As my country is one of the 11 that make up the Great Lakes region in the larger sense that Mr. Ibrahima Fall mentioned, it is on behalf of all those countries — my own, of course, but also those represented in the Chamber, including those whose representatives are seated at the side of the Council …
Congo welcomes your initiative, Mr. President, in organizing today’s debate on a very important and topical theme.
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to pose a threat to humankind, and the risk of their falling into the hands of terrorists remains real. Indeed, as recently a…
Mr. President, my delegation would like to thank you for having convened this timely open debate on the situation in the Middle East. We thank also the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. De Soto, for the information and analysis he provided to the members of the Council.
Developm…
I, too, should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this important debate on Timor-Leste at a time when that country is approaching a historic milestone: the holding of important elections in April. I should also like, on behalf of my delegation, to welcome Prime Minister José Ramo…
The delegation of the Congo thanks you, Sir, for allowing the Council today to make an initial assessment of the work of the Peacebuilding Commission, which held its first meeting on 23 June 2006. We welcome the participation in this important debate of the President of the Economic and Social Counc…
Last September, my delegation cast a negative vote with regard to the procedural decision that led to the inscription of the situation in Myanmar on the Council’s agenda. That position is in line with that of the Non-Aligned Movement and of Myanmar’s
neighbouring countries in the context of the Ass…
Allow me at the outset to welcome Mr. Solana and to express my deep appreciation for his briefing. I should like also to thank the representative of Germany, who spoke on behalf of the European Union, as well as Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Gambari, for the very useful information that they have provided us…
I should like, first of all, to thank the delegation of Qatar for the manner in which it led our work last month. I would also like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of January. You can count on the full cooperation of my delegation during yo…
I thank you, Sir, for organizing this debate just a few days after the holding in Nairobi of the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. For us, the outcome of that important event represents a turning point in the search for peace, s…
I, too, would like, on behalf of my delegation, to thank the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as well as the two Prosecutors, for their briefings. My country reaffirms its commitment to the administrati…
My delegation also welcomes the representative of Serbia and the Prime Minister of the Provisional Institutions in Kosovo.
In appointing Mr. Ahtisaari to lead the negotiations on the status of Kosovo, the Secretary- General, with the support of the Security Council and international community, soug…
I should like at the outset, Mr. President, to welcome your well- advised and very timely initiative to convene this
ministerial-level meeting. We welcome also the fact that this debate is taking place under the presidency of Qatar — your country — which is playing a stabilizing role in the region.…
My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his report (S/2006/945) on the situation in Iraq, as well as Mr. Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his oral briefing today. We would also like to thank the representative of the United States for her presentation on the activit…
I welcome the Security Council’s adoption today of this resolution, which supports the efforts under way for quite some time now by the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to bring peace back to Somalia. For years now, that country has felt abandoned by the intern…
Mr. President, your personal presence here as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru to guide the Security Council’s deliberations bears witness to the importance
that your country attaches to the topic that brings us here today: children and armed conflict. We can thus only thank you for having come…
On behalf of my delegation, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene a meeting on this agenda item, at a time when the humanitarian situation has deteriorated in an unprecedented fashion across a good part of Africa, due to armed conflicts which are often …
I wish at the outset to thank Mr. Gambari for his briefing on a situation that continues to deteriorate.
The news concerning Lebanon that he announced earlier was not at all reassuring. I, too, condemn the assassination of Minister Gemayal and offer his family and the Government of Lebanon my since…
I waited to hear the outcome before asking to speak, because my delegation is not accustomed to explain its vote here, particularly when it is a positive vote. But after what has just taken place, I cannot fail to convey to the Council how troubled my delegation is and to express my deep disappointm…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate on the situation in the Middle East — a situation that has seriously deteriorated in recent days, as has been rightly pointed out by the countries and organizations that formally requested the holding of this meet…
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the briefing he has given us setting out the progress made in the implementation of the goals contained in his previous report, as well as regardi…
