The delegation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, through the authoritative voice of His Excellency, the President of the Republic, Major General Joseph Kabila, has already had an opportunity to congratulate you on the devotion, skill and competence with which you and the members of your Burea…
At the outset, I would like to express our gratitude for your welcome initiative to hold today’s Security Council meeting on justice and the rule of law and to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Guéhenno for his introductory briefing on the item under consideration.
Concerning the particular situat…
Allow us, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for having kindly convened this important meeting of the Security Council on the
situation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We wish to welcome Mr. Javier Solana, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European …
May I first of all extend to you, Madam, the sincere congratulations of the Congolese delegation on your presidency of the Security Council for July.
I also thank the Under-Secretary-General and the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights for introducing the very important reports before us on th…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of my delegation, for the effective way in which you are guiding the work of the Council for the current month, and we thank you for convening today’s meeting. I would particularly like to thank Secretary- General Kofi Annan, who, since the outbreak of th…
Allow me at the outset, Sir, to say how pleased I am to see you preside over the Security Council this month. I am convinced that you will accomplish your lofty objectives selflessly and successfully. Allow me also to commend your predecessor, the representative of Pakistan, for the skill and compet…
Allow me first of all to say how pleased I am, Mr. President, to see you leading the Security Council during this month of February. I am certain you will discharge your noble mission with dedication and success. Allow me also to congratulate your predecessor, the representative of France, for the s…
Allow me, first of all, to do the pleasant part of my job, namely, to thank you on behalf of my delegation, Mr. President, for your excellent initiative to convene this public meeting of the Security Council to debate the matter of the illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wea…
First of all, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having placed on the Council’s agenda a sensitive and crucial item: peace and security in Central Africa. Through you, I thank the entire Council for the interest that they have always shown in the evolution of the geopolitical and securit…
Mr. President, we wish to associate ourselves with earlier speakers in offering you our warmest congratulations and in saying how gratified our delegation is to see you presiding over the Security Council in this month of August 2002. We believe that your intellectual skills and your diplomatic tale…
First of all, I have the pleasant duty of expressing my delegation’s satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, presiding over the Council for the month of May. While paying tribute to the skills of your predecessor, the representative of the Russian Federation, I should like to say how grateful we are that y…
Mr. President, at a time when your presidency of the Security Council is coming to an end, allow me to say how proud and deeply satisfied my delegation has been to have the Council guided during January by Mauritius, a fraternal country and, like mine, a member of the Southern African Development Co…
At the outset, I should like to say how pleased my delegation and I are to see you, Sir, presiding over this public meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I should also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the excellent work done by the P…
This morning the General Assembly heard a new and regrettable tirade by the representative of the bloody Government in place in Kigali. In fact, what needs to be known is that under the presidency of self-proclaimed President Paul Kagame and his Akazu, Rwanda has become an aggressive, terrorist and …
Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor once again. I should like also to thank the Secretary-General, who found the time to participate in today’s discussions. Let me also thank all Council members for their contributions to the discussion on the report of the Secretary-General, and I als…
I should like first of all to undertake the pleasant task of congratulating you, Mr. President, on your skill and knowledge in guiding the work of the Security Council for this month of October.
My delegation would like to join in the unanimous tribute to the French delegation for its work in presi…
I would like to add my voice to those of other speakers at this tribune to convey to you, Sir, my keen and heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of your election to the presidency of the fifty- sixth session of the General Assembly. I am convinced
that your wisdom, intellectual ability and dipl…
Mr. President, at a time when your presidency of the Security Council is reaching its end, I have the pleasant duty to convey to you my heartfelt congratulations and say how very much my delegation admires the excellent quality of the work you have accomplished during the deliberations of the Securi…
Allow me to begin with the pleasant task of expressing the satisfaction of my delegation on seeing the Security Council led in the month of July by the representative of the People’s Republic of China, a country with which we have excellent relations characterized by mutual esteem and trust.
Allow …
Allow me at the outset, Sir, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, warmly to congratulate you on your assumption to the presidency of the Security Council. While recognizing the merits of your predecessor, the representative of the United States of America, I am particularly gratified to …
