I must congratulate you, Mr. President, on two counts: first, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council; and secondly for your initiative in holding this debate. I thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-oon, for his determination to make this cause a major focus of his work. I would like …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of African States.
The African Group welcomes the President of the Human Rights Council, His Excellency Mr. Remigiusz Achilles Henczel, and wishes to extend its appreciation for this opportunity to hold a dialogue on the activities …
I will give a brief introduction to draft resolution A/67/L.30/Rev.2. The complete text of my statement will be distributed later.
I take the floor in my capacity as chair of the group of French-speaking ambassadors to introduce this draft resolution, which concerns the cooperation between the Unit…
My delegation is pleased to participate in this high-level
plenary meeting of the General Assembly on assessing the progress made by the international community in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The adoption by the General Assembly, in June 2011, of a new Political Declaration (resolutio…
Let me, for my part, thank Ambassador Néstor Osorio for the presentation of the twentieth quarterly report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and commend him on how he has steered the work of the Committee over which he presides. We also commend the midt…
My delegation welcomes the Secretary-General’s report (S/2011/772*) on the situation in Afghanistan. We acknowledge the presence here of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan and thank him for his briefing. We also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and Mr. Staffan de Mistura for…
On behalf of His Excellency Mr. Nelson Messone, Permanent Representative of Gabon to the United Nations, I have the honour of reading out the report of the Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1636 (2005) concerning Lebanon.
“In accordance with its mandate, the 1636 Committe…
On behalf of my delegation, I should like to thank the Presidents and the Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for
their respective presentations on the implementation of their completion strategies, in …
First of all, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, for your initiative to organize this debate on the Security Council’s working methods. Clearly, this is one of the most important issues on our agenda.
I should also like to thank Ambassador Ivan Barbalić of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the co…
My delegation wishes to thank Mr. Farid Zarif, the new Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his briefing on the situation in that country. We wish once again to express our appreciation to him and his team for their commitment to peace and stability in Kos…
We should like to thank you, Sir, for presiding over our work and for the fresh opportunity that your country has afforded the Council to debate the issue of new challenges to international peace and security. I welcome the participation in our discussions of Their Excellencies the Ministers of Bosn…
I, too, would like to thank Ms. Ameerah Haq, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste, for her briefing and for the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/641). I welcome the presence at this debate of Their Excellencies Mr. Zacarias Albano da Costa, Minister for Foreign Affa…
We, too, would like to thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the comprehensive presentation of his report (S/2011/682, annex). We congratulate him and his team for their sustained efforts for lasting peace and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the context…
The threat of terrorism continues to loom over international peace and security. The heinous terrorist acts recently committed in Nigeria highlight their perpetrators’ contempt for human life and all the values we hold dear. I take this opportunity to express yet again, and vehemently, my country’s …
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting on the two reports of the Secretary-General on, respectively, the United Nations Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), nine months after its opening, and on the troubling threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Af…
First of all, we welcome the fact that His Excellency Mr. Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, President of the Portuguese Republic, was able to preside over the
earlier portion of this meeting. His presence at today’s debate testifies to the importance that Portugal attaches to the issue of the protection…
We, too, would like to express our satisfaction at seeing you, Sir, preside over the work of the Council for the month of November. We also take this opportunity to heartily congratulate Ambassador Joy Ogwu for the remarkable way in which she led our efforts last month.
We thank the Prosecutor of t…
I too would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Judy Cheng-Hopkins for her briefing and Ambassador Lucas for her observations.
My delegation welcomes the progress achieved in 2011 on the recommendations resulting from the 2010 review of United Nations peacebuilding efforts. The Peacebuilding …
Madam President, my delegation welcomes your presiding over our work as the Security Council holds its annual thematic debate on women and peace and security. We commend your initiative in organizing it.
We thank the Secretary-General, Under- Secretary-General Bachelet, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe…
I thank you, Madame, for having convened this important meeting under your presidency. Gabon wishes to echo the messages of condolence to the Government of
Turkey in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the eastern part of the country, and to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the demise of its …
