteeing human rights. We would therefore like to send a positive signal to that end, which justifies our vote in favour although we…
I thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene this open debate. I also congratulate you on your active role as Chair of the Council’s Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions. The debate two years ago raised many useful ideas. That is why we loo…
Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to the spirit of the Monterrey Consensus. The United Nations has a valuable contribution to make to intergovernmental discussions on international macroeconomic issues, in particular on financing for development. It is crucial that we strengthen the role of the U…
In its capacity as depositary of the Geneva Conventions, Switzerland has striven resolutely to follow the recommendation made in resolution 64/10. It has already given an account of the progress of its preliminary consultations to the Secretary-General in report A/64/651.
Resolution 64/254, adopted…
In the interest of time, I shall read out only part of the Swiss statement. A complete version will be distributed in the Hall.
Allow me, at the outset, to express my delegation’s gratitude to the Secretary-General for his report on the activities of the United Nations system in implementing the Un…
Switzerland thanks Namibia for its valuable work as Chair of the Kimberley Process over the past year. Switzerland is deeply committed to the process, which has a positive impact in reducing the role of conflict diamonds in fuelling armed conflict and in helping to protect legitimate trade.
With re…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the members of the cross-regional Platform for Human Rights Education and Training, namely, the delegations of Costa Rica, Italy, Morocco, the Philippines, Senegal, Slovenia and Switzerland. Our Platform is an informal cross-regional grouping of …
Not a day goes by that we are not reminded of the urgency of the situation in the Middle East and of the need to provide concrete responses. In this context I would like to stress the following five points.
First, Gaza: Switzerland is deeply concerned by the economic and humanitarian situation in G…
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to address the Council today. Like others, I would like to thank Ambassador Muñoz for his well-informed and well- crafted report, contained in document S/2009/444.
Switzerland’s experience in peacebuilding and our recent experience as Chair of the coun…
Five years ago, we laid the foundation for a peacebuilding structure within the United Nations system. Today, it is clear that building peace is as important a task as that of keeping it. United Nations peacekeeping has reached its limits, while we increasingly recognize the significance of strength…
We would like to briefly take the floor today to reiterate our full support for and commitment to engaging constructively in the process leading to the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting. Now that Member States have agreed on the modality resolution (resolution 64/184), we all have to join forces in ma…
I thank the Chairmen of Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), the 1267 Committee and the 1540 Committee for their very informative briefings. Switzerland supports the statement to be made by the Netherlands on behalf of the like-minded States. I will limit myself to highlighting a few political and leg…
We would like to thank the Security Council for its annual report (A/64/2), and we welcome its presentation to the General Assembly. The report is an important element in the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly, and it provides the basis for an institutionalized dialog…
Switzerland voted in favour of resolution 64/10 for three main reasons. First, we consider the nature of the
conclusions contained in the report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48) require monitoring by the international community. The resolution is an important step in t…
The annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) demonstrates the excellent quality and the scope of the Agency’s work. We offer the IAEA our full support, and we look forward to once again sponsoring the draft resolution on the Agency’s report (A/64/L.7). We hope that the draft re…
My delegation wishes to thank the President of the Human Rights Council for the report on the Council’s activities (A/64/53). It lists the outcomes of two regular sessions — including more than 40 resolutions and 32 decisions on universal periodic reviews — and four special sessions, one of which wa…
