I should like to thank Mr. Guéhenno, Under-Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, for the information he has presented to us this morning.
We would like on this occasion to follow up on a few matters that were dealt with by the Council a month ago as a result of the Council’s mission to th…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this open meeting with Ambassador Kamel Morjane, allowing him to inform all delegations about the work being undertaken by the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). I also note the participation and presence of the Secret…
At the outset, I wish to express my delegation’s gratitude for the holding of a debate of the General Assembly to consider the Secretary-General’s report on the prevention of armed conflict, in document A/55/985. This format allows all interested Member States to voice their views on the contents of…
In addition to your comment, Mr. President, we also have time limits. But I would like first of all to highlight your commitment to making this a more open Council, which was achieved, and your great capacity for work, your leadership of the Mission to Kosovo and also of the process of selecting the…
This debate is taking place as the Security Council is conducting negotiations to make some changes in the oil-for-food programme. As members of the Security Council, we are aware of the responsibility delegated to us by the other Members of the United Nations in order to represent them in this impo…
My thanks go to the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno,
for his presentation. The varied support of Mr. Guéhenno’s department, including the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2001/565),…
My delegation would like to welcome you very warmly, Mr. President. We are honoured that you, as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, should be presiding over this important meeting of the Security Council today. Your presence lends even greater distinction to the magnificent work that has be…
We are grateful for the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) over the past seven months. We are also grateful for the information provided by the Special Representative and head of Mission, Mr. Jacques Klein.
The achievements o…
We have given careful consideration to the report of the Committee of Experts, which has made recommendations to the Security Council on how the arms embargo and the closure of terrorist training camps demanded in paragraphs 3 and 5 of resolution 1333 (2000) could be monitored. We also listened care…
In the interest of consensus, Colombia supported the General Assembly’s adoption of the Firearms Protocol. Nevertheless, in accordance with what was stated by the Colombian delegation during the negotiation of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts…
We are grateful for the introduction of the Secretary- General’s report, which makes an assessment of the political and military situation and of its repercussions on the scale and structure of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
In the debate held in January, the…
I should like to thank the representatives of the Secretariat for their important briefings. I should like also to thank all of the departments and units that contributed to the report that is before us today — that is, the report of the Inter-Agency Mission that visited West Africa last March.
The…
Incidents of armed violence against defenceless populations exacerbate the vulnerability and poverty in which millions of people live. We wish therefore to join the Secretary-General in calling for a culture of protection in our time, based on the elements he mentions in his report (S/2001/331): str…
We are very grateful for the information given to us today by Mr. Guéhenno about the achievements of recent days. Those achievements demonstrate the parties’ genuine commitment to the implementation of the peace Agreement signed in December last year. We invite the parties to continue to display tha…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing and by congratulating you, Mr. President, on having consolidated this interactive format that we appreciate and value.
Since we last discussed this item in the Council almost a month ago, the situation in Kosovo and its surroundings ha…
We are very grateful to Mr. Annabi for his briefing to us today. In this connection, we wish to refer to two topics and to formulate some very concrete questions at the end. I wish to refer first to the situation of refugees in West Timor and later to the electoral process.
With regard to the refug…
As my colleagues have done, I too would like to begin by welcoming our colleague, the new Ambassador of Tunisia, who has just taken up his responsibilities in the Security Council. We would also like to welcome the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We are grateful for the information provided t…
As has been said, the security situation in Kosovo and in the surrounding area continues to be very worrying. That is why we regard the fact that General Carlo Cobigiosu, the commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), was not able to be with us today and we hope that he will visit us in the near future.
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I wish, on behalf of Mr. Rafael Nieto Navia, to convey his desire to withdraw his candidacy and at the same time very sincerely to thank those delegations that supported him in the balloting thus far. Further, we join in congratulating successful candidates. We wish the United Nations and, more part…
Colombia supports and is a sponsor of the draft resolution that we will adopt later today under agenda item 46, entitled “The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security”.
We deeply regret the fact that the appeals made by the General Assembly in recent years …
