Allow me, on behalf of Ambassador Ouane, to welcome to the Security Council the new representative of Tunisia, a country with which Mali has fraternal relations. I would also like to welcome the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As previous speakers have done, I too would like to thank Mr. …
I, too, should like to thank the Secretary-General for his report dated 13 March 2001 on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). I would like to welcome the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Haekkerup, and thank him for his very enlightening b…
I, too, would like to thank Mr. Kerim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, for his statement. I note that the information he gave to the Council confirms that there has been a deterioration of the situation on the border between the former Yugoslav Republic of …
I should like first of all to welcome the Minister for External Relations of Angola, Mr. João Bernardo de Miranda, who is with us today. I should like to thank you, Mr. President, for having organized this very important open meeting today in order to allow Ambassador Richard Ryan, Chairman of the S…
Mali is delighted to see the Council meeting under your authority, Mr. Minister, to consider the situation in the Great Lakes region. I should like to welcome the presence today of His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Rwandese Republic, and of the Secretary-General and to thank them for …
The question before the Council today has been on the United Nations agenda for more than a decade. Today’s debate is being held on the eve of the fourth high-level meeting between the United Nations and the regional organizations on the theme “Cooperation for peace- building”. My delegation is grat…
I should like first of all to thank you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to convene this important public
meeting of the Security Council to consider the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I should also like to welcome the participation in this meeting of Major Genera…
At the outset I would like to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting of the Security Council so that Ambassador Chowdhury, the Chairman of the Security Council Committee for Sierra Leone, could introduce to us the report of the Panel of Experts set up pursuant to paragraph 19 of section B …
First of all, my delegation is pleased with the holding of this public meeting on peace-building efforts in the Central African Republic. I appreciate the helpful statement made by Mr. Cheikh Tidiane Sy, Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peace-building Support Of…
I, too, would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Guéhenno, for the exhaustive update he has given us on the situation in Kosovo and on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). During our public meeting on 19 December, I had the opportunity to…
I should like, in my turn, to thank the Secretary-General for his report and Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his very instructive briefing.
I also welcome Mr. Svilanovic, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to our meeting.
At the open meeting of 1…
My delegation associates itself fully with the statement made by Namibia on behalf of the non-aligned caucus. I would nevertheless like to make three brief observations.
First of all, I would like to say that Mali will vote in favour of the draft resolution under consideration because we believe th…
I also wish to warmly welcome Senator Biden to this Security Council meeting. I took note of and appreciate the fact
that today, as in January, when the members of the Security Council visited the Senate, Senator Biden echoed the concerns that we all share.
On the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovi…
I wish at the outset to welcome to this important meeting the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, and to thank him for his opening remarks, which were, as usual, most lucid. I wish also to welcome the high-level delegation of Guinea-Bissau led by the Vice-Prime Minister, His Excellency Mr. Faustino I…
I join other speakers in congratulating you, Sir, on having convened this public information meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in thanking Ms. McAskie, through you, for her most edifying briefing.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country of continental sc…
I should like to welcome the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, and to thank him for his presentation which, as usual, was highly instructive. I should also like to congratulate the Security Council mission to East Timor and Indonesia, led by Ambassador Andj…
Mali associates itself fully with the statement which will shortly be made by South Africa on behalf of the Movement of the Non-Aligned. I should also like, in my capacity as Coordinator of the Non-Aligned Caucus in the Security Council for November to associate the other members of the Caucus with …
Mali attaches particular importance to the subject under consideration. That is why, first and foremost, I should like to express the gratitude of my delegation to the Secretary-General for the quality of his report
contained in document A/55/489. The report provides an overview of the activities a…
I should like to join previous speakers in warmly welcoming to the Security Council Judge Jorda, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Ms. Pillay, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; and Ms. Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of both Trib…
I should like to say how pleased my delegation is to see you, Sir, presiding over this public meeting on Ethiopia and Eritrea, and to thank you for having taken the initiative to hold the meeting. I also thank you for your lucid analysis of the situation, following your recent visit to the region. I…
