The Permanent Representative of Spain will speak on behalf of the European Union later in this debate, and I fully associate myself with the statement he will make then.
It is right that the Council should be meeting in emergency session this evening. The situation is extremely critical for the mil…
First, let me extend a warm welcome to Deputy Prime Minister Čović and convey our thanks to Assistant Secretary- General Annabi for — as always — a very helpful, useful and informative briefing. My delegation associates itself with the statement that will be made by Spain on behalf of the European U…
Welcome to New York and to the Security Council, Mr. Foreign Minister.
Your presence here, and that of the Deputy Secretary- General, who briefed us earlier this morning, are ample testimony to Afghanistan’s importance for the United Nations. I hope your presence and your conduct of this meeting wi…
May I, through you, Sir, thank the Foreign Minister of the Transitional National Government of Somalia for his statement this morning.
The representative of Spain will be speaking shortly on behalf of the European Union and my delegation naturally endorses everything that he will say. I just want t…
I first join others in welcoming you, Mr. President, as you preside over this meeting.
The delegation of Spain will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union. My delegation naturally endorses what it will say. I would just like to make one or two points of detail.
First, my delegation woul…
Mr. President, may I, through you, join others in thanking Mr. Lubbers for his excellent and comprehensive briefing. It is very useful for the Security Council to be given such a good overview of his work in the areas in which we are engaged.
I should like just to ask two questions, through you, Mr…
I join in the tributes that have been paid to Ambassador Shen. Over the last three and a half years, he has become not only a good colleague but a good friend as well. I, personally, will miss him.
Mr. President, congratulations on a very good month. The output of the Council should not be measured…
Mr. President, I can be relatively brief this morning, not least because the representative of Spain will be speaking later in the debate on behalf of the European Union. But, before starting my statement, I did want to mark the presence with us this morning of Prime Minister Howard of Australia and…
I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for what has been another very useful briefing today.
As Mr. Guéhenno just said, the period under review has covered some very significant achievements and developments in Kosovo, not least among them the November elections and the e…
I thank Ambassador Gambari for what I think was a most important and most significant report on his visit, which I think was itself most important and most
significant. I would like to express the thanks of my delegation to the Government of Angola for the extremely useful and forthcoming reception…
Last year, at the Millennium Summit, our leaders pledged unanimously to work together to make our world more peaceful, more prosperous and more just. That is an enormous challenge. While the United Nations, the most universal and most representative organization in the world, is ideally suited to pl…
Congratulations, Sir, and welcome to the presidency. You have our strong support in what promises to be a very busy month.
My thanks also to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for the briefing he has given us today.
We are here at a pretty crucial time for the future of policing in Bosnia and Herz…
The United Kingdom fully associates itself with the statement in the debate and the explanation of vote made by the representatives of Belgium on behalf of the European Union.
The United Kingdom also fully supports the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine. My Government believes that to…
As the time is getting on, I shall try to keep my remarks very brief. My thanks go first to our three briefers today: the Presidents of the two Tribunals and the chief Prosecutor. I am sorry that other business meant that I
had to leave the room for some of their presentations, but I have been full…
First, I should like to associate myself with the statement which will be made later on in this debate by the representative of Belgium on behalf of the European Union.
The United Kingdom welcomes the successful and peaceful Kosovo Assembly elections on 17 November. We also welcome the participatio…
I thank Kenzo Oshima for a very interesting and useful briefing. I think this meeting is indeed quite useful: this is a subject to which the United Kingdom attaches tremendous importance, and it is very important that work on it should go on. I will own up to Ambassador Valdivieso that I myself part…
I would like to speak briefly in response to the remarks made earlier today by the representative of Argentina concerning the Falkland Islands.
We welcome the reference by the representative of Argentina in his speech to the exchange of notes earlier this year between our two Governments, in which …
I welcome Minister Miranda to the Council Chamber this afternoon. It is a great honour for us to have had two such senior representatives of the Angolan Government with us here in such a short space of time. I think it is a testimony to the importance with which both the Council and the Government o…
I would first like to begin by expressing my appreciation for the remarks made this morning by the Secretary-General and by Ambassador Brahimi, and to say how we salute their indefatigable efforts in pursuit of peace and stability in Afghanistan, particularly over the period since 11 September.
Thi…
I would like to respond briefly to the remarks made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain about Gibraltar. The longstanding position of the British Government on this matter is well known, and we continue to stand by the commitment to the people of Gibraltar set out in the Preamble to t…
