At the outset, we thank the President of the Republic of Croatia for presiding over the open debate today. We also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his participation in our debate.
The presidential statement that you, Sir, will issue on behalf of the Security Council fully reflects the inter…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank High Representative. Mr. Lajčák for his briefing to the Council and the report submitted to the Council prior to the briefing. We are also pleased to welcome the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Mr. Nikola Špiri…
The twenty-first century has been called the century of oceans and seas. With 2008 coming to an end, the consideration by the General Assembly of the agenda item on oceans and the law of the sea carries special significance. We should, first and foremost, ponder the right kind of conceptual framewor…
The Chinese delegation thanks you, Sir, for convening this urgent meeting at the request of the delegation of Libya. We listened carefully to the statements made by the representatives of Libya and Israel and the observer of Palestine, whom I wish to thank.
China is deeply concerned about developme…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Holmes for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in the Sudan and Chad. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Chad for his presence and his remarks.
China has followed closely the security and humanitarian situation in the Su…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Croatia on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I believe that, under your guidance, the work of the Security Council will proceed very smoothly.
We appreciate the briefing to the Security Council by Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, …
China voted in favour of the resolution just adopted on piracy off the Somali coast. I wish to take this opportunity to make a few points.
Piracy off the coast of Somalia is running rampant and poses a direct threat to international humanitarian assistance and the security of international navigati…
I would also like to make a brief statement. I should like to begin by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Alan Doss, for his briefing on the situation in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the work of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
On the first anniversary of the launching of the Annapolis process, the Middle East situation is again at a critical juncture.
Over the past year, since the holding of the Annapolis Conference and the Paris International Conference on assistance to Palestine, there have been positive developments o…
I wish to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Assistant Secretary- General for Political Affairs, and Mr. Raisedon Zenenga, Director of the Africa II Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of Mr. Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary-General of the Inter…
At the outset, I wish to express a warm welcome to His Excellency Óscar Arias Sánchez, who has come to the United Nations to preside over today’s Security Council meeting. The theme of this open debate is collective security and armaments regulation, a topic that is of vital importance to the mainte…
As Member States debate the report on the work of the Security Council (A/2008/2), at the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, they will once again realize that the Security Council has gone through another busy and challenging year. Over the past year, covering areas from Afghanistan to Hai…
We understand the concerns of countries with respect to climate change. As a developing country, China too is a victim of climate change. We are willing to discuss the issue, and have taken an active part in such discussions in a variety of institutions and forums. In the final analysis, climate cha…
Mr. President, the Chinese delegation thanks you for organizing this debate. We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, for his briefing. We welcome the briefing delivered by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, Ambassador Khal…
The Chinese delegation supports the initiative of the President of the General Assembly to hold a high-level plenary discussion under the agenda item entitled “Culture of peace”, in response to the initiative by His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. We are convinced that this debate will help f…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting. The Chinese delegation also thanks you, Ambassador Grauls and Ambassador Jurica for your briefings on the work of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004). China is gratefu…
The Chinese delegation wishes to thank the Secretary- General for the reports submitted under agenda item 65 and associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
We would also like to take the opportunity to express our s…
It is increasingly important that the United Nations, the world’s most universal international Organization, enhance its cooperation with other international and regional organizations to address the challenges of globalization and myriad issues in the international arena. The Chinese delegation wel…
The Chinese delegation supports the statement made by the representative of Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
For more than 10 years, the Cuban delegation has denounced each and every year from the podium of the General Assembly the sustained economic, commercial and finan…
The Chinese delegation would like to thank Mr. ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for the report (see A/63/276) on the work of the Agency in 2007. We appreciate the enormous efforts and important role of the Agency in promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear …
