Algeria fully shares the legitimate concern of the international community in the face of the tragedy in Darfur. We are profoundly outraged and upset by the heavy price that the civilian population has paid, and continues to pay, as a result of that fratricidal conflict. It is therefore quite normal…
I should like first of all to welcome the presence among us of the Secretary-General. I wish also to welcome Mr. Aziz Pahad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Africa, and to thank him very warmly for his outstanding presentation on the results of President Mbeki’s mediation, on behalf of …
I, too, should like to thank Mr. Colak, Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his statement. I should also like to thank the High Representative, Lord Paddy Ashdown, for his report and for his efforts to follow up the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It…
I should like to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Ramos-Horta, and to thank him for his important statement. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hasegawa, for his clear and detailed introduction of the Secretary-Gener…
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. Minister, for having organized this very important public debate on the progress report of the Secretary-General on ways to combat subregional and cross-border problems in West Africa (S/2005/86).
It hardly needs to be said that those problems exacerbate the region’…
I should like to thank Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen for the excellent introduction he gave us to the report of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and to pay tribute through him to members of the United Nations mission for the outstanding job they have accomplished in th…
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you, Mr. President, and tell you how honoured we are to have you
presiding over our work and enhancing by your presence the Security Council’s examination of this important question of children and armed conflict, which is closely linked to the maintenance o…
Mr. President, my delegation would like to thank you for organizing this open debate on small arms. We welcome the attention given by the Security Council to this issue, which is particularly sensitive because of its implications for the maintenance of international peace and security. I would like …
Algeria joined other members of the Security Council in voting in favour of the draft resolution on renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). It did so once the concerns it had expressed had largely been taken into account by the country that prepared the original…
I, too, should like to thank Ambassador Denisov for his excellent presentation of the work of the Counter- Terrorism Committee (CTC) and for his efforts as Committee Chairman. I should also like to take this opportunity to express my delegation’s appreciation to the delegations of Angola, Chile, Ger…
Allow me, Mr. Minister, to welcome you to the Security Council, and I warmly congratulate you on Argentina’s assumption of the presidency of the Council. Finally, I thank you for convening this important debate on the situation in Haiti. I would also like to welcome the presence at this important de…
The report before the General Assembly today very clearly recounts the tragic situation in which the Palestinian people find themselves as a result of the actions of Israel, the occupying Power, and places the question of Palestine in a particularly distressing context.
It is clear from the report …
At the outset, I thank Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen for his excellent presentation to the Security Council and commend him for the work he has accomplished on the ground since his appointment to head the United
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. I would also like to thank Mr. Nebojsa Co…
We have very closely and attentively listened to the briefings by the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). We note that, since their presentations to the Council on 29 June 2004, …
The Algerian delegation would like, first of all, to associate
itself with the statement made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
Today’s debate on follow-up to the Millennium Declaration and the implementation and integrated and coordinated follow-up of the outc…
I would like first of all to thank the ministers of Djibouti and Kenya, the facilitator from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the representative of the current Chair of the African Union for the statements they have made this afternoon. However, I would also like to express …
My delegation is particularly pleased that the Security Council has decided to return to Africa after so many years and that it decided to meet in this hospitable city of Nairobi, thereby showing the great importance it attaches to our continent and the respect and esteem it has for Kenya, which pla…
At the outset, I welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, and thank him and his team for the remarkable work they have accomplished at the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET). As well, I thank Mr. Hasegawa for his presentation of the p…
First of all, I would like to say that it was with great sadness and emotion that we learned of the death of President Yasser Arafat in Paris early this morning. Algeria’s condolences have been addressed to the Palestinian
people and their leadership by our President, and I wish to reiterate them h…
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for taking the initiative of organizing this discussion on women and peace and security shortly before the fourth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000).
The adoption of that resolution was a particularly welcome recognition of the special sit…
