My delegation too would like to thank the President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as well as the Prosecutor, for having taken the initiative to come to the Council to brief us on the work of the Court. It is legitimate that the Security Council, which endorsed the Court’s creation, should b…
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 1757 (2007) which, in response to the request of the Government of Lebanon, will enter into force on 10 June 2007, unless an internal solution is found before then with respect to the provisions of the Agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal fo…
I wish to thank Ambassadors Verbeke, Arias and Burian for their efforts as well as those of their Missions to achieve concrete progress in the work of the three Committees they chair — efforts that are reflected in their reports. The Council must continue to focus on the work of the committees, whos…
I, too, should like at the outset to thank the Under- Secretary-General, Mr. Holmes, for his briefing and to commend him for his courage. His visit to Somalia last week was the first such visit by a United Nations Headquarters official at that level in nearly 15 years. That in itself sends a message…
I would like first of all to thank Mr. Schwarz-Schilling for his briefing and, in particular, to commend him for his work as High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would also like to welcome Mr. Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Permanent Represen…
It is an honour for me to present to the General Assembly the draft resolution under agenda item 114, on multilingualism (A/61/L.56), which delegates have before them. This text, which in a few moments will be adopted by consensus, is the result of negotiations that my delegation has had the privile…
I too would like to thank our Belgian colleague Ambassador Verbeke for the manner in which he led our mission, during which he once again displayed the great diplomatic skill for which he is well known.
I believe that the Security Council mission achieved the objectives we had set for it. We sought…
At the outset, let me thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe for his briefing.
In recent weeks, several events of great importance have occurred in the Middle East, events that have strengthened the positive movement that began to emerge at the end of last year and at the beginning of this year. I am thinking first…
First, I wish to thank you, Madam President, personally and to congratulate the United Kingdom presidency on taking the initiative to plan this discussion on energy, security and climate.
We believe that climate change is among the principal threats to the future of humankind and to its environment…
At the outset, I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for having organized this debate which, I hope, will be a starting point for fruitful discussions on how to make the operational activities of the United Nations more effective.
We are well aware of the situation. There is a great…
I should like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Holmes, for his very detailed briefing. We, too, are very pleased at his appointment, and we wish him every possible success in his highly important mission. We welcome the fact that his first trip was to a region where the humanitarian situati…
Your presence here, Madam President, underscores the importance of this debate. We would like to thank you for your initiative to be here today to preside over the Security Council. We also welcome the presence of Mr. Adada, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Congo, as well as that of Commissioner …
France welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1747 (2007). As was unequivocally demonstrated in the last report of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has failed to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities, nor has it suspended its heavy water…
I, too, wish at the outset to thank Mr. Koenigs and Mr. Costa for the useful information that they have just given us. I broadly share their assessment of the situation. I should also like to welcome the presence of Mr. D’Alema, who highlighted Italy’s efforts to promote the reconstruction of Afghan…
First of all, I would like to welcome the presence in the Council of Mr. Adil Abdal Mahdi, Vice-President of the Republic of Iraq. I also wish to thank Mr. Qazi and the delegation of the United States for their briefings.
Allow me to make the following comments.
First, as others who have spoken be…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall for his briefing. As his tenure will soon be coming to an end, I
would also like to thank him for the excellent job that he has done as Special Representative of the Secretary- General for the Great Lakes Region. We know how closely he has been working …
France aligns itself with the statement that will be made later on behalf of the European Union by the Permanent Representative of Germany. I should also like to thank you for having taken the initiative to organize this open debate, the first the Council has dedicated to the implementation of that…
I would like, first of all, to thank the Slovak presidency of the Security Council and Minister Ján Kǔbis in particular for organizing this very useful debate on an important topic. We hope very much that today’s
debate will move understanding of the security sector reform forward and will improve …
Somalia, which has for 15 years been marked by violence and suffering, finds itself today at a turning point in its history.
France voted in favour of the resolution that has just been adopted, because we support the efforts of the African Union to help Somalia to return to the path of peace and st…
At the outset, I too would first like to thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing. I would also like to say that my delegation aligns itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Permanent Representative of Germany on beh…
