My delegation would like to exercise its right of reply once again in response to the statement just made by the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It is very unfortunate that the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea refers to the issues of the past. …
Thank you for allowing us to exercise our right of reply. My comments are related to the statement of the representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea this morning. First, we firmly believe that the qualifications of a given country for permanent membership in the Security Council sho…
I wish to congratulate Her Excellency Sheikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa on her assumption of the presidency of the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, and I wish her every success. I would also like to pay high tribute to the past President, His Excellency Mr. Jan Eliasson, for his outstanding…
Japan welcomes the timely convening of this Security Council meeting, at the initiative of the League of Arab States, to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is timely because the recent hostilities in Lebanon have made us recognize anew the need for a comprehensive settlement of the Middle East co…
Allow me first to convey the regrets of my Foreign Minister, Mr. Aso, to the President, the Foreign Minister of Greece, and ministers present at not being able himself to participate in today’s meeting due to important party events back home.
We would also like to express our gratitude to Greece fo…
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Under-Secretary-General Chowdhury and the officials of the Secretariat for the enormous work they put into the preparations for the midterm review.
In the five years since the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) took…
I thank Mr. Pronk, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his informative and very useful briefing today. Japan commends the efforts of Mr. Pronk and his staff in the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) to ensure respect for the ceasefire and implementation of the Comprehen…
We thank Under-Secretary- General Egeland for his timely and informative briefing on his recent visit to the Central African region. We pay tribute to the Emergency Relief Coordinator for his unstinting efforts to address humanitarian crises in Africa and elsewhere, and particularly for his initiati…
I join others in thanking Mr. Qazi, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Iraq, and Mr. John Bolton for their informative briefings on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Multinational Force (MNF), respectively.
Over the past several month…
I would like at the outset to join my colleagues in thanking Mr. Joachim Rücker for his comprehensive presentation. I would like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate him on his appointment as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General. Kosovo is now at a crucial juncture,
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I would like, first, to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this debate. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his presence and for his statement on the situation in Darfur, which is, indeed, very alarming. The Japanese delegation also welcomes the participation of the repr…
I would like to express my appreciation to you, Mr. President, as well as to the Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly — Ambassadors Alsaidi and Silkalna — for the outstanding efforts to reach consensus on the adoption of the report (A/60/999) and now, t…
I join previous speakers in expressing appreciation to the Secretary-General for his progress report on the prevention of armed conflict (A/60/891). It has been five years since his first such report, in 2001, and three years since the adoption of resolution 57/337.
Our discussions today on the Sec…
Japan voted in favour of the resolution on the Sudan. The resolution will expand the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan into Darfur to support the early and effective implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and to provide for a transition from the African
Mission in the S…
I would like to join colleagues in thanking Under-Secretary-General Gambari for his briefing.
In the past month, we have again witnessed widespread, deeply troubling changes in the Middle East. It is urgently necessary to create conditions for a cessation of violence that will be sustainable and to…
Like others, I wish to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ian Martin, for his briefing. I welcome the presence in this Chamber of our former colleague, Ambassador Guterres, and wish him well in the discharge of his new important duties as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperati…
It is almost a month since the hostilities started in the Middle East, engulfing Lebanon and Israel. The fighting has caused an enormous loss of civilian life, heartrending bloodshed and the destruction of infrastructure on both sides. The suffering of people in Lebanon and Israel increases every da…
My delegation would like to thank the Ghana delegation for organizing this debate on an important issue — peace consolidation in West Africa — and appreciates the fact that you, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Ghana, are presiding over the deliberations. We also welcome the participation of ministers f…
The Japanese delegation views the resolution just adopted as a balanced text. Its adoption represents endorsement by the broad international community of the efforts by France, Germany and the United Kingdom (the EU-3) and
other partners to achieve non-proliferation in a vital region of the world. …
First, I wish to thank Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF, and the representatives of the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, for their briefings and contributions to the debate. I pay …
