Five years from the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the opportunity afforded by this meeting is clear: we have to evaluate what we have done during the last 10 years and to trace the broad lines of what remains to be done to accelerate implementation.
The draft resol…
It is my honour to make this statement on behalf of the Group of African States.
At the outset, I would like to thank the President for having organized this debate on agenda item 44, “Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS”. Reading th…
At the outset, my delegation would like to associate itself with the statements delivered this morning by the Permanent Representatives of Sierra Leone and Egypt, respectively, on behalf of the African Group and the Non-Aligned Movement. I should also like to say that today’s debate on the Security …
On behalf of my delegation I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important debate on the report of the Human Rights Council (A/64/53), the report of a body whose deliberations and decisions have an undoubted impact on the life of our Organization. I would also like to thank t…
My delegation joins in supporting the worthy statement made this morning by the representative of Tunisia on behalf of the African Group, and we associate ourselves with the statement made by the delegation of the Sudan, on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, on agenda items 63 (a) and (b).
The Re…
My delegation welcomes your inspired election, Sir, to the presidency of the General Assembly at this session, which is being held at a particularly important moment in the life of our Organization, given the numerous challenges that we have to face. The robust messages that you yourself have issued…
Allow me first of all to convey to you, Sir, the warm greetings of His Excellency Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic, who for scheduling reasons was not able to attend this very important meeting.
My delegation would like to thank the Secretary- General for his advocacy and leadership …
Allow me to welcome Mr. Ould Abdallah, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, and to salute his efforts in the country in a particularly difficult context. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Somalia for his contribution to the debate.
As regards the…
At this meeting devoted to the activities of subsidiary bodies, I should like, before the end of my delegation’s chairmanship, to give Council members an overview of the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa, which Congo had the honour to chair in 2006 an…
Mr. President, my delegation is grateful to you for once again giving us an opportunity to take up the situation of Timor-Leste, a country friendly to Congo. We would like to thank Ambassador Kumalo and his team for the very complete report (S/2007/711) that he has given us.
My delegation would lik…
I should like to express our sincere thanks to you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate on the activities of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since …
I too would like to thank Ambassador Holmes, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination, for his accurate briefing, which brings us to the heart of the tragedy that is affecting the three countries that he visited. The futures of those countries depends, more…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assuming the presidency of the Security Council for December and, of course, to assure you of the full cooperation of my delegation. My delegation would also like to express its thanks to the Indonesian delegation and, of course,…
Allow me at the outset to welcome Minister Nqakula and to thank him for his briefing, in which he outlined the latest developments of the situation in Burundi. Above all, I commend the efforts undertaken by his country and other countries of the subregion to stabilize the situation in Burundi, which…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting on Darfur and say to Mr. Eliasson, to whom we reiterate our support for the accomplishment of his difficult and delicate mission, that we have taken due note of recent developments on the ground, which we find far from r…
First of all, I would like to welcome the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and to thank him for his very informative briefing on the exhaustive report of the Secretary- General on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2007/643). We also wel…
My delegation thanks you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting in a new format that enables us to have a comprehensive assessment of the activities carried out by the three subsidiary bodies of the Security Council: the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (200…
My delegation thanks you, Sir, for having organized this meeting on the situation in Myanmar. We also thank Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, for his most enlightening briefing.
In that briefing, he informed us that the Secretary-General’s good offices mission to Myan…
My delegation thanks you, Sir, for taking the felicitous initiative of convening this public debate on the role of regional and subregional organizations in the maintenance of international peace and security.
I welcome the presence of the Secretary-General and thank him for his valuable contributi…
Mr. President, I wish to begin by expressing to you the regrets of your brother and fellow Foreign Minister, His Excellency Mr. Basile Ikouebe, who, because of his schedule was unable to travel to New York. My delegation also wishes to express its pleasure in seeing you presiding over this annual de…
