I should like to join previous speakers in thanking you, Mr. President, for having organized this public meeting on Bougainville. I should also like to express my delegation’s appreciation to Sir Kieran Prendergast for his very useful briefing.
The Bougainville Peace Agreement, signed on 30 August …
May I first of all thank the Secretary-General for his first report on Timor-Leste. On behalf of my delegation, I should like also to welcome to the Council Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor, and to express our appreciation for the useful informa…
I had not intended to speak because I did not have any particular explanation to give of my country’s vote, which I consider to be legitimate. Our concerns, voiced during the past six weeks of intense Council negotiations, were indeed taken into account in this resolution. But, at this point, I thin…
Allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting. I would also like to convey my delegation’s appreciation to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for the valuable information he has just given us.
During the Security Council’s debate o…
Mr. President, on behalf of my delegation, I should like to thank you for convening this public debate, which deals with an extremely important and topical issue: women and peace and security. I should like also to pay tribute to the Secretary-General and to thank him for his excellent report and fo…
First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this public meeting on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). I would also like to welcome the presence among us of High Representative Lord Ashdown and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jacq…
A little more than a year ago, here in New York, the first United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects was held. The Programme of Action that emerged from that landmark meeting shows the international community’s determination to eradicate the sc…
On behalf of my delegation, I should like to thank the Secretary-General for his reports on the work of the Organization and on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. May I also congratulate him on the quality of these two important documents. I will focus here on the first report.
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At the outset, I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of my full cooperation. My congratulations go also to your predecessor, Ambassador Tafrov, on the remarkable manner in which he conducted our work. My delegation than…
First of all, allow me to thank Assistant Secretary-General Kalomoh for his presentation. I would also like to thank Ambassador Mahbubani for the efforts made by his team with a view to improving the working methods of the Council, as well as for his complete and extremely relevant statement.
My de…
After a brief period of calm that gave rise to hope for a return to peace in the Middle East, the region, sadly, is again plunging into a cycle of violence. For several days, we have witnessed a resumption of suicide bomb attacks and a disproportionate reaction by the Israeli authorities. Those repr…
Allow me, at the outset, to express my warm congratulations and wishes to His Excellency Mr. Jan Kavan for every success on his election to the presidency of the fifty- seventh session of the General Assembly. I should also like to express my delegation’s gratitude to His Excellency Mr. Han Seung-so…
We should like to wish you welcome, Mr. Minister, and to assure you of our cooperation during your country’s presidency. I should also like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for the valuable information that he has just given us.
The regular consider…
First of all, I would like to welcome Mr. Nebojša Čović, Deputy Prime Minister of the Yugoslav constituent Republic of Serbia and President of the Coordination Centre of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, and to thank him for his statement. I would…
The organization of this meeting is evidence of our Council’s will and determination to continue to assume our responsibilities in the framework of the follow-of resolution 1325 (2000), entitled “Women, peace and security”. Through this resolution the Security Council underscored not only the impact…
This public meeting is being held at a particularly critical time, when the Middle East region is once again going through a very dangerous and uncertain period of turbulence. The events of the past few days provide ample proof of this.
We have just seen the Israeli army use combat aircraft under t…
Allow me, first of all, to express my delegation’s great appreciation to Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his extremely valuable contribution to the peace process in Afghanistan and for his very instructive briefing on recent political developments in that co…
I will be brief. I have a couple of comments on Sierra Leone. We will look at the question of the Mano river basin region this afternoon. Almost all members of the Council recognize that the mandate given to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) was a clear and precise mandate which f…
As a country neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea is certainly the first country to have suffered as a result of the crisis in Sierra Leone. We had asked the international community for a long time to do its best to stabilize the situation in Guinea, primarily because we are in an area that has been a …
Madam President, I am very happy to be here this morning to attend this meeting. The holding of this workshop is the fulfilment of a promise made in this very Chamber last January during the public debate on the situation in Africa, and attests to your country’s continuing commitment to the quest fo…
