Like other colleagues, I would like to express my profound sorrow at the news early this morning of the aeroplane crash in this city of New York and to offer the sincere condolences of the Government of the United Kingdom to the loved ones of the victims, to the people of New York and, through you, …
I should like to speak briefly in exercise of the right of reply to the remarks about the Chagos archipelago made today by the Prime Minister of Mauritius. The British Government maintains that the British Indian Ocean Territory is British and that it has been since 1814. It does not recognize the s…
Please allow me warmly to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly.
This day, 11 November, is the anniversary of the Armistice which ended the slaughter of the First World War and is a day of remembrance here in the United States…
Foreign Minister, Special Representative and Chief Minister, we welcome you to the Council. I am very grateful to you all for the helpful, useful and constructive statements that have been made today. I am grateful also to the representatives of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Prog…
My delegation is very pleased to have voted in favour of this resolution and, through you, Mr. President, we would like to thank the representatives of Mauritius and Jamaica, who put it forward as the original co- sponsors.
Through you, Sir, we would also like to congratulate the Government of Sout…
I would like to thank David Stephen for his very useful introduction to our discussion today and to welcome the Prime Minister to the Security Council and to New York. It is a real pleasure to see you here again, Sir.
I would like, as you did, Mr. Prime Minister, to start my intervention with a ref…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haekkerup, for being here with us today. This late in the debate, I do not intend to make a comprehensive statement. Nor do I need to, since the Permanent Representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union…
Through you, Mr. President, I thank the Secretary-General for his extremely informative report on the situation in the Central African Republic. The representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union, and my delegation would like to associate itself with what he will sa…
I, too, will be extremely brief. I can afford to do so not least because the representative of the European Union will be speaking later in the debate.
I would like to focus on three key points, the first of which is the streamlining exercise. I do not think it would be appropriate now for me to go…
Today we have reached another very important and significant milestone in the long process of seeking independence for East Timor, one which in a sense began with the Agreement of May 1999.
We have seen again, as we saw during the Popular Consultation, in 1999, the appetite of the East Timorese peo…
If I can paraphrase Ambassador Hume’s last comment, I will just make a short statement today because you, Sir, do not have time for me to make a long one.
It is good to have you here, Mr. Minister, and it is good to see the truly personal interest that you have taken during the last month, both in …
Being this low on the list of speakers at an open briefing, I think it would be inhumane of me to subject the Council to a long prepared statement, particularly as the Permanent Representative of Belgium will be speaking later on behalf of the European Union. But I want to thank the Assistant Secret…
My delegation would first like to thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his briefing. It was, as always, an excellent, useful and helpful briefing, and I would like straight away to reiterate the United Kingdom’s support for the efforts of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Ko…
I should first like to associate my delegation with the statement that will be made on behalf of the European Union by the representative of Belgium later in the debate.
The United Kingdom is gravely concerned at the continuing violence in Israel and the occupied territories and the blockage of pro…
Let me wish you a very warm welcome, Mr. President, to New York and to the Security Council. I thank also the Secretary- General for his very useful and thoughtful introduction to the debate.
Since the representative of Belgium will be speaking on behalf of the European Union later in this debate, …
Through you, Mr. President, I would like to thank the Secretary- General for his comprehensive report and Mr. Vieira de Mello and Mr. Ramos-Horta for their briefings at the beginning of our deliberations. Their personal observations on the current situation on the ground in East Timor and their view…
The representative of Belgium will shortly speak on behalf of the European Union, and my delegation fully endorses what he will say. As he will describe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the wider region of the Great Lakes are very high up on the Union’s agenda at the moment.
I should like …
I am speaking in an interactive mode, if you like, so I will be very brief. But firstly, congratulations to you, Sir, and to your team for the way in which you have handled the presidency this month.
I would like to make two and a half quick points. Firstly, I want to take up the point made by Davi…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno for what I thought was an outstandingly thoughtful briefing this morning and one that we found very useful indeed.
As others have said, the representative of Sweden will speak later on this morning on behalf of the European Union, so I will keep my stateme…
Mr. Minister, it is very good to see you here today, and I well remember your visit during Bangladesh’s last presidency of the Security Council. It is truly a pleasure to have you back with us. I wish also to thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her introduction to what is a very important and co…
