Like all other members of the Council, the United Kingdom strongly supports the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), and we want to see it deployed. One way in which we can make sure that MONUC is ready is to hold an early meeting of Council members an…
I should like briefly to reply to the remarks about the Chagos archipelago made this morning by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation of Mauritius.
The British Government maintains that the British Indian Ocean Territory is British and has been since 1814. It does not recognize …
I would like to respond briefly to the remarks made today by the Secretary of State and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Argentina concerning the Falkland Islands.
The British Government does not accept the Secretary of State’s remarks about sovereignty. We have no doubt about Britain’s soverei…
I can assure you, Mr. President, that I will speak for far less than 10 minutes.
I would like to respond briefly to the remarks made by the Foreign Minister of Spain this afternoon about Gibraltar. The long-standing position of the British Government on this matter is well known to the
Government …
I am conscious that the central problem for all of us when we rise to speak to the General Assembly is that there are too many issues of concern to hope to address them all in one speech. There is no shortage of challenges to the United Nations as we meet for the first time in a new century to debat…
The challenge for the United Nations is the same as for all of us: how to respond to change. It must become better organized, better managed, with the direction fit for the awesome tasks it faces. Fortunately, we have a Secretary-General who speaks to us with great wisdom and candour about what must…
Thank you, Mr. President, for arranging this meeting. Thanks are due
also to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for a useful, timely and comprehensive briefing. It is also a real pleasure to see the Secretary-General here today.
I am pleased that we have this opportunity to commemorate the events …
I should like to begin by focusing on an issue which is of concern to the entire international community and of particular interest to the 76 countries whose citizens are seconded to the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I am referring to the arrest by the Federal Repu…
Thank you, Mr. President, for arranging this meeting, and thanks to Under-Secretary-General Miyet for another extremely useful briefing.
It is clear that Bosnia is heading towards a busy autumn, or perhaps I should say fall. General elections will be held in November. The Constitutional Court rulin…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report on the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and thank also Under-Secretary-General Miyet for his useful briefing this morning. Your initiative, Mr. President, in convening this open meeting is also very welcome.
My statement…
I thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report, and Mr. Annabi for his introductory remarks this morning. The report is a very useful one. It contains some good news and some frustrations. It also reports a tragedy.
To start with the good news, the United Nations Transitional Administra…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his useful and comprehensive briefing. The hour is late and I will not attempt to emulate him, either in length or in detail, but I do want to make a few points which my delegation feels are relevant to our consideration of the situation in Kosovo as it…
Every delegation has the right to ask for a break in the meeting, as you know, Sir, and we would not object if the representative of Russia wished to do that. I would simply point out, though, that the matter that we are currently considering is urgent and that we have already spent a long time cons…
I thank Special Representative Klein for his very full and comprehensive briefing.
The hour is late, and I will try to be as brief as I can.
The Secretary-General’s report, for which we are extremely grateful, refers to significant operational successes. Mr. Klein and his team deserve our admirati…
I’d like to thank the Secretary-General for his report and for his presence here and once again Mr. Kouchner for his full, comprehensive and exhaustive briefing today.
One year on, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the international security force (KFOR) have a…
Your stewardship of the Council, Mr. President, has proved eminently wise this month, and I can do no better than to echo your wise words of thanks to Assistant Secretary- General Annabi. Again, his briefing has been extremely useful and extremely comprehensive. It demonstrates the scale of the diff…
The Council has an exceptionally busy agenda today and, in recognition of that fact, I will shorten my statement, though the Secretariat will distribute the full version. I should also like to associate my delegation with the statement that the Permanent Representative of Portugal will make later th…
The Secretary- General’s presence with us and the statement he has just made testify to the importance of our debate tonight.
The situation in Sierra Leone is very serious. All of us have followed the events of the past days in Sierra Leone with a sense of foreboding. The present tragic breakdown c…
I, too, should like to thank Ambassador Chowdhury for his briefing today. I echo Ambassador Levitte's sentiment that the report is perfect in each paragraph. I also echo Ambassador Levitte's concern that it has not proved possible for some States members of the European Union with a close interest i…
I thank you, Sir, and High Representative Petritsch for coming to brief us this morning. I have to say that, like Ambassador Chowdhury of Bangladesh, I found his contribution thoughtful, insightful and the basis for what I hope will be a stimulating continuing consideration of the complexities of Bo…
