Please allow me at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. Please rest assured of our fullest cooperation. I would also like to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation for the warm words you had for our Permanent Representative and for …
I would like to thank the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy for having introduced the Force Commanders and for having given us this opportunity to hear directly from the people on the ground. I believe that this is particularly important since peacekeepin…
I would like to make a brief presentation of the discussion that took place in panel 1, which we held yesterday under my co-chairmanship. In this regard, I would like to acknowledge and thank Mr. Miguel Ángel Carreón Sánchez, Director of the National Institute of Youth of Mexico, for co-facilitating…
Mr. President, let me begin by complimenting you on your organization of this High-level Meeting on Youth. This meeting is a fitting tribute to the culmination of the International Year of Youth at the United Nations.
Last time the United Nations commemorated the International Year of Youth, in 198…
At the outset, I would like to welcome you, Mr. President, to New York and thank you for chairing this open debate. I would also like to thank Special Coordinator Robert Serry for his comprehensive briefing and the Permanent Representative of Israel and the Permanent Observer of Palestine for their …
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and Executive Director Achim Steiner of the United Nations Environment Programme for their statements. The interest and participation that today’s open debate has evoked testifies to the importance that we all attach to the subject of climat…
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Vice-President Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon and the other members of his delegation to the Council on this historic occasion. I also wish to welcome to the Security Council the Ministers from Brazil, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Germany, France, Portugal, the R…
I, too, would like to express our appreciation for Germany’s able stewardship of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and its organization of today’s debate.
Rabindranath Tagore, the national poet of India, said that “every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and to commend the Permanent Representative of Gabon and his team for having steered the work of the Council in June. I would also like to thank you, Sir, for scheduling today’s debate…
I would like to commence by thanking the Gabonese presidency for having organized this meeting on transnational organized crime and drug trafficking. I would also like to thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for his briefing.
Transnational organized c…
I would like to join other colleagues in thanking Ambassador Néstor Osorio for presenting the 90-day report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We appreciate the work of the Committee under Ambassador Osorio’s stewardship. We also take note of the Panel …
First of all, Mr. President, I would like to put on record our appreciation for your efforts in organizing this briefing today. I would also like to thank Mr. Muburi-Muita, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union, for his compreh…
Let me begin by thanking the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Patricia O’Brien, for briefing the Council on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/360) submitted pursuant to resolution 1976 (2011) on the modalities for the establishment of specialized Somali courts to try suspected pi…
At the outset, I would like to thank President Mbeki and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Menkerios, for their briefings on the situation in Abyei and other areas of the Sudan. I would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of the Sudan and the representative of the …
At the outset, I would like to compliment the President of the General Assembly on
organizing this High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. The Secretary-General’s report (A/65/797) has shown that the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to outpace the response to contain and prevent its spread. That situation persi…
We are deeply honoured, Mr. President, by your presiding over the Council at this debate. Please allow me to join other delegations in welcoming you to New York. We would also like express our appreciation for your delegation’s efforts in organizing this debate and during the negotiation of resoluti…
At the outset, I would like to join others in thanking Judge Robinson, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Judge Khan, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), for their presentations and assessment of the Tribunals. We al…
I should like to thank the French presidency of the Security Council for having organized this timely debate. I should like also to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister Tshibanda for their comprehensive briefings. The issues that they raised and the approach they suggested should guide u…
I wish to make a few brief comments in my national capacity. I am not sure whether they are informed by my position as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) or are purely national, but I suspect there is a great deal of fusion here.
To start with, as…
I had the honour to assume the chairmanship of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution
1373 (2001) at the beginning of this year. I would like to thank my predecessor, Ambassador Apakan of Turkey, for his excellent work in steering the Committee in 2010. It gives me great …
