I should like at the outset to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to express the thanks of the French delegation to the representative of Viet Nam and his delegation for the excellent work accomplished during Viet Nam’s presidency last month. I sh…
My delegation welcomes the adoption of resolution 1828 (2008) and warmly thanks the United Kingdom for its efforts to bring the negotiations to completion. France fully supports the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and hopes that its deployment will progress rapidly a…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Western European and other States.
The Group of Western European and other States welcomes the appointment by the Secretary-General of Ms. Navanethem Pillay to the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. We welcome the fact tha…
I should like at the outset to thank Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and Mr. Skender Hyseni, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, for their presence at this meeting. We listened to both of them very attentively. I should like to congratulate Mr. Jeremić on his appointment…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Pascoe for his very detailed briefing. I should also like to thank the representative of Palestine for her statement. Lastly, like my colleagues, I should like to pay tribute to our colleague and friend Dan Gillerman, who, with talent and a great sense of inte…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Ian Martin, for his briefing, and would like to express our appreciation for the work that he has accomplished since he was appointed.
The general development of the situation over the past several months has indeed been positive. We…
Allow me first to thank the Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam for his initiative in convening us here today for this meeting on children and armed conflict. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, Ms. Coomaraswamy, Ms. Veneman and Mr. Mullet for their contributions to this debate, and more…
I am honoured to speak on behalf of the European Union. The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the stabilization and association process and potential candidates Albania and Montenegro, and the Republic of Moldova and Armenia align themse…
On 23 June, the Security Council determined here in this Chamber that conditions had not been established for fair and free elections in Zimbabwe on 27 June and condemned the campaign of violence launched against the opposition. That Government decided to ignore the appeals of the international comm…
I have the honour to also speak on behalf of the European Union and those countries that have aligned themselves with this statement. I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for holding this debate and thank Mr. Kai Eide and Mr. John Holmes for their briefings. I also welcome the participation of …
I would like first of all to thank Under-Secretary-General Honwana, for his briefing. I welcome the presence here today of the Prime Minister of Djibouti, the Permanent Representative of Eritrea, and the representatives of the African Union and the Arab League. Those two organizations have an import…
I too would like to thank the Special Envoys of the Secretary- General and the African Union for their briefings. I commend them for their commitment and tenacity.
The political process that Mr. Jan Eliasson and Mr. Salim Ahmed Salim are trying to bring about is crucial to peace in Darfur. Like all…
First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report (S/2008/354) and for what he has told us with regard to the future of the United Nations presence in Kosovo. I also welcome Mr. Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr. Sejdiu, President of the Republic of Kosovo, bo…
The history of men has long been the history of their violence. In that intermarriage of blood and history, the war of men has all too often also been the story of violence against women.
This year, we are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which drew…
First of all, on behalf of the entire delegation, I would like to thank the Secretariat, the Security Council staff and the United Nations security services, for their invaluable
assistance and for the enormous amount of wonderful organizational work they did during our trip under very difficult wo…
First of all, I would like to welcome the presence at this Security Council debate the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari.
I would also like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General Gambari, the United Nations Controller,
Mr. Warren Sach, and you, Mr. President, for your res…
I would first of all like to congratulate Ambassador Grauls on his assumption of the chairmanship of the
Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). It is an important task, which Ambassador Verbeke performed in an outstanding manner. We have every confidence that Mr. Grauls will do l…
Allow me, first of all, to underscore that France fully supports
the statement delivered by the representative of Slovenia on behalf of the European Union.
This periodic assessment, which we scheduled in 2001, is essential. It illustrates the high level of commitment to combat AIDS on the part of …
France welcomes the Security Council’s unanimous adoption of resolution 1817 (2008) on combating the trafficking in chemical precursors of heroin in Afghanistan, which is one part of the overall fight against drug production and trafficking, on the eve of the international conference in support of A…
I, too, should like to thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica for his participation in this debate, and to pay tribute to his country’s activities on behalf of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the fight against impunity.
I join with those who have welcomed the new Permanent …
