Germany welcomes the initiative by the Angolan presidency to organize this follow-up to Security Council resolution 1308 (2000). We thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Guéhenno, and Mr. Peter Piot of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) for their comprehensive reports on the im…
As I have not yet had the opportunity to do so, I too, Sir, would like to welcome your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to pledge the full support of my delegation. I would also like to thank you for convening this very important meeting. Mines are truly a scourge and are kil…
First, I join other delegations in thanking Special Representative Mr. Holkeri for his very comprehensive briefing. I also commend him for his work in his first few months of duty, and assure him of our continued support for his very difficult and important work.
Secondly, I would like to state tha…
First I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I would also like in particular to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno and Ms. Smythe for their excellent contributions to today’s debate.
Allow me to express Germany’s full support for the statement to be delivered later by the presi…
Germany aligns itself with the statement of the presidency of the European Union and would like to add the following thoughts.
Germany welcomes fully the reform initiative undertaken by the Secretary-General. As the Secretary-
General put it (see A/58/PV.7), we do not have to choose. The United Na…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Sevan for the very complex and comprehensive information that he provided to the Council, and I would also like to take this opportunity to thank him and his team for the very good cooperation that he has extended to the committee established pursuant to resol…
First of all, we should like to thank the Chairman of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), Ambassador Arias, for his report and for the good work that he is producing in the CTC. The fight against terrorism within the broadest possible international coalition remains one of Germany’s most importan…
I, too, would like to welcome the presence of the Secretary-General at this meeting. We would like to make a few comments relating to our vote.
The resolution just adopted takes up important concerns of the post-war order in Iraq. It further develops the preceding resolutions 1483 (2003) and 1500 (…
I join other delegations in thanking the Secretary-General for his latest report on the situation in Timor-Leste. Our thanks also go to Mr. Kamalesh Sharma for today’s excellent and very informative briefing and to him and his team for his very important and dedicated work.
Germany fully endorses t…
Seldom has the work of the Security Council engaged world public opinion as it has during the past year. The relevance of its decisions — and, let me add, of its non-decisions — was undisputed. Yet its role and its decision-making mechanisms were the subject of fervid discussions. It has become clea…
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this important meeting. Given the latest developments in the region, it is my view that it is timely to have an open debate in the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East. I therefore welcome the opportunity to share views on the i…
I would first like to thank Judge Meron, Judge Møse and Prosecutors Del Ponte and Jallow for the very impressive and comprehensive briefing they have given us.
Please allow me to make one remark and to ask two questions. The remark pertains to the broader picture of the juridical institutions that …
Mr. President, thank you for convening this important meeting. At the outset, I would also like to thank Lord Ashdown and Judge Meron, not only for their very interesting and comprehensive reports, but also for what they are doing in the field.
The representative of Italy will later present the vie…
Like other delegations, mine would like to welcome you, Sir, in the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of its support this month.
I would also like to thank Ambassador Jones Parry for the very effective and elegant way in which he did his job as President of the Council last month…
My delegation would like first of all to thank Assistant Secretary-General
Kalomoh for his very comprehensive report. We also appreciate very much the presence here of His Excellency Mr. Ramos Horta. We listened with great interest to his report and we hope that his assessment — a brighter future a…
I wish to begin by congratulating the President, on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session and wish him every success with his work. I also wish to thank his predecessor, President Kavan, for the dedication with which he presided over the fifty-seventh session …
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer would like to apologize for the fact that he is unable to attend this meeting as he had planned. This is due to a conflict of engagements, to which the traffic situation in the city has greatly contributed. I will therefore speak on his behalf.
We would like first o…
The fight against HIV/AIDS is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges of our times. The sad fates of HIV/AIDS patients, the misery caused to their families and communities, and the continuously increasing number of infected persons worldwide command our attention and demand urgent action. As we di…
My delegation is disappointed by the outcome of the voting. This voting sends the wrong signal to the parties and gives rise to the perception of the Security Council as not living up to its responsibilities.
On behalf of my Government, I should like to state that, in abstaining in the voting on th…
First of all, let me thank Mr. Roed-Larsen for his very useful and comprehensive briefing on the latest developments in the Middle East. I would then like to associate myself with the statement to be given later in this debate by the Italian presidency of the European Union.
My Government is deeply…
