At the outset, I would like to welcome Presidents Santos Calderón, Préval and Clinton, and to thank them and the Secretary-General for their excellent introductory remarks. I, in turn, would like to make the following comments.
Painful tragedies have long dwelled in the collective memory of the Hai…
I thank you, Sir, for having organized this meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassador Wittig for ably chairing the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2010 and to extend to the current PBC Chairperson, Ambassador Gasana, my sincere wishes for success in his endeavours.
Tangible results have been…
I would like to thank Ambassador Osorio for his 90-day report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). Allow me to make the following observations.
Lebanon was one of the first countries to adhere to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), i…
We thank you, Sir, for having organized this meeting. We would also like to thank Ambassador Wittig for his dedicated efforts during his tenure as the Chair of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). We would also like to extend to Ambassador Gasana, current Chair of the …
At the outset, I wish to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, for his briefing and his efforts. I also thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan for his thorough briefing to the Council…
We have all witnessed the rapidly unfolding painful events and the great suffering that has struck Libya, a brotherly country experiencing acts of violence and the use of heavy weapons and aircraft against large swaths of the civilian population. Hundreds of innocent victims have died and we have se…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for your initiative to convene this meeting. I would also like to extend my
thanks to the Secretary-General for his preliminary observations, as well as to welcome the participation of the Prime Minister of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), M…
It was an honour for my country to sponsor resolution 65/265, adopted today. It did so for various reasons, foremost of which is the fact that Lebanon was among those countries that laid the foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by participating in the work of the committee mandat…
It is an honour to address the General Assembly today under agenda item 117 and to introduce, on behalf of a number of Arab and African States, draft resolution A/65/L.60, entitled “Suspension of the rights of membership of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the Human Rights Council”.
Time is of the ess…
The Council of the League of Arab States held an emergency meeting on 22 February to discuss the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. At the conclusion of that meeting, the Council denounced the crimes committed against the peaceful popular protests and demonstrations taking place in several Lib…
I would like to thank the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste for his important statement. I also thank Ms. Ameerah Haq for her briefing and for her efforts as head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) aimed at promoting security and stability and helping the Government and peop…
At the beginning of this week, on Monday, 14 February, the occupying Power’s municipal authorities in Jerusalem adopted a plan to construct 124 new housing units in what is known as the Ramat settlement. On 16 January, the Israeli occupying authorities approved a plan to construct 1,400 new housing …
I would like to thank Mr. Zannier for his briefing. I would also like to welcome the Serbian Foreign Minister, Mr. Vuk Jeremič, and thank him for his statement. My thanks also go to Ms. Vlora Çitaku for her statement.
My delegation welcomes the efforts of the United Nations Interim Administration M…
I would like to welcome His Excellency Mr. Ažubalis and to thank him for his briefing, which was focused on strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations.
The authors of the United Nations Charter dedicated an entire chapter — namely, Chapter VIII — to the role of …
I would like to thank the delegation of Brazil for organizing this important debate, the first of its kind in the Security Council. Today represents a valuable opportunity to discuss the
question of interdependence between security and development. Therefore, allow me to thank Their Excellencies th…
It is my pleasure to express my appreciation to President Mkapa, Chairperson of the Secretary-General’s Panel on the Referenda in the Sudan, and Mr. Mahmoud Kane, Head of the African Union Liaison Office in Khartoum. I would also like to thank Mr. Haile Menkerios, Special Representative of the Secre…
First of all, I would like to welcome Baroness Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, and thank her for her invaluable statement.
Over 50 years ago, those who drafted the United Nations Charter dedicated an entire Chapter of that document, namely,…
At the outset, allow me to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting, and to thank Special Adviser Lang for his report and his valuable introductory remarks. We also thank the Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs for his briefing and the representative of Somalia for his statemen…
Allow me first to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important and timely debate. Allow me also to thank Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassador Peter Wittig and the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Luís Guterres, for their briefings and presentations.
It is well known t…
At the outset, I would like to extend my thanks to Mr. Alain Le Roy and Ms. Valerie Amos for their briefings on the recent political and humanitarian developments in Haiti. On this first anniversary of the earthquake, we would like to reiterate our condolences to the Government and people of Haiti a…
