I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for presiding over a public meeting on another important subject. The Netherlands welcomes your initiative to devote a follow-up open debate to the role of the Security Council in the prevention of armed conflicts.
Let me also join previous speakers in than…
I thank you, Sir, for your presence here in order to preside over our important meeting today. I wish to join previous speakers in thanking Dr. Piot for his very to-the-point and concise presentation, and in general for the excellent work of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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In view of the late hour and therefore the general desire to exhaust the list of speakers, I will be brief.
Like other delegations, we attach the highest priority to the preparations for the municipal elections to be held this fall. We welcome the fact that Mr. Kouchner has now signed the regulatio…
It is no secret that the Security Council has had to spend considerable time in informal consultations before this resolution could be adopted. It would, however, be unfortunate if this should give rise to the assumption, in West Africa or anywhere else, that there was disagreement within the Counci…
We would like to thank you, Sir, for calling this open meeting on Somalia, Under-Secretary-General Prendergast for his briefing and Ambassador Roble Olhaye for his extensive oral report on the Djibouti peace initiative.
The Netherlands is certainly not surrendering to cynicism with regard to Somali…
We too would like to thank Mr. Vieira de Mello for his informative briefing, but especially also for everything he and his people are doing in East Timor.
Later in the debate the representative of Portugal will make a statement on behalf of the European Union; it goes without saying that my delegat…
We, too, are grateful to Special Envoy Carl Bildt for his comprehensive statement. In response, we will be brief, as the European Union has spoken on our behalf.
It is appropriate that the European Union as such should participate in this debate on the Balkans, for we should once and for all be fin…
My delegation is grateful to Judge Jorda for his briefing, for his report on the operation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and, most of all, for his inspiring leadership as President of that institution.
The negotiations on the establishment of the Internatio…
I, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for his report on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and Special Representative Klein for his encouraging briefing. Five years have passed since the signing of the Dayton/Paris Accords, and during that time much has been ac…
My delegation, too, would like to thank the Secretary-General for his quarterly report, and Mr. Kouchner for his inspired briefing.
Most speakers have already pointed out that it will be one year ago tomorrow that this Council adopted resolution 1244 (1999). Two days later, on 12 June 1999, the fir…
In voting for this resolution, my delegation has also expressed its
support for the request the Council is addressing to the Secretary-General to appoint independent experts to prepare a comprehensive report and analysis of the humanitarian situation in Iraq. We do not expect great surprises from t…
I wish at the outset, Sir, to congratulate you and to say how pleased I am to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council for the month of June. I assure you and your delegation of the full cooperation of my delegation. I wish also to thank your
predecessor, Ambassador Wang Yingfan of C…
My delegation feels that the draft resolution on which we are about to vote does not adequately reflect the continued commitment to the settlement plan which during the Council’s consultations was expressed by a large number of delegations, including my own.
It is true that in the fifth preambular …
I am grateful to Mr. Annabi, and I apologize for inflicting such detailed questions on him, knowing full well that he has in fact been briefing us all day long.
Mr. Annabi has now supplied us with further information on the reductions in the military component of the United Nations Transitional Adm…
We, too, would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for a very useful and informative briefing. Before commenting on some of the information we received from him today, I would like once again to express my delegation’s appreciation for all the work that is being done by the United Natio…
My delegation, too, is grateful to Ambassador Holbrooke for his presentation of the mission’s report, and I personally share his enthusiasm about the effective functioning of the mission. It has pointed out by other speakers that his style of leadership was largely responsible for that.
I heard Amb…
We are here to listen to the Secretary-General and to other delegations, especially those that represent African organizations such as the Organization of African Unity or the Economic Community of West African States, so I shall be very brief.
The Secretary-General stated very clearly that Mr. San…
My delegation commends Ambassador Chowdhury and the other mission members on their balanced mission report. The Netherlands fully associates itself with the praise contained in their report for the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Kosovo Force (KFOR…
I thank the High Representative, Mr. Petritsch, for his comprehensive briefing. We commend him for his energetic leadership in helping Bosnia and Herzegovina emerge from the miseries of its recent past.
The High Representative’s report makes it clear that Bosnia and Herzegovina is far from function…
We too are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Annabi for his comprehensive briefing, and we also wish to thank you for having called an open meeting on the issue of East Timor, an issue which, by its nature, lends itself well to discussion before the full membership of the United Nations. Apart…
