First and foremost, my delegation would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his briefing this morning and the Secretary-General for his latest lucid and comprehensive report on the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), pursuant to Security Council resolu…
My delegation wishes to express its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his succinct yet comprehensive report on the situation in Angola. We would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Gambari, the Secretary-General’s Adviser for Special Assignments in Africa, for introducing the report a…
I should like to express my appreciation to you, Madam President, for convening this open meeting of the Council on this important subject. I should also like to thank the Secretary-General for his detailed and comprehensive report on the implementation of resolution 1261 (1999) on children in armed…
I should like to express my delegation’s appreciation to you, Sir, and the delegation of Jamaica for convening this open meeting of the Council to revisit this enormously important subject of the prevention of armed conflict, which the Council deliberated on in November last year. I should also like…
I would like to join others in commending you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting of the Security Council to consider once again the HlV/AIDS issue, this time in the specific context of peacekeeping operations. Your personal presence here today is greatly appreciated by us all.
Let me a…
My delegation is grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for his comprehensive and extremely useful briefing. The situation in Kosovo continues to require the close attention of the Security Council, hence the importance of regular briefings given to Council members and the larger memb…
My delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting of the Council on Somalia. We think it is timely that the Council revisit the subject in this Chamber for an in- depth exchange of views on the situation in that
country with the participation of the larger membership of t…
I wish to thank you, Sir, for organizing this open briefing of the Council on East Timor. We would also like warmly to welcome once again Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello and to thank him for his most enlightening briefing on the situation in East Timor.
My delegation is pleased that, …
Let me express my delegation’s appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. We cannot fail to observe that the procedural problem we had to face this morning had to do with an uneasiness — indeed, a reluctance — on the part of many members of the international community …
My delegation too would like to thank you, Mr. President, for scheduling this meeting of the Security Council to hear a briefing by Judge Claude Jorda, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
We welcome the presence of Judge Jorda in the Council Chamber, a…
My delegation is grateful to the Secretary-General for his latest report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH). We thank Ambassador Jacques Paul Klein, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive and upbeat briefing and commend him for his dynami…
My delegation expresses its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this Council meeting, which affords us another timely opportunity to review the situation in Kosovo as well as the important work being carried out by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in …
Let me begin by thanking you, Sir, for committing this first meeting of the Council under your presidency to hearing a briefing by Ms. Carla Del Ponte, Prosecutor of the two International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and for Rwanda (ICTR).
We warmly welcome the presence of Ms…
My delegation would like to underline its deep regret that the Council was unable to reach consensus on the resolution we have just adopted. It is unfortunate that the sponsors of the text did not share the view that adopting a technical resolution today to extend the mandate of the United Nations M…
Like previous speakers, I would like to thank Mr. Hédi Annabi for the comprehensive update on the situation in East Timor which he has provided us this afternoon.
Malaysia continues to believe that the United Nations mission in East Timor continues to be a very difficult one. We recognize the daunt…
My delegation would like to join in thanking Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, not only for presenting the report of the Security Council mission’s visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but also for his outstanding leadership of this important mission. We commend him and the other mission membe…
Let me, at the outset, extend my delegation’s warm welcome to Mr. Ivo Petrov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Tajikistan, and thank him for his very useful briefing. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his final report (S/2000/387) on the United Nations Mission of O…
My delegation would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening an open emergency meeting of the Security Council tonight to consider the rapidly deteriorating situation in Sierra Leone. We support that decision, as we believe that the broader membership of the Organization, in particular the Af…
My delegation expresses its appreciation to you, Mr. President, for convening this open briefing to consider the report of the Security Council mission to Kosovo. It is regrettable that the Council has not been able to accommodate the requests of interested Members of the Organization to participate…
My delegation extends a warm welcome to Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina. We thank him for his latest report and additional briefing to the Council. We continue to support and fully appreciate his determine…
