I thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for presenting the report of 13 February on Timor-Leste (S/2004/117). We are particularly grateful for the presence of Minister José Ramos-Horta, with whose country Chile has deep ties of friendship. We appreciate the analysis of the Secretary-Gene…
At the outset, I wish to thank Mr. Tuliameni Kalomoh for his introduction to the Secretary-General’s report on the Security Council mission to Central Africa.
My delegation considers this exercise to be timely and necessary because the Council’s missions have become a fundamental instrument in its …
At the outset, may I congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and wish you every success.
On behalf of my delegation, I should like briefly to thank others for their kind words addressed to us in connection with our presidency.
I should like to extend to …
I would first of all like to express our gratitude to the Foreign Minister for being with us today. I also wish to express my gratitude for the holding of this meeting of the Security Council on the situation in Kosovo and Serbia and Montenegro. We would also like to thank
Under-Secretary-General J…
Allow me, first of all, to congratulate you, Sir, on the way in which you are leading the Council’s work this month. We particularly welcome the convening of this public meeting on the situation in Bougainville, given that it is very important to know the views of the countries of the region, which …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the members of the Convening Group of the Community of Democracies, composed of the Czech Republic, India, the Republic of Korea, Mali, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, the United States of America and my own country, Chile. Italy, Peru and Romania, spe…
Mr. President, since this is the first time I am making a statement here in an open meeting of the Security Council in the month of December, I wish to extend my congratulations for your assumption of the presidency and I wish you every success in this task. I would like to thank Under-Secretary-Gen…
Very briefly, I wish first to thank the Deputy President of South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma, for his briefing today and for his important work on behalf of Burundi in his capacity as Facilitator. We also thank the Government of South Africa for its commitment to this process.
We believe that the brief…
I have the honour to take the floor on behalf of the members of the convening group of the Community of Democracies, composed of the Czech Republic, India, the Republic of Korea, Mali, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, the United
States of America and, of course, my own country, Chile. Italy,…
We are very grateful for the report of the multidisciplinary assessment mission to the Central African subregion, headed by the Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Kalomoh, and we are also grateful for his briefing today.
Briefly, it seems to us that, in the light of the report, …
I thank the Ambassadors of the United States and the United Kingdom for their briefings on the situation in Iraq, pursuant to paragraph 24 of resolution 1483 (2003).
The evolution of the situation in Iraq undoubtedly arouses the attention of world opinion, and since the last report received by the …
I should like at the outset to express condolences to the Government of Great Britain for the terrorist attack attributed to Al Qaeda that occurred in Istanbul and took the life of the Consul-General of the country, as well as the lives of many others. We also express our condolences to the Governme…
We are most grateful to you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting to discuss implementation of Security Council resolution 1308 (2000). The meeting reflects your wisdom and we commend you on the competent way in which you have conducted the work of the Security Council. We are also grateful for…
Permit me at the outset to thank you for having convened the Council to discuss in an open meeting a matter as universal and timely for the international community as mine action. I am also grateful for the important briefings by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Ope…
We too wish to express our gratitude for the briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Harri Holkeri, who has shed light on the situation on the ground. We completely agree with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General that without the rule of law, wit…
Approximately a year has elapsed since the Secretary- General submitted to us his report containing a large number of recommendations, which we firmly supported, but it seems that progress towards their implementation has not been as positive as we expected.
I will begin my statement by quoting ver…
On behalf of Chile, I join my colleagues in the most vigorous condemnation of the most recent criminal attacks, including against the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Those attacks follow in the wake of the attack against the office of the United Nations itself, which took the life o…
I would like to welcome the Secretary-General to our meeting today and to thank him for his statement.
Chile voted in favour of the resolution for the following reasons. Its adoption opened a new stage in the political, economic and social reconstruction of Iraq. This resolution should be analysed,…
We are grateful to Ambassador Inocencio Arias for his exhaustive and useful presentation of the programme of work of the Counter-Terrorism Committee for the next 90 days and also, in more general terms, for his efficient and effective guidance of the work of the CTC.
I should like first of all to s…
I do not know if I can make my presentation more pithy, but I will try to make it shorter.
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First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on presiding over our work and on convening this very important meeting on Timor-Leste. We are grateful for the comprehensive…
