The Security Council has just renewed the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for an additional six months. That was a good decision, for the United Nations Mission continues to play a useful and stabilizing role.
France hopes that the coming months …
France welcomes the adoption of resolution 1671 (2006), which attests to the commitment of the international community, particularly the United Nations and the European Union, to the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The force whose deployment the Council has just authorized wil…
I wish at the outset to welcome once again Mr. Schwarz- Schilling, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Special Representative of the European Union, and to thank him for his briefing,
which we followed with great interest. I should also like to warmly welcome the presence today of Mr…
My delegation wishes fully to associate itself with the statement to be made shortly by the Ambassador of Austria on behalf of the European Union.
France is deeply preoccupied by the recent upsurge in violence in Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territories, which has left in its wake numerou…
As I stated here in the presence of the President of Liberia, France is determined to support the great efforts made by the Liberian authorities, and to fully support the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), whose role has been and continues to be critical for the recovery of that battered cou…
I wish at the outset to thank Mr. Kalomoh for his briefing. My delegation agrees with its main conclusions.
I fully associate myself with the statement to be made shortly by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Union.
This week, the Middle East experienced two major developments…
It is a pleasure for me to welcome Mr. René Préval, the new President of Haiti, and to congratulate him on his election, which reflects an undisputed choice of the Haitian people. We listened to his statement attentively, and we wish him every success in his new duties. We assure him of our full sup…
Thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this very important debate. We are very much aware of the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru.
Of course my delegation fully associates itself with the statement to be made by the representative of Austria on behalf of the European Uni…
It is an honour for the Security Council to welcome Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf today. The presence of the Liberian President is the focal point of our meeting and highlights its importance.
In various ways, she embodies hope reborn — first, because she is the first woman to be elected head of State…
At the outset, allow me to thank Mr. Koenigs for his briefing. I should like to take this opportunity also to wish him every success in the very important mission he will be undertaking. On a personal note, let me say that we are particularly pleased that a United Nations official from Germany is fo…
At the outset, I would like to say that I am pleased that the President has taken the initiative to hold this public debate on the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation on the part of peacekeeping forces.
I should first like to reaffirm my country’s full support for the steps taken by the Secretar…
I would like to thank Mark Malloch Brown for his briefing.
The meeting that you have convened today, Mr. President, is clearly an important one. It gives us an opportunity to have a useful — indeed, a necessary — discussion about the actual conditions under which peacekeeping operations, for which …
At the outset, I, too, should like to thank the Chairmen of the three Committees for their reports. It is truly most useful to be able to address all the Council’s counter-terrorism activities in a single meeting. It allows us to ensure due understanding of and coordination in the Committees’ work.
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I too should like at the outset to thank Mr. Jessen- Petersen, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his briefing and for his resolute leadership of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. I would also like to welcome the presence of Mr. Tadic, President of Serbi…
As I am the first speaker, I would like to make some general comments before posing some questions to the High Commissioner for Refugees.
I believe that we were all extremely interested in Mr. Guterres’s briefing. We very much welcome his contribution for at least two reasons. First, we are very we…
I, too, would first wish to welcome the President of Timor-Leste, without whom none of the spectacular progress we are witnessing today in Timor-Leste would have been possible.
The Permanent Representative of Austria will soon be making a statement on behalf of the presidency of the European Union,…
Allow me to say at the outset that it is a great pleasure for me to greet the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium in his capacity as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). It is a pleasure first of all because France and Belgium have very close ties…
The global phenomenon of migration is in large part the result of inequalities in development between various regions of our planet. How can we forget that today
one fifth of the world’s population enjoys four fifths of the world’s wealth?
Dramatic and daily events that illustrate the vital need f…
I, too, wish to thank Mr. Mwakawago for his briefing and for his efforts at the head of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).
We recall that five years of war in Sierra Leone cost the lives of some 50,000 people and led to the enlistment of 10,000 child soldiers. Today, six year’s a…
I would like at the outset to thank Mr. Egeland and to tell him how thankful we are for his commitment to the humanitarian cause and to the African continent. His regular reports on the humanitarian situation in Africa are important. The Security Council correctly devotes considerable time and effor…
