Allow me first to thank you, Sir, for your warm words of welcome, which I deeply appreciated.
The world is experiencing one of the great revolutions that change the course of history. From North Africa to the Persian Gulf, the Arab people clamour to breathe the air of liberty and democracy. From th…
I should like to thank China for having convened this debate on Somalia, which will launch a process of reflection on ways of stabilizing the country and achieving peace as the expiration of the mandate of the transitional federal institutions approaches. I should like also to thank Mr. Mahiga and M…
Yesterday the Permanent Representative of Libya made to this Council a moving appeal for assistance. France welcomes the fact that the Council has today unanimously and forcefully responded to that appeal.
In the face of the continued brutal and bloody repression and the threatening statements made…
I wish to thank Ms. Haq, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing. I also welcome the presence here of the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. Gusmão. Ms. Haq underscored that the situation in Timor remains calm and continues to develop in the right direction.
I would li…
I would like to thank Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, and Mrs. Vlora Çitaku, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, for their presence here today and for the statements they delivered. I also welcome Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Repr…
I would also like to welcome to the Council Mr. Andronius Ažubalis, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. We agree
with the priority actions that he announced and we congratulate him on his attention to fu…
I thank you, Sir, for having organized this debate. I will address two points: first, the particular links between security and development, and then the specific case of peacekeeping operations.
First, the links between security and development. While there is no unequivocal relationship between e…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Haile Menkerios for his briefing and his outstanding work at the head of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS). I also thank President Mbeki and President Mkapa for their decisive work alongside UNMIS in the past few mo…
I thank Baroness Ashton for her briefing. I welcome this second visit of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, which attests to the importance of European Union engagement within the United Nations.
I need not recall that the European Union has long …
I thank Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Mr. Jack Lang for his report (S/2011/30) and proposals, Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Mr. Mathias for his support for those proposals, and the Permanent Representative of Somalia for his statement.
Not only is piracy is a threat to in…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this debate on the complex issue of institution-building. There can be no lasting emergence from conflict without reconstruction and national institution-building; when they are lacking, conditions conducive to violence can quickly re-emerge.
As previous speakers hav…
I thank Alain Le Roy, Valerie Amos and the chargé d’affaires of Haiti for their statements.
Since the earthquake in January 2010, Haiti has been shaken by other trials — Hurricane Tomas and the cholera epidemic. This series of disasters explains why there is still a need for urgent humanitarian aid…
I would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs for his briefing and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for his statement.
France associates itself with the statement to be made by the Head of the Delegation of the European Union.
The peace process in the Middle East remai…
I would first like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haile Menkerios for his outstanding work heading the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. I would also like to thank President Mkapa for his briefing and his assessment of the process.
What has been reported to us here toda…
My delegation wishes to draw the Assembly’s attention to the absence of official language versions of the documents that have been submitted to us. We would like to call for strict respect for the rules and regulations governing the language regime established for the various organs and bodies of th…
At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. De Mistura for the presentation he has just made on the situation in Afghanistan, and I would associate myself with the statement to be delivered in a little while by the representative of the European Union.
I would also like to join all those who paid trib…
France joins in the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union.
I welcome the initiative of the United States presidency of the Council to convene this open debate. In adopting resolution 1888 (2009) last year, the Security Council improved the regime for combating
sexual violence in arm…
I thank Mr. Le Roy, President Mkapa, the State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs of the Sudan Mr. Mutrif Siddiq, and the Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Mr. Pagan Amum, for their presence and their presentations.
Now, a few weeks before the referendum, everything should…
I thank Vice President Biden, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister Zebari for their statements. I should like to join in the tribute paid to Ambassador Holbrooke. As a European, I would like in particular to recall the role he played in the conclusion of the Dayton Accords, which put an end to…
I would like first to thank Ambassador Nishida for his quarterly report and for the outstanding work he has done as Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). His briefing has reminded us of the reality of the Iranian nuclear dossier. It shows the magnitude and diversi…
