Allow me to thank the President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Mr. Justice King, and the Prosecutor, Mr. Rapp, for their presentations. I also thank the Deputy Secretary- General for her statement.
It is gratifying to note that the Special Court — which has been in operation since July 2002…
It is a privilege for me to participate in this very important meeting to engage in dialogue on interreligious and intercultural understanding and cooperation for peace. In view of globalization, every nation should strive for peaceful coexistence with every other. The importance of dialogue on issu…
Allow me to express my delegation’s appreciation to Johan Verbeke, Ricardo Arias and Peter Burian, Chairmen, respectively, of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267
(1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), for their informative briefings.
The 1267 Committee has made appreciable progre…
I too wish to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his briefing.
Mr. Holmes’s briefing confirms that the humanitarian situation in Somalia has deteriorated because of the recent fighting in Mogadishu, which has resulted in the…
We welcome the presence in the Council today of Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also express our appreciation to the High Representative, Mr. Schwarz-Schilling, for his briefing on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and for his efforts to re…
I, too, would like to thank Ambassador Verbeke for his statement at this meeting and for his exemplary leadership of the Security Council mission to Kosovo.
We also acknowledge the commendable role of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the staff of the Secretari…
We are grateful to Mr. Pascoe for his remarks and acknowledge the immense contribution of the outgoing Special Representative, Mr. Alvaro de Soto, to peace in the Middle East.
We welcome the opportunity to participate in today’s debate on the Middle East, which is taking place against the backgroun…
Permit me, at the outset, to extend our warm greetings to the Ministers who have joined us today, and commend the delegation of the United Kingdom for holding this debate on Energy, Security and Climate, and especially for drawing up a concept paper with pertinent questions that have forcefully brou…
It is a privilege for me and my delegation to participate in this important High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. The theme could not have come at a better time, particularly as we prepare for the Doha conference in 2008.
Ghana aligns itself with the statement delivered by the represent…
Two years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, southern Sudan continues to face considerable humanitarian recovery challenges, including the need to support hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons, most of whom are returning to the south. That situation has been furt…
Ghana has joined the consensus on Security Council resolution 1747 (2007) because we believe in the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Although the resolution that has just been adopted imposes sanctions on Iran, we are heartened by the fact that it leaves the door open to negotiation…
Allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate, as well as to express my appreciation to Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in Iraq.
We would like to recognize the presence here today …
Let me begin, Mr. President, by expressing my delegation’s appreciation to you for convening this meeting, which should enable us, once again, to deliberate on ways of advancing peace in the Middle East. We also wish to thank Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process …
Ghana welcomes the opportunity to participate once again in a debate on the Peacebuilding Commission as the country-specific meetings on Burundi and on Sierra Leone finalize their work plans in anticipation of field visits. We are pleased that the Peacebuilding Commission continues to be the object …
Allow me to thank the High Representative, Mr. Javier Solana, Under- Secretary-General Guéhenno and Under-Secretary- General Gambari for their briefings. We wish to commend the European Union for the security provided during the elections period.
The elections in the Democratic Republic of the Cong…
I wish to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), not only for their detailed reports, but also for their resourcefulness, professionalism and commitment to duty under difficult con…
Mr. President, it is my pleasure to acknowledge your presence here as the Foreign Minister of Peru, and to thank your delegation for organizing this debate. May I also express our appreciation to the Secretary-General and his Special Representative and to the Executive Director of UNICEF and the rep…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Egeland for his update. I wish to commend him on his tireless efforts to ensure that the plight of the millions of displaced people in Darfur continues to receive the attention it deserves. We further welcome his positive assessment of the negotiations between the Lo…
We very much appreciate the briefing we have just received from Under- Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari on the situation in the Middle East. We share the common concern expressed about the escalating violence and the high number of civilian casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. But we are…
I would like to express my appreciation to you, Sir, for convening this meeting, and to Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his update on the situation in the Middle East.
The grave situation in the occupied Palestinian territory continues to be of much co…
