It is a great pleasure to see you, Sir, the Foreign Minister of Malaysia, in the Chair during this important meeting.
We commend the Malaysian delegation for not having allowed itself to be deterred by this objection. Excessive fear of duplication stands in the way of the development of an integrat…
The Netherlands has voted for this resolution with a sense of relief. This does not stem from a feeling that we are concluding a military operation we should not have been engaged in. We sincerely hope that the few delegations which have maintained that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) …
I would like to comment briefly on the statement of the speaker before me.
The present conflict will one day come to an end, but if Serbia wants to be part of Europe it will at last have to start realizing why it has been subjected to NATO air strikes. One day the Serbian people will have to unders…
As the representative of a country that participates in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, I join the delegation of the United States in expressing our deep regret about the incident involving the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, likewis…
Just over five months ago, the adoption of Security Council resolution 1203 (1998) was greeted with relief in the Netherlands, because it was felt that with all the pressure applied on Belgrade in that resolution, it should at last be possible to make President Milosevic see reason and accept a peac…
We have participated in and assumed responsibility for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) decision because there was no other solution. As for the Netherlands, this decision was not taken lightly; it was taken with conviction. Responsibility for the NATO action lies squarely with Presiden…
The Netherlands is deeply concerned about the further deterioration of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We therefore welcome the opportunity to address this question in an open debate of the Security Council. It goes without saying that we associate ourselves entirely with the …
I join previous speakers, as well as yourself, Mr. President, in expressing my country’s sadness at the passing of His Highness Shaikh Isa, Amir of Bahrain.
The Netherlands will vote in favour of the draft resolution on Sierra Leone, which enables the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone…
Like speakers before me, I would like to commend you, Mr. President, and your delegation for organizing this briefing on a very important, specific aspect of the concept of human security, to which you are so personally committed. We would also like to thank the three briefers, who have provided us …
We, too, are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Vieira de Mello for his informative and stimulating briefing.
Having spent three weeks on the Security Council this time round, we are struck by the dominant role that humanitarian issues play on the Council’s agenda. Almost every subject discussed i…
In his report on the work of the Organization, the Secretary-General does not only provide us with a frank account of the failures and successes of the United Nations in confronting questions of conflict, peace and development; his report is also a catalogue of sensible suggestions to tackle these i…
I speak to this Assembly with a sense of deference and humility. Deference, because I realize that I am speaking to the greatest multilateral organization of all time and from a rostrum where have stood almost all the great statesmen since the Second World War.
Humility because I was appointed just…
Next week the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jozias van Aartsen, will have the opportunity to congratulate you, Sir, on behalf of the Government of the Netherlands, on your assumption of your high office.
Today I wish to share with you some thoughts of the newly appointed Netherlands…
As the Chairman of the Fifth Committee has already pointed out one technical error in document A/C.5/52/L.17, my delegation would like to draw the attention of the Assembly to another technical error. In the table with the Member States, with their percentages for the years 1998-2000, the Netherland…
The Netherlands delegation has just joined the consensus adoption of the resolution on the establishment of an international criminal court, as contained in the report of the Sixth Committee in document A/52/651.
The Netherlands Government is highly pleased with the most important decision to conve…
I wish to thank the President of the Rwanda Tribunal for his important statement this morning and for introducing the report of the Tribunal, as contained in General Assembly document A/52/582 and Security Council document S/1997/868.
Let me also state that my delegation fully subscribes to the sta…
I would like to take the floor on the agenda item before us today as the representative of the host country of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia. This Trib…
First of all, allow me to subscribe to the statement delivered this morning by the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Mr. Jacques Poos, on behalf of the European Union. In particular, Sir, I wish to join him in his congratulations to you on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly.
As t…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The following associated countries align themselves with this statement: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Iceland and Liechtenstein have also aligned themselves with …
I have the pleasure of introducing a draft resolution on the relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Yesterday I had the opportunity of stating the role and importance of OPCW with regard to the implementation of the aims and obje…
