At the outset, I would like to extend to you, Sir, my congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. I also wish to congratulate your predecessor, Ambassador Sergey Lavrov, on his outstanding performance.
As Council members are aware, constructive discussions were hel…
Those who are genuinely interested in bringing peace to the Middle East must today think carefully about which steps would enhance this process, and which would be counterproductive.
Both Israelis and Palestinians have declared their agreement to certain principles. At the outset of the Oslo peace …
I regret the tone and the content of the statement just made by the Palestinian Observer. In view of the fact that his statement was well prepared, I particularly regret the use of terms such as “silly” and “stupid”. I believe that we should conduct the business of this important body in a parliamen…
Just over a week ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 1402 (2002), calling for a meaningful ceasefire, an end to all acts of terrorism and incitement, the withdrawal of Israeli troops and cooperation with American Special Envoy General Anthony Zinni in the implementation of Tenet
and Mitche…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Norway, for his most able leadership.
The Council meets today at a critical moment for the peoples of the Midd…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving me this renewed opportunity to take the floor. Consideration of the resolution that has just been adopted prompts us to make a few brief comments.
The reference to resolution 1397 (2002), in particular the appeal for an immediate ceasefire and fo…
At the outset, I would like to welcome Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to express my gratitude for his unshakeable faith in peace and for his statement, delivered moments ago, in which he indeed expressed this vision and this faith.
The latest horrific acts of Palestinian terrorism are occurring a…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency for this month, and to congratulate your predecessor, the representative of Mauritius, for his most able leadership.
The people and Government of Israel are committed to negotiating a peaceful settlement to the c…
First of all, we welcome and fully respect the message of peace by the delegate of Lebanon. However, to say that Hizbullah, Al Qaeda or any other terrorist organization is a resistance organization is, of course, not proper. I would like to raise three points to remind the delegate of Lebanon in thi…
I should like to refer to four paragraphs of this draft.
My delegation’s position with regard to the incident at Qana is well known and has been articulated before the Assembly and the Fifth Committee on several occasions.
Allow me to reiterate several essential points.
The draft resolution befor…
I wish at the outset to convey my country’s appreciation to the delegation of Belgium, which holds the current presidency of the European Union, for having introduced draft resolution A/56/L.59 on behalf of the Union. Israel joined the consensus on that draft resolution, and I should like to reitera…
Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and to express our sincere appreciation to the representative of Jamaica for her excellent stewardship of the Security Council during the month of November.
The past two weeks have seen an incredible es…
Israel attaches great importance to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to the tradition of consensus in this Organization.
The report of the IAEA, which reflects the work of the Agency, taking into consideration efforts made by the Members of the Organization to promote the
importan…
The Government of Israel is proud to lend its support to the draft resolution entitled “Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal”.
Israel is of the view that athletic competition, undertaken in a spirit of mutual respect, fairness, and good sportsmanship, is an ideal…
The International Year of Volunteers, which draws to a close today, is only the beginning of increased volunteerism in the future: it gave us all an opportunity to learn the importance of and the need for volunteers and raised our awareness of their importance.
Israel is pleased to join with other …
I wish to thank the representatives of many delegations for their expressions of condolence and their condemnation and denunciation of Palestinian terrorism and for their appeals for the resumption of negotiations. We have noted with satisfaction that our appeal in the course of our explanation of v…
I am grateful for the opportunity to express my views on the voting on the draft resolutions on the question of Palestine.
Normally, this kind of voting hardly inspires us to offer an explanation, given how accustomed Israel has become to the unfailing ritual whereby it invariably finds itself, yea…
Listening to this debate is somewhat an Orwellian experience, where day is night and night is day, and good is bad and bad is good. Member States that are known to support terrorism, to abuse human rights, to be brutal dictatorships, have the
audacity to level baseless allegations against my countr…
The debate on this agenda item has largely amounted to a steady stream of allegations levelled against Israel by representatives of regimes that are themselves widely recognized as guilty of atrocities far worse than those of which Israel stands accused.
Incredibly, the representative of Syria woul…
One year ago, I addressed this Assembly and described how history was giving birth to a new epoch in the Middle East. Today, we are experiencing the labour pains of that new era.
We are in the throes of a revolution in the ways that the peoples, nations and religions of the Middle East relate to on…
