I too wish to thank Mr. Annabi for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2004/669) and for his very useful update on the situation in Timor-Leste. We join others in hailing the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and of the United Nations Mission of Support in Ea…
I thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for his briefing. I must congratulate
Mr. Søren Jessen-Petersen on his appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and I should like to assure him once again of France’s full …
France was a sponsor of the resolution we have just adopted on the situation in Darfur. Along with the efforts of the Secretary-General, the resolution, which is in line with the Council’s policy in recent weeks, combines dialogue and strong pressure on the Government of Sudan to protect the populat…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania and Montenegro and the European Free Trade Association c…
I am honoured to speak on behalf of the European Union on agenda item 40, on the report of the Economic and Social Council. The countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro; Iceland, member of the European Free Trade …
I have little to add to the briefing by Ambassador Jones Parry, whom I wish to commend for the brilliant way he led the mission.
Since I have been invited to take the floor, I shall simply underline a few points, most of which have already been raised. First, with respect to Security Council missio…
My delegation thanks the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for their reports, transmitted to the Council in May in documents S/2004/420 and S/2004/341 respectively, and for the useful sup…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Madam, for having organized today’s debate on a novel and stimulating subject. This is a first insofar as the topic is concerned and because you have taken the initiative, for the first time in the history of the Council, to ask the representatives of two eminent …
I should like to thank Mr. Egeland for his briefing today and the Secretary-General for his report.
Our delegation feels that this biannual meeting to address the issue before us has become one of the most interesting and important activities of our Council, because the briefings always provide us …
France voted in favour of resolution 1546 (2004), which the Council has just adopted unanimously. My country approached the discussion of this resolution with three goals for the Iraqi people and for the United Nations: first, to ensure that after 30 June the Iraqi interim Government will have all t…
As this is the first time my delegation is taking the floor in a public meeting this month, at the outset I
wish you, Sir, all the best during your presidency for the month of June. I also thank Ambassador Akram for the manner in which he conducted the Council’s work last month, which we greatly ap…
I am pleased to welcome Mr. Zebari and to congratulate him on his confirmation as Minister for Foreign Affairs. We have taken note of the formation of the Iraqi interim Government that will begin to function on 30 June. We hope that that Government will be fully successful in the very difficult task…
I would like at the outset, Sir, to say how pleased we are to have worked over the past weeks under your distinguished and effective presidency. I would also like to thank you for having chosen the important subject that brings us together today.
As shown by the experience acquired over recent year…
France voted in favour of the resolution just adopted because we believed it essential that the Security Council react swiftly and firmly in the light of the brutal deterioration of the situation in Gaza. It was necessary that the Council make an appeal to reason and restraint, as had already been d…
I would like to thank Mr. Holkeri for his briefing, which comes after the excellent report of the Secretary- General of 30 April (S/2004/348). I welcome among us the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Mr. Vuk Drascovic. We have listened to him attentively.
I wish to state in adv…
I too want to thank Mr. Kamalesh Sharma for his briefing; we are sorry that he is leaving his post.
The Permanent Representative of Ireland will be making a statement on behalf of the European Union, with which my delegation fully associates itself.
Mr. President, you requested that we be as brief…
I should like in turn to thank Mr. Passy for his presence and for his statement here today. We listened most attentively to his statement on the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which will certainly prove of great use to us.
At a time when the Security C…
First, I thank the German delegation for its excellent work last month as President of the Council. I convey to you, Sir, our congratulations and best wishes for the Pakistani presidency this month. I also wish to thank Mr. Danilo Türk for his clear and comprehensive briefing.
What struck us in tha…
France voted in favour of the draft resolution just adopted by the Council. France is committed to the non-proliferation regime and is actively participating in efforts to strengthen it. We contributed to the adoption by the European Union of a strategy in this area. We are working with our partners…
At the outset, my delegation wishes to associate itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union by the representative of Ireland.
This public debate is taking place after several weeks of work, during which the sponsors went to great lengths to explain the draft resolution and…
