We thank Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing, which made clear, first, that
the parties are continuing down the military path and, secondly, that there are severe human rights abuses associated with that. We are also most grateful to Mr. Vieira de Mello for his briefing, which provided the Council with u…
Like my French colleague, I welcome the fact that the Secretary-General was able to be here at the start of this meeting, and I thank him for his report. I am grateful to Michael Steiner for a clear and useful presentation, and I, too, associate my delegation with the statement of the European Union…
May I, as the Foreign Minister of China has done, congratulate Germany on taking over the presidency of the Security Council and congratulate you personally on assuming the Chair this morning.
We have just heard a most powerful and authoritative case against the Iraqi regime set out by United State…
I greatly welcome the initiative of the French presidency in calling this ministerial meeting. I would like to thank His Excellency the Secretary-General for his address and to express my personal thanks to Sir Jeremy Greenstock for all his work while chairing the Counter-Terrorism Committee. I woul…
I would like to begin by expressing my delegation’s thanks to the Secretary-General and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for producing the report (S/2002/1300) we are discussing today. We
know that OCHA has worked hard to ensure a more systematic presentation of the is…
Through you, Mr. President, I should like to thank Deputy President Zuma for his extremely informative and helpful
presentation. I should like to pay tribute to him and to his country for their efforts in Burundi and elsewhere on the African continent. On behalf of my delegation, let me also welcom…
May I, at this first meeting, briefly pay a warm tribute to the outgoing presidency of the Council and warmly welcome you, Sir, to the presidency. My delegation looks forward to working closely with yours.
I should like particularly to congratulate you on convening this afternoon’s meeting. We find…
I should like, through you, Mr. President, to thank Sir Kieran Prendergast for his very useful and informative introduction to our discussion.
We start from the basis that the United Nations operation in Bougainville has been, and is, a notable success. My delegation would like to repeat the tribut…
Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor to address this important agenda item. I should like to begin by thanking the distinguished representative of Denmark, who spoke earlier in the debate on behalf of the member States of the European Union, and to take this opportunity to put on record…
I thank Mr. Guéhenno for his briefing. The United Kingdom supports the statement to be made by Denmark on behalf of the European Union; I have only a few comments to add in my national capacity. We believe that the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the other pillars…
I thank the High Representative and Special Representative Klein
for their briefings. We congratulate them on what they have achieved both individually and, as the High Representative pointed out, jointly. We would also like to take this opportunity to applaud the achievements of the United Nations…
Allow me, at the outset, to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to have this important debate. Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Dhanapala for introducing the Secretary-General’s report and the delegation of Colombia for its thought-provoking paper. In making this national statemen…
I should like to take up two statements made in the general debate this morning. First, I would like to respond briefly to the remarks about Gibraltar made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain. The long-standing position of the British Government on this matter is well known. We will c…
In an imperfect world, our citizens need the United Nations as they have never needed it before. The United Nations has not resolved all conflicts by peaceful means, nor could it. The authority of the United Nations has to be underpinned by the force of arms. But the remarkable
achievement of this …
Thank you, Mr. President and Minister, and welcome to New York. It is very good to see you today presiding over this Council meeting, at which Hédi Annabi has, as usual, given us a most helpful and incisive briefing.
As the representative of Denmark will speak later on behalf of the European Union,…
My thanks to Jean-Marie Guehenno for another typically very helpful, comprehensive and useful briefing. I will be as brief as I possibly can this morning because, as others have noted, the representative of Spain will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union.
There are a few points I would…
It is very good to see you in the chair again, Sir.
It is late and I will try to be brief, but I want to say at the outset that the international community and the United Nations have already achieved a very great deal in Afghanistan. I should like to pay particular tribute to the excellent work of…
I would like to join the Secretary-General in welcoming here today President-elect Xanana Gusmão and Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri.
As Kofi Annan said, today is indeed an emotional moment. Those of us — and there are lots around this table today — who have been personally involved with East Timor ov…
I am very grateful for Michael Steiner for an excellent first briefing of the Council. It is also good to have here with us today Deputy Prime Minister Čović. It was particularly nice, I think, to see Bernard Kouchner here listening to Mr. Steiner’s first briefing, and I hope that the French delegat…
Time is short, and I will abbreviate my statement. But there are a few points I would like to make this morning. The first is to say how touched we are that on her final day in office, Ms. Bertini has chosen to come and talk to the Council. During the time that she has been in office, the scale and …
