I should like to begin by thanking you, Sir, as well as Ambassador Kumalo and the delegation of South Africa, for organizing this debate. We welcome the presence among us of the Secretary-General and of high representatives of friendly countries. Today’s debate is an ideal opportunity to exchange vi…
I want to thank the Assembly for the privilege of addressing this sixty- second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Roads are a big part of my responsibilities in the Ministry of Transport. The daily life of each person depends on the roads — to get to school, to work or to the h…
I wish to begin by thanking your delegation, Mr. President, for organizing a series of public meetings, which, we believe, is very welcome to the Council and to the Organization as a whole. I also wish to welcome the presence of the Secretary-General and to thank Mr. Pascoe for his report and the Pe…
My delegation would like to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. I would also like to acknowledge your willingness to organize numerous public meetings of the Security Council that are open to al…
Costa Rica would have preferred to speak after hearing the statement of the representative of Afghanistan; in our view, hearing from the country that is the subject of this morning’s debate would have been most valuable. For that reason, our statement will not include comments on or reactions to his…
My delegation understands the position of Iran with respect to the resolution that the Security Council has just
adopted, but we deeply regret the adjectives that were used by its Permanent Representative. We cannot accept that, on this case, he accuses the Security Council of being a mere tool of …
I would like to begin by thanking Under-Secretary- General Guéhenno for his briefing. Costa Rica welcomes the improvement in the state of health of President Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, as was the President of Costa Rica, a situation that was made possible by the very close friendship b…
I wish to begin by welcoming among us President Tadić and Foreign Minister Jeremić, and by reaffirming Costa Rica’s recognition of their positive leadership and their commitment to peace. Leadership like theirs — committed to peace and human rights, especially the rights of minorities — could perha…
I should like to begin by thanking you, Sir, and your country for convening this important debate. As you well know, Costa Rica shares with Panama a particular concern for children and a special love of peace, which is expressed in the shared desire of our peoples to live without a military force.
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Like preceding speakers, I thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Mr. Jan Eliasson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Darfur, for their briefings to the Council.
The situation in Darfur is a source of profound concern for Costa Rica. We are …
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening this meeting and Mr. Pascoe for briefing us. I would also like to thank the representative of the Palestinian State and the Permanent Representative of Israel for the statements they made. They added their own assessments and gave us a small sam…
At the outset, I thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing, which confirmed a very alarming situation of which we had already been aware.
I also thank the representatives of Palestine and Israel for their statements, which provided additional information for our discussion of the situat…
I should like to begin by thanking Mr. De Mistura for his briefing to the Council and Ambassador Khalilzad for his briefing on the Multinational Force.
My delegation requested the floor after Ambassador Al Bayati had made his statement because we were convinced that the statement would provide addi…
I should like at the outset to thank all United Nations Member States, because I believe that today we have seen demonstrations of international solidarity, which are rare. In particular, I should like to thank the brotherly people and Government of the Dominican Republic for the magnanimous gesture…
My delegation would like to take the floor at this time just to express our gratitude for the effective commitment of all the delegations that participated actively and constructively to ensure that this agreement, which is an historic one in our view, could be adopted by consensus. After many month…
My delegation would like to express to the peoples of Algeria and Lebanon, as well as to the entire United Nations community, our profound grief at the terrorist attacks that occurred the day before yesterday. We convey our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and condemn these crimina…
I would like to begin by welcoming the convening of this meeting to consider the report of the Security Council and the question of equitable representation on it and increase in its membership. We are also grateful to the Permanent Representative of Indonesia, Mr. Natalegawa, President of the Counc…
The 192 Member States gathered here have not yet taken the qualitative leap called for by Woodrow Wilson in 1918 for our international order not to be based on organized rivalries, but rather on an organized common peace.
We must learn to tone down our national interests. We must foster a shared se…
On this memorable day, my delegation hails the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (resolution 61/295, annex). That act is the culmination of 25 years of work and of the even longer struggle of our indigenous peoples for recognition of, and respect for, the…
Throughout the world, the work of the United Nations is rightly acknowledged as being essential for the well- being of all peoples. It is with that goal in mind that we establish programmes and take action. Unfortunately, the image and the effectiveness of the United Nations have been affected by ac…
