At the outset I welcome His Excellency Mr. Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti, and thank him for his statement. I thank Mr. Edmond Mulet for his message of hope. Allow me to make the following comments.
My delegation again expresses its solidarity with the Haitian people following the huma…
I wish at the outset to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting. We take this opportunity to welcome Ms. Margot Wallström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and to thank her for her comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Democratic Repu…
At the outset, Lebanon joins other delegations in thanking the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting and in underlining the importance of Assembly resolutions pertaining to International Mother Earth Day.
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril th…
I would like at the outset to thank you, Mr. President, for your earnest efforts and your initiative to discuss and assess the implementation of the measures set out in the note by the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507) on the Council’s working methods, with a view to enhancing transpare…
At the outset, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan for having honoured us with his presence. I should also like to join my colleagues in welcoming the Ministers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Sierr…
I welcome the presence of Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Pascoe and thank him for his briefing.
At the outset, allow me to convey to the Chinese people, through the Permanent Mission of China, the sympathy of the Lebanese people in connection with this morning’s tragic earthquake.
T…
At the outset, I should like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his stewardship of the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development and to thank the Secretary- General for his report entitled “Follow-up to and implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration o…
At the outset, allow me to join my colleagues in welcoming
Ms. Asha-Rose Migiro and to thank Mr. Antonio Maria Costa and Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma for their valuable presentations. I would also like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the delegation of Gabon for organizing this important debat…
At the outset, I would like to convey my gratitude to the Secretariat for the report that Under-Secretary-General Le Roy has just presented on the work undertaken by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) (S/2010/127), and to thank Ambassador Tanin for his statement. Allow me, …
I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on transnational threats. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his commitment to this important issue, and Mr. Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for h…
I would like at the outset to thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (S/2010/85), which provides a very objective and precise overview of the situation in Timor-Leste. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ameerah Haq, for her briefing …
I will set another good example today by speaking in French.
Our delegation welcomes your initiative, Sir, to convene this important thematic debate. I also thank the Secretary-General for his participation today, and express our deep appreciation to the Assistant Secretaries-General, the Under-Sec…
I would like first to add my voice to those of my colleagues in welcoming His Excellency Mr. Saudabayev, and to thank him for his presence in our midst and for his important briefing. Allow me to make five observations.
Our meeting today is a model for enhancing the important relationship between t…
Does one need to recall that the principle of the self-determination of peoples is among the fundamental purposes of the United Nations, as enshrined in Chapter I, Article 1, of the Charter? Does one need to recall that the principle of the self-determination of peoples was confirmed by this Assembl…
Allow me at the outset to thank Assistant Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco for his comprehensive briefing.
A year has passed since the adoption of resolution 1860 (2009), which called for a cessation of Israel’s aggression against the Gaza Strip. Yet Israel continues to tighten the noose a…
At the outset, I welcome the presence of His Excellency Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia. I thank him and Mr. Skender Hyseni for their statements. I should likewise like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his comprehensi…
At the outset, we convey our most sincere condolences to the people of Haiti and to the personnel of international organizations at this time of tragedy.
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important discussion and for this opportunity to engage in an exchange of views with representati…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council as we begin a new year. I reiterate our great confidence in your wisdom and experience.
I should also like to take this opportunity, as I make my first statement on behalf of Lebanon as a non-pe…
First of all, I would like to thank the Co-Chairs for their efforts in this High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his report, “Keeping the promise: a forward-looking review to promote an
agreed action agenda to ac…
Since mention has been made of Hizbullah, which is part of my country’s National Unity Government at this time, allow me to remind the Assembly that what had prompted the creation of the resistance movement that is Hizbullah was nothing other than the occupation of parts of my country by Israel.
