I would like to start by thanking Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (S/2009/352). I also welcome the presence of Mr. Mikhail Margelov of the Russian Federation at this meetin…
My delegation welcomes your presence, Mr. President, at this important meeting of the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General for introducing his very important report (S/2009/304), which brings together analysis and experience gathered over the past two decades in countries emerging from c…
Mexico, like other members, thanks President Renate Winter and Prosecutor Stephen Rapp of the Special Court for Sierra Leone for the detailed information they have provided to the Council on the work of the Special Court, its successes and the challenges ahead. We also welcome the presence of the re…
I should like to begin this statement by thanking the Secretary- General for his presence today and for the briefing that he gave us on his recent visit to Myanmar. My delegation is particularly grateful for the good offices efforts that the Secretary-General has been making in Myanmar, which procee…
We would like to thank Under-Secretaries-General Lynn Pascoe and Susana Malcorra for their briefings today and Ambassador Elmi Ahmed Duale, the Permanent Representative of Somalia, for his statement. We welcome the presence here among us of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United N…
As we are aware of the fact, Sir, that this meeting marks the end of your presidency of the Security Council for the month of June and also represents the equivalent in your duties as Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations, I would like to join the others in expressing my gratitude…
My delegation thanks you, Sir, for convening this debate, which comes at a time when the protection of civilians in armed conflicts is assuming particular importance. Although the obligations stemming from international instruments on international humanitarian law, human rights and refugee law are …
We are honoured, Sir, by your presence here today as you preside over the work of the Security Council. My delegation welcomes you once again.
Like other delegations, we wish to thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his detailed briefing. We take this opportunity to acknowledge his work at the helm of t…
We would like to thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for the information that he has shared with us today and Mr. Vuk Jeremić, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, for his presence and statement. We also thank Mr. Skender Hyseni for his statement.…
Mexico voted in favour of the resolution that was submitted to the Council today because we believe that it is indispensable to maintain the presence of the United Nations mission in Georgia in order to preserve peace in the region and the security of its inhabitants, while bearing in mind the compl…
My delegation would also like to thank Ambassador Takasu for the detailed briefing that he presented to us on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), and we eagerly await the follow-up of the matters referred to.
My delegation is concerned ab…
The resolution that we have just adopted constitutes a clear message that the actions carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are not acceptable to the international community and that they jeopardize international peace and security. The fuller and more cohesive the participation o…
I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the 23 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that make up the Rio Group: namely, Argentina, Belize, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guy…
We, too, welcome the presence of Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone, to whose statement we listened very carefully. We also thank Mr. Michael von der Schulenburg, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, and Ambassador John McNee in his c…
At the outset, Sir, allow me to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I should also like to commend Ambassador Churkin of the Russian Federation for his presidency in the month of May. We would also like to say how honoured we are to have among…
At the outset I wish to welcome Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Union Special Representative, and to thank him for his briefing. As this is the first time he is participating in a Security Council meeting since taking office, we wish him every success …
First of all, I would to thank our colleagues from Austria, France and Costa Rica who act as chairmen of the subsidiary organs of the Security Council entrusted with the fight against terrorism — namely, the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) — fo…
I would like to start by thanking the Secretary-General for his presence here today and for the report he has given us on the situation in the Middle East. I would also like to thank His Excellency Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, for having convened this im…
First of all, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the Presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that, under your guidance, the success of the Council’s work is more than guaranteed. I am also certain that you will have the cooperation of all the members…
I would like to thank Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary- General for Political Affairs, for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We also welcome the statements by the Permanent Representative of
Israel and the Permanent Observer of the Palestinian Authority.
Despite the adopti…
