It is an honour and a pleasure to see you, Madame President, once again here with us in the Security Council to preside over this important meeting.
The importance of this meeting has been made obvious by the statements that we have heard from the Secretary-General, whose presence in the Council th…
I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this very important meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We
are grateful to Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his briefing. Like others, I wish to thank Mr. Ngongi for his presence here and for his briefing. I take this opportunity to e…
My delegation also wishes to thank Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Ramcharan for their very comprehensive briefings today.
The reports of horrendous atrocities committed in Ituri, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are highly disturbing, to say the least. We share the sentiments of outrage that have bee…
I wish to extend our warm congratulations to you, Mr. President, and our best wishes on your assumption of the Council presidency for this month, and to assure you of the full cooperation of the delegation of Pakistan. I also avail myself of this opportunity to express our gratitude to Ambassador La…
Let me, too, join others in expressing appreciation for the hard work that you, Sir, your staff and the facilitators have done. This is truly a magnificent achievement after tremendous hard work.
I will briefly refer to two or three issues that my delegation has very strong feelings about.
We, lik…
At the outset, let me join my colleagues in expressing our appreciation for the accomplishments of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) under Mr. Oshima’s
leadership. As we bid him farewell, we wish him every success in the future.
We are also sad to see Ambassador Traoré…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Russian presidency for holding this timely and very opportune public meeting on the eve of the Security Council mission to the West African subregion, which will have Guinea-Bissau as its destination. I would like to thank Ambassador Aguilar Zinser for agreei…
Before I begin, I should like to join previous speakers in conveying my delegation’s best wishes to Ambassador Wang Yingfan and to say that we shall sorely miss his presence at this table. We should also like to extend a very warm welcome to the new Permanent Representative of Chile, Ambassador Muño…
I would like to express my delegation’s gratitude to you, Sir, for having organized this consideration of the draft resolution contained in document S/2003/630 at this public meeting.
I would also like to welcome the statement which was made this morning to the Council by the Secretary-
General. W…
I should like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for his briefing and his timely reminder that today is the fourth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1244 (1999). However, the situation inside Kosovo today still gives us cause for concern.
As others have done, I should like to …
I am speaking on behalf of Ambassador Munir Akram, who, due to another engagement, could not be here personally. The delegation of Pakistan welcomes the extension of the appointment of Mr. Ricupero.
Over the past four years, Mr. Ricupero has assiduously built up the stature and performance of the U…
First of all, I would like to compliment you, Mr. President, for convening this important wrap-up meeting.
There is no disagreement that the United Nations has an important responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In upholding that responsibility, the United Nations i…
I wish to welcome Ambassador Sharma to the Council and thank him for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in Timor-Leste.
While we are happy to note significant progress made by Timor-Leste in certain key areas, we should also remain mindful of the serious challenges involved. This year did …
I should like to express our gratitude to Assistant Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for introducing the Secretary-General’s report (S/2003/421) and for his comprehensive briefing on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Pakistan attaches great importance to the work of t…
I would like to add Pakistan’s voice to those of the Ambassador of Morocco, as the Chairman of the Group of 77, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, as the Chairman of the Asian Group.
I would like to welcome the reappointment of Mark Malloch Brown as Administrator of the United Nations Dev…
Let me at the outset, Sir, perform the pleasant duty of welcoming you back to New York and to the Security Council. We are honoured to participate in this meeting under your presidency.
This is an important meeting on an important topic which your country has chosen for our discussion. I welcome th…
My delegation would like to join others in expressing our appreciation to Mr. James Morris for his excellent and comprehensive briefing. We are aware of the outstanding work that the World Food Programme has performed in so many crises — including in a neighbouring country, Afghanistan — and we have…
May I take this opportunity to extend Pakistan’s felicitations to Mexico and to you, Sir, and your delegation on your assumption of the presidency of the Council at this crucial moment in global affairs. Your task will be challenging, but we have no doubt that you will live up to the high expectatio…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Danilo Türk for introducing the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Political Office in Bougainville (UNPOB). We would like to put on record our appreciation for the work of the United Nations, UNPOB and all the parties who have worked t…
At the outset, I should like to express the appreciation of the delegation of Pakistan to Ambassador Gunter Pleuger and to the German delegation for the heroic efforts that they have made in the past several days to evolve this unanimous adoption of a resolution to provide humanitarian relief to the…
