I would like to welcome you here today amongst us, Madam President, and extend to you our sincere congratulations for the sure way in which the United Kingdom is presiding over the work of the Security Council this month. Peru would also like to welcome the United Kingdom initiative to invite the Se…
We, too, would like to thank Mr. Holmes for the up-to-date information that he provided, informing us about the situation in that part of the African region. We share his concerns regarding the deteriorating security situation there, which has further impeded humanitarian assistance programmes.
We …
At the outset, allow me to welcome your presence here with us, Madam Minister, and also to welcome your country’s initiative to organize this debate dealing with one of the most sensitive areas in the work of the Security Council.
I would also like to welcome the participation of the high-level off…
At the outset, we thank Mr. Tom Koenigs, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, and Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for their briefings. We also welcome the presence at this meeting of Mr. Massimo D’Alema, Ministe…
At the outset, I welcome the Vice-President of Iraq, Mr. Adil Abdal Mahdi. I also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. Ashraf Qazi, for his briefing, and the representative of the United States for his report on behalf of the Multinational Force in Iraq.
The circu…
Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you and your delegation on having convened today’s meeting on an issue of great relevance and international interest: cooperation between the Security Council and international organizations in the implementation of resolutions 1540 (2004) and 1673 (2006).
The adoptio…
I wish to congratulate you, Mr. Minister, on the outstanding way in which the delegation of Slovakia is guiding the Security Council. In particular, I commend you for your initiative to convene this open debate to discuss security sector reform, which is of great importance for the international com…
I should like, first of all, to thank Ambassador Alvaro de Soto, Personal Representative of the Secretary-
General, for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Middle East. The Gaza ceasefire agreed in November between the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and the President of the Palest…
At the outset, I should like to welcome the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr. José Ramos-Horta, and to express our appreciation for his comprehensive and candid statement. We would like also to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Atul Khare, for his briefing and to commen…
The recently created Peacebuilding Commission, an innovative body within the United Nations, is one outcome of the 2005 Summit and has Peru’s full support, because it is helping to support peacebuilding
and reconstruction in States in countries emerging from armed conflict.
Recent history has show…
My delegation welcomes the fact that the Security Council is today considering the role of the Peacebuilding Commission. We highlight the participation in this debate by the President of the Economic and Social Council, the Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission and…
I should like to thank the Permanent Representative of Germany and the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, Mr. Javier Solana, for their briefings. I also thank Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Mr. Ibrahim Gambari.
We join others in expressing our satisfa…
We would like to congratulate the Russian delegation and you in particular, Ambassador Churkin, on Russia’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council and to assure you of our delegation’s full support in the discharge of your important functions.
Likewise, we congratulate the outgoing Pr…
I would like to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for his report. I would also like to thank Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, the Executive Secretary of the Great Lakes Conference Secretariat, for her briefing just a few moments ago…
I would like to thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the two Tribunals for their detailed and comprehensive reports to us this morning.
We welcome the efforts of the Tribunals and the Prosecutors to meet the deadlines set out in the completion strategy. Although we recognize the difficulties the…
Concerning the question of Western Sahara, Peru has always maintained that it supports the efforts of the United Nations to arrive at a solution that is acceptable to the parties and is in keeping with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
My delegation would like to exp…
At the outset, like previous speakers, I wish to thank Mr. Joachim Rücker, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for presenting the report on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) between 15 August and 31 October 2006. I also thank Ms. Sanda Rasko…
I welcome you, Sir, as you preside over this debate in your capacity as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. I thank Secretary-General Kofi Annan for his praiseworthy efforts in offering the Council a broad and detailed overview of the problems in the Middle …
My delegation would like to thank Mr. Qazi for his briefing, as well as the representative of the United States for the report on the Multinational Force in Iraq (MNF).
The circumstances under which we are meeting today are critical for Iraq. The situation has gotten worse and it could get even wor…
First of all, I would like to express the gratitude of the delegation of Peru for the work done by the Security Council mission to Afghanistan, led by the Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Kenzo Oshima, and I would like to thank him for the report he has given us this morning.
We believe that the work that …
