At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President,
on your assumption of the Security Council for this month. I am certain that, under your wise leadership, the Council will achieve success.
I should like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his exhaustive briefing.
Allow me, on …
In response to an initiative of the Group of Arab States, the General Assembly today adopted resolution 66/253 B, which is aimed at finding a solution to the tragic situation in Syria. It is a resolution that might repair the damage to the United Nations credibility caused by the Security
Council’s…
I thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to address the Security Council. I promise that I will be brief.
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am certain that you will execute the task excellently. I…
At the outset, I would like to extend my thanks to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the report before us (A/66/762). I would also like to thank the delegation of Canada for its tremendous efforts in coordinating the draft resolution under consideration today (A/66/L.53).
My country supports the st…
I would like, at the outset, to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am confident that your wisdom will serve to steer the Council towards achieving the best possible results.
Allow me to also thank Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of th…
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak before the Security Council after the adoption of a new resolution on Libya, resolution 2040 (2012). It gives me great pleasure to congratulate the delegation of the United Kingdom on presiding over the Security Council…
I should like to thank the representatives of the Russian
Federation and China for their statements, and to inform them that the matter at hand, which concerns the blood of Libyans, should not be fodder for political propaganda on the part of any country against others. The Libyan Government has in…
Permit me at the outset to extend to you, Sir, our congratulations on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I wish also to thank the Council for having invited me to speak before it today.
It is a great honour for me to appear before the Council as the representa…
At the outset, I would like to express my sincere thanks to you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting as a follow-up to developments in Libya. I would also like to thank Ambassador Moraes Cabral for his work and his response to Libya’s concerns with regard to many issues under the conside…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting of the General Assembly, and Ms. Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for her valuable briefing on the human rights situation in the fraternal Syrian Arab Republic.
For the past 11 months, the Syri…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting so that we can follow the developing situation in Libya. I would like to welcome Mr. Ian Martin and to thank him for his efforts in Libya. I can say that he has been able to build a strong relationship with the parties concerned. Every time …
On 1 March, the General Assembly adopted resolution 65/265, by which it suspended Libya’s membership of the Human Rights Council. This was indeed a sound resolution in support of the Libyan people and in response to the crimes and violations of human rights that were being committed by the Al-Qadhaf…
At the outset, my delegation would like to congratulate the President of the General Assembly on his wise decision to reappoint Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, as the chair of the
intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform.
I wish to align myself wit…
Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I am confident that under your capable and wise leadership the Council will enjoy success in its efforts. I would also like to congratulate Ambassador Joy Ogwu, P…
At the outset, I would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for presenting the Agency’s report to the General Assembly (see A/66/95).
Having examined the report of the Agency submitted to this session …
I am pleased to congratulate you, Madame President, on
your leadership of the Council’s proceedings for this month. As a matter of fact, I am delighted to see a dear friend and representative of a sisterly African State presiding over the affairs of the Council.
Allow me to extend our thanks to th…
Allow me first of all to warmly thank the Security Council on behalf of my country’s delegation and of the National Transitional Council (NTC), the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people. We are very grateful for the Council’s adoption of two historic resolutions, which have clearly con…
At the outset, allow me to thank most sincerely the Ambassador of sisterly Qatar on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session. I should like also to thank Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon on his reappointment to a second term as Secretary-General.
I stand be…
Allow me at the outset to express to you, Mr. President, how delighted I am to see a dear brother, a representative of a brotherly State, presiding over the deliberations of the Security Council for this month. Allow me to thank you personally, Sir, all the members of the Lebanese delegation and the…
At the outset, I should like to express our most sincere condolences over the thousands of martyrs who have fallen under the repression of the Libyan regime since 15 February and before, especially those who died at Abu Salim prison 1996. I would also
like to thank you, Madame President, and all th…
