Allow me, Mr. Minister, to tell you how satisfied my delegation is
at seeing you preside over our meeting. Mr. President, I would like to thank you for having organized this meeting. I shall confine myself to one single point that is of interest to my delegation.
Today, in seeking to increase the …
Allow me too to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this public briefing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the holding of the Gaborone meeting. I would also like to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hédi Annabi, for his statement.
We have always…
I, too, wish to join previous speakers in thanking Under-Secretary- General Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, for the very full update about the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Despite the complex and many difficulties facing UNMIK in implementing Council r…
I would like to start by thanking you, Mr. President, for having responded promptly to my delegation’s request, on behalf of the group of Islamic States Members of the United Nations, for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the serious situation prevailing in the occupied Palestinia…
Over recent years armed conflict has claimed millions of victims, the majority of them civilians, and most of them have been killed by small arms and light weapons. The trade in these weapons is a genuine threat to peace and security, in particular in Africa.
Norway has cooperated with Mali on conc…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Sir, for having organized this public meeting on the situation in East Timor, barely one month before the elections that will open the way to that country’s independence. I also wish to thank the Secretary-General for his progress report on the United Nations Tran…
Like the delegations that have spoken before me, I should like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, for the very thorough update of the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Despite the many problems facing UNMIK, we must acknow…
I wish to thank you, Sir, for your initiative in convening this public information meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
I also wish to welcome the presence among us here today of the Secretary-General and to thank him for his important statement.
Allow me to pay a heartfelt tribute to …
The Security Council is meeting today to consider the humanitarian situation in Iraq, following a request by the Russian Federation. My delegation is grateful to you, Mr. President, for finding the ideal format for this important meeting. I would also like to extend my delegation’s thanks to the Off…
First of all, I would like to congratulate Ambassador Chowdhury of Bangladesh, President of the Security Council, on his the excellent leadership during our visit to Kosovo and Belgrade. I would like to thank the Secretary-General
for his report of 7 June 2001 on the United Nations Interim Administ…
Allow me, first of all, to perform the pleasant task of expressing to you, Mr. Foreign Minister, my delegation’s satisfaction at seeing you presiding over today’s meeting and to ask you to convey our thanks to Ambassador Chowdhury for the excellent manner in which he has been guiding the work of the…
Like previous speakers, I would first like to thank Mr. Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for his very detailed briefing, based on the Secretary-General’s report on the activities of the United …
I should like warmly to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this open meeting of the Security Council to discuss the report of the Committee of Experts on Afghanistan appointed pursuant to paragraph 15 (a) of Security Council resolution 1333 (2000), regarding monitoring of the arms embargo…
I, too, thank the Secretary-General for his interim report on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and Mr. Annabi for his presentation of the report and for the very useful additional information he supplied.
I also wish to welcome among us today Mr. Gusmão and Mr. …
I should like first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing a public meeting of the Security Council to consider the overall situation in West Africa. In this regard, we are grateful to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Ms. Carolyn McAskie, …
I should like first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this public meeting to consider the report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
I note the presence at this important me…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for having organized this open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We would also like to thank the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Louise Fréchette, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Mary Robinson, for the import…
My delegation welcomes the good news we heard this morning from the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Affairs concerning the difficult conflicts that plague the Horn of Africa.
We support what the French delegation said this morning about the linkage between the termination of the mission in…
At the outset, let me thank Under-Secretary-General Guéhenno for his very detailed update. He has returned from Kosovo with good news, despite the violence that continues on the border between Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Against that grim backdrop, we reaffirm our strong c…
We too thank Mr. Annabi for his comprehensive briefing on the matter before the Council today. We reaffirm our full support for the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which has done outstanding work in implementing its mandate. As Mr. Annabi has said, the way to indep…
