The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Madame President, for your statement.
China endorses the statement made by the representative of Yemen on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, and takes this opportunity to commend the hard work and remarkable performance of Under- Secretary-General for H…
China thanks Ambassador Nishida for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) over the past 90 days. This will be his last briefing to the Security Council in his capacity as Chair of the Committee. Over the past two years, under the leadership of Ambas…
With technological progress and social development, the link between mankind and the oceans is becoming ever closer. How to ensure the sustainable use and effective protection of marine resources and how to achieve harmonious coexistence between mankind and the oceans is high on the current agenda o…
I wish at the outset to thank President Robinson, Prosecutor Brammertz, President Byron and Prosecutor Jallow for their briefings on the implementation of the completion strategies of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR…
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People met yesterday to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. China’s Premier Wen Jiabao sent a message to the meeting in which he reiterated China’s firm support for the people of Pales…
I wish to thank Ms. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency
Relief Coordinator; Mr. Alain Le Roy, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Ms. Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Mr. Yves Daccord, Director Gene…
It is deeply gratifying that Council members, representatives of Northern and Southern Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mr. Mbeki are today together discussing the question of the Sudan.
Maintaining peace, stability and development in the Sudan is in the interest of the Sudanese people and …
I wish to thank the Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999), Ambassador Mayr-Harting of Austria; the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), Ambassador Apakan of Turkey; and the Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Amba…
The Kosovo situation has a bearing on peace, security and stability in Europe as a whole, as well as in the Balkans in particular. The overall security situation in Kosovo is relatively calm at present, but tension in the north remains a cause for concern. China hopes that the parties concerned will…
This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is generally calm. We welcome the smooth holding of the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October and the progress made in security sector reform and the rule of law,…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for his report on the work of the IAEA over the past year.
We note with appreciation that the IAEA has done much work to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to…
China associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Kazakhstan on behalf of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and welcomes the Secretary- General’s report on the situation in Afghanistan (A/65/552).
In recent years, thanks to the leadership of the Afghan Government, the hel…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank the President for convening today’s meeting.
The establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) marked an important milestone in the reform of the United Nations. The current five-year review is clearly significant in taking stock of the PBC’s work, d…
At the outset, I would like to thank President Song for his report on the International Criminal Court (see A/65/313).
China always attaches importance to the role of international criminal justice in the advancement of social development. China is in favour of setting up an international criminal …
We learned with sadness of the untimely death of the Prime Minister of Barbados, The Honourable David
Thompson. As the Chairman of the Asian Group, I would like to extend, on behalf of all the members of the Group, our sincere sympathy and condolences to his family and the Government and people of …
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and the fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing. Today’s open Security Council debate on women and peace and security has special significance.
Resolution 1325 (20…
The Chinese delegation welcomes you, Sir, to the Security Council to preside over today’s debate. We also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his report entitled United Nations support of African Union peacekeeping operations authorized by the Security Council (S/2010/514) and for his briefing.
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I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haq for her comprehensive briefing on the recent developments in Timor-Leste. I would
also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste for her statement.
We are pleased to see that, as a result of the efforts of th…
The Chinese delegation welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on the culture of peace (A/65/269). In our present world, increasing globalization, the spread of information technologies and more frequent exchanges among peoples of different countries have brought civilizations ever closer to ea…
I wish to thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez- Taranco for his briefing. I have also listened attentively to the statements made by the representatives of Palestine and Israel.
Currently, the situation in the Middle East continues to be complicated and volatile. The international community …
